At least that's what he thought.
All this was actually a mirage...
2020-2022 : Guest artist - Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier - Montpellier.
Link : https://www.opera-orchestre-montpellier.fr/intervenants/gabriel-desplanque
Solo shows
2017: Belief / Relief - Liang Gallery - Taipei,
Taïwan.
2014: Maison Suzanne - Maison Zervos - Vezelay, Burgondy.
2011: I have few personal items - Galerie Plume - Paris.
Performances
2020 (september): "The Three Graces Rebellion".
Musical theater – Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier- Montpellier.
Link : https://www.opera-orchestre-montpellier.fr/evenement/la-revolte-des-trois-graces
2014
"I built a house on three octaves" - Maison Zervos - Vezelay, France.
"I built a house on three octaves"- Théâtre de la Ville - Competition "Danse Elargie" - Paris.
"I built a house on three octaves"- Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers - France.
2012
The Bestiary of the inside - Cooperation / Arandel - Institut français de Barcelone - Spain.
The Bestiary from within - Collaboration / Arandel - Carrière du Normandoux - Poitiers, France.
The Bestiary from within - Cooperation / Arandel - Institut Français de Valence - Spain.
Prizes, residencies & commissions
2018
Winner of the competition « Reinvent Opera » - Musical performance project - Opéra Garnier - Paris.
Link: http://www.classicagenda.fr/6-projets-reinventer-opera/
"Coup de cœur" Award - Les Mécènes du sud - sculptural and sound installation - Beziers.
Link : http://www.mecenesdusud.fr/article/soiree-coup-de-coeur-montpellier-sete-2018-386.html
"Production grant" winner - Mécènes du Sud - Montpellier.
Link: http://www.mecenesdusud.fr/projet/gabriel-desplanque---les-restes-de-lenfant-a-la-flute-de-pan--122.html
2017: "The wood" - Video and sound installation – Commission for C.N.A.P. (Centre National des Arts Plastiques).
2015: Residency – Eclats de Caromb - France.
2013
Residency - Maison Zervos - Burgondy, France.
Zervos Prize Burgondy 2013 - France.
2012: Residency - Institut Français de Barcelone - Spain.
2010: Installation Grant - D.R.A.C. (Regional Office of Cultural Affairs)- France.
2009
Creation Grant – City of Paris - France.
Photography Award – Paris Beaux-Arts Fondation, France.
Residency C.P.I.F. (Centre Photographique d’Ile de France) - France.
Collective exhibitions & screenings
2019: "The child with a pan flute", sculptur and sound installation - MOCO - Curator : Nicolas Bourriaud - Montpellier.
2018: Offline Browser – Video and sound installation - Hong-Gah Museum - Taipei, Taïwan.
Link : https://www.hong-gah.org.tw/3457?lang=en
2017
Hong
Kong International Film Festival – Screening - Honk Kong.
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur – Screening – Switzerland.
13th Akbank Short Film Festival - Screening - Turkey.
2016
Panorama 18 - Installation - Le Fresnoy, Studio national,
France.
Fondation Vuitton – Audio Piece - Fondation Vuitton - Paris.
Los Angeles CineFest – Screening - USA.
Blow-up - International Arthouse film fest - Screening - Chicago, USA.
2015
"Techniquement douce", Panorama 17 - Film projection - Le
Fresnoy, Studio national, France.
Eclats de Caromb - Screening - France.
La Tannerie - Screening - Avallon, France.
2014: "Human geograpies" – Photo installation - Château de Tanlay, Centre d’art de l’Yonne, France.
2013
"The breath of chimeras"- Draws and photographies - Galerie
Mélanie Rio - Nantes.
"Slowness before anything" - Projection - Espace ABCD - Montreuil.
Traverse Video – Film projection - UGC - Toulouse.
Théâtre d’Auxerre - Confeerence & Projection - France.
2012
"The walk" - Draws and photographies - Galerie Paul Frêches -
Paris.
"Nightwatchers" – Film projection - Château de Tanlay - Centre d’art de l’Yonne
- France.
2011
Loop – Screening - Barcelona Art fair - spain.
"Sleepless nights" – Screening - Paris.
"... And we can’t quit harping on..." - Installation - Médiathèque de
Levallois, France.
"Break-up my love" – Screening - Maison des Arts de Malakoff, France.
"Rise and Fall" - Photography - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rodez, France.
BYTS, The Bosch Young Talent Show 2011 - Installation - Hertogenbosch -
Pays-Bas.
"Water + Art + Design" - Photography - Pavillon de l’eau - Paris.
"Dance model" - Photography - Mois de la photographie du Luxembourg - L’Arsenal
- Metz.
Access & Paradox - Draw and photography - Foire - Paris.
Young creation - Photography - Villa Guelma - Paris.
2010
"Looks" - Installation - Centre d’Art Bastille (C.A.B.) -
Grenoble.
"Rewind" - Photography - Centre d’art Bel - Lons-Le-Saunier, France.
"The great leaf of anal faith" - Installation - Atelier Devot - Paris.
"Nudes" - Photography - Galerie Plume - Paris.
Slick - Photography - Espace 104 - Paris.
"Vidéo’Val" – Screening - Université Paris-Est Créteil, France.
"Between codes and bodies" - Lecture & screening - Université du
Mirail - Toulouse.
"Hors piste" – Screening - Beaubourg, Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris.
"Fables et fragments" - Photography and screening - Musée des Beaux-Arts
de Paris, France.
2009
A house is not a home - Photography - Place Verte - Paris.
Young creation - Photography - Halle de la Villette - Paris.
24h Vidéo – Screening - Théâtre d’Auxerre - France.
Miden Festival - Screening - Vidéotopia - Kalamata, Grèce.
2008
Traverse Video – Screening - Toulouse, France.
Videoformes – Screening - Clermont Ferrand, France.
Cinéma Le Babylon - Screening - Berlin, Allemagne.
B.J.C. (Biennale de la Jeune Création) - Photography and screening -
Houilles, France.
53th Contemporary Art fait - Photography - Montrouge, France.
2007
"Autoportret" - Photography - Musée Stalowa Wola - Pologne.
Festimage - Photography - Chavès, Portugal.
Galerie Ackerstrasse 18 - Photography - Berlin, Allemagne.
2006: Paris-Berlin – Screening - Théâtre de la Villette - Paris, France.
Teaching
2020 - ongoing: Course Leader in Digital Art Direction - Master 1 & 2 at LISAA (School of Graphic Design, Paris).
2009 - ongoing: Artist teacher (photography & vidéo) - Master 1 & 2 at LISAA (School of Graphic Design, Paris).
2017 - 2018: Guest artist teacher at T.N.N.U.A. (Tainan National University of the Arts) - Master 1 & 2, Taïwan.
2012 - 2017: Video workshops - La Fabrique du regard / Le Bal (Paris) with different audiences (High school, middle-school, ZEP, SEGPA).
2007 - 2014: Video workshops - C.P.I.F. (Centre photographique d’Ile de France) with different audiences (High school, middle-school,ZEP SEGPA).
Education
2016: Graduate with honors, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains.
2011: Graduate, La Seine (Post Graduate, Beaux-Arts de Paris).
2008: Graduate with top honors , E.N.S.B.A. (Beaux-arts de Paris).
2006: Graduate, E.N.S.A.D. (Arts décoratifs de Paris), photography & video.