Born 1976 in Tréguier, France
Lives and works in Brussels

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025
La Loge, Brussels (upcoming)

2023
Porteurs et Peintures, MemPhis, Linz, Austria
Recent Paintings, BEIGE, Brussels, Belgium

2022
Maintain the silence (curator : Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre), Musée d'art de Joliette, Québec, Canada
The Carpenter of Spring (curator : Els Vermang), Société, Brussels, Belgium

2021
Untitled Ceremony #16, Tlön Projects, Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2019
Béatrice Balcou (curated by Eva Wittocx), M Museum, Leuven, Belgium

2018
L'économie des apostrophes (curated by Julie Pellegrin), La Ferme du Buisson Contemporary Art Center, Noisiel/Paris, France
Beatrice Balcou x Yuki Okumura : Double Suicide at Kumagusuku, Kyoto Art Hostel kumagusuku, Kyoto, Japan

2017
Kazuko Miyamoto <> Béatrice Balcou, Exile, Berlin, Germany

2016
Béatrice Balcou - Kazuko Miyamoto (curated by Florence Cheval), L’iselp, Brussels, Belgium

2014
Walk In Beauty (curated by Kevin Muhlen and Christine Walentiny), Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Calme, Luxe et Volupté (curated by Keren Detton), Le Quartier Contemporary Art Center, Quimper, France

2013
Chaque Chose En Son temps, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France


PERFORMANCES

2024
Untitled Performance #2, La république (cynique), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Untitled Ceremony #21, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France

2023
Untitled Performance #03, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Reading of Ceremonies, HISK, Brussels, Belgium

2022
Untitled Ceremony #11, FRAC Corsica, Corte, France
Untitled Ceremony #20, Musée d'art de Joliette, Québec, Canada
Untitled Ceremony #18, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

2021
Untitled Ceremony #16, ROZENSTRAAT - a rose is a rose is a rose , Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Untitled Ceremony #04, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Untitled Ceremony #17, Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium

2019
Untitled Ceremony #10 and Untitled Ceremony #05, Playground Festival, M Museum , Leuven, Belgium
The Bridegroom Suites II (originated by Émilie Renard and Hugues Decointet), in Performance Day #4, La Ferme du Buisson Art Center, Noisiel/Paris, France

2018
Untitled Ceremony #14, in Attention Fragile Festival, MAC VAL Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Untitled Ceremony #14, La Ferme du Buisson Contemporary Art Center, Noisiel/Paris, France
Untitled Ceremony #10, in La Nouvelle Adresse, CNAP, Pantin/Paris, France
Untitled Ceremony #10, in Sculpter (faire à l’atelier) exhibition, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
Untitled Ceremony #12, Été 78, Brussels, Belgium
Untitled Ceremony #07, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

2017
Untitled Ceremony #11, in Collectionner, le désir inachevé exhibition, Museum of Fine arts, Angers, France
Untitled Ceremony #10, in Performance Day #2, La Ferme du Buisson Contemporary Art Center, Noisiel/Paris, France
Not yet titled, in In the echoes of my room - Ane Mette Hol exhibition, La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France
Untitled Ceremony #10, La Galerie Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec/Paris, France

2016
Untitled Ceremony #09, Amsterdam Art Weekend, The Absence of Work, Oudekerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Untitled Ceremony #08, L’Iselp, Brussels, Belgium

2015
Untitled Ceremony #06, in Un-Scene III exhibition, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Untitled Performance #03, in Plateforme de jeux, Un Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Untitled Performance #03, in Se prendre au jeu : rêves, répétitions et autres détours (The artist is a mysterious entertainer), FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Untitled Ceremony #05, Performatik, Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
Untitled Performance #02, in Autour d'un geste, Théâtre de Privas, France

2014
Untitled Ceremony #04, Playground Festival, cur. Eva Wittocx et Steven Vandervelden, M Museum, Leuven, Belgium
Computer Performance, in Art/Temps/Performance: décaler les gestes, Le Laboratoire du geste, University La Sorbonne, Paris, France
Untitled Performance #02, in Des Choses en moins, des choses en plus, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Computer Performance, in Fata Morgana, Ikob, Eupen, Belgium
Untitled Ceremony #03, Forum d'art contemporain Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Untitled Ceremony #02, Centre d'art le Quartier, Quimper, France

2013
Untitled Performance #02, in Chaque Chose En Son Temps, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Untitled Ceremony #01, Brasserie Haecht (251 Nord), Liège, Belgium

2012
Untitled Performance #02, in Temps libre, Partitions (performances), Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris, France

2011
Opening performance, in David Dubois & guests, Elaine Levy gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Small-scale performance, in Other Possible Worlds, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Cardboard Performance, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium

2010
Computer Performance, Artconnexion, Lille, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2024
La République (cynique), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Borderline, Interface, Dijon, France
Série W, Archives municipales de Metz - Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
He Needs Me. 30 ans de la collection Veys-Verhaevert (cur: Christophe Veys), Losange, Brussels
Flinch, Les Moulins de Paillard, France
1974 - Passé. Présent. Futur (cur. Raphaël Giannesini), Villa Benkemoun, Arles, France

2023
Dans un pays lointain ... (cur: Marie Griffay), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
The Hoarders - Boiler Room with Société (cur: Els Vermang), Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Brussels, Belgium
Janelas, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium
Rang d'oignons, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Embed, (cur: Fabrice Gallis & Sophie Lapalu), Galerie Raymond Hains, Saint-Brieuc, France

2022
Different than it seems (cur: Nico Anklam), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
La Beauté du diable (cur: Benjamin Bianciotto & Sylvie Zavatta), FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Janelas (cur: Marc Buchy & Tiago de Abreu Pinto), Jean Laude Library of the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne
Les nouvelles acquisitions de l'Artothèque, Musée des Beaux-arts, Brest, France
La seconde main - L'art de la citation (in collaboration with the FRAC Franche-Comté), Musée Courbet, Flagey, France
Fata Morgana (curated by Béatrice Gross with Katinka Bock), Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Aller contre le Vent - Performances, actions et autres rituels (curated by Sylvie Zavatta), FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Austerlitz was his name (curated by Sam Steverlynck with Tlön Projects), A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (curated by René Block with Nico Anklam), RIBOCA3, Riga, Latvia

2021
Insideout (curated by Els Vermang), Société, Brussels, Belgium
Monts Analogues (curated by Boris Bergmann and Marie Griffay), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Structures of Radical Will (curated by Béatrice Gross), Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
The Constant Glitch, M Museum, Leuven, Belgium
Structures of Radical Will (curated by Béatrice Gross), Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium
With Salle Principale, FIAC, Paris
L'usage des richesses (curated by Maryline Brustolin), Salle Principale gallery, Paris, France

2020
En mouvement (Nuit Blanche Kyoto), Villa kujoyama, Kyoto, Japan

2019
De la Lenteur et de la Mesure (curated by Emmanuel Lambion), Maison Gregoire, Brussels, Belgium
It boils down (curated by Tom Lowe), Pure Propaganda, Rotterdam, Nederlands
Some of Us (curated by Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize with Marianne Derrien), Nordart, Büdelsdorf, Germany
Article 132-75 (conceived by Gallien Déjean, Emmanuel Guy, Juliette Pollet and Fanny Schulmann, with Reynaldo Gomez and Sif Jeppesen), kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany

2018
Viva Villa (curated by Cécile Debray and Federico Nicolao), Villa Méditerranée, Marseille, France
La Nouvelle Adresse (curated by Juliette Pollet with Pascal Beausse, Philippe Bettinelli, Pascale Cassagnau, Sandra Cattini and Max-Louis Raugel), CNAP, Pantin/Paris, France
Déclassement (curated by Barbara Sirieix), Château d'Oiron, France
Sculpter (faire à l’atelier) (curated by Anne Dary, Catherine Elkar and Sophie Kaplan), FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
La Norme Idéale (curated by Florent Delval), Levy-Delval Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2017
Le Secret (curated by Françoise Docquiert, Paul-Antoine Parot, Corinne Le Neün, Christophe Viart, Nayla Tamraz, Tatiana Nedelskaya), Ensapc Ygrec, Paris, France
Grotto Capital, Exile, Berlin, Germany
Wrapped - Unwrapped (curated by Patrice Joly), Zoo Gallery, Nantes, France
Tes mains dans mes chaussures, La Galerie Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec/Paris, France

2016
Tes mains dans mes chaussures (curated by Émilie Renard and Vanessa Desclaux), La Galerie Contemporary Art Center, Noisy-le-Sec/Paris, France
Architropismes (curated by Rozenn Canevet and Marlise van der Jagt), Les Moulins de Paillard, Poncé-sur-le-Loir, France

2015
Un-Scene III (curated by Devrim Bayar and Zoë Gray), WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Se prendre au jeu : rêves, répétitions et autres détours (The artist is a mysterious entertainer) (curated by Vanessa Desclaux), FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

2014
Des choses en moins, des choses en plus (curated by Agnes Violeau and Sébastien Faucon), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Fata Morgana (curated by Maïté Vissault), IKOB, Eupen, Belgium

2012
Cinémathèque de Tanger (curated by Olga Rozenblum), Maroc

2011
Other Possible Worlds (curated by Dorothee Albrecht, Berit Fischer and Paul di Felice), Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2010
Art Contest, Brussels, Belgium
Biennal of photography, Liège, Belgium

2008
Carboniferus to Open-eyed Artists on Landscape, Artconnexion, Lille, France


COLLECTIONS

2024
MACS Musée des arts contemporains du Grand-Hornu, Mons (BE)

2023
MNAM - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)

2022
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (DE)
FRAC Normandie, Rouen (FR)
FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)

2021
Cera - M Museum Collection, Leuven (BE)
Fondation CAB, Brussels (BE)
FRAC Ile-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris (FR)
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)

2020
CIRVA, Marseille (FR)

2019
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)
FRAC Ile-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris (FR)

2017
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, CNAP, Paris (FR)
FRAC Ile-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris (FR)

2016
FRAC Corsica, Corte (FR)
Artothèque - Musée des Beaux-arts, Brest (FR)

2015
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)

2014
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, CNAP, Paris (FR)

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS

2022
Support for an artistic project, CNAP, Paris, France
Aide à la création, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Belgium

2021
Residency at Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium

2020
Residency, International Centre of Research on Glass and Visual Arts (CIRVA), Marseille, France

2019
Grant for publication with MER. paper Kunsthalle and La Ferme du Buisson, CNAP, Paris, France
Residency, International Centre of Research on Glass and Visual Arts (CIRVA), Marseille, France
Grant for research and production (Bridegroom Project) from Guy de Cointet Society, Paris, France

2018
Grant "Connexion" from ADAGP for the exhibition "L'économie des apostrophes" at La Ferme du Buisson Contemporary Art Center, France
Grant for publication with Captures Éditions and La Ferme du Buisson, CNAP, Paris, France
Residency (with Yuki Okumura), at Villa Kujoyama (Institut Français), Kyoto, Japan

2014
Residency, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2013
Residency, Ateliers Vivegnis International, Liège, Belgium

2011
Residency Air Nord Est, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
International art workshop, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2009
Residency, Institut Français hors-les-murs, Japan

2008
Residency « COAL » supported by Artconnexion, France/Poland/Germany

2005
Aide individuelle à la créationn, DRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES / TEACHING

2023
A Different Path: Re-Approaching Research In And Through The Arts #3, HISK, Brussels, Belgium
Guest artist, National School of Architecture of Versailles (ENSA-V), France
External jury, Academic Master Degree of Fine Arts, DNSEP Art, ESAD, Reims, France
External jury, Academic Master Degree of Fine Arts, L’Erg - École de recherche graphique, Brussels, Belgium

2022
Performative reading "Ceremonies" (Art Brussels program), Société, Brussels, Belgium
Guest artist, National School of Architecture of Versailles (ENSA-V), France
Launch of the book Les Flâneuses by Francesca Zappia, Le BAL, Paris, France
Conference (invited by Armelle Pradalier), National School of Fine Arts (ENSBA) of Paris, France

2021
Performative lecture, "The Trembling Body" seminar organized by Paul Hendrikse, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Le corps non per­for­mant, conversation with Julie Pellegrin, Betonsalon, Paris, France
Artistic coach (master STUDIOS), P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios), Brussels, Belgium
Guest artist, National School of Architecture of Versailles (ENSA-V), France
External jury, Academic Master Degree of Fine Arts "Sculpture", Académie royale des Beaux-Arts (Arba-Esa), Brussels, Belgium

2020
Guest artist, National School of Architecture of Versailles (ENSA-V), France
Workshop and conference, Villa Arson, National School of Art, Nice, France

2019
External jury, Academic Master Degree of Fine Arts, École supérieure d’art et de design (TALM), Angers, France
Workshop and conférence, École supérieure d’art et de design (TALM), Angers, France
Conference, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Linazay, France

2018
Conversation with Yaël Kreplak (sociologist), Contemporary art center of La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
Guest artist, Jokerweek, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, Belgium

2017
Workshop, The art of discretion, École supérieure des Arts l'ERG, Brussels, Belgium

2016
Look Who’s Talking Series (Helena Almeida), WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Workshop with Raphaële Jeune, Dispositifs attentionnels, Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR), Strasbourg, France
Workshop, Department of Visual Arts, Rennes II University, France
Workshop and conference, Des gestes de l'attention, Académie royale des Beaux-Arts (Arba-Esa), Brussels, Belgium
External jury, Academic Master Degree of Fine Arts Care, Académie royale des Beaux-Arts (Arba-Esa), Brussels, Belgium
By, conversation with Yuki Okumura, L’Iselp, Brussels, Belgium

2015
Conversation with Christophe Gallois, École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine (ESAL), Metz, France
Performance, Ritual, Communauty, conversation with Ulla von Brandenburg, Joachim Saxenborn and Karel Vanhaesebrouck (moderator), Kaaistudio, Brussels, Belgium
Conversation, Look Who’s Talking Series with Zoë Gray, Yuki Okumura and Hedwig Houben, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium

2014
Workshop, Protocoles pour une communauté éphémère, L'École supérieure d'art et de design (ESAD), Reims, France
Workshop with Florence Cheval, Performer l'exposition d'architecture, L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture/Paris La Villette (ENSAPLV), France
Workshop, Gestes au Travail, lycée Jules Haag, Besançon, France
Conference, Des gestes de l'attention, colloque Saillances du geste, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France

2011
Workshop and conference, Institut Supérieur des Beaux-arts (ISBA), Besançon, France
Conference, DU Art, Danse, Performance, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Conference, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté, Belfort, France

2008
Lecturer, Department of Performing Arts, Lille University, France
Workshop, Department of Performing Arts, Lille University, France
Conference, Colloque L'art Surpris par le social, Department of Visual Arts, Rennes II University, France

2006 - 2000
Professor of visual arts in secondary schools, Paris and Lille, France

PUBLICATIONS (selection)

2024
(Non) Performance. A daily practise by Julie Pellegrin (book). With : Béatrice Balcou, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Yael Davids, Catalina Insignares & Myriam Lefkowitz, Kapwani Kiwanga, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Emily Mast, Gisèle Vienne, T&P Publishing

2023
Frac Franche-Comté – Une décennie – L'enfance infinie, catalogue
D’après maquettes, dir. Thierry Leviez, Mathilde Roman, Manuella éditions, Paris, France
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) catalogue
Curating as Feminist Organizing, dir. Elke Krasny, Lara Perry, Routledge, Londres

2022
Fata Morgana, catalogue de l’exposition, Manuella éditions, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Insideout, Société, Bruxelles, Belgique

2021
Ceremonies, catalogue monographique, Editions Mer Paper Kunsthalle et La Ferme du Buisson CAC avec le soutien de l'ADAGP, Musée M, FRAC Franche Comté, CNAP
Frac Île-de-France – La collection, catalogue
Structures of Radical Will, catalogue de l’exposition, Fondation CAB, Bruxelles

2019
Attention Fragile, Stéphanie Airaud (dir), Éditions du Musée d'art Contemporain MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Dying for One another, Éditions Syubisya - Kumagusuku, Kyoto, Japon

2018
Béatrice Balcou - entretien avec Julie Pellegrin, Émilie Renard et Christophe Gallois, Collection Digressions, Captures éditions et La Ferme du Buisson CAC avec le soutien du CNAP, Valence, France
Playground, Editions MER. Paper Kunsthalle et M - Museum Leuven, Belgique
20 ans d'art en France - Une histoire sinon rien, 1999-2018, Michel Gauthier et Marjolaine Lévy (dir), Édition Flammarion, France
Sculpter (faire à l’atelier), Frac Bretagne - La Criée - Musée des Beaux-arts de Rennes, éditions Fage, Lyon, France

2017
Les oeuvres d’art sont de nouveaux lieux pour méditer, "Création et Méditation", Philippe Filliot, Actes Sud, Arles, France
Des Gestes de l’attention, Florence Cheval in "Gestes en éclats, Art danse et performance", Aurore Desprès (dir), Les Presses du réel, France
Fermons les yeux pour voir : de l’absorbement du spectateur à sa participation, Pauline Chevalier in "Gestes en éclats, Art danse et performance", Aurore Desprès (dir), Les Presses du réel, France

2015
Un-Scene III, Exhibition catalogue of Un-Scene III at Wiels, Brussels
Béatrice Balcou, Walk In Beauty, Christophe Gallois in Traces #5, Éditions du Casino Luxembourg
La Faillite du double, Rozenn Canevet in "La réappropriation en art", Editions épure, france

2014
Untitled, catalogue monographique, Editions du Casino Luxembourg avec le soutien du Quartier, du Frac Franche comté, du Musée M et de Artconnexion

2013
Fata Morgana, catalogue de l’exposition, IKOB, Eupen, Belgique

2011
Biennale internationale de la photographie et des arts visuels, catalogue de l’exposition, Liège, Belgique

2009
Carboniferus to Open-eyed Artists on Landscape, catalogue de l’exposition, Artconnexion, France


PRESSE (Selection)

2024
Indiscipline et survivance Les gestes transformatifs de Béatrice Balcou, text by Vanessa Desclaux, Cahiers du Mnam n° 168, été 2024

2023
Restoration's role in Beatrice Balcou's Recent Paintings by John Gayer in News in Conservation, IIC, issue 98, Oct.Nov. 2023

2022
L’art Même #84, À l’unisson by Antoinette Jattiot
H-art #224, interview by Sam Steverlynck

2021
Espace art actuel n° 129 – L'artiste muséologue, Poétique de la régie d'oeuvres - Chorégraphier la collection, by Cécile Camart
Switch on Paper, Béatrice Balcou. Donner de l'importance à l'art, lui donner du temps, interview by Camille Paulhan
Les Archives de la critique d'art, Note de lecture, Patricia Brignone

2020
Mousse magazine, Béatrice Balcou at M Leuven
Zérodeux #92, hiver 2019-20, Béatrice Balcou by Antoinette Jattiot
Wall Street International, 21 novembre 2019, Béatrice Balcou at M Museum
Focus Le Vif, Janvier, review, Aux Bons soins de ... by Michel Verlinden
klara radio, Pompidou, interview with Eva Wittocx by Chantal Pattyn

2019
France Culture (radio), 3 janvier, Par les temps qui courent by Romain de Becdelièvre
L’oeil magazine, Janvier, Portrait - L’oeil en mouvement by Céline Garcia-Carré
L’art Même #77, Béatrice Balcou - Les objets de la négociation by Émilie Renard
The Art NewsPaper, Février, Répétition et différence : répliques originales d’artistes by Béatrice Gross
Revue Esse arts + opinions (spécial Empathie)#95, L’économie des apostrophes, review by Camille Paulhan

2018
Les Archives de la critique d'art, Note de lecture, Johanna Renard
Mouvement, décembre, « Béatrice Balcou : L'Économie des apostrophes » review par Oriane Hidalgo Laurier

2017
artviewer, 30 avril, Kazuko Miyamoto and Beatrice Balcou at EXILE
Slash, 28 avril, review « Tes mains dans mes chaussures - La Galerie Noisy-Le-Sec » by Guillaume Benoit

2016
Zérodeux #78, Portrait de l’artiste en coureur de fond: lenteur, silence et sensualité by Vanessa Desclaux
L’art Même #69, Un espace crée par Trois pas en arrière by Daniel Blanga Gubbay
Bruzz, Wunderkammer, Béatrice Balcou by Michel Verlinden
Focus Le Vif, Review, Effets Placebos by Michel Verlinden
La Libre Belgique, 31 mai, Une postmodernité appropriative by Claude Laurent

2015
Artpress #416, novembre, Review, Béatrice Balcou, au Casino Luxembourg by Rozenn Canevet
Hippocampe #18, Septembre-Octobre, La séduction du regard by Septembre Tiberghien
Afterall, A Restless Interlude: Béatrice Balcou at FRAC Franche-Comté by Vanessa Desclaux
Art Handler #01, Béatrice Balcou, in Praise of Gesture by Rozenn Canevet
H-art #129, interview by Florence Cheval
Facettes #01, carte blanche plastique

2013
Le Salon online, Chaque Chose En Son Temps by Florence Cheval
Novo, Exister dans l’ennui, Review by Xavier Hug

2010
L’art Même #42, La place du documentaire dans l’art by Maria Palacios Cruz