Davide Balula

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Born in 1978 in France. Lives and works in Paris, France.

http://davide.balula.free.fr
http://www.lappareil.com

Education

2004 DNSEP, École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, France
2002 DNAP, École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, France

Solo Exhibitions

2013
1. Turn West / 2. Form a Circle with your Mouth / 3. Let the Sun Set In, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2012

The Buried Works, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

2010
Wall to Wall, Blackston, NY, USA
Introduction, (avec Charlie Jeffery), La Chambre Claire, Annecy, France
Le compas dans l’oeil, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
« Là », Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto, Portugal

2009
American Wall Nut, Fake Estate Gallery, NY, USA
The Doors behind the darts, Envoy Gallery, NY, USA

2008
Le Lac, le mensonge, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France (cat.)

2007
De la place pour le sable, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Endless Pace, Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
Sirène du Mississipi, Musée de l’Objet, Blois & Ecole des Beaux Arts de Châteauroux &
Bourges, France
Sirène du Mississipi, Project Room, CCC, Tours, France
White Hey Mister Wave !, SMP, Marseille, France

2006
L’Appareil : Un inventaire de la Collection, Nuit des Musées, Musée d’Art Contemporain du
Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Free Hand, Second Hand, Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Paris, France

2005
Low Fidelity, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

Performances

2013
Analog Heart, Machine Project, Los Angeles, USA
A Sculpture to Open Doors, Elizabeth Cline & Machine Project, Los Angeles, USA
Air Drawings of the Guggenheim Museum, NY, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles,
USA

2012
Manifestation de couleurs, Biennale de Belleville, Paris, France
Endless Pace (Mechanical Clock for Dancers), Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
A Car Ride is a Musical Score, w/ Tyler Coburn, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
In collaboration with Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2011
Niagara Falls and Cranberry Leaves, Niagara Falls, Canada
Mechanical Clock for 60 Dancers, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2009
Endless Pace (Mechanical Clock for 60 Dancers), Performa Biennale, 590 Madison Ave
Building, NY, USA

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2013
5 Minutes After The Show, CCC / Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
L’Abri, Galerie Michel Journiac, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Experienz #2 - Materializing the Social, WIELS centre d’art contemporain, Bruxelles,
Belgium
Musée Imaginaire de Jean de Loisy avec le palais de Tokyo, Drawing Now, Paris , France
Un nouveau festival 2013, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

2012
Expérience Pommery #10, domaine Pommery, Reims, France
The Mystery Spot, Fondation d’entreprise RICARD, Paris, France
Être sauvage de Rousseau à nos jours, ESAAA, Annecy, France

2011
Niagara Falls and Cranberry Leaves, Gallery Clifton / Benevento, NY, USA
Wall to Wall Blackston, New York, USA
Eaf - European American Friendship, Duve Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Danser sa vie, danse et arts visuels aux 20è et 21è siècle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curated by Christine Macel and Emma Lavigne
SOURCE, Blackston, New York, USA
Itinéraire Bis, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
C’est l’amour à la plage, Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
De A à B, de B à P, Entrepôt-galerie, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Elémentaires, Collégiale Sainte-Croix, Loudun, France
Berlin-Paris, Galerie Frank Elbaz at Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2010
La Méthode graphique et autres lignes, Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts / Galerie Edouard-Manet, Gennevilliers, France
From A to B, From B to P - De A à B, de B à P, Bielefelder Kunstervein, Germany
The Endless Pace (12h Variation for 60 dancers), Nuit Blanche 2010, Toronto, Canada
Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa
La musique du hasard, Palais de Thau, Reims, France
Habitat (Some Pleasures and Discomforts of Domestic Life), 21st21st, NY, USA
Guatavita, Eleven Rivington, New York, USA
Introduction, Ecole supérieure d’art de l’agglomération d’Annecy, France
Les Elixirs de Panacée, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, France, curated by Ami Barak
The Zero Budget Biennale, KLEMM’S, Berlin, Germany
Ce qui vient, Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d’art contemporain, Couvent des Jacobins Rennes,France
Perpetuum Mobile, Four boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm Hojskole, Skive, Danemark
Blindspot, The Wild Project, NY, USA
Au fil de l’œuvre, La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-Le-Sec, France
The Zero Budget Biennale, Rokeby, London, UK
Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
ON/OFF, La Platine, Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Etienne, France
Black Mirror, Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
Charles Fourier. L’écart absolu, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Besançon, France
The Zero Budget Biennale,Pianissimo, Milan, Italy

2009
Un nouveau festival, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Zero Budget Biennale, Galerie Cardenas/Bellanger & Galerie Schleicher/Lange, Paris,
France
Toe, Tap, Stomp, Step, Stamp, Spank, Snap, Slide, Shuffle, Shim, Sham, Scuff, Riffle, Pick,
Leep, Hop, Heel, Flap, Dig, Click, Clap, Chug, Brush. Wing, Fake Estate Gallery, NY, USA
Seven in one ! seven in one third !!, Kate Werble gallery, NY, USA
Zweckgemeinschaft, Mica Moca, Berlin
L’avenir d’une Illusion, Centre d’Art Contemporain Passages, Troyes
Robot Monkey Baby Jesus Part I, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Mesure du désordre, Le parvis centre d’art contemporain, Ibos, France
Picnic, Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, France
As Small As It Gets, Art Since the Summer of ‘69, curated by Hanne Mugaas, Paul-Aymar
Mourgue d’Algue, Fabienne Stephan, NYC, USA
Return to Function, MMoCA, Madison, USA, curated by Jane Simon
Builder Vor Boatin, Silver Shed, NY, USA, curated by Dirk Skreber
008. Collections, nouvelles connexions, Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France

2008
The Possibility of an Island, MOCA, Miami, USA
Je reviendrai, nouvel accrochage permanent du Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Uovo open Office, Berlin, Germany
Nuit Rouge, CCC, Tours, France
Antidote, Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
VOLUME(S), Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
The Sound Of Art, TONSPUR_expanded at Freiraum/quartier21 and in the public space at Museums Quartier, Vienna, Austria, curated by Georg Weckwerth

2007
The Sound of Music, Broelmuseum, Courtrai, Belgium
Inventaire 2, MacVal, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Du machinique et du vivant, La Réserve, Pacy-sur-Eure, France, curated by Régis Durand
Science Fictions, Czarna Gallery, Poland, curated by Severin Dünser
L’amorce ou la partition des possibles (sculptural bootlegs and remixed artworks), LIA, Grenoble
Anzengruber Biennale, Caté Anzengruber, Vienna, Austria
The lab, Into position, Vienna, Austria
The Potential Meanings of Sound, Seoul, Korea
The ubiquitus aural SFX, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Songwon Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Logiques du rêve éveillé, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France, curated by Maëlle Dault
Off Modern, La Station, Nice, France
Balula & Contador meet Coffin, Green House, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Section Amour, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
360, Transparent, ARC/MAMVP, Musée d’Art Moderne