The work of Maxime Rossi eschews borders of genre, taste and art-world taboo to create surreal and in-depth multi-layered scenes. From a dizzying array of sources Rossi collapses specific peri- ods of art history and ethnographic studies into new narratives that expose relationships between the unrelated and exposing unearthed truths about subjects we thought we knew well.
A kaleidoscopic mix of sculpture, installation, painting, print-making, performance, scenography and film/video, Maxime Rossi?s complete disregard for categories breaths new life into what has become an extremely categorised arts system.


MAXIME ROSSI

Born in 1980 in Paris, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.


EDUCATION

2005
Master (DNSEP), Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France

2004
Concordia University- Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

2002
DEUG Psychologie, Facultés Catholiques de Lyon, France


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019   
Christmas on Earth Continued Again and Again, Galerie Allen, Paris, France
A Stream Of Shadows, Gallery Tiziana Di Caro Naples, Italy
Sister Ship, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium

2017
Christmas on Earth Continued, MRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
American Wedding, Musée d'art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Cool as a cucumber, Galerie Edourd-Manet, Gennevilliers, France

2016
Loop Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2015
It's a Zodiac Rain, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Naples, Italy
Real Estate Astrology, Galerie Allen, Paris, France
Sister Ship, cur. Marc Bembekoff, Halle des Bouchers, Vienne, France

2014
Prolegomenes a Sister Ship, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France

2013
Kemosabe, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, Italy

2012
Mynah Dilemma, cur. Marc Bembekoff, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2010
Bouquet fleuri, bouquet flétri. C'est au choix, Project Room, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2009
Ummagumma, avec Armand Jalut, cur. Lionel Balouin, EMBA/Galerie Edouard-Manet, Gennevilliers, France


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
Plaine d?Artistes, Les moyens du bord, Grande Halle de la Villette, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Restons-Unis, Sous le soleil exactement, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
La metafora dell?arciere, Gallery Tiziana Di Caro Naples, Italy

 

2019    
Macro Asilo, Museo Macro, Roma, Italy
A New Age : On the Spiritual in Art, Museum  of Art, Tel Aviv, Israël

2018    
The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
Arms Around a Memory, Galerie Allen, Mexico City, Mexico
Notes for a shell, cur. More Projects and Margaux Bonopera, Marseilles, France

2017    
ART-O-RAMA, Galerie Allen, Marseille, France
Rencontres Paris / Berlin, (projection) La Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
Afrique des Routes, Quai Branly, Paris France
FIAC 2017, Galerie Allen, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Point triple de la matière, cur. Matthieu Lelièvre, Fondation Fimino, Paris, France
La Pergola, cur. Sandra Patron, MRAC Sérignan, Sérignan, France
Indique la fin Signe la débauche, cur. Guillaume Breton and Thomas Malenfant, Atelier Meraki, Paris, France
More Than Lovers, More Than Friends, cur. Jo-ey Tang, FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Czech Republic

2016
Your Memories Are Our Future, cur. Julien Fronsacq and Scipio Schneider, organized by Palais de Tokyo and Acrush in parallel to MANIFESTA 11 Zurich, Switzerland
True Spirit, Galerie Allen, Paris, France
Yoko Ono lumière de l'aube, MAC Lyon, Lyon, France
Only Lovers, cur. Timothée Chaillou, Le Coeur, Paris, France

2015
Clouds, Fondation Croy, Belgium
L'Oeuvre au noir, Galerie De Multiples, Paris, France

2014
19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, cur. Juliana Engberg, Sydney, Australia
Des choses en moins, des choses en plus, cur. Agnès Violeau, Sébastien Faucon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
Narcisse, l'image dans l'onde, cur. Philippe Régnier, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France
The Sounds of Silence, cur. Marc Bembekoff, La Halle des bouchers, Vienne, France
Le Banquet, cur. Benoît Pype, Galerie du village, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France
The Present of Modernism (screening), Mumok, Wien, Austria

2013
Walk on the Wild Side, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
Infinity > Infinity, cur. Mathieu Mercier, "Nouvelle Vague" Galerie Le Minotaure, Paris, France
Commissariat pour un arbre IV, cur. Mathieu Mercier, Jardin Botanique, Bordeaux, France
Dernières nouvelles !, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
L'Origine des Choses, cur. Sébastien Faucon, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
L'arbre de vie, cur. Mathieu Mercier, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France

2012
Sollicitations multiples, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
So, This is Christmas, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
Commissariat pour un arbre II, cur. Mathieu Mercier, Paris, France
Suddenly, Last year, GDM Tokyo, Paris, France
Pop up store, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France

2011
Multiples & Co, La Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France

2009
Faux jumeaux, cur. Rainier Lericolais, Michel François, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
Play Time, Parcours Saint-Germain, Paris, France
Think Big... Aliceday, Project space: GDM, Brussels, Belgium
Veisalgia, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France

2008
Jokes, pretzel, petits-gris et coup de dés, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France



SCREENINGS

2017
Real Estate Astrology, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany and Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
Sister Ship Live, Before L'Afrique des routes, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France

2016
Real Estate Astrology, Kunstverein München, Germany
Sister Ship, Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Sister Ship, LOOP, Barcelona, Spain


2015
Sister Ship, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Sister Ship, Museo Madre, Naples, Italy
Real Estate Astrology, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2014
Bourse de la Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques

2010
Bourse de la Drac Ile-de-France


COLLECTIONS

MRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan
CNAP - Centre National des Arts Pastiques
Artothèque de Villeurbanne


SPECIFIC PROJECTS

2018
SMiLE and other stories, Galerie Allen, Paris, France

2014
Projet Mita : Años Viejos !, Ecuador

2013
Projet Mita : Oasis Mini Gym, Philippines

2012
Projet Mita, avec Armand Jalut, Paris, France


SELECTED PRESS

2017
Nadira Belkacem, "Exposition à Sérignan : le duo Simon Starling et Maxime Rossi," The Metropolitain, 12 November 2017
"Bientôt : Maxime Rossi - Christmas on Earth Continued au MRAC," En Revenant de l'expo, 31 October 2017
Marie de la Fresnaye, "Maxime Rossi au musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart," Mowwgli, 2 August 2017
Pedro Morais, "Maxime Rossi déploie son music-hall à Gennevilliers," Le Quotidien de l'Art #1298, 29 May 2017, p.8
Ingrid Luquet-Gad, "Les 5 expos à ne pas rater cette semaine," Les Inrocks, 6 May 2017
Emmanuelle Lequeux, "Pendant les travaux, la Fondation Fiminco ouvre ses portes," Le Monde, 27 February 2017


2016
"Loop Barcelona and the Video-Art Market," Art Media Agency Newsletter #250, 12 June 2016
Kirtey Verma, "Loop Barcelona 2016 - Our Favourite Artworks," Ultra Vie #17, 3 June 2016

2015
"Sister Ship au Palais de Tokyo", Le Quotidien de l'Art #931, 28 October 2015
Benoit Blanchard, "Sister Ship", Oeuvres-revue, October 2015
Frédéric Blancart, "Real Estate Astrology", Tout ce que vous avez raté, May 2015
Camille Azaïs, "Real Estate Astrology", Tombolo, April 2015


2013
Ilaria Tamburo, "Maxime Rossi : Kemosabe", Exibart #79, 29 November 2013

2012
François Quintin, "Maxime Rossi : chercheur en accidents appliqués", Arts Magazine #69, October 2012
Emmanuelle Lequeux, "Enrichir l'écosystème de l'art", Interview with Jean de Loisy, Le Monde, 23 February 2012
Emmanuelle Lequeux,  "Le Palais de Tokyo change de peau," Le Monde Magazine, 6 April 2012

2012
Isabel Pasquier, "Le carrefour de la culture," France Inter, 20 April 2012