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Bernar Venet: Trajectory

21. November 2020 – 20. Februar 2021

Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France) is a Conceptual artist, working across multiple disciplines.

To date, Venet has mounted in over thirty-five public sculpture exhibitions and his work can be found in the permanent collections of over sixty museums worldwide including such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim, Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. Venet has been the recipient of several distinguishing honors, including entering France’s Légion d’honneur (chevalier). More recently, he received the 2013 International Julio González Sculpture Prize, the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center (ISC), the Prix 2017 Montblanc de la Culture, the Prix François Morellet 2019, and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors in London in 2020. His largest retrospective to date opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon (MAC) in 2018. The artist currently lives and works in NY and Le Muy, in the south of France.