Nicolas Grospierre

Nicolas Grospierre (b. 1975, Geneva) lives and works in Poland.

He has worked with photography extensively. Before dedicating his career to his art, he studied politics at the Institut d’Études Politique de Paris and the London School of Economics. His work as a photographer focuses on documentaries as well as conceptual work. In his documentary work he explores the collective memory and the feeling of hope that can be linked to modern architecture at a particular time, and how certain idealizations can be dismantled. Another aspect of his photography is to explore conceptual puzzle games, and to capture their attractive and sensual display and functions.

Grospierre has been awarded the Golden Lion at the 11th edition of the Venice Biennale (2008) for the exhibition Hotel Polonia in the Polish Pavilion, and has also received the Polityka Passport Award Artistic Residence at Stadtgalerie der Schedule Bern (2012), the Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland (2009) and Graham Foundation of Chicago scholarship in 2014. His monograph, Open-Ended, has been published by Jovis Verlag (Berlin, 2013) and his work has been included in SHOOTING SPACE: ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (Phaidon) and in Modern Forms, A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, edited by Elias Redstone and Alona Pardo. He has been a part of individual and collective exhibitions in different parts of Europe and America.

Submitted by Alarcón Criado