PETRA MRZYK + JEAN-FRANÇOIS MORICEAU
Petra Mrzyk born 1973, Nuremberg, Germany (French citizenship)
Jean-François Moriceau born 1974, Nantes, France
2002-2003 Studio program P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York
2003-2004 Studio program Villa Arson, Nice
Live and work in Chatillon/indre, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Casino Royale, Ritter/Zamet, London
Golden Eyes, Caixa Forum, Barcelona
2007
The Living Daylights, AMT Gallery, Como, Italy
Thunderball, MLIS, Villeurbanne, France
2006
The Spy Who loved me, Le Parvis, Ibos, France
We only live 25 Times, Petra Mrzyk + Jean-François Moriceau (with Felician Rops), LACMA, Los Angeles (cat.)
Bons baisers de Russie, La Salle de Bains, Lyons (cat.)
Gold Fingers, Le Carré, Chateau Gontier, France
2005
Licence to Kill, Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
On her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ritter/Zamet, London
2004
Octopussy, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Never Say Never Again, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
Docteur No, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Moonraker, Air de Paris, Paris
Live and Let Die, Drawing Art Centre of Norway, Oslo
2003
Only for your Eyes, Marcus Ritter, New York
2002
Diamonds are Eternal, Marcus Ritter, New York
Air de Paris, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland
2001
Tir à l’Arc, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris (curated by A. Vaillant) (cat.)
The world is not enough, Schnitt-Ausstellungsraum, Cologne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
SUNSHINE, Ritter/Zamet at RENTAL, New York
Pop! goes the weasel, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2007
Play Back, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Fade Away and Radiate, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Promenade au zoo, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
My sweet sixteen party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
French Kissing in the USA, The Moore Space, Miami
Attitude, Iconoscope, Montpellier, France (cur. David G. Torres)
Drunk on Dreams (Fukt & D) Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin
La Boum, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna
Drawing & Dreaming, ADN Gallery, Barcelone
Fantasmagoria, ICO, Madrid
The Freak Show, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
RAW, Centrum Voor Contemporaine Cultuur, Maastricht
2006
Dadadandy, Ritter/Zamet Gallery, London
Living Room 2 (with Matali Crasset) Maison Descartes, Amsterdam
Unite, Tuner Contemporary, Margate
Peinture Malerei, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Liquid Paper, Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco
Prix Altadis, Galerie Lelong, Paris- Galerie Max Estrella, Madrid
Kits’O Part, Centre d’Art de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans) (cat.)
2005
Le Voyage Interieur: Paris London, Espace EDF Electra, Paris
(curated by Alex Farquharson and Alexis Vaillant)
BMW The Baltic Trinnial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Sketch in Motion, Sketch, London (curated by Laurence Dreyfus and Alexandre Pollazzon)
Populism, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam;
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. (cat.)
Erotic drawings, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut curated by Harry Philbrick, (travelling) (cat.)
2004
Villa Arson, Nice, France
Pour les oiseaux, Frac des Pays de Loire, Carquefou, France
Je me souviens, Palais des Congrès, Saint-Jean-de-Monts, France
Opération botox, Stedelijk bureau, Amsterdam
Mix Max, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Mouse on mars, reviewed & remixed, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2003
Foreplay, Ritter/Zamet, London
Breaking away, Studio Program exhibition, PS1, New York
Peripheries become the center, Prague Biennale 1, Prague
Plus, si affinité, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
Feu de Bois, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
Lee 3, Villa Arson, Nice
2002
Media_City, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Drawing in Motion, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Big Torino, Turin Biennale
2001
Blue Dragon, Air de Paris, Paris
Camoshow, Museum of Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden curated by A. Vaillant (cat.)
VIDEOS
DVD – Looping, editions DVD’ART / art-netart, 2004
Video for “Don’t be light”, AIR (source Virgin records), 2002
Feeling, b/w animation film, no sound, duration 3 min 30s, 2000-2001
SELCTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005
Dexter, Emma, Vitimin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon Press, 2005
Lequeux, Emmanuel, Traits exubérants, Beaux Arts Magazine no. 252, June 2005, pp. 72-75
Michelon, Olivier, De l’autre côté du mur, Le Journal des Arts no. 205, 17.12.04 – 06.01.05, p. 11
2004
Beause, Pascal, Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau, Flash Art. Vol.37, No.238, October 2004, p. 130
Pelosi, Flavia, Petra Mrzyk & Jean-François Moriceau in wonderland, Uovo no. 9, Summer 2004, pp. 178-191
2003
Dailey, Meghan, Jean-François Moriceau & Petra Mrzyk, Artforum, Summer 2003, p.191
Johnson, Ken, Jean-François Moriceau & Petra Mrzyk, New York Times, 25/04/03
Levin, Kim, Jean-François Moriceau & Petra Mrzyk, Village Voice, 23/04/03
Scott, Andrea, Jean-François Moriceau & Petra Mrzyk, New Yorker, 12/05//03
Zamet, Kate, Jean-François Moriceau & Petra Mrzyk in: Contemporary, no. 53/54, 2003, p.113-114
2002
Charley 02, ed. M. Cattelan, M. Gioni, A. Subotnik, New York 2002
Gioni Massimiliano, New York Cut Up, Flash Art, no. 224, May-June 2002, p. 79
Levin, Kim, Jean-François Moriceau & Petra Mrzyk, Village Voice, 28/05/02
Smith, Roberta, Jean-François Moriceau & Petra Mrzyk in: New York Times, 10/05/02
ARTISTS BOOKS
2006 Trois fois rien, Collection La Salle de Bains, Lyons, 2006 (text by Alexis Vaillant)
2004 Tout l’univers, Toastink, Paris 2004
2003 Trois Fois Plus, ed. Marcus Ritter, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany, 2003
2001 Le Petit Huit, published by agnes b. and Toastink, Paris, 2001