Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe (born 1962 in Paris ) is a French visual artist.
Life and work
Huyghe studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In 2001 he represented France at the Venice Biennale, where his pavilion Le Château de Turing won a Special Jury Prize. 2002 Huyghe was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and exhibited there also numerous works.
2006 recorded Huyghe the Whitney Biennial in New York as well as the reopening of ARC / MAM Paris and the Tate Modernmit his film A Journey That Was not. The Kunstmuseum in Basel / Museum of Contemporary Art has a section dedicated to Pierre Huyghe GameArt exhibition in which Völklingen Huyghe is with the neon piece Skin of Light part of the permanent exhibition in January 2011. 2012 Huyghe took part in Documenta in Kassel. In 2013 he was awarded the Roswitha Haftman price.
Huyghe lives and works in Paris.
Huyghe's films and video installations repeatedly deal with the different levels of reality movies that are visible, for example, the synchronization or changing the social context. Thus, the observer experiences in Huyghe Dubbing the actual film only mirrored in the subtitles and the reactions of the filmed audience.