Mike Bouchet

Biography

Born in 1970, Castro Valley, California, USA
1991-1999 lives and works in Los Angeles
2000-2004 lives and works in New York City
2005-present lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany Professor of Art, HfG Offenbach, Germany, Chairperson of Department of Sculpture

Education
University of California, Los Angeles, 1991-1994

• Biennials

  2012
  Track, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE 
  Made in Germany 2, Sprengel Museum, Hannover

  2011
  Informelnatur, Galerie Sabina Knust, Munich 
  a painting show., Autocenter, Berlin
  Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York
  Mongo, Thomas Brambilla Contemporary Art, Bergamo 
  The Magic Sexy Templeloch of Wonderspirit, Wonderloch, Kellerland,Berlin 
  Strictly Global, Deutsche Bank Frankfurt 
  Involuntary, Ford Project, curated by Neville Wakefield,NewYork 
  Das Meer: Traum und Wirklichkeit, Eres Stiftung, Munich 
  Commercial Break,The Garage Center for Contemporary Arts,Venice 
  Astrup Fearnley collection”Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil

  2010 
  Transzendenz Inc, Autocenter Berlin 
  During Office Hours, curated by Aaron Moulton, VGF, Berlin 
  Auteur/Amateur, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna 
  Vaxination, Xippas Gallery, Athenslling 
  The Travelling Show, La Jumex Collection, Curated by Adriano Pedrosa Jumex Collection, Mexico City 
  Where do we go from Here?, selections from the UMEX Collection, CAC, Cincinnati 
  The New New Age Film Festival, selected films, Lichter Filmage, Frankfurt

  2009
  Where Do We Go From Here?, selections from The Jumex Collection, The Bass Museum, Miami Beach 
  Frieze Projects, curated by Neville Wakefield, London 
  Rotating View, Astrup Fearnley Museum Museum of Modern Art, Oslo 
  Making Worlds, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice 
  Remap 2, Athens, GR 
  Nothingness and Being, Seventh interpretation of The Jumex Collection, Curated by Shamim Momin, Mexico City 
  Quand la première ivresse des succès bruyants … CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, FR
  When the mood strikes... The Collection of Wilfried & Yannicke Cooreman-De Smedt", MDD Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

  2008
  Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles 
  Meet Me Around The Corner, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo 
  No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern CH 
  Walls in the Street, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade 
  Working Men,Analix Forever, Geneva 
  The Practice of Everyday Life, Feinkost Gallery, Berlin 
  Hotel California, Galerie Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris 
  An Unruly History of the Readymade, Jumex Collection, Mexico City

  2008 
  Group Show, Sebastian Guiness Gallery, Dublin

  2007
  27 Timer, Hollesgard, Denmark 
  Pawnshop, e-Flux, New York 
  Mind Hacking II, Muenster,Germany 
  Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, New York 
  New Economy, Artists Space, New York 
  Moscow Biennial 2, Moscow, Russia 
  Verbale, Innsbruck, Austria 
  Uncertain States of America,Warsaw, Herning Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Beijing, Prague

  2006
  5 Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 
  Uncertain States of America, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik 
  E-flux Video Rental, Seoul, Korea, Antwerp 
  Uncertain States of America, Serpentine Gallery, London 
  Mobile: Suro Collection, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio 
  Uncertain States of America, Bard Curatorial Center, New York 
  Sculpture Park, Lahr, Germany 
  Nice Fine Arts, Offenburg, Germany 
  Berlin Biennale 4, Berlin 
  Palm D’Or Television Pitch, Frankfurt, Germany 
  Space Boomerang, Swiss Institute, New York

  2006
  Strich, Zeichnung, Bild, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna 
  Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo

  2005 
  Off Key, Kunsthalle Bern 
  La Vista Hermosa, Liste, Basel 
  Do You Like Stuff?, Swiss Institute, New York 
  Greater New York 2005, PS1, New York 
  Situational Prosthetics, New Langston Art Center, San Francisco 
  E-flux Video Rental, KunstWerke Berlin Germany, Frankfurt

  2004
  Dedicated to a Proposition, Extra City, Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp 
  Sculpture now, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt 
  Kotzrohr and Popular Ceramics, Video program, Wilkinson Gallery, London 
  E-flux Video Rental, E-flux New York

  2003
  High Desert Test Sites”, Los Angeles, CA 
  Hands up, baby, hands up!” Oldenburger Kunstverein

  2002
  Out of True, Santa Barbara University Art Museum, CA

  2001
  Casino, SMAK, Gent,BE

  2000
  Sebastian Clough and Mike Bouchet, Anton Kern Gallery, New York 
  Life After The Squirrel, Location One, New York

  1997
  SnowBall, Collaboration with Jason Rhoades and Peter Bonde, Venice Biennale

  1996
  Size Matters, Special K Projects, Los Angeles

  1994
  Common Denomination Language Expo, FAR, Los Angeles

  1993
  Slum Loard, Main Street Gallery, Napa, CA

  In Disposal, Broadway Art Complex, Santa Monica, CA

• Solo Exhibitions

  2021
  Lustre, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany

  2019
  Double Upper Decker, in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Marlborough Contemporary, London, England

  2018
  Energy Log, Gallery Sofie Van De Velde, Belgium More Zero, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany

  2017
  Private Idano, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Tender, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, USA

  2016
  Bounty, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany Push, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany MR2, Alaia Exhibitions, Paris, France

  2015
  Y ask Y, Kostyal, Stockholm, Sweden

  2014
  Power Lunch, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
  Double Deck, in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Marlborough Gallery Monaco, Monaco
  Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
  Spanish Donkey A-Hole Sport Drink Bilbao Sunscreen Model Drawings, in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany

  2013
  Flood, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA

  2012
  Simulated Personal Rescue Enclosures, Hotel Gallery, London, UK The Untitled Video, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany

  2011
  Holywod Deals, O.P.A. (Oficina para Proyectos de Arte), Guadalajara, Mexico Argento Lawn Chairs, Art Basel Design Fair, Cumulus Studios, Basel, Switzerland Impulse Strategies, Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France

  2010
  HARD ON, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany New Living, COBRA Museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands Neues Wohnen, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Retreat, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  Diet Cola Works, The Box, Los Angeles, California, USA

  2009
  The New New Age Film Festival, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
  Sell and Destroy - Redrawing the Bottom Line, Frieze Projects, London, UK

  2008
  New New Age Film Festival, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany CANBURGER, Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France 16x9 Action Film, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

  2007
  Almost Every City in the World, Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
  Fat Slices and Conscious Primers, MC Kunst, Los Angeles, California, USA Reaction Time, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
  Shitrock Crate and Tapestry Cartoons, The Box, Los Angeles, California, USA 16x9 Action Film, MOCA Los Angeles, California, USA

  2006
  Recent Jacuzzis, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany

  2005
  Top, Back and Bottom of Mind Awareness, Maccarone, Inc., New York, USA New Jacuzzis, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

  2004
  Carpe Denim, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany

  2003
  Overhead Baggage Treatment, Maccarone, Inc., New York, USA

  1999
  Business on Sunset, BOSS Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA

• Group Exhibitions

  2019
  Rouge, Chateau la Dominique, Paris, France
  The Reclining Nude, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium
  Pure Joy, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA
  Primary Directives, Marlborough Contemporary, London, England
  Art & Porn, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

  2018
  Faithless Pictures, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
  Lust Liquor Laughter, Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium Sanguine/Bloedrood, (curated by Luc Tuymans) Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
  Experience Traps, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

  Burnt, Marlborough Contemporary, New York
  Whats wrong with this Picture?, AVL Mundo Foundation, Rotterdam, Holland Everybody Loves the Sun, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  Seeing Eye Awareness, Galerija Vzigalica, Lubljana, Slovenia

  2017
  Hierophant, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Summer Group, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York On Elizabeth, Olsen Gruin Gallery, New York

  2016
  'Prototypology’, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy History of Nothing, White Cube Gallery, London, UK Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland
  Impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, USA
  Omul Negru, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania Omul Negru, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SMS SOS, Marlborough Contemporary, New York

  2015
  Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, Gallery Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
  The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway American Esoterica, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  Brunch over Troubled Waters, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich
  Six Advertisements, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York
  EAGLES II, Marlborough Gallery Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  2014
  Sigmund Freud and the Play on the Burden of Representation, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
  The Go Between, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
  Group Spirit, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany

  2013
  'Bald Eagle’, Haubrok projects, Berlin, Germany
  356 Sculptures, 356 Mission Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

  2012
  EAGLES, Marlborough Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  PRIVACY, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany
  TRACK, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
  Made in Germany Zwei, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  2011
  Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA

  Commercial Break, GARAGE Center of Contemporary Culture (Moscow), Venice, Italy A painting show, AUTOCENTER, Berlin, Germany
  Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York, New York, USA
  Informellnatur, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany

  My Beautiful Mongo, Thomas Brambilla Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy Strictly Global, Deutsche Bank Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  Involuntary, Ford Project, New York, New York, USA
  Das Meer: Traum and Wirklichkeit, Eres Stiftung, Munich, Germany

  2010
  TRANSZENDENZ INC, AUTOCENTER, Berlin, Germany
  During Office Hours, VGF, Berlin, Germany
  Auteur/Amateur, Layr Wüstenhagen, Vienna, Austria
  Vaxination, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
  The Traveling Show, La Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
  Where do we go from here?, selections from the Jumex Collection, CAC, Cincinnati, USA
  The New New Age Film Festival, selected films, LICHTER Festival, Frankfurt, Germany

  2009
  Where do we go from here?, selects of the Jumex Collection, The Bass Museum, Miami, USA
  Rotating View, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
  Making Worlds, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  Remap 2, Athens, Greece
  Nothingness and Being, 7th Interpretation of The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico Quand la premiere ivresse des suces bruyants..., CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
  When the mood strikes... The Collection of Wilfred & Yannicke Cooreman-De Smedt, MDD Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

  2008
  Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles, USA
  Meet Me Around the Corner, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Sweden No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
  Walls in the Street, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
  Working Men, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
  The Practice of Everyday Life, Feinkost Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  Hotel California, Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
  An Unruly History of the readymade, Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
  Group Show, Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

  2007
  27 Timer, Hollesgard, Hollesgard, Denmark Pawnshop, e-Flux, New York, USA

  Mind Hacking II, Wewerka Pavilion, Münster, Germany Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, New York, USA
  New Economy, Artists Space, New York, USA Moscow Biennial 2, Moscow, Russia

  Verbale, Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  Uncertain States of America, Herning Kunstmuseum / Warsaw / Copenhagen / Beijing / Prague / Germany

  2006
  5 Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  Uncertain States of America, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
  E-flux Video Rental, Seoul, Korea, Antwerp, Belgium
  Uncertain States of America, Serpentine Gallery, London
  Mobile: Suro Collection, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, Texas, USA Uncertain States of America, Bard Curatorial Center, New York, USA
  Sculpture Park, Offenburg, Germany
  Nice Fine Arts, curated by Axel Huber, Städtische Galerie Laar, Lahr, Germany
  Von Mäusen und Menschen / Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany Palm D'Or Television Pitch, Frankfurt, Germany
  Space Boomerang, Swiss Institute, New York, USA

  2005
  Strich, Zeichnung, Bild, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
  Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway Off Key, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
  La Vista Hermosa, Liste, Basel, Switzerland
  Do You Like Stuff?, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
  Greater New York, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, USA
  Situational Prosthetics, New Langston Art Center, San Francisco, USA
  E-flux Video Rental, Kunst Werke Berlin Germany, Frankfurt, Germany

  2004
  Dedicated to a Proposition, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium. Sculpture Now, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
  Kotzrohr and Popular Ceramics, Video Program, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
  E-flux Video Rental, e-Flux, New York, USA

  2003
  High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  Hands up, baby, hands up!, KVO, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

  2002
  Out of True, Santa Barbara University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California, USA

  2001
  Casino, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium

  2000
  Sebastian Clough and Mike Bouchet, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA Life After The Squirrel, Location One, New York, USA

  1997
  Snowball, collaboration with Jason Rhoades and Peter Bonde, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

  1996
  Size Matters, Special K Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA

  1994
  Common Denomination Language Expo, FAR, Los Angeles, California, USA

• Public and Private Collections

  Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  Francois Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy
  The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
  LVMH Collection, Paris, France
  Moderne Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
  Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
  FNAC, Fonds National D'Art Contemporain, Paris, France Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
  Bernard Arnault Collection, Paris, France
  CAPC, musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France DekaBank, Frankfurt, Germany
  Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
  Permanent Floor at Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany
  DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
  The Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida, United States Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany
  Sammlung Axel Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
  Ullens Collection, Beijing, China
  Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

• Monography

  Mike Bouchet, „Selected Works 1989-2009“, published by Sternberg Press, 2009 Mike Bouchet, "New Living”, published by Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, 2010
  Mike Bouchet, "Retreat", published by BAWAG foundation, Vienna, 2010
  Mike Bouchet, “The New New Age Film Festival Saint John of God of Ghent Pall Mall
  Empire Psychiatric Center Agreement Guide”, published by S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2012 Mike Bouchet, “FLOOD”, published by Marlborough Chelsea, 2013
  Mike Bouchet, “Familiarity Breeds Affection”, published by Gallery Parisa Kind, 2014 Mike Bouchet, “Power Lunch” published by Peres Projects publications, 2014
  Mike Bouchet and Paul McCarthy, “Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model”, published by Portikus, Frankfurt, 2015
  Mike Bouchet, “Tender”, published by Marlborough Chelsea, 2016
  Mike Bouchet, “The Zurich Load”, published by Bouchet Studio, 2020

Past Shows