Agathe de Bailliencourt is a painter, born in 1974 in Paris and currently based in Berlin. She works on canvas and paper, as well as in public space and architecture.
Since 2005, Agathe de Bailliencourts' work has been shown at various galleries and institutions around the world, including places like Paris, Berlin, New York City, Shanghai, Tokyo, Osaka, New Delhi and Singapore.
In 2006, Agathe de Bailliencourt started to work in actual space. Invited by the Singapore Biennale 2006, she realized her installation "Occupation bleue". For the French Cultural Center of Yogyakarta in Indonesia in 2007, she painted directly on a crossroad. In the same year, she did various installations in Berlin: "Pink Karl" for Backjumps LiveIssue #3, "La vie en rose" for 48h Neukoelln, and her first light installation within the Festival of Lights on the IHZ building, the landmark close to Friedrichstrasse. This was followed in 2008 by her second light installation, "Oh mon Dieu", this time at the Berliner Dom, and an installation for the "Intrude Art & Life" project with the Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art in China. In 2009 she was part of the first "Roppongi Art Night" in Tokyo, invited by the Mori Art Museum. Later in 2009 she came back to Japan, invited by the French Embassy and Tokyo Wonder Site to take part in the "No Man's Land" exhibition in Tokyo, as well as to realize a permanent commissioned installation in the new French Embassy building.
In 2010, Agathe de Bailliencourt is commissioned for a permanent installation at the Freies Museum in Berlin and will have her first solo exhibition in NYC in September.
Agathe de Bailliencourts drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited at various international art fairs like Show Off Fiac in Paris, Scope Miami, Tokyo Art Fair, Art Osaka Fair, Art Taipei, Contemporary Istanbul, Art Singapore and Art-Athina International Art Fair in Greece.
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