mail@marcleschelier.com
BIOGRAPHY ENGLISH VERSION
Marc Leschelier is a French sculptor and architect based in Paris. He designs and self-builds architectures without function, called pre-architectures, in unmarked spaces, sculpture parks or any situation exempt from urban regulations. While inventing an architectural genre, Leschelier announces the death of his discipline and its potential renewal through the empty, skeletal appearance of his constructions. This singular absence of use redirects architecture towards another form of expression: construction as a metalanguage. The work expresses itself through the development of anarchist constructive principles, systematically using official building materials against themselves, in order to conceive a fundamentally independent architectural form.
Marc Leschelier was a fellow of the Villa Medici in 2017-2018. Since then, he has exhibited his work in solo and group shows and at international fairs. He created his first demountable pavilion in 2023, which he exhibited at Design Miami Paris with Ketabi Bourdet gallery. Previously, his work has been shown at Art Brussels in 2023 with Everyday Gallery, at Sized Los Angeles during Frieze in 2022, at the Salone Del Mobile in 2021, at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Tallinn Art Biennale in 2020. Over the past five years, he has built nine permanent or ephemeral pavilions, two of them are public works installed in sculpture parks in Belgium and France.
KEYWORDS :
Post-architecture
Metalanguage
BIOGRAPHIE vERSION FRANÇAISE
Marc Leschelier est un sculpteur et un architecte français basé à Paris. Il conçoit et auto-construit des architectures sans fonction, appelées pré-architectures, dans des espaces sans nom, des parcs de sculptures, ou autres situations échappant à la réglementation urbaine. Tout en inventant un genre architectural, Leschelier annonce la mort de sa discipline et son potentiel renouvellement par l’apparence vide et squelettique de ses constructions. Cette absence singulière d’usage redirige l’architecture vers une autre forme d’expression, celle d’un métalangage. Le travail s’exprime à travers le développement de principes constructifs anarchistes, utilisant systématiquement les matériaux de construction officiels contre eux-mêmes, afin de concevoir une forme architecturale fondamentalement indépendante.
Marc Leschelier a été pensionnaire à la Villa Médicis en 2017-2018. Il a exposé depuis son travail lors d’expositions personnelles et collectives ou lors de foires internationales. Il réalise son premier pavillon démontable en 2023 qu’il expose à Design Miami Paris avec la galerie Ketabi Bourdet. Précédemment, son travail a été montré à la foire d’Art Brussels en 2023 avec Everyday Gallery, à Sized Los Angeles pendant Frieze en 2022, au Salone Del Mobile en 2021, à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise et la Biennale d’Art de Tallinn en 2020. Il aura construit au cours des cinq dernières années, neuf pavillons permanents ou éphémères, dont deux sont des œuvres publiques, installées dans des parcs de sculptures en Belgique et en France.
MOTS-CLÉS :
Post-architecture
Métalangage
INTERVIEWS AND PRESS ARTICLES BY YEAR
INTERVIEWS
2024 CROSSCURRENT PAPER
2023 STIR ONLINE
2023 OPEN SPACES PAPER
2023 DAIDALOS ONLINE
2022 DEMON ONLINE
2021 PROTOTYPE III PAPER
2020 FIG PAPER
PRESS ARTICLES
2023 STIR ONLINE
2021 NUMÉRO ART ONLINE
2021 DOMUS ONLINE
2021 POINT CONTEMPORAIN ONLINE
2020 ARCHDAILY ONLINE
2020 OPEN SPACES ONLINE
2020 LE MONDE ONLINE
2020 DAMN MAGAZINE ONLINE
2020 ARCHDAILYONLINE
2020 DOMUS ONLINE
2020 BAUMEISTER PAPER
2019 ARCHDAILYONLINE
2019 DOMUS ONLINE
EDUCATION
2009 Architect degree - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais
GALLERIES
Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (Since 2021)
Ketabi Bourdet Gallery, Paris, France (Since 2023)
COLLECTIONS
Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy
Nike European Headquarters
Frédéric de Goldschmidt
Asiat Public Park, Vilvoorde, Belgium
Piacé Le Radieux, Public Sculpture Park, Piacé, France
Private collection, Château du Feÿ, Sens, France
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
2024 DOVER STREET MARKET Paris Invited by: Thibaud Deruel
2022 THE SKATEROOM Brussels Invited by: Charles-Antoine Bodson, Fabian Jean Villanueva
2022 SPAZIO MAIOCCHI Milano Commissioned by: Alberto Deon
2021 LE BOX Toulouse Curators: Paul Callu, Kristopher Hart
2020 ARCHITEKTUR IM MAGAZIN Vienna Curators: Jérome Becker, Matthias Moroder
GROUP SHOWS
2023 Design Miami - Design at Large (Paris) Ketabi Bourdet Gallery
2023 Studio Orta Les Moulins (Boissy-le-Châtel) Curator: Léo Orta
2023 3537 - Dover Street Market (Paris) Curator: Latif Samassi
2023 Horst Festival (Vilvoorde) Curator: Evelyn Simons
2023 Art Brussels (Brussels) Everyday Gallery booth
2022 Château de Vez (Vez) Selected by: Francis Briest
2022 Cloud Seven (Brussels) Curator: Léo Orta
2022 The SkateRoom (Brussels) Invited by Michèle Lamy
2022 Sized (Los Angeles) Curator: Alexander May
2021 Everyday Gallery (Antwerp) Curator: Boris Devis
2021 Alcova - Salone del Mobile (Milan) Curators: Valentina Ciuffi, Joseph Grima
2021 Venice Biennale - Italian Virtual Pavilion (Venice) Curators: Tom Kovac, David Gersten
2021 Worst Case Scenario (Paris) Curator: Chloé Bonnie More
2020 Tallinn Art Biennale (Tallinn) Curators: Roland Reemaa, Laura Linsi
2020 Villa Noailles (Hyères) Curators: Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez
2019 Lake Como Design Fair (Como) Curators: Margherita Ratti, Andreas Kofler
2019 Parc des hauteurs (Lyon) Invited by the city of Lyon and F. Limonet
2018 A Performance Affair (Bruxelles) Curators: L. Vaisberg, F. de Goldschmidt
2018 Viva Villa (Marseille) Curators: Cécile Debray, Federico Nicolao
2018 Take me I’m yours - Villa Medici (Rome) Curators: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Christian Boltanski
PERMANENT CONSTRUCTIONS
2023 Asiat Public Park (Vilvoorde) Commissioned by Evelyn Simons
2021 Piacé Le Radieux - Sculpture Park (Piacé) Commissioned by Jean-Philippe Lalonde
2019 Château du Feÿ (Joigny) Commissioned by Jessica Angel
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Graham Foundation (Chicago)
2017-2018 Fellow at Villa Medici (Rome)
2015 Foundation Jorn Utzon, Residency at Villa Can Lis (Majorque)
LECTURES
2023 Marseille School of Architecture (Marseille)
2023 Alcova (Milan)
2023 Maat Museum (Lisbon)
2022 Spazio Maiocchi (Milano)
2022 Die Grube - Peter Noever (Breitenbrunn)
2020 Architektur Im Magazin (Vienna)
2020 Die Grube - Peter Noever (Breitenbrunn)
2020 Tallinn Art Biennale (Tallinn)
2020 Villa Noailles (Hyères)
2020 EPFL (Lausanne)
2019 Bigli University (Istanbul)
2019 Versus Art Project (Istanbul)
2018 Viva Villa (Marseille)
2018 EHESS (Paris)
2018 Villa Medici (Rome)
2017 Fondation Hartung Bergman (Antibes)
BOOKS
2024 Autobiography (Artist book series) - Tonini Editore (to be published)
2022 Plan Libre (Paris)
2021 Out of the Blue - Art and Architecture - Peter Noever, Schlebrügge Editor
2021 Prototype III - Chris Glickman and Salomon (New York - Annecy)
2021 L’Univers sans L’homme - Le Bal
mail@marcleschelier.com
BIOGRAPHY ENGLISH VERSION
Marc Leschelier is a French sculptor and architect based in Paris. He designs and self-builds architectures without function, called pre-architectures, in unmarked spaces, sculpture parks or any situation exempt from urban regulations. While inventing an architectural genre, Leschelier announces the death of his discipline and its potential renewal through the empty, skeletal appearance of his constructions. This singular absence of use redirects architecture towards another form of expression: construction as a metalanguage. The work expresses itself through the development of anarchist constructive principles, systematically using official building materials against themselves, in order to conceive a fundamentally independent architectural form.
Marc Leschelier was a fellow of the Villa Medici in 2017-2018. Since then, he has exhibited his work in solo and group shows and at international fairs. He created his first demountable pavilion in 2023, which he exhibited at Design Miami Paris with Ketabi Bourdet gallery. Previously, his work has been shown at Art Brussels in 2023 with Everyday Gallery, at Sized Los Angeles during Frieze in 2022, at the Salone Del Mobile in 2021, at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Tallinn Art Biennale in 2020. Over the past five years, he has built nine permanent or ephemeral pavilions, two of them are public works installed in sculpture parks in Belgium and France.
KEYWORDS :
Post-architecture
Metalanguage
BIOGRAPHIE vERSION FRANÇAISE
Marc Leschelier est un sculpteur et un architecte français basé à Paris. Il conçoit et auto-construit des architectures sans fonction, appelées pré-architectures, dans des espaces sans nom, des parcs de sculptures, ou autres situations échappant à la réglementation urbaine. Tout en inventant un genre architectural, Leschelier annonce la mort de sa discipline et son potentiel renouvellement par l’apparence vide et squelettique de ses constructions. Cette absence singulière d’usage redirige l’architecture vers une autre forme d’expression, celle d’un métalangage. Le travail s’exprime à travers le développement de principes constructifs anarchistes, utilisant systématiquement les matériaux de construction officiels contre eux-mêmes, afin de concevoir une forme architecturale fondamentalement indépendante.
Marc Leschelier a été pensionnaire à la Villa Médicis en 2017-2018. Il a exposé depuis son travail lors d’expositions personnelles et collectives ou lors de foires internationales. Il réalise son premier pavillon démontable en 2023 qu’il expose à Design Miami Paris avec la galerie Ketabi Bourdet. Précédemment, son travail a été montré à la foire d’Art Brussels en 2023 avec Everyday Gallery, à Sized Los Angeles pendant Frieze en 2022, au Salone Del Mobile en 2021, à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise et la Biennale d’Art de Tallinn en 2020. Il aura construit au cours des cinq dernières années, neuf pavillons permanents ou éphémères, dont deux sont des œuvres publiques, installées dans des parcs de sculptures en Belgique et en France.
MOTS-CLÉS :
Post-architecture
Métalangage
INTERVIEWS AND PRESS ARTICLES BY YEAR
INTERVIEWS
2024 CROSSCURRENT PAPER
2023 STIR ONLINE
2023 OPEN SPACES PAPER
2023 DAIDALOS ONLINE
2022 DEMON ONLINE
2021 PROTOTYPE III PAPER
2020 FIG PAPER
PRESS ARTICLES
2023 STIR ONLINE
2021 NUMÉRO ART ONLINE
2021 DOMUS ONLINE
2021 POINT CONTEMPORAIN ONLINE
2020 ARCHDAILY ONLINE
2020 OPEN SPACES ONLINE
2020 LE MONDE ONLINE
2020 DAMN MAGAZINE ONLINE
2020 ARCHDAILYONLINE
2020 DOMUS ONLINE
2020 BAUMEISTER PAPER
2019 ARCHDAILYONLINE
2019 DOMUS ONLINE
EDUCATION
2009 Architect degree - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais
GALLERIES
Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (Since 2021)
Ketabi Bourdet Gallery, Paris, France (Since 2023)
COLLECTIONS
Rick Owens and Michèle Lamy
Nike European Headquarters
Frédéric de Goldschmidt
Asiat Public Park, Vilvoorde, Belgium
Piacé Le Radieux, Public Sculpture Park, Piacé, France
Private collection, Château du Feÿ, Sens, France
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
2024 DOVER STREET MARKET Paris Invited by: Thibaud Deruel
2022 THE SKATEROOM Brussels Invited by: Charles-Antoine Bodson, Fabian Jean Villanueva
2022 SPAZIO MAIOCCHI Milano Commissioned by: Alberto Deon
2021 LE BOX Toulouse Curators: Paul Callu, Kristopher Hart
2020 ARCHITEKTUR IM MAGAZIN Vienna Curators: Jérome Becker, Matthias Moroder
GROUP SHOWS
2023 Design Miami - Design at Large (Paris) Ketabi Bourdet Gallery
2023 Studio Orta Les Moulins (Boissy-le-Châtel) Curator: Léo Orta
2023 3537 - Dover Street Market (Paris) Curator: Latif Samassi
2023 Horst Festival (Vilvoorde) Curator: Evelyn Simons
2023 Art Brussels (Brussels) Everyday Gallery booth
2022 Château de Vez (Vez) Selected by: Francis Briest
2022 Cloud Seven (Brussels) Curator: Léo Orta
2022 The SkateRoom (Brussels) Invited by Michèle Lamy
2022 Sized (Los Angeles) Curator: Alexander May
2021 Everyday Gallery (Antwerp) Curator: Boris Devis
2021 Alcova - Salone del Mobile (Milan) Curators: Valentina Ciuffi, Joseph Grima
2021 Venice Biennale - Italian Virtual Pavilion (Venice) Curators: Tom Kovac, David Gersten
2021 Worst Case Scenario (Paris) Curator: Chloé Bonnie More
2020 Tallinn Art Biennale (Tallinn) Curators: Roland Reemaa, Laura Linsi
2020 Villa Noailles (Hyères) Curators: Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez
2019 Lake Como Design Fair (Como) Curators: Margherita Ratti, Andreas Kofler
2019 Parc des hauteurs (Lyon) Invited by the city of Lyon and F. Limonet
2018 A Performance Affair (Bruxelles) Curators: L. Vaisberg, F. de Goldschmidt
2018 Viva Villa (Marseille) Curators: Cécile Debray, Federico Nicolao
2018 Take me I’m yours - Villa Medici (Rome) Curators: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Christian Boltanski
PERMANENT CONSTRUCTIONS
2023 Asiat Public Park (Vilvoorde) Commissioned by Evelyn Simons
2021 Piacé Le Radieux - Sculpture Park (Piacé) Commissioned by Jean-Philippe Lalonde
2019 Château du Feÿ (Joigny) Commissioned by Jessica Angel
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Graham Foundation (Chicago)
2017-2018 Fellow at Villa Medici (Rome)
2015 Foundation Jorn Utzon, Residency at Villa Can Lis (Majorque)
LECTURES
2023 Marseille School of Architecture (Marseille)
2023 Alcova (Milan)
2023 Maat Museum (Lisbon)
2022 Spazio Maiocchi (Milano)
2022 Die Grube - Peter Noever (Breitenbrunn)
2020 Architektur Im Magazin (Vienna)
2020 Die Grube - Peter Noever (Breitenbrunn)
2020 Tallinn Art Biennale (Tallinn)
2020 Villa Noailles (Hyères)
2020 EPFL (Lausanne)
2019 Bigli University (Istanbul)
2019 Versus Art Project (Istanbul)
2018 Viva Villa (Marseille)
2018 EHESS (Paris)
2018 Villa Medici (Rome)
2017 Fondation Hartung Bergman (Antibes)
BOOKS
2024 Autobiography (Artist book series) - Tonini Editore (to be published)
2022 Plan Libre (Paris)
2021 Out of the Blue - Art and Architecture - Peter Noever, Schlebrügge Editor
2021 Prototype III - Chris Glickman and Salomon (New York - Annecy)
2021 L’Univers sans L’homme - Le Bal