Guillaume Leblon

Guillaume Leblon was born in Lille in 1971. He studied at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France and did his residency (1999-2000) in Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. He works and lives in Paris.

Guillaume Leblon, Portrait de l'homme politique en sportif occasionnel, 2012, ceramics, brass, terracotta (bricks), fabric, plastic, steel, 300 x 500 x 250 cm Exhibition view: Les Prairies, au FRAC Bretagne, Les Ateliers de Rennes - biennale d'art contemporain 2012.
Guillaume Leblon, Portrait de l'homme politique en sportif occasionnel, (detail), 2012, ceramics, brass, terracotta (bricks), fabric, plastic, steel, 300 x 500 x 250 cm Exhibition view: Les Prairies, au FRAC Bretagne, Les Ateliers de Rennes - biennale d'art contemporain 2012.
Patate, 2012, ink on paper, 102x66 cm
Figures, 2012, steel, plastiline, shells
Examen de minuit, 2012, ceramics, blanket covered with white painting, 73 x 224 x 123 cm
Chrysocale le Monde, 2012, alloy of copper, zinc, tin, newspaper, 180 x 35 x 25 cm
Sand Rise West 1 et 2 2011 brass, sand 165 x 80 x 20 cm 170 x 93 x 23 cm
Sand Rise West 1 et 2 2011 brass, sand 165 x 80 x 20 cm 170 x 93 x 23 cm
Guillaume Leblon, National Monument (2006-2010) at Centre Culturel Français de Milan, 2010
Guillaume Leblon, National Monument (2006-2010) (detail) at Centre Culturel Français de Milan, 2010
Réplique de la chose absente, 2009 Bois aggloméré, inox, papier, métal, terre 200x95x200cm, Exhibition view Les sculptures meurent aussi curated by Lorenzzo Benedetti at Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2010
Exhibition view Les sculptures meurent aussi curated by Lorenzzo Benedetti at Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2010
La Trappe, 2008, copper-zinc alloy, gravel, Exhibition Le jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent (The garden of forking paths), curated by Claire Le Restif at AKBANK SANAT, Istanbul
Le Grand bureau, 2010, Solo Exhibition 'someone knows better than me' at Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2010
Faces contre terre, 2010 at Solo Exhibition 'someone knows better than me' at Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2010
Vestiaire, 2010, Metal board, foam, raw clay, Solo Exhibition 'someone knows better than me' at Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2010
Solo Exhibition 'someone knows better than me' at Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, 2010
Guillaume Leblon > Exhibition view at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009 > Cold water I , II, III, IV, V. 2009, Pastel (grey blue) on paper, 200x140cm (with frame 216x156 cm) > Channel. 2009, raw oak, 575 cm(length) x 71cm (high point) et 56cm (low point)x 102cm > Site of confluence. 2009, shell, sand, organics, threads, felt and wood, variable size, 8 sheet of poplar 250x125x1,6 cm, 4 different forms
Guillaume Leblon > Exhibition view at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009 > Site of confluence. 2009, shell, sand, organics, threads, felt and wood, variable size, 8 sheet of poplar 250x125x1,6 cm, 4 different forms
Guillaume Leblon > Exhibition view at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009 > Channel. 2009, raw oak, 575 cm(length) x 71cm (high point) et 56cm (low point)x 102cm
Guillaume Leblon > Exhibition view at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009 > Cold water I , II, III, IV, V. 2009, Pastel (grey blue) on paper, 200x140cm (with frame 216x156 cm) > Channel. 2009, raw oak, 575 cm(length) x 71cm (high point) et 56cm (low point)x 102cm > Site of confluence. 2009, shell, sand, organics, threads, felt and wood, variable size, 8 sheet of poplar 250x125x1,6 cm, 4 different forms
Guillaume Leblon > Exhibition view at MUDAM, Luxembourg, 2009 > Cold water I , II, III, IV, V. 2009, Pastel (grey blue) on paper, 200x140cm (with frame 216x156 cm)
Guillaume Leblon > Four Ladders > 2008 > wood > 1270 x 1480 x 380 cm > exhibition view: solo show, STUK, Leuven, Belgium, 2008, curator Eva Wittocx > photograph: Dirk Pauwels
Guillaume Leblon Maison sommaire #1, 2008 oiled dark grey MDF 900 x 250 x 250 cm and 15 wooden objects covered with American wallnut exhibition view: Maisons Sommaires, Centre dart de Kerguéhennec, 2008
Guillaume Leblon Maison sommaire # 2, 2008 oiled dark grey MDF 600x250x250 cm and 17 wooden painted objects exhibition view: Maisons sommaires, solo show, Centre dart de Kerguéhennec, 2008
Guillaume Leblon Maison sommaire #1 & 2, 2008 oiled dark grey MDF 900 x 250 x 250 cm and 15 wooden objects covered with American wallnut exhibition view: Maisons Sommaires, Centre dart de Kerguéhennec, 2008
Guillaume Leblon > Population sommaire >2008 > 9 wooden objects, black MDF, American Walnut, painting with a silk finish, protection cover > 150 x 220 cm > exhibition view : Maisons sommaires, solo show, Centre dart de Kerguéhennec, France, 2008
Guillaume Leblon > set of shelves > 2007 > metal, glass > 178.5 x 90 x 50 cm, 89 x 90 x 50 cm, 89 x 94 x 52 cm
Guillaume Leblon > Frame of a window > 2007 > glass > 250cm long, 3mm thick > 4 elements : 3,5 cm, 4 cm, 6 cm, 6,5 cm large > Frame of a window > 2007 > glass > 160 cm long, 2mm thick > 4 elements : 2,5 cm, 3 cm, 3,5 cm, 4 cm > puits > 2007 > raw clay > 34 cm high, 105 cm diameter > 13 x 27 x 3 cm each brick > Notes > 2007 > video, 7:22 min, color, sound > exhibition view : Rupture de correspondances, galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, 2007 > photograph : François Doury
Guillaume Leblon > Meuble > 2007 > oak > 185 x 95 x 51 cm > exhibition view : Rupture de correspondances, galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, 2007 > photograph : François Doury
Guillaume Leblon > Raum > 2006-2007 > plaster > 300 x 600 x 800 cm, approx. 50m2 > view: Art Unlimited, Art Basel 2007
Guillaume Leblon > Raum > detail > 2006-2007 > plaster > 300 x 600 x 800 cm, approx. 50m2 > view: Art Unlimited, Art Basel 2007
Guillaume Leblon > exhibition view: Après la pluie, Musée départemental dart contemporain, Rochechouart, 2007 Larbre > 2005 > 600 cm long > wood, plastic Structures > 2006-2007 > variable dim. > wood, cardboard April street > 2001-2005 > 16 mm > colour > 8 min
Guillaume Leblon > exhibition view: Après la pluie, Musée départemental dart contemporain, Rochechouart, 2007
Guillaume Leblon > Encres déchirées > 2007 > paper, pipe > size variable
Guillaume Leblon > Grande Chrysocale > 2006 > tin, zinc, copper alloy > 80 x 370 x 70 cm > Exhibition view at Guillaume Leblon solo show, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2006
Guillaume Leblon > April Street > 2001-2005 > 16 mm > colour > 8 min
Guillaume Leblon > Domestic cliff > 2005 > 750 x 330 x 330 cm > Polystyrene, plaster > Exhibition view : Pursuit of happiness, Pavillon Stanley Brown, Bureau Beyond, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005
Guillaume Leblon > L'arbre > 2005 > wood, paint, polyester > 600 cm height, 300 m diameter > Exhibition view: CAC Brétigny-sur-Orge, France, 2005
Guillaume Leblon > Le paradoxe du bord > 2005 > cardboard > installation approx. 70m2, elements of 27 x 11 cm and 50 x 11 cm > Exhibition view : Irma vep lab, Chatillon/Marne, France, May 2005
Guillaume Leblon > Mur Barasti > 2004 > plaster > 400 x 1110 cm > exhibition view: Azimut exhibition, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Guillaume Leblon > Models in a box> 2003-2004 > cardbord, mixed media > 60 x 80 x 60 cm
Guillaume Leblon > Landscape # 1 >2003 > smoke apparatus > 10 m > view from the exhibition at SMC / CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
Guillaume Leblon > Equipement >2002 > carbord, wood, furniture > exhibition view: Public, Paris

Artist news

May 2013

Toulouse
"Je jouais avec les chiens et je voyais le ciel et je voyais l'air"
Opening : April 12, 2013

Les Pléiades - 30 ans des FRAC

Guillaume Lelbon, Laurent Mauvignier, Othello Vilgard

IAC, Villeurbanne, France
1966 - 79 sur une proposition de Laurent Montaron
May 24 - August 11, 2013

At the occasion of Les Pléiades - 30 ans des FRAC

Mass Moca, North Adams, USA
Under My Shoe
May 26, 2013 – April 7, 2014

Solo Show

le Plateau, FRAC Ile de France, Paris
une préface
June 5 - July 28, 2013

Group show curated by Yoann Gourmel & Elodie Royer

Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
solo show Guillaume Leblon
September 6 - October 2013
MASS MoCA NORTH ADAMS, MA, USA
Guillaume Leblon
May 25, 2013 – December 31, 2013

Artist exhibitions

Wed, 2013-03-13
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Guillaume Leblon, Isa Melsheimer, Prinz Gholam, Francisco Tropa
Sat, 2013-03-02 to Sat, 2013-04-27
1
Guillaume Leblon
Sat, 2013-01-19 to Sat, 2013-03-02
0
William Anastasi, Guillaume Leblon, Hans Schabus, Francisco Tropa, Franz Erhard Walther
Thu, 2012-10-18 to Sun, 2012-10-21
0
William Anastasi, Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Valérie Favre, Guillaume Leblon, Franz Erhard Walther, Christoph Weber, Clemens von Wedemeyer. And a common booth shared with Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York with Adrian Piper and Franz Erhard Walther
Thu, 2012-06-07 to Sat, 2012-07-28
1
Colette Brunschwig, Miriam Cahn, Marc Desgrandchamps, Guillaume Leblon, On Kawara
Fri, 2012-05-04 to Mon, 2012-05-07
0
Hans Schabus, Elodie Seguin, Guillaume Leblon
Thu, 2011-12-01 to Sun, 2011-12-04
0
Sector Art Galleries shared booth with Galeria Projecte SD: Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Valérie Favre, Guillaume Leblon, Isa Melsheimer, Franz Erhard Walther, Christoph Weber. Sector Art Kabinett : Valérie Favre. Art Video Nights Clemens von Wedemeyer
Thu, 2011-10-20 to Sun, 2011-10-23
0
Guillaume Leblon, Elodie Seguin, Valérie Favre, Franz Erhard Walther, Miriam Cahn, Katinka Bock,
Wed, 2011-04-13 to Sun, 2011-04-17
0
Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Guillaume Leblon, Prinz Gholam, Elodie Seguin
Thu, 2010-12-02 to Sun, 2010-12-05
0
Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Guillaume Leblon, Franz Erhard Walther, Christoph Weber
Wed, 2010-10-20 to Sun, 2010-10-24
0
Isa Melsheimer, Guillaume Leblon, Katinka Bock, Franz Erhard Walther, Miriam Cahn, Clemens von Wedemeyer
Wed, 2010-10-13 to Wed, 2010-10-27
0
Guillaume Leblon
Thu, 2010-10-07 to Sun, 2010-10-10
0
Valérie Favre, Guillaume Leblon, Miriam Cahn
Fri, 2010-07-09 to Fri, 2010-07-16
0
Guillaume Leblon, Miriam Cahn, Prinz Gholam
Wed, 2010-04-21 to Sun, 2010-04-25
0
Guillaume Leblon, Franz Erhard Walther, Isa Melsheimer, Katinka Bock, Prinz Gholam
Thu, 2010-03-04 to Sun, 2010-03-07
0
Thu, 2009-10-22 to Sun, 2009-10-25
0
Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Valérie Favre, Guillaume Leblon, Franz Erhard Walther
Thu, 2009-09-10 to Sat, 2009-10-31
1
Guillaume Leblon
Wed, 2009-06-03 to Sat, 2009-07-18
1
Miriam Cahn, Raimond Chaves, Patricia Dauder, Alexandre Désirée, Jochen Lempert, Guillaume Leblon, Isa Melsheimer, Christoph Weber
Thu, 2008-12-04 to Sun, 2008-12-07
0
Guillaume Leblon, Katinka Bock, Clemens von Wedemeyer
Fri, 2008-11-07 to Sun, 2008-11-09
0
Katinka Bock, Guillaume Leblon, Prinz Gholam, Clemens von Wedemeyer
Sat, 2007-11-17 to Sat, 2007-12-22
1
Guillaume Leblon
Thu, 2007-10-18 to Mon, 2007-10-22
0
Guillaume Leblon, Stéphane Calais, Katinka Bock
Wed, 2005-11-16 to Sat, 2006-01-14
1
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Guillaume Leblon
Thu, 2005-10-06 to Mon, 2005-10-10
0
Guillaume Leblon
Wed, 2004-09-15 to Sat, 2004-10-30
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"Galerie JW, Paris 2004 (vue depuis l’entrée vers l’escalier)"

Artist publications

Francois Piron
978-2-9541245-2-0a
Guillaume Leblon and Thomas Boutoux
978-2-918252-02-3
Luca Cerizza, Alessandro Rabottini,
Manuel Olveira, Dieter Roelstraete, Eva Gonzalez-Sancho, Fréderic Oyharçabal
Texts: Kathleen Rahn, Luca Cerizza, Jan Verwoert
3-925974-65-2
James Voorhies
978-0-9797476-3-2
Texts : Christine Macel, Daniel Birnbaum, Salvador Juan
978-2-84426-325-4
Text: Moritz Küng
2-930117-29-X
Texts: Marianne Lanavère, Eva González-Sancho
2-913994-13-X
Text: Luca Cerizza
2-915213-02-X
978-2-35733-167-9
Thomas Boutoux
978-2-35145-131-1
Hélène Meisel, Michelle Grabner, Stuart Bailey
978-2-918252-18-4