Mathieu Merlet Briand
French artist born in 1990.
He graduated from EnsAD in 2013.
He lives and works in Paris.

Digital native and coming from a farming family, Mathieu is interested in the influence of technology on the perception of our contemporary reality. He questions the internet materiality and its representations. It seeks to translate the spiritual experience of the internet user, the imagination of the surfer facing this endless flow of information.

In his projects recurrently emerges environmental issues (see his solo-show "#iceberg" 2017, "Environment" 2017) also, inspired by the reading of the philosophical essay of Ariel Kyrou "Google God" 2010, he questions this almost divine image associated with the giants of the web (see the exhibition "non-site" for the Dauphine Prize for Contemporary Art 2016).

He uses as medium the big datas. Through his algorithms that he develops, through recycling processes and analogies to nature, he shapes data flows in order to create tangible materializations. Abstractions, relics, crystallizations or fragment of the World Wide Web, his protean work materializes mainly in sculptures and multimedia installations.

Influenced as much by the history of abstraction, the artists of Land Art, as the New Realists, his creations are associated with Digital Culture, the movement Post-Digital or Post-Internet Art.

Mathieu Merlet Briand has participated in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in France and abroad, including :

the "Kerkennah01" festival in Tunisia (see his installation #Red-Screen Temple, 2018, permanent work), the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art at the New Tretyakov Gallery (where is work as been selected to represent the biennal), the exhibition "The Synchronicity of Elements" at the Contemporary Art Center of Nîme, "Parallel Call" in the collections of the Musée des Arts et Métiers of Paris.

Mathieu Merlet Briand graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2013, after a study trip to Ecal in Switzerland. He then continued his studies in the research cycle at EnsadLab, the EnsAD Research Laboratory.
Mathieu Merlet Briand is also a teacher - researcher in Art & Design. He notably worked at the EnsadLab, the Parsons School, PCA, Paris College of Arts, Sciences Po.
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^{Photo portrait © C.Poupon}

Exhibitions

— Current

— Les Hommes de la Mancha
group show, Double V Gallery, Marseille,
31.08 - 27.10.2018 ︎

— 2018

— Without Nature
group show, NICOLETTI, London,
27.09 - 7.10.2018 ︎

— La synchronicité des éléments
group show, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes,
6.07 - 22.09.2018 ︎

— Kerkennah01
Festival, Kerkennah island, Tunisia,
21 - 27.06.2018 ︎

— M@terial
solo show, Galerie Alexandra de Viveiros, Bruxelles,
20.04 - 19.05.2018 ︎

— Digi-Poesie
group show, Under Construction Gallery, Paris,
30.01 - 24.02.2018 ︎

— What about 2222?
group show, Le FDP, Paris,
21.01 - 8.02.2018 ︎

— Cloud ⇆ Forest, 7th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
curated by Yuko Hasegawa,
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,
19.09.2017 - 18.01.2018 ︎

— #iceberg
solo show, Playground for All, Paris, 12.10.2017 - 17.01.2018 ︎

— 2017

— Variation - Media Art Fair
group show, Cité Internationnal des Arts, Paris, 15 - 25.11.2017 ︎

— OffPAC 2017
group show, Marseille, 22 - 28.05.2017 ︎

— Environnement
solo show, Paris, 8.04 - 12.05.2017 ︎

— Understand what we know
group show, La Couleuvre, 21.04 - 25.06.2017 ︎

— Art Genève
group show, collectionair, 26 - 29.01.2017 ︎

— Moments
group show, Artplateforme, Paris, 14 - 19.01.2017

— Google Matter
solo show, collectionair.com, 01.01.2017

— 2016

— Duo
group show, Early Work, Paris,
21.11 - 11.12. 2016

— Parallel Call, YIA Art Fair #7
group show, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris,
6 - 23.10.2016 ︎

— Relève
group show, Crédit Municipale, Paris,
18 - 26.10. 2016.

— memories memories
solo show, Espace Pierre Gilles de Gennes, Paris, 18.04 - 15.07.2016 ︎

— Take A Risk
group show, Artplateforme, Galerie Nery Marino, Paris, 30.06.2016.

— Dignes
group show, EnsAD, Bastille Design Center,
31.05 - 5.06.2016

— Le Prix Dauphine pour L’Art Contemporain 2016 group show, exhibition « non-site »
curated by Anaïs Lerendu, Paris Dauphine,
21 - 24.03.2016

— BYOB#2
group show, galerie le Huit - Paris, 28.01.2016

— 2015

— Progression
solo show, La Ferme du bonheur, Nanterre,
15.08.2015

— Capture
group show, galerie le Huit, Paris,
26 - 31.03.2015

— BYOB
group show, galerie le Huit, Paris, 13.02.2015

Press

— 2018

— Jeunes Critiques d'Arts « Mathieu Merlet Briand : Parthénons Algorithmiques » Portrait par Samuel Belfond Oct. 2018 | Fr︎

— HORS-CADRE : Portrait par Ingrid Luquet-Gad July 2018 | Fr | En︎

— Point Contemporain : Mathieu Merlet Briand [Entretien] 2018 | Fr ︎

— “#RED-SCREEN TEMPLE, KERKENNAH01 TUNISIE” Point Contemporain ︎

— Revue Point Contemporain #9, on the cover and a double page of interviews, June 2018 ︎

— Capgemini « Mathieu Merlet Briand is the artist chosen by Capgemini to illustrate its 2017 Annual Report. » 23 May 2018 ︎

— Manifesto XXI « 10 Artistes à suivre en 2018 » 15 Jan. 2018 ︎

— 2017

— Point Contemporain, Entretiens 27 sept. 2017. ︎

— Cloud ⇆ Forest, 7th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art : My work has been selected to represent the biennale.
— e-flux.com ︎
— Art Forum ︎
— ARTnews ︎
— Institut Français ︎
— artandyou.ru ︎
— The New Tretyakov Gallery ︎
— Tokyo University of the Arts ︎
— afisha.ru ︎
— kunstaspekte.art ︎
— Cabinet de l’Art ︎
— Mousse Magazine ︎

— Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung ︎
— Collectionair ︎

— Broadcast on « Souvenirs from earth », sfe.tv. 16 juin 2017

— Le Quotidien des Arts, publication, page 3, about Art Genève. 20 jan. 2017

— Artemporary
Top 11 at artgenève 2017 ︎

— Collectionair, Interview, journal.collectionair.com, 20 mar. 2017 ︎

— 2016

— Prix Dauphine pour l’Art Contemporain— Interview with Emmanuelle Oddo, curator. ︎— Lechassis price won with Anaïs Lerendu, curator. ︎ — Lechassis, article. ︎

— Early Work, Interview with Lisa Toubas.

Prize

— Le Prix Dauphine pour L’Art Contemporain 2016 Lechassis prize, 21 - 24.03.2016

Representation of the "Nature" through the internet filter. This infinite flow of information is an abstract reality, now an integral part of our everyday environment, a "new nature" that I seek to translate into my work.