Mathilde Rosier

Works

Le Massacre du Printemps 2020

4K video

18' 9"

C#G#F#E2013

Gouache on collage mounted on paper

81 × 63 cm

D#CEA#2013

Gouache on collage mounted on paper

102 × 117 cm

Plastic Redirection 0-52012

Gouache on magazine page, cut out

28 × 20,5 cm

Plastic Redirection 0-222012

Gouache on magazine page, cut out

26 × 21 cm

Plastic Redirection 0-232012

Gouache on magazine page, cut out

26 × 20,5 cm

Cérémonie, Homme et Cheval2010

Gouache on paper

203 × 106 cm

Head with the Dark Hair (3)2009

Gouache on paper

45 × 45 cm

Chamber n° 32009

Installation mix media

210 × 200 × 140 cm

Biography

Mathilde Rosier was born in 1973 in Paris. She lives and works in Burgundy, France.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2010.

Rosier’s work stems from her interest in the physical and psychological experience of ancient rites and rituals.
Her research often embodies fictional offshoots or parts of a narrative, where constellations of self-made costumes, mystic representations of animals and nature often seem like props, an abandoned stage set, or solitary protagonists of an unfamiliar yet compelling reality.

Through the combination of painting, film, dance and theatre, Rosier constructs dreamlike situations that allow the beholder to lose any sense of space and time, opening a portal between conscious and unconscious realms.
Rosier creates art that comments on and illustrates the need to return to harmonious ways of integrating human activity with the “natural environment”, including pre-industrial practices that might seem anti- rational, observing the world from the vantage of the present-day countryside.

A selected list of her recent solo exhibitions and performances includes: Dans les champs d’intensive prospérité, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris (2023); Sketches in the margin, jevouspropose, Zürich (2021); Le Massacre du printemps, Museo MADRE, Naples (2020); MASP, Sao Paulo (2020); How to Dance in the Fields, Razem Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw (2019); Figures of Climax of the Impersonal Empire, Fondazione Guido Ludovico Luzzatto, Milan (2018); In Revolution. Resolution of Some Hierarchic Orders, Der Tank Institut Kunst, Basel (2016); Organs of the Whale, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2012); Necklace of Fake Teeth, Camden Arts Centre, London (2011); Mathilde Rosier. Rite de passage, Kunstpalais, Erlangen (2011); Find circumstances in the antechamber, Musée Jeu de Paume, Paris (2011); Play for a stage of the Natural Theatre of Cruelty, performance at Serpentine Gallery, London (2009).

She has shown and performed in several group exhibitions such as: L’écorce, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2023); Dancing Plague, GAMeC, Bergamo (2022); Utopia Distopia: il mito del progresso partendo dal sud, Museo MADRE, Naples (2021); Kosmos Emma Kunz, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2021) travelled to Tabakalera, San Sebastiàn (2022); Freedoms, Razem Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw (2019); Metamorphoses – Let Everything Happen to You, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2018); Sureghes – writing the Mountains, 6th Biennale Gherdëina, Ortisei – Italy (2018); The Waves of the Oh!s and the Ah!s, performance, Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Venice (2018); Volcano Extravaganza, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli (2015); Year After Year. Opere su carta dalla UBS Art Collection, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan (2014); Made in Germany Zwei, Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengel Museum, kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2012); Transfer France – NRW, Am Anfang war ich am Ende – Au debut j’etais au bout, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2010); Head-Wig (Portrait of an exhibition), Camden Arts Centre, London (2009).

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Gallery Exhibitions

Public exhibitions

Champ de visions
16 September 2023
Mucem, Centre de Conservation et de Ressources, Marseille
Dancing Plague
11 March – 29 May 2022
GAMeC, Bergamo
Kosmos Emma Kunz
28 January – 19 June 2022
Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
La pittura in persona
7 November 2021 – 6 March 2022
Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo, Italy
Sketches in the margin
11 June – 26 September 2021
Je vous propose, Zurich
Kosmos Emma Kunz
2 March – 24 May 2021
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Le Massacre du printemps
24 October 2020
MADRE, Naples
Mathilde Rosier
14 November – 13 December 2020
MASP – São Paulo Museum of Art , São Paulo
How to Dance in the Fields
14 November – 14 December 2019
Razem Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Figures of Climax of the Impersonal Empire
13 March – 6 May 2018
Fondazione Guido Lodovico Luzzatto, Milan
Metamorfosi
6 March – 2 September 2018
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino

Press

An encounter with Mathilde Rosier, painter of moving images
Art Basel Stories
May 16, 2023
The Spring Massacre
NERO
January 12, 2021
Videoinstallazione al Madre: ecco le danzatrici di Rosier sulla Napoli martoriata
La Repubblica
October 25, 2020
20 opere per 20 anni di arte, scelte da Milovan Farronato
Elle Decor
December 31, 2019
Metamorfosi – Lasciate che tutto vi accada
Segno
June 2018
Mathilde Rosier
Artforum
Summer 2018
Mathilde Rosier at Galleria Raffaella Cortese
ArtReview
March 2018
Interrogating the perceptions of reality. On Mathilde Rosier
Arte e Critica
Spring 2018
Mathilde Rosier: Necklace of Fake Teeth
Dazed & Confused
July 26, 2011

Publications

METAMORPHOSES
Chus Martinez, Marianna Vecellio
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Rivoli
2018
Mathilde Rosier: Ceremonially Infused
Edited by Claudia Emmert
Snoeck
Köln
2011
Mathilde Rosier: Find circumstances in the antechamber
Edited by Francçoise Bonnefoy and Lætitia Moukouri
éditions de Jeu de Paume
Paris
2010
Passionate Belief
Mathilde Rosier
Revolver Publishing
Frankfurt am Main
2006

Videos

Rencontre avec l'artiste Mathilde Rosier et la commissaire Chus Martínez
2025
Installation « Champ de visions » | Interview de Mathilde Rosier
2023
Mathilde Rosier - Nommée prix Nouveau Regard AWARE
2022