Olivier
Goulet
Born 4 November 1969
French and German nationality
• Main
Projects
1996
– Human
Hunting Trophies (HHT) –
beginning of the project
1997 – Mail-Order Territory Sale (VTPC)
2000
– SkinBag –
first objects >
2001
– Relic
of the Bionic Man
2005
– Protected
Kisses –
performances (facial condoms)
2008 – Human
Profile –
beginning of the drawing series
2013 –
Onirika
–beginning of the interdisciplinary project: architecture, art,
performance, well-being
2014 – O
Democracy –
study for a governance softwar
• Selected Solo
Exhibitions
1996 – Stop
Breathing –
Artothèque de Caen
2001 – Human
Relics –
Galerie du Bellay, Rouen
2006 – Skin –
Roxy, Basel, CH and Rigiblick, Zürich, CH
2007 – SkinBag
Shop Windows –
107RIVOLI, Paris
2010 – Transcorporation –
Hypertopie Gallery, Caen
2013 – MixCorpus –
Bains-douches, Alençon
• Selected Group
Exhibitions
1997 – Skin –
Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
2004
– Mutatis Mutandis –
Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine, Paris
2006 – Figures
of Artifice – Musée
d’Ethnographie, Neuchâtel, CH
2007 – Nature
Design – Museum für
Gestaltung, Zürich, CH
2008 – Sk-interfaces –
FACT, Liverpool, GB + Casino Luxembourg
2008 – Design & Emotion –
Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, D
2009 – Freeze
! 2009 – International MedTech Art Show, Museum of
Modern Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2010
– Skin – Wellcome Collection, London,
GB
2011
– Skin – Fondation Claude Verdan,
Lausanne, CH
2019 – Liberty, Equality,
Diversity – Abbaye Daoulas
2020 – Fields
of Possibilities – ar[T]senal, Dreux
2023
– Fashion, or the Enchanting Spectacle of the Code –
NYC, USA
• Selected Performances,
Conferences
2005 – Orbitallink –
dance improvisation, OPA, Paris
2006 – Night of
Mutation – SkinBag Performance, Budapest, HU
2006
– Ending Anthropomorphism – Organism
seminar lecture, Paris 3 Sorbonne
2008-10 – Protected Kisses –
performance, Liverpool, GB / Leerdam, NL / Caen
2010 – ForLife – performance with
SB-burqa, Boisset, Caen / London, GB
2012 – The
Moment of the Living –
Conference, Cerisy la Salle
2012 – Molecular
Soup – performance,
Assises du Vivant, ESPGG, Paris
2013 – Magnetic – dance
performance with SB-burqa, Blois
2014 – O
Democracy and Governance Software – Conf.,
TransVision 2014, ESPGG, Paris
2016 – From
Skinfolds to Gestural Unfolding – performative
lecture, The Fold conference, EnsAD, Paris
2017 – Song
of Gestures: Ambiguous Gestures –
performative lecture, Cehta / INHA, Paris
2017 – Life
is a Vapor – performance
with D. Peysson, Opéra Comique, Paris
2018 – Meeting in 1000 Breaths –
performance with L. Pointelin, Sepulcre, Caen
2021 – Fleur de peau –
performance with D. Peysson, Sorbonne, Paris
2022 – Echoes –
Qi Gong improvisation with P. Lallemand, Echoes of Pink Floyd,
Giverny
• Selected Publications
1996 – 381 Characters, 381 Places, and Two
Colors – Artothèque
de Caen Catalogue
2007 – Figures
of Artifice (Cat.)
– Musée Ethno. Neuchâtel,
CH, pp.38-39, 179 & 210-217
2008 – Sk-interfaces (Cat.) –
FACT,
Liverpool, GB, pp.150-152
2014 – Creative
Skins – Klinckseck,
pp.85-86
2015 – Through the Prism of the
Game – Ed. Hermann, lecture on Go, pp.207-221
2016
– The Moment of the Living – PUF,
pp.441-459
• Public
Collections
Artothèque
de Caen
Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel, CH
Museum of
Modern Art, Saint-Étienne
FRAC Haute-Normandie