Christine Rebet

b. Lyon, France Lives and works in New York, NY & Paris, France

EDUCATION

2011 MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
1996 BFA, Central St. Martins, School of Art and Design, London, UK
1991 Art Academy, Venice, Italy

SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 Reliquias, op.cit., Mexico City, Mexico
2021 Nirvana’s Chronicles, Figura Avulsa, Lisbon, Portugal
Escapologie, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
2020 Time Levitation, Parasol Unit, London, United Kingdom
2018 Thunderbird, Bureau, New York, NY
2015 Paysage Fautif, Bureau, New York, NY
2014 Melli Ink / Christine Rebet, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Meltingsun, AlbumArte, Rome, Italy
2011 The Square, Marvelli Gallery Project Room, New York, NY
2009 The Black Cabinet, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
2008 Chasers, Château des Adhémars, Montélimar, France
2007 Tiger Escape, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
2005 Brand Band News, Art Basel, Statements Section, Basel, Swtizerland
The Industry is Finished, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
When Pigs Fly, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Waitress Announcement, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj, Slovenia
Robin Hood, Mr. Cannon Projects, Berlin, Germany
See You Later, Kuttner Siebert Gallery, Berlin, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Manif d’art – The Quebec City Biennial, The Manif d’art organization, Québec, Canada
2023 Songs from the Shore, Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, France
2022 Fantasmagoriana, Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway
Female Voices, Grieder Contemporary, Küsnacht, Switzerland
2021 Map ≠ Territory, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DRAWING OUT, Bridget de León, Bath, United Kingdom
Tropical Lab, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
untitled Arrangement, Bureau, New York, NY
The Drawer, Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
51e édition du Théâtre du Fort Antoine, Monaco, France
Yateem Center, Manama, Bahrain
2020 5 Artists 5 Walls, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Moving Pictures, Christine Rebet: Shadows of Family Trees, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY
2019 Animated Perspectives, French Institute Alliance Française, New York, NY
2016 The First Horizons of Juno, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
DISSENT: what they fear is the light, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2015 The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning, Human Resources, Los Angeles,
Move On...! 100 Years of Animation Art, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
It Rained Again, Bureau, New York, NY
2014 Anniversary, Invaliden Eins Galerie, Berlin
2013 The Hollow Center, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Nothing is Forgotten, Some Things Considered, UKS, Oslo, Norway
Mannered Attitude, Soloway Gallery, New York, NY
You never look at me from the place from which I see you, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Brucennial 2012, New York, NY
Tender is the Night, Marine Contemporary, New York, NY
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
Tropical Lab, Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore
2010 The Dissolve, SITE, Santa Fe, NM
Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, New York, NY
Habitat, 21st twenty first Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Berlin-Paris, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Nouveau Parcours du Musée, M.A.C./V.A.L., Vitry-sur-Seine, France
On From Here, Guild and Greyshkul Gallery, New York, NY
Comic Strip, Musée de Sérignan, France
2008 8 1/2 x 11 / A4, James Fuentes, New York, NY
Rendezvous 08, Shanghai Art Museum, China
Momentary Momentum, Kettle Yard, Cambridge, UK
2007 Momentary Momentum, Parasol Unit, London, UK
Bitte Zeichen mir ein Shaft, Ittinger Kunst Museum, Switzerland
Dessins en mouvement, Musée Contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Rendez-vous 07, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
In Wonderlands, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
French Kissin' in the USA, Moore Space, Miami, FL

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2014 Appendix One: Methods of Nonviolent Action, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Poison Lecture, International Spy Museum, Washington DC
Appendix One: Methods of Nonviolent Action, UKS, Oslo, Norway
2011 Appendix One: Methods of Nonviolent Action, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
Poison Lecture, Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
2010 Poison Lecture, Edifying, X-Initiative, New York, NY
2009 Poison Lecture, Future Art Research, ASU Fringe Festival, Phoenix, AZ

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2022 Otolithe, Muharraq Nights, Alliance Française Bahrain, Muharraq, Bahrain
Lick, Stick, Leak, screening program organized by JOAN, 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles, CA
Metamorphoses, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Otolithe, Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway
The Square, Fata Morgana Festival, curated by Béatrice Gross, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2020 In the Soldier’s Head, Paréidolie, Marseille, France
Thunderbird, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2019 Breathe in Breathe out, with Emanuele Coccia, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Collective Mythologies, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
UbuWeb cinema program in HILLARY: The Hillary Clinton Emails, an exhibition by Kenneth Goldsmith, organized by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, Despar Teatro Italia, Venice, Italy
Series of film screenings, Nanterre-Amandiers, Centre Dramatique National, Nanterre, France
2018 Series of film screenings, Nanterre-Amandiers, Centre Dramatique National, Nanterre, France
I can call this progress to halt, Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
Cinematheque Robert-Lynen, Paris, France
Silencio, Paris, France
2017 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
2016 Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
Tofifest International Film Festival, Toruń, Poland
Hong Kong Film Festival, Hong Kong
International Filmfestspiele, Berlin, Germany
2014 Lullaby, Hollywood Hookah, Los Angeles, CA
Sound Design for Future Film, Treize, Paris, France
2011 Animation Screening, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawing, Berlin, Germany
2010 Animated Screen, Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark
For Real - 28 Utopian Projections in Public Space, Maastricht, Netherlands
Decalogue: Films you can count on two hand, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Berlinale Shorts Competition, Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Sound Design for Future Film, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2004-2007 Trip to the world of Drawing Animation, Tokyo/Yokohama/Kyoto/Nigata/Nagoya/ Fukuoka, Japan;
Version Animee, BAC/Centre de l’Image Contemporaine, Switzerland 2009; Zurich Film Festival,
Zurich, Switzerland; Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany; Anima’t, International Fantastic Film
Festival of Catalonia, Spain; Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany; Jakarta International Film Festival, Indonesia; London Film festival, London, UK

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS

2023 Alison Moss, ‘Rebet et Benchamma lauréats des résidences Miyu Frac Picardie,’ Le Quotidien de l’Art, September 28
Christine Rebet, Escapologie, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Silvana Editoriale, Milan
2020 Lillian Davies, ‘Christine Rebet,’ Artforum, July/August, Vol. 58, No. 10
Béatrice Gross, ‘Métamporphoses de l’animation,’ The Art Newspaper Édition Française, March, number 17, p.29
Rosemary Waugh, ’Christine Rebet: Time Levitation,’ Time Out London, p.64, February 4
Veronica Simpson, ’Christine Rebet – interview: Animation is perfect for critique: it is a minor
medium, it’s not film; like drawing is not painting,’ StudioInternational.com, February 2
Sammi Gale, ‘Breathe in. Breathe out. – Christine Rebet at Parasol Unit,’ WhyNow, January 31
Jonathan McAloon, ‘Hand-Drawn Animation Is Pure Suffering, So Why Still Do It?,’ Elephant Magazine, January 28
Jackie Wullschläger, ‘Christine Rebet,’ Financial Times – FT Weekend, p.16, 18/19, January 18
2019 Cécile Daumas, Il y a du végétal dans l’humain, Libération, October 29
Béatrice Gross, 'Les Artistes face à l'archéologie en péril,' The Art Newspaper Édition Française, April, number 7, p.43
Fold Image. apricota journal, Issue 2, Secretary Press
B. Wurtz, 'Degrees of Mystery: B. Wurtz on Exhibitions Around New York,' ARTnews, February
2018 Will Heinrich, ‘Christine Rebet,’ The New York Times, December 5
Andrea K. Scott, ‘Christine Rebet,’ The New Yorker, November 30
2017 In "The Awakening of the Sumerian Tempestbird," in For the Gods of Girsu, Archaeopress
‘Drawing Connections: Basma Alsharif in conversation with Christine Rebet,’ Objektiv Magazine, May 20
2016 Christine Rebet, 'Postcards to Jean-Jacques Lévêque,' Peeping Tom's Digest No. 4: Paris (Le Grand and beyond)
James Tarmy, ‘Eight Artworks You Should Buy at New York’s Armory Arts Week,' Bloomberg Business, March 4
2015 ‘The Closer I Get to the End the More I Rewrite the Beginning,’ Terremoto, December 20
‘The Closer I Get to the End the More I Rewrite the Beginning at Human Resources,’ by Simone Krug, Carla, December 2 2015
Christine Rebet as told to Joanna Fiduccia, '500 Words,' Artforum.com, June 8
Taylor Le Melle, 'Christine Rebet: Paysage Fautif,' thisistomorrow.com, June 5
‘Christine Rebet,’ The Drawer, vol. 8, Spring, pp. 114-117
2014 'Christine Rebet "Meltingsun" at AlbumArte, Rome,' Moussemagazine.com
2010 Peter Frank, ‘Blague d’Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music,’ The Huffington Post, October 18
Robert Storr, ‘Moving Images,’ Frieze, September
Phong Bui, ‘Site Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial: The Dissolve,’ The Brooklyn Rail, September 3
‘The Dissolve,’ SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial Exh. Catalogue
2007 Georgina Adam, ‘France: the new wave reaches Miami Beach,’ The Art Newspaper, Dec. 6
‘Les Français séduisent Miami,’ Le Figaro, December
Valérie Duponchelle, ‘Miami: l’heure de la jeune garde français,’ Le Figaro, December 8
Lillian Davies, ‘Christine Rebet: Galerie Kamel Mennour,’ Artforum, pp. 285-86, April
Paul Ardenne, ‘Christine Rebet / Peter Grasner,’ Art Press, February
Erin Wylie, ‘Slanted and Enchanted,’ Nylon Magazine, January
2006 ‘Star’s Life,’ CREAM, Hong Kong
Midori Matsui, 'Invitation,' Japan
2005 Midori Matsui, BT(Bijutsu-techo), Japan
Anaid Demir, ‘Cruelles aquarelles,’ Le Journal des Arts, June 23
Studio Voice, Japan
2004 Eva Scharrer, “Critics’ Picks: Christine Rebet,” Artforum.com, January
2003 Jens Hoffmann, ‘Guided dreams on the Drawings of Christine Rebet,’ Catalogue, Ed. A Huge Book

COLLECTIONS Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France KADIST, Paris, France; San Francisco, CA Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France