Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nuit américaine
February 17 - August 13, 2023, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nuit américaine
February 17 - August 13, 2023, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nuit américaine
February 17 - August 13, 2023, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nuit américaine
February 17 - August 13, 2023, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nuit américaine
February 17 - August 13, 2023, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Dear Zoë (Emma Bovary collages), Friday 26th February 2021
Paper, 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (21 x 29.7cm)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Dear Zoë (Emma Bovary collages), Friday 15th October 2021
Paper, 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (21 x 29.7cm)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Zig Zag and Many Ribbons…
November 19, 2022 - April 10, 2023, MAMC+, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Zig Zag and Many Ribbons…
November 19, 2022 - April 10, 2023, MAMC+, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Zig Zag and Many Ribbons…
November 19, 2022 - April 10, 2023, MAMC+, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Zig Zag and Many Ribbons…
November 19, 2022 - April 10, 2023, MAMC+, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Zig Zag and Many Ribbons…
November 19, 2022 - April 10, 2023, MAMC+, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Zig Zag and Many Ribbons…
November 19, 2022 - April 10, 2023, MAMC+, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Dear Valérie…
Kunsthalle Bern
February 22 – July 26, 2020
The Refuge: Waiting for New Beginnings
Manifesta 13, Musée Cantini, Marsaille
November 9 - 29, 2020
The Refuge: Waiting for New Beginnings
Manifesta 13, Musée Cantini, Marsaille
November 9 - 29, 2020
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine..., The Jewish Museum, New York
March 15 - August 6, 2018
One to One, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany
September 29 - January 7, 2018
One to One, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany
September 29 - January 7, 2018
One to One, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany
September 29 - January 7, 2018
One to One, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany
September 29 - January 7, 2018
An Autumn Lexicon, Serpentine Gallery, London
September 29 - November 20, 2016
An Autumn Lexicon, Serpentine Gallery, London
September 29 - November 20, 2016
An Autumn Lexicon, Serpentine Gallery, London
September 29 - November 20, 2016
An Autumn Lexicon, Serpentine Gallery, London
September 29 - November 20, 2016
An Autumn Lexicon, Serpentine Gallery, London
September 29 - November 20, 2016
An Autumn Lexicon, Serpentine Gallery, London
September 29 - November 20, 2016
An Autumn Lexicon, Serpentine Gallery, London
September 29 - November 20, 2016
Now and then..., Indipendenza, Rome
May 26 - September 10, 2016
Now and then..., Indipendenza, Rome
May 26 - September 10, 2016
Now and then..., Indipendenza, Rome
May 26 - September 10, 2016
Now and then..., Indipendenza, Rome
May 26 - September 10, 2016
Now and then..., Indipendenza, Rome
May 26 - September 10, 2016
Now and then..., Indipendenza, Rome
May 26 - September 10, 2016
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
November 20, 2015 - March 6, 2016
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Autumn 2015, 2015
Acrylic on plywood and collage
7 panels: 94 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 3/4 in (240 x 60 x 2 cm) each
A Lampshade, Two Rugs and Child Chairs, a Magazine Rack, Some Vases and Ashtrays, and a Decorated Poncho, House of Gaga, Mexico City
May 23 - August 29, 2015
A Lampshade, Two Rugs and Child Chairs, a Magazine Rack, Some Vases and Ashtrays, and a Decorated Poncho, House of Gaga, Mexico City
May 23 - August 29, 2015
A Lampshade, Two Rugs and Child Chairs, a Magazine Rack, Some Vases and Ashtrays, and a Decorated Poncho, House of Gaga, Mexico City
May 23 - August 29, 2015
Portraits d’Intérieurs, Nouveau Musée National Monaco, Monaco
July 10, 2014 - February 1, 2015
Portraits d’Intérieurs, Nouveau Musée National Monaco, Monaco
July 10, 2014 - February 1, 2015
Forty and Forty (with Klara Lidén and Manfred Pernice), Galerie Neu, Berlin
September 17 - November 1, 2014
Forty and Forty (with Klara Lidén and Manfred Pernice), Galerie Neu, Berlin
September 17 - November 1, 2014
Forty and Forty (with Klara Lidén and Manfred Pernice), Galerie Neu, Berlin
September 17 - November 1, 2014
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
World of Interiors, Chapter Two, IV, 2014
Somerset Radiant Enhanced 330gsm
Sheet: 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in (90 x 70 cm); Framed: 38 1/8 x 30 3/4 in (96.8 x 78.1 cm)
Edition of 12 + 2 AP
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
World of Interiors, Chapter Two, III, 2014
Somerset Radiant Enhanced 330gsm
Sheet: 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 in (90 x 70 cm); Framed: 38 1/8 x 30 3/4 in (96.8 x 78.1 cm)
Edition of 12 + 2 AP
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Benches for New York, 1997 - 2014
American oak
19 1/8 x 55 1/8 x 15 3/4 in (48.6 x 140 x 40 cm)
Edition of 6
Gustave 2014..., Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
April 5 - May 10, 2014
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Bibliothèque, 2009
Veneered plywood and lacquer
74 1/16 x 51 1/8 x 19 5/8 in (188 x 130 x 50 cm)
Edition of 1 + 1 AP
Gustave 2014..., Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
April 5 - May 10, 2014
Gustave 2014..., Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
April 5 - May 10, 2014
30 Künstler, 30 Räume, Kunstverein Nuremberg, Nuremberg
March 17 - June 17, 2012
30 Künstler, 30 Räume, Kunstverein Nuremberg, Nuremberg
March 17 - June 17, 2012
30 Künstler, 30 Räume, Kunstverein Nuremberg, Nuremberg
March 17 - June 17, 2012
Interiors, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
January 14 - February 11, 2012
Interiors, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
January 14 - February 11, 2012
Interiors, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
January 14 - February 11, 2012
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Folding Genet Biography Screen, 1985/2011
Paper on MDF
Dimensions variable
Jean Genet... the Courtesy of Objects, Chapter Two, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
July 16 - October 2, 2011
Jean Genet... the Courtesy of Objects, Chapter Two, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
July 16 - October 2, 2011
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Folding Decorative Screen, 1985/2011
Acrylic on MDF
Dimensions variable
Jean Genet... the Courtesy of Objects, Chapter Two, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
July 16 - October 2, 2011
Jean Genet... the Courtesy of Objects, Chapter Two, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
July 16 - October 2, 2011
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
October 31, 2010 - February 6, 2011
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
October 31, 2010 - February 6, 2011
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
October 31, 2010 - February 6, 2011
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Seating for Raven Row, 2010
Birch ply and steel
32 3/4 x 47 1/4 x 67 in (83 x 120 x 170 cm)
Edition of 5
Polytechnic, Raven Row, London
September 9 - November 7, 2010
Polytechnic, Raven Row, London
September 9 - November 7, 2010
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Secession, Vienna
November 2, 2009 - January 24, 2010
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Secession, Vienna
November 2, 2009 - January 24, 2010
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Carpet II, 2009
Tufted wool
118 1/8 x 102 1/3 in (300 x 260 cm)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Secession, Vienna
November 2, 2009 - January 24, 2010
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Secession, Vienna
November 2, 2009 - January 24, 2010
Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972-2009, Artists Space, New York
September 29 - November 14, 2009
Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972-2009, Artists Space, New York
September 29 - November 14, 2009
Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972-2009, Artists Space, New York
September 29 - November 14, 2009
Some, Some Not..., Royal Academy of Arts, London
November 24, 2008
Some, Some Not..., Royal Academy of Arts, London
November 24, 2008
Some, Some Not..., Royal Academy of Arts, London
November 24, 2008
...In the Cherished Company of Others..., de Appel, Amsterdam
July 4 - September 7, 2008
...In the Cherished Company of Others..., de Appel, Amsterdam
July 4 - September 7, 2008
...In the Cherished Company of Others..., de Appel, Amsterdam
July 4 - September 7, 2008
5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
April 5 - June 16, 2008
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Screen Print VIII (World of Interiors), 2008
Hand printed screen print, offset silkscreen and varnish
35 1/6 x 27 1/8 in (89 x 69 cm); 37 9/16 x 29 5/8 in (95.4 x 75.2 cm) framed
Edition of 4, with 2 APs
5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
April 5 - June 16, 2008
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
For MvdR, 2008
Marble and granite panels, acrylic paint
9 parts; each part 280 x 100 cm (1 slightly shorter)
Summer’s Song..., Centre d’art contemporain La Synagogue de Delme, Delme
July 8 - October 27, 2007
Summer’s Song..., Centre d’art contemporain La Synagogue de Delme, Delme
July 8 - October 27, 2007
Summer’s Song..., Centre d’art contemporain La Synagogue de Delme, Delme
July 8 - October 27, 2007
Summer’s Song..., Centre d’art contemporain La Synagogue de Delme, Delme
July 8 - October 27, 2007
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Hier und Dort, 1979 – 2006
Slide projectors with pendulum, text, vase, glass corner table and furniture designed by Marcel Breuer for Isokon
Dimensions variable
Zurich Suite, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
April 8, - June, 18 2006
Zurich Suite, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
April 8, - June, 18 2006
Zurich Suite, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
April 8, - June, 18 2006
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Shoe Waste, 1971-2005 (detail)
Silver spray, worn shoes, hand printed silver gelatin prints
Dimensions variable
Zurich Suite, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
April 8, - June, 18 2006
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Kunstverein für die Rhineland und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
September 10 - November 6, 2005
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Arch, 1975-2003
Wood, cellulose lacquer
330 x 130 x 40 cm (130 x 51.2 x 15.7 in)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Kunstverein für die Rhineland und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
September 10 - November 6, 2005
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Desk... on Decline, 1982-2003
Wood and cellulose lacquer
85 3/8 x 29 1/2 x 24 inches (217 x 75 x 61 cm)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Kunstverein für die Rhineland und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
September 10 - November 6, 2005
Une Exposition pour Cluny, Ecuries de Saint-Hughes, Cluny
September 1 - September 28, 2003
Une Exposition pour Cluny, Ecuries de Saint-Hughes, Cluny
September 1 - September 28, 2003
Une Exposition pour Cluny, Ecuries de Saint-Hughes, Cluny
September 1 - September 28, 2003
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Cabinet Apartment, London
October 9 - November 1, 2003
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Cabinet Apartment, London
October 9 - November 1, 2003
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Cabinet Apartment, London
October 9 - November 1, 2003
Celebration? Real Life Revisited, Cabinet, London
July 9 - July 29, 2000
Celebration? Real Life Revisited, Cabinet, London
July 9 - July 29, 2000
Celebration? Real Life Revisited, Cabinet, London
July 9 - July 29, 2000
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
A Charged Frivolty, 1992-1993
Oil, charcoal on canvas and board
Diptych: 24 x 36 1/4 in (61 x 92 cm)
Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Vienna Triptych, Leaning... and Surrounded by Chorus Girls and Sentinels, 1982
Glass, hand tinted photographs, acrylic on wood
14 panels (6 glass panels, 8 wooden panels), approx. 180 x 60 cm (71 x 24 in) each, spanning 6m (20 ft) linear wall space
Enough Tiranny, Serpentine Gallery, London
1972
Enough Tiranny, Serpentine Gallery, London
1972
Enough Tiranny, Serpentine Gallery, London
1972
Marc Camille Chaimowicz is an understated pioneer, who has steadfastly sailed against the prevailing artistic winds since the start of his career in London in the 1970s. Folding together past and present, Chaimowicz’s exhibition at WIELS brings together three work groups, all examining intimacy, domesticity, and the desire to create one own’s context.
The MAMC+ gave carte blanche to Marc Camille Chaimowicz for his first exhibition in France of such an importance.
Starting from the Museum – its building, the industrial history of its area and its collections where art and design both found their place – the artist has conceived a conversation between more than eighty pieces he realized from the 1960s onwards and thirty works or so from the Museum’s collection. Chaimowicz unfolds those mixed artefacts within discreet dramas, between environments and interior designs, as sequences of a tailored screenplay: Zig Zag, Rachel et Graham, L’entrepôt, Peintures 1, Peintures 2, Du Textile, ...Many Ribbons.
Following the Nazi occupation of France in 1940, communists, Jews and members of the Resistance sought refuge at a local chateau run by the American journalist Varian Fry. In the middle of the war, Villa Air-Bel had been the temporary home of some of the 20th century’s most prominent artists and thinkers, including Wifredo Lam, Jacqueline Lamba, Victor Serge, Anna Seghers, Max Ernst, André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, among many others. For a short time, it was a safe haven where political dissidents, united in uncertainty, suspended in time, engaged in playful artistic experiments to cope with their bleak realities, while they awaited the arrival of documents that would let them escape to the Americas. Today, little remains of this wartime sanctuary, no monuments, no reminders.
The art of Marc Camille Chaimowicz is rich in nuances. It oscillates in the specific, but at the same time appears abstract and, indeed, other-worldly. Emotional, yet cool. Intimate, yet foreign. His art is cheerful and melancholic. Tasteful, at times almost artificial, but simple.
Even the boundaries between public and private space present themselves as soft shades. But his art is not autobiographic or authentic. The way we furnish our living environments, the way spaces are decorated remains, to some extent, a construction and metaphor. Just as the things we wear on our bodies, our personal furnishings can provide stability. At the same time, however, they are invariably stage and costume in the script of life.
Chaimowicz does not limit himself to the realms of the private: reference to public life is made on a continuous basis. Actions and objects pass into public space or open up to many as serial products.
His exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern includes works from the 1970s to the present. It focuses on rarely shown works and bodies of works which have never been presented together before. Thus, a large selection of letters Chaimowicz has written since the 1970s in widely differing life situations. Their poetic nature reflects another characteristic of Chaimowicz’ work: the power of omission to bring suggestive spaces of imagination and the incomplete into effect.
Another arrangement focuses on the private residence of the architect Roger Diener and his wife, the writer Maryam Diener. Chaimowicz has furnished their place near Basel with floors, lamps, tiles and façade paintings, turning it into a total work of art.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz (b. post-war Paris) established himself in the 1970s London art scene as an artist who merged performance and installation art in a manner as playful as it was critical and sensual. This large-scale survey is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. It will present Chaimowicz’s cross-disciplinary work in sculpture, painting, video, collage, installation, and design made over his nearly 50 year career, including commissions newly created for the occasion.
