Olivier
Goulet
Born 4 November 1969
French and German nationality
Based
in Normandy &
Paris
+33 6 19 94 22 71
xogoulet[at]gmail.com
• 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
• Solo
Exhibitions
1989
– Im
Waldwinkel –
forest installations, Berlin, D
1992 – Walking
on the Cow’s Back –
Institut Français, Mainz, D
1993 – Moving
Islands –
Art Centre, Plymouth, GB
1994 – Installation –
Cité des Arts, Atelier A, Paris
1996 – Stop
Breathing –
Artothèque de Caen
2001 – Human
Relics –
Galerie du Bellay, Rouen
2005 – e-magicians –
Valenciennes
2006 – Skin –
Roxy, Basel, CH and Rigiblick, Zürich, CH
2007 – SkinBag
Shop Windows –
107RIVOLI, Paris
2010 – For Life –
Château de Boisset les Prévanches
2010 – Transcorporation –
Hypertopie Gallery, Caen
2012 – Human
Hunting Trophies –
LUX, Caen
2013 – MixCorpus –
Bains-douches, Alençon
• Group
Exhibitions
1992 – Drift of a Fossil
Land and Its Inhabitants – installation, Trélon
1992
– Polar Night in a Blind Head –
installation, Hérouville-St-Clair Video Festival
1993 – Master
93 – installation, ENSB-A, Paris
1997 – Skin –
Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris
1997 – White Lands –
VTPC site presentation, CICV, Montbéliard
1998 – Mutants –
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
1998 – Night of
Mutation – By The Way Agency
2002 – NIM
Retrospective – Galerie Patricia Dorfmann,
Paris
2004 – Immobilis, the Immobile Body –
presentation of TCH, Musée des moulages, Lyon
2004
– Mutatis Mutandis –
Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine, Paris
2004
– Posthumous Art – Galerie Artcore,
Paris
2005 – A Body Defended –
ENS Festival, Lyon
2005 – Designer’s Day –
Galeries Lafayette, Paris
2006 – Curiosities –
MateriO, Paris
2006 – 20 Years –
Artothèque de Caen
2006 – Eden
DNA – Saint-Etienne
Design Biennale
2006 – Figures
of Artifice – Musée
d’Ethnographie, Neuchâtel, CH
2007 – Nature
Design – Museum für
Gestaltung, Zürich, CH
2007
– Heroic Women – Musée de
l’Homme, Paris
2008 – Sk-interfaces –
FACT, Liverpool, GB
2008 – Skin
Deep – Glas Museum,
Leerdam, NL
2008 – Design & Emotion –
Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, D
2008 – Article 08 –
Contemporary Art Biennale, Stavanger, NO
2009 – Freeze
! 2009 – International MedTech Art Show, Museum of
Modern Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2009 – Sk-interfaces –
Casino Luxembourg, LU
2009 – (dis) common
accords – Frac HN, Rouen
2009
– Passport Number – Vitrines du Palais
Royal, Paris
2010 – Inspired
by Nature – MateriO Paris / Bucharest, RU
2010
– Skin – Wellcome Collection, London,
GB
2010
– A moment in – show
room A. Demeulemeester, Paris
2011 – Evil Things –
Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, CH
2011 – El dia de los
muertos – Pavillon de Normandie, Caen
2011
– Skin – Fondation Claude Verdan,
Lausanne, CH
2011 – Beauty is Always Strange –
Frac HN, Rouen
2012 – Flaubert’s Disease –
Musée Flaubert and Medical History, Rouen
2014 – Evil
Things – Hofmobiliendepot, Möbel Museum Wien, A
2014
– TransVision 2014 – Espace Pierre
Gilles de Gennes, Paris
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
• Performances,
Conferences
1993 – Narrative
Installation – Fondation Schlumberger, Château de
Crèvecœur en Auge
2001 – Post-Human –
discussion with Paul Ardenne, Galerie du Bellay, Rouen
2004
– VTPC – conference
at Musée
des moulages, Lyon
2004 – O Game Video –
Vidéoformes Festival (Clermont-Ferrand) and Rencontres Parallèles
(Hérouville St-Clair)
2005 – Orbitallink –
dance improvisation, OPA, Paris
2005 – Masterclass –
Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Le Fresnoy, Roubaix
2005
– SkinBag : Organic / Digital Interface –
conference, e-magicians, Valenciennes
2006 – Skin –
choreography by Cathy Sharp, Basel, CH
2006 – Skin –
Dieppe Scène Nationale Festival
2006 – Night of
Mutation – SkinBag Performance, Budapest, HU
2006
– Ending Anthropomorphism – Organism
seminar lecture, Paris 3 Sorbonne
2008 – Dance
Improvisation – University of Stavanger, NO for
Article 08
2008-10 – Protected Kisses –
performance, Liverpool, GB / Leerdam, NL / Caen
2010
– Orbitallink – dance performance,
Cabinet of Curiosities, Paris
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 – The
Game of Go – lecture, conference A quoi sert le
concept de jeu ?, Cerisy la Salle
2013 – Assises
du Vivant – intervention, UNESCO headquarters,
Paris
2013 – Magnetic – dance
performance with SB-burqa, Blois
2013-15 – Painting
Festival – Onirika, Boisset, 27
2014 – O
Democracy and Governance Software – Conf.,
TransVision 2014, ESPGG, Paris
2016 – From
Skinfolds to Gestural Unfolding – performative
lecture, The Fold conference, EnsAD, Paris
2016
– For Life – performance with
SB-burqa, Fleury Mérogys
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
2019 – Meeting in 1000 Breaths (dark version) –
Le Labo des Arts, Caen
2020 – Shared Air –
arTsenal, Dreux
2021 – Fleur de peau –
performance with D. Peysson, Sorbonne, Paris
2021 – Life
is Steam – performance with D. Peysson, festival Si
(Non) Oui, Evry
2021 – Shared Air –
festival Si (Non) Oui, Evry
2021
– Skin Deep –
performance with D. Peysson, Sorbonne, Paris
2022 – Echoes –
Qi Gong improvisation with P. Lallemand, Echoes of Pink Floyd,
Giverny
2023 – Musical Improvisation –
with N. Perdillat, library, St-André de l’Eure
2023 – Thanks
to Life – musical improvisation with N. Perdillat and
Z. Goulet, library, St-André de l’Eure
• Publications
1988
– And the Stories – 9 woodcuts and 9
personal texts, 200 copies
1990 – Waldwinkel
Petite Forêt Cinéraire – 2 vols., text (68 p.),
engravings (50 p.), 100 copies
1991 – Petite
Forêt Cinéraire – booklet for dance performance, 50
copies
1996 – 381 Characters, 381 Places, and Two
Colors – Artothèque
de Caen Catalogue
2002
– Bye-bye (Domestic
Massacre) –
Arlix/Goulet, 16 p., 1000 copies
2007 – Figures
of Artifice (Cat.)
– Musée Ethno. Neuchâtel,
CH, pp.38-39, 179 & 210-217
2007 – Nature
Design (
Cat.) – Museum
für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH, pp.204-205
2008 – Sk-interfaces (Cat.) –
FACT,
Liverpool, GB, pp.150-152
2009 – Freeze
! 2009 (Cat.) –
Museum of Modern Art, Taipei, Taiwan, pp.88-90
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
1991 – Petite Forêt
Cinéraire – engraving, Artothèque de Caen
1995
– Walking on the Cow’s Back –
engraving, Artothèque de Caen
2006 – Suzanne and
John – photographs, Artothèque de Caen
2007 – Facial
Condom and SkinBag Vest – Museum of Ethnography,
Neuchâtel, CH
2008 – SkinBag Bags –
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne
2008 – Human
Profile n°7 and SkinBag Head-Hand – FRAC
Haute-Normandie
2010 – Human Profile n°8 Ecce
Homo and HP n°10 Watcher – Artothèque de Caen