mail@marcleschelier.com
BIOGRAPHY ENGLISH VERSION
Marc Leschelier is a French sculptor and architect based in Paris. He builds architectures without function, entitled pre-architectures, in unmarked spaces, sculpture parks or any situation exempt from urban regulations. While inventing an architectural genre, Leschelier approaches the decline of the architectural discipline and its potential for renewal through the empty, skeletal appearance of his constructions. This singular absence of use in his constructions transform architecture as an autonomous vocabulary. The work expresses itself through the development of unofficial and alternative constructive systems in order to conceive a fundamentally independent architectural form.
Marc Leschelier was a fellow of the Villa Medici in 2017-2018. In March 2025, he opened a solo show in Paris in dialogue with historic pieces by Jean Prouvé on loan from a private collector. He has exhibited his work at Christophe Gaillard Gallery in Brussels curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément, at Ketabi Bourdet Gallery or Everyday Gallery in Antwerp. He has participated at international fairs like Design Miami Paris and Art Brussels in 2023 or during Frieze Los Angeles in 2021 and Salone Del Mobile on the same year. He has shown his work at the Tallinn Art Biennale in 2020. Over the past six years, he has built nine permanent or ephemeral pavilions, one of them is permanently installed in Piacé le Radieux sculpture park in France.
BIOGRAPHIE vERSION FRANÇAISE
Marc Leschelier est un sculpteur et architecte français basé à Paris. Il construit des architectures sans fonction, appelées pré-architectures, dans des espaces condamnés, des parcs de sculptures ou autres situations échappant à la réglementation urbaine. Tout en inventant un genre architectural, Leschelier aborde le déclin de la discipline architecturale et son potentiel de renouvellement à travers l'aspect vide et squelettique de ses constructions. Cette absence singulière d'usage dans ses constructions transforme l'architecture en un vocabulaire autonome. Le travail s'exprime par le développement de systèmes constructifs non-officiels et alternatifs afin de concevoir une forme architecturale fondamentalement indépendante.
Marc Leschelier a été boursier de la Villa Médicis en 2017-2018. En mars 2025, il a inauguré une exposition personnelle à Paris en dialogue avec des pièces historiques de Jean Prouvé prêtées par un collectionneur privé. Il a exposé son travail à la galerie Christophe Gaillard à Bruxelles sous le commissariat d'Olivier Renaud-Clément, à la galerie Ketabi Bourdet ou à la galerie Everyday à Anvers. Il a participé à des foires internationales telles que Design Miami Paris et Art Brussels en 2023 ou pendant Frieze Los Angeles en 2021 et la même année au Salone Del Mobile de Milan. Il a présenté son travail à la Biennale d'art de Tallinn en 2020. Au cours des six dernières années, il a construit neuf pavillons permanents ou éphémères, dont l'un est installé de manière permanente dans le parc de sculptures de Piacé le Radieux, en France.
PORTRAITS
2025 BY ED MARCOPOULOS
2023 BY WILLIAM JESS LAIR
2023 BY MATTHEW AVIGNONE
2023 BY ADRIAN MESKO
2021 BY NIMROD KEREN
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
2025 DAPPER DAN PAPER
2025 VOGUE ADRIA PAPER
2024 NUMÉRO ART PAPER
2023 STIR ONLINE
2021 NUMÉRO ART ONLINE
2021 DOMUS ONLINE
2021 POINT CONTEMPORAINONLINE
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)
Christophe Gaillard, Bruxelles, Belgium (No representation)
NOTABLE 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
2025 MERCIER ET ASSOCIÉS Paris Invited by: Elena Bonaccini, Hugo Abraham
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
2024 Lucid Interval (Paris) Curators: Fanny Giniès, Ana Karkar
2024 Versus Art Project (Istanbul) Curator: Bahar Avanoglu
2024 Loy Gallery (Singapour) Curator: Lexing Zhang
2024 Hôtel Le Crillon w/ The Skateroom (Paris) Invited by: Charles-Antoine Bodson, Fabian Jean Villanueva
2024 Ketabi Bourdet Gallery (Paris)
2024 Christophe Gaillard Gallery (Bruxelles) Curator: Olivier Renaud-Clément
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 RESIDENCIES
2025 Casa Wabi (Puerto Escondido)
2019 Graham Foundation (Chicago)
2017-2018 Fellow at Villa Medici (Rome)
2015 Foundation Jorn Utzon, Residency at Villa Can Lis (Majorque)
LECTURES
2025 USI (Mendrisio)
2025 Unireu (Puerto escondido)
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
2025 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 builds architectures without function, entitled pre-architectures, in unmarked spaces, sculpture parks or any situation exempt from urban regulations. While inventing an architectural genre, Leschelier approaches the decline of the architectural discipline and its potential for renewal through the empty, skeletal appearance of his constructions. This singular absence of use in his constructions transform architecture as an autonomous vocabulary. The work expresses itself through the development of unofficial and alternative constructive systems in order to conceive a fundamentally independent architectural form.
Marc Leschelier was a fellow of the Villa Medici in 2017-2018. In March 2025, he opened a solo show in Paris in dialogue with historic pieces by Jean Prouvé on loan from a private collector. He has exhibited his work at Christophe Gaillard Gallery in Brussels curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément, at Ketabi Bourdet Gallery or Everyday Gallery in Antwerp. He has participated at international fairs like Design Miami Paris and Art Brussels in 2023 or during Frieze Los Angeles in 2021 and Salone Del Mobile on the same year. He has shown his work at the Tallinn Art Biennale in 2020. Over the past six years, he has built nine permanent or ephemeral pavilions, one of them is permanently installed in Piacé le Radieux sculpture park in France.
BIOGRAPHIE vERSION FRANÇAISE
Marc Leschelier est un sculpteur et architecte français basé à Paris. Il construit des architectures sans fonction, appelées pré-architectures, dans des espaces condamnés, des parcs de sculptures ou autres situations échappant à la réglementation urbaine. Tout en inventant un genre architectural, Leschelier aborde le déclin de la discipline architecturale et son potentiel de renouvellement à travers l'aspect vide et squelettique de ses constructions. Cette absence singulière d'usage dans ses constructions transforme l'architecture en un vocabulaire autonome. Le travail s'exprime par le développement de systèmes constructifs non-officiels et alternatifs afin de concevoir une forme architecturale fondamentalement indépendante.
Marc Leschelier a été boursier de la Villa Médicis en 2017-2018. En mars 2025, il a inauguré une exposition personnelle à Paris en dialogue avec des pièces historiques de Jean Prouvé prêtées par un collectionneur privé. Il a exposé son travail à la galerie Christophe Gaillard à Bruxelles sous le commissariat d'Olivier Renaud-Clément, à la galerie Ketabi Bourdet ou à la galerie Everyday à Anvers. Il a participé à des foires internationales telles que Design Miami Paris et Art Brussels en 2023 ou pendant Frieze Los Angeles en 2021 et la même année au Salone Del Mobile de Milan. Il a présenté son travail à la Biennale d'art de Tallinn en 2020. Au cours des six dernières années, il a construit neuf pavillons permanents ou éphémères, dont l'un est installé de manière permanente dans le parc de sculptures de Piacé le Radieux, en France.
PORTRAITS
2025 BY ED MARCOPOULOS
2023 BY WILLIAM JESS LAIR
2023 BY MATTHEW AVIGNONE
2023 BY ADRIAN MESKO
2021 BY NIMROD KEREN
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
2025 DAPPER DAN PAPER
2025 VOGUE ADRIA PAPER
2024 NUMÉRO ART PAPER
2023 STIR ONLINE
2021 NUMÉRO ART ONLINE
2021 DOMUS ONLINE
2021 POINT CONTEMPORAINONLINE
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)
Christophe Gaillard, Bruxelles, Belgium (No representation)
NOTABLE 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
2025 MERCIER ET ASSOCIÉS Paris Invited by: Elena Bonaccini, Hugo Abraham
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
2024 Lucid Interval (Paris) Curators: Fanny Giniès, Ana Karkar
2024 Versus Art Project (Istanbul) Curator: Bahar Avanoglu
2024 Loy Gallery (Singapour) Curator: Lexing Zhang
2024 Hôtel Le Crillon w/ The Skateroom (Paris) Invited by: Charles-Antoine Bodson, Fabian Jean Villanueva
2024 Ketabi Bourdet Gallery (Paris)
2024 Christophe Gaillard Gallery (Bruxelles) Curator: Olivier Renaud-Clément
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 RESIDENCIES
2025 Casa Wabi (Puerto Escondido)
2019 Graham Foundation (Chicago)
2017-2018 Fellow at Villa Medici (Rome)
2015 Foundation Jorn Utzon, Residency at Villa Can Lis (Majorque)
LECTURES
2025 USI (Mendrisio)
2025 Unireu (Puerto escondido)
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
2025 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