Born in 1983 in Colmar, Clément Cogitore lives and works between Berlin and Paris.
Artist and filmmaker, he attended the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, further specialising his studies at Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing (France), a high-level artistic training school specialised in the audio-visual (cinema, video and photography).
Cogitore’s works have been displayed at major museums and cultural centres: the Palais de Tokyo and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the MoMA in New York, the Musée national des Beaux-Arts in Québec, the SeMA
Bunker in Seoul, the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, the Rockbund Museum in Shangai, the Kunsthaus in Basel, the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington and the MUDAM in Luxemburg.
His numerous contemporary art prizes include the Marcel Duchamp in 2018, the Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard prize in 2016, the SciencesPo prize, the Bal Prize for emerging artists in 2015 and the grand prize of the Salon de Montrouge in 2011.
His film works have been selected for and won prizes at numerous international festivals (Cannes, Locarno, Telluride, Los Angeles, San Sebastian). In 2015 his first full-length feature, Ni le ciel ni la terre, was selected at the Cannes festival Semaine de la Critique. It also won the Gan foundation prize and was nominated for the César awards for the best debut work.
Clément Cogitore earned a bursary at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici in 2012-2013. Since 2018 he has taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he runs a course on cinema, video art and installation.
To celebrate the 350th anniversary of its founding, the Opéra National de Paris entrusted Clément Cogitore with staging of the Jean-Philippe Rameau ballet Les Indes Galantes. The opera-ballet Les Indes Galantes was shortlisted by the “New York Times” as one of the top operatic productions of 2019 and won the Forum Opéra prize for best production that same year.
Cogitore’s works are present in a number of public and private collections: Centre Georges Pompidou, Fond national pour l’art contemporain (France), the city of Paris contemporary arts fund, FRAC Alsace, FRAC Aquitaine, FRAC Aquitaine, FRAC Auvergne, MAC VAL – Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-deMarne, the Strasbourg modern and contemporary art museum, the Daimler Art Collection and the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
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