Atelier de Tonnellerie Hennessy - Cognac, France
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L’ombre des Heures, Le Retable du Temps
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Born in 1988 in Digne (Digne-les-Bains), France
Lives and works in Ouidah, Benin
Jeremy Demester is a French-Beninese contemporary artist (1988, Digne, France) who lives and works in Ouidah, Benin. Graduated from les Beaux-Arts, Paris with congratulations of the jury, he received the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts in 2015. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions across the world. In 2017, he paid tribute to the artist Raymond Hains as curator of the exhibition You know nothing Raymond at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin. As part of the exhibition Peindre la nuit at the Centre Pompidou Metz, and the Nocturne #2 Sacred Night, he was invited in 2018 to create a scenic work with the CCN - Ballet de Lorraine. His works are included in the collections of the Zinsou Foundation, Istanbul Modern, the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, the Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain Saint-Etienne Metropole, Hennessy, and numerous private collections. He chairs the Atokénon-profit organisation founded in 2019 with his wife Marie-Sophie Eiché Demester, supporting an orphanage of 39 children in Benin. Atoké helps these children grow up with dignity by providing them with love, education, good health, food, and legal assistance for each of them.
education
2012 – 2014 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (DNSEP)
2009 – 2012 École Supérieure d’Art des Rocailles de Biarritz (DNAP)
solo shows
2023
XXI, Perrotin, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ram Muay, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, United Kingdom
2022
DJEMY, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
L’Ombre des heures, le Retable du Temps, permanent installation in Hennessy cooperage workshop, Cognac, France
2021
Gros-Câlin, Zinsou Foundation Museum, Ouidah, Benin
2020
OUIDAH, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2019
FTW, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
2018
I lifted my hand to wave the sun, Château Malromé, Saint André-du-Bois, France
Jeremy Demester, Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst in Weidingen, Eifel, Germany
Courage, ballet, Peindre la nuit, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
2017
Fire Walk With Me, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2016
Jeremy Demester, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
33 engravings for Benji’s revenge, MAMC, Saint-Étienne, France
L’invité du Belvédère, Palais de l’École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2015
Original Zeke, Zinsou Foundation, Ouidah, Benin
group shows
2023
L'Île Intérieure, Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
2022
Heroes for Imagine, galerie kamel mennour, Paris, France
Aziza, Zinsou Foundation Museum, Ouidah, Benin
Forest Fantasy, Greenline Foundation, Ognon, France
Cosmogony: Zinsou, an African Art Collecion, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021
Cosmogonies. Zinsou, une collection africaine, MO.CO, Montpellier, France (curated by Marie-Cécile Zinsou and Nicolas Bourriaud)
2020
Made in France, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
Resonances, Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland (curated by Hervé Mikaeloff)
Quatuor de Ravel, Quatuor Modigliani, La Grange au Lac, Neuvecelle, France
2019
Par Hasard II, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France (curated by Guillaume Theulière)
Made in France, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France (curated by Hervé Mikaeloff)
La Lumière des Mondes, Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, France
Les Enfants du Paradis, MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France (curated by Jérôme Sans)
2018
You know nothing Raymond (a homage by Jeremy Demester), Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Matière Grise, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
2016
Das Bild hängt schief, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2015
Les Voyageurs, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Gina Pane &; Jeremy Demester, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France
2014
Ciel d’Ether, Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France
Empora, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
public collections
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
Zinsou Foundation, Ouidah, Benin
awards
2016
Prix des partenaires du Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole
2015
Prix des félicités des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2014
Prix des amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Aurige Finance
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jeremy Demester, a monograph, Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2022
The Book of Badji Rourou I, an artist book by Jeremy Demester, editions La Demestria, 2022
Par hasard, exh. cat., Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, 2019
Jeremy Demester: Fire Walk with Me, exh. cat., Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2018
Jeremy Demester: 33 engravings for Benji’s revenge, exh. cat., Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne; Lyon: Fage éditions, 2016
Mark Dion: ExtraNaturel, exh. cat., Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, 2016
Les Voyageurs: félicités 2014 des Beaux-Arts de Paris, exh. cat., Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, 2015
X, Cotonou: Fondation Zinsou, 2015
Jeremy Demester: Palimpseste d’une famille qui boîte, Paris: Editions La Demestria, 2015
