Mai-Thu Perret

1976 born in Geneva
lives and works in Geneva and Berlin



Solo Exhibitions

2011
Mai-Thu Perret, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Mai-Thu Perret, David Kordansky Gallery, LA

2010
Mai-Thu Perret, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
goldene zeiten
teil 1: Steven Claydon, Diango Hernández und Mai-Thu Perret, Haus der Kunst, Munich

2009
Mai-Thu Perret, Alphabet: Paintings and Text Works 2004-2009, Galerie Francesca Pia Zurich
Mai-Thu Perret, The Crack-Up, Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Mai-Thu Perret, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

2008
Mai-Thu Perret, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Mai-Thu Perret, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Mai-Thu Perret. Bikini, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Mai-Thu Perret. Land of Crystal, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
An Evening of the Book and Other Stories, The Kitchen, New York


2007
Mai-Thu Perret. Land of Crystal, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Crab Nebula, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
Mai-Thu Perret, Atelier Amden, Amden, Switzerland

2006
Mai-Thu Perret. Œuvres imprimées 2000-2006, Hard Hat, Geneva
Apocalypse Ballet, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Solid objects (Exhibition with Valentin Carron), Chisenhale Gallery, London
The Renaissance Society, Chicago

2005
Paralleles Leben, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Model Modernism, Artist Space, New York
Wednesday calls the Future, National Art Center, Tiblissi, Georgien
In the poem about love the word love does not appear, CCA, Glasgow
NY Twice, Air de Paris, Paris
Situational Prosthetics, New Langton Arts Center, San Francisco

2004
Statements, Art Basel 35, Basel
Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva

2003
Pure self-expression x25, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern

2002
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
We close our eyes in order to see, Glassbox, Paris

2001
Land of Crystal, Le Studio, CAN, Neuchâtel



Group Exhibitions (selection)

2009
Editions vs objets, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland
Anabasis. Rituals of Homecoming, Festival of Dialogue Of Four Cultures, Lódz, Poland
Top Ten Allegories, Hard Hat, Genéve, Switzerland
Utopics, Biel, Switzerland
Revolver, COCO, Wien, Austria
Living Together, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturenea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Splendid Isolation, Athens Biennial, Athens
Born to Be Wild, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Regift, The Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York
Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

2008
Abstraction Extension, fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France
Shifting Identities – (Schweizer) Kunst heute, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
The Saints, and music & films by Amy Granat, with Fia Backstrom, Jutta Koether, Amy O'Neill, Mai-Thu Perret, Angel Turner, Emily Sundblad & Stefan Tcherepnin, Sketch, London
There is No Story to Tell, Tang Contemporary, Beijing
Black Noise, a tribute to Steven Parrino, cneai, centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprimé, Chatou, France
Abstraction étendue, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux
Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami

2007
00 – L’Histoire d’une décennie qui n’est pas encore nommée, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
Ballet Mécanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Les artistes de la collection Cahiers d’Artistes, serie VI + VII, Centre d’art contemporain / Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
Introvert, Extrovert, Makes no Difference, Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul, France
Das Kunstwerk und sein Ort, Atelier Amden, Amden am Walensee
An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Art en plein air, Motiers, Val de Travers, Switzerland
Pure Self Expression, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, Midway Contemporary Art,
Minneapolis, USA; Overgaden, Coppenhagen, Denmark
I’m OK, you’re OK, Mogin Art Centre, Seoul
Radiant City, Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
Evenement #1/07, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Tension; Sex; Despair – Aber hallo / na und, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Open and Shut, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago

2006
Madame la baronne était plutôt manièrée, assez roccoco et totalement baroque – Volume 3, Centre d'art Mira Phalaina / Maison Populaire, Montreuil
Shiny, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Exposition des Bourses Des Fonds Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier et Galland, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva
Madame la baronne était plutôt manièrée, assez roccoco et totalement baroque, acte1, Centre d’Art Mira Phalaina/MaisonPopulaire, Montreuil
Inside now, we walked into a room with coca-cola coloured walls, Grazer Kunstverein
The Endless Summer, westlondonprojects, London
Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London
Unter 30, IV - Junge Schweizer Kunst | Jeune Art Suisse, CentrePasquArt Kunsthaus Centre d'art, Bienne
Modus, Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen

2005
Model Modernism, Artist Space, New York
Parallel Life, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Wednesday Calls the Future, National Arts Center, Tbilissi
In the poem about love the word love does not appear, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow

2004
Fürchte Dich, Helmhaus, Zurich
Leviathan Rising Under Moon’s Influence, Champion Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
The Age Of Optimism, Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich
None of the above, Swiss Institute, New York
Tuesday’s gone, Karvasla, Tibilissi
Year, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Wade Guyton

2003
Form/Kontext/Troja, Secession, Vienna
Socialism–A love letter, Fia Backström Productions, Brooklyn, NY
Fink Forward the collection/collection, Kunsthaus Glarus
The return of the creature, Künstlerhaus Thurn + Taxis, Bregenz

2002
Liste 2002, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern

2001
Rock Paper Scissors, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
Get Angry – Perspectives romandes 3, Espace Arlaud, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Wahrscheinlich (vraisemblablement), Alimentation Générale Art Contemporain, Luxemburg
Liste 2001, Basel, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
The New Domestic LandscapeGaleria Javier Lopez, Madrid

2000
Dr Wings, Air de Paris, Paris
Why can’t monsters get along with other monsters, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
Etat des lieux #2, Prefiguration of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Fri-Art, Fribourg



Bibliography (selection)

2010
Sven Beckstette, Wenn der Korken der Geschichte knallt, www.artnet.de, February 24, 2010
Annegret Laabs und Uwe Gellner. Everyday Ideologies. Standort Alltag, Ausstellungskatalog, Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, p. 138 - 143

2009
HEAVEN, 2. Athens Biennial, exhibition catalogue, p. 188 - 189
Utopics. Systems and Landmarks, exhibition catalogue
Mai-Thu Perret, Without a Filter, Texte zur Kunst, September 2009, p. 129

2008
Tremblay, Nicolas: Réparatrice de rêves, Numéro, issue 92, April 2008, p. 48-50
Baumann, Daniel: Mai-Thu Perret «Land of Crystal», Spike Kunstmagazin, no. 15, April, p. 125
Burton, Johanna: Mai-Thu Perret, The Kitchen, Artforum, April, p. 367-368
Badrutt Schoch, Ursula: Mai-Thu Perret in der Kunst Halle, Kunstbulletin, March, p. 57
Bonacina, Andrew: Mai-Thu Perret, Revolution, radical women and the shifting function of objects, Frieze Magazine, March, p. 156-157
Badrutt Schoch, Ursula: Die schöne Form der Utopie, St. Galler Tagesblatt, January 29
Mai-Thu Perret, Land of Chrystal, exhibition catalogue,
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Centre d`Art Contemporain, Geneva, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Christoph Keller Editions, jpr ringier, 2007

2007
Sholis, Brian: Mai-Thu Perret, in: Um Atlas de Acontecimentos/ An Atlas of Events, The State of the World Cultural Forum, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, p. 54
Mai-Thu Perret « And every woman will be a walking synthesis of the universe », Annual Report 2005-2006, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, pp. 41-43

2006
Mai-Thu Perret - Klaus Theweleits »Männerphantasien/Male Fantasies«, Spike Kunstmagazin, Winter, Wien/Berlin, p.118-121
Licht, lucht, liefde. En paracetamol. Mister Motley, No. 12, p.37-39
Hannah Feldman on the art of Mai-Thu Perret, Desert of the Real, Artforum International, Summer, p. 332-335
Jennifer Allen, Mai-Thu Perret at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Artforum, April
Henrikke Nielsen, Mai-Thu Perret at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Flash Art International, no. 247, March-April
Hüster, Wiebke, Pappmaché-Kameradinnen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, February 19
Swiss Art Award 2006, Catalogue, Schweizerischer Kunstverein Zürich, p. 13, 14, 129
Modus, exhibition catalogue, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen
In the poem about love you don’t write the word love, ed. by Tanya Leighton, Sternberg Press, Berlin, p. 193-196
Mai-Thu Perret, Collection Cahiers d’Artistes 2006, Pro Helvetica, Swiss Arts Council
Shiny, exhibition brochure, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
Andrew Bonacina, Mai-Thu Perret, Again For Tomorrow, exhibition catalogue, Royal College of Art, London
Alex Morrison and Mai-Thu Perret, Interview, Again For Tomorrow, exhibition catalogue, Royal College of Art, London
Eine Person allein in einem Raum mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wänden, exhibition catalogue, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

2005
Reynaud Dewar, Lili, Figures spéciales –Mai-Thu Perret, Lucy McKenzie, 02 revue d’art contemporain no. 38, Nantes, summer
Sung Won Kim, Interview with Mai-Thu Perret, Paralleles Leben, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurter Kunstverein

2004
Stroun, Fabrice, Ouverture, Mai-Thu Perret, Flash Art International no. 236, May-June
Notter, Eveline, Love thy sister like thyself, Kunst-Bulletin, Zurich, May
Schellenberg, Samuel, Mai-Thu Perret, à l’aise entre mots et forme, Le Courrier, Geneva, April 17
Steiner, Urs, Heiter? Bewölkt?- Grosswetterlage der Befindlichkeit im Helmhaus, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich, February 17

2003
Gerber, Elisabeth, Mai-Thu Perret in der Galerie Francesca Pia, Kunst-Bulletin, Zurich, October

2002
Stroun, Fabrice, Fabrice Stroun talks with Mai-Thu Perret, CAN, Neuchâtel

2001
Julliard, Nicolas, La colère maîtrisée des jeunes artistes, Le Temps, Geneva, December 11
d’Alimonte, Valério, La fuite en arrière, La Voix du Luxembourg, Luxemburg, November 1
Bohm, Alexander, Utopire, D’Lëtzebuerger Land, Luxemburg, October 19
Highlight, Casa Vogue Brazil, Sao Paulo, n°192

2000
Michèle, Nicole, Embroidery, The Now Idea, Parkett, Zurich, n°59, September
Bauman, Daniel, Etat des lieux #2, Kunst-Bulletin, Zurich, May

Texts and publications by the artist (Selection)


2007
Black Noise A Tribute to the Late Steven Parreno, artist book, No. 32, Ecart Publications, Geneva, May, edit. together with Armleder, John, Granat, Amy

2006
From the Chrysler Frontier, in Leighton, Tanya (ed.): In the poem about love you don’t write the word love, ed. by, Sternberg Press, Berlin, pp. 193-196
Brumaire, Parabol Art Magazin, The Supplement Issue, no. 1, Vienna, March
Crystal Frontier : A Short Lexicon, in: Again For Tomorrow, exhibition catalogue, Royal College of Art, London, pp. 78-85

2005
Dear Friend, Univers, n°9, Vienna/Berlin, September
Lee Lozano, Metropolis M, Amsterdam, January

2004
Le Rayon noir, in: supplément Circuit, Kunst-Bulletin, Zurich, n°4, April

2003
Crystal Frontier, in: Edition Fink, The Connection/Collection, Zurich, Edition Fink,
Exhibit A, in: Inside the White Cube, London, White Cube

2001
Timewave Zero : A Psychedelic Reader, Geneva, Frankfurt, JRP Editions and Revolver publishing, (Anthology realized in collaboration with Lionel Bovier)

2000
Xn 00: Hétérotopies, Geneva, JRP Editions, (Anthology realized in collaboration with Lionel Bovier)
The Crystal Frontier, 2000-2003, www.airdeparis.com/guest
New Ponderosa Year Zero, Valdez, Bogotà, n°3, September, pp. 96-98

1998
Run Abstraction, Purple Prose, Paris, n°13, Winter, Text 17
Up in the mountains, Purple Fiction, Paris, n°4, Winter, Text 08