Damien Daufresne
Biography
Studied painting, drawing, printmaking and photography at the École Boulle in Paris, at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at the School of Visual Arts in New York
2003 Winner of the Leica/Ensad Award and exhibition at Galerie Sabine Puget
2012 Exhibition "Noir Dessin" at Galerie Guigon, Paris. Nomination for the Vienna International Photo Award
2014 Nomination for the "talents contemporains" Fondation François Schneider" Award.
2015 Exhibition "Ressac" at Galerie Guigon, Paris
2017 Nomination for the Roger Pic Award and Gomma Award
2018 Solo exhibition "Archipels" at Espace Saint Cyprien, Toulouse
2019 Nomination for the Leica Italy - Voix Off, Arles/France
2020 Solo exhibition "Lunar Eclipse" at the Contemporary Art Center - Chapelle Saint Jacques/Saint Gaudens
2020 First solo exhibition at Showroom Galerie Georg Nothelfer
2020-21 Scholarship "Neustart Kultur" Foundation Art Fund, Bonn
2022 Winner of the Lotto Brandenburg Artprice photography
2022 Publication UNDERTOW, with Blow Up Press
2024 Solo exhibition "Undertow" at Leica Galerie, Paris
Lives and works in Berlin
Damien Daufresne moves between the disciplines of painting, drawing, photography and film. Light, darkness and movement are the elements he uses to suggest bodies or corporeality. "The physical material is important to him," says the author Cara Wuchold, "In addition to the charcoal and chalk here, that is, the photographic paper, the film rolls and also the chemicals. It is precisely these aggressive substances that get under the skin that create the necessary resistance. They react - and he reacts to them. What the works have in common: they do without colour, black and white dominates. The diversity of grey is evident in the recent large-format, two-dimensional paintings. The grey here shimmers brownish, yellowish, bluish. In his drawings, photographs and films, Daufresne creates moments of condensation, in which a dark secret or even a still concealed radiance is inherent. In them, he exposes the poetry of things." Daufresne also works with various publishers, such as "Fata Morgana", "Delpire", "Origini edizioni" and "Blow-Up".
Exhibitions
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Collection Nothelfer. Selection of works by the artists of the gallery
23 November to 20 December 2024
Galerie
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ART COLOGNE
7 to 10 November 2024
Köln
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ART COLOGNE
16 to 19 November 2023
Köln
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More than 24 #2. Groupshow
10 November 2023 to 1 January 2024
Showroom
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Kabinett - Gruppenausstellung
28 April to 17 June 2023
Galerie
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More than 24
2 December 2022 to 28 January 2023
Showroom
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still. there
26 November 2022 to 28 January 2023
Galerie
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ART COLOGNE
16 to 20 November 2022
Köln
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Positions Berlin Art Fair
15 to 18 September 2022
Tempelhofer Flughafen
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MÉLANGE DE 16
21 July to 3 September 2022
Showroom
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art KARLSRUHE
7 to 10 July 2022
Karlsruhe
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head-to-head-to-head
5 March to 1 May 2022
Galerie
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Kabinettausstellung
13 January to 12 February 2022
Galerie
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ART COLOGNE
17 to 21 November 2021
Köln
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Groupshow. All I Think About Is You
30 April to 26 June 2021
Galerie & Showroom
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Accrochage
18 December 2020 to 20 March 2021
Showroom
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Accrochage
7 November 2020 to 9 January 2021
Galerie
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Damien Daufresne. Bilder und Papierarbeiten
7 November to 12 December 2020
Showroom