Born in Knokke, BE in 1959
Lives and works in Paris, FR and in Liège, BE
Driven by the prospect of inventing new narrative devices, Patrick Corillon tells stories in a variety of artistic media. While each of these different artworks can stand alone, they all form part of one and the same universe: a mysterious world that views the questions of our time through the lens of a bygone, even legendary era.
Patrick Corillon’s objects – which one could very well come across in a museum of folklore or a conceptual art exhibition – stand out for their desire to convey, as simply as possible, stories that affect individuals and communities, the living and the dead.
Exhibitions and public art
In 2010-2011, he was a guest artist teacher at Le Fresnoy School.
He has exhibited at Documenta IX in 1992, at the Biennale de Sao-Paulo in 1994, in Lyon in 1995, in Sydney in 2002 and in Brussels in 2008.
His work has been shown in institutions such as the Tate Gallery, the Royal College of Art in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and Charleroi in Belgium, the Fondation De Appel et Witte de Witt in the Netherlands, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Musée du Grand Hornu, etc.
In addition to In Situ, in the galleries Marconi (Milan), Massimo Minini (Brescia), Albert Baronian (Brussels), Modulo (Lisbon), Produtzenten (Hamburg), Yvon Lambert (Paris), Tania Rumpff (Haarlem).
He has made public commissions for : the Manufacture des Gobelins, the Royal Palace of Belgium, the Paris and Nantes Tramways, the Place Goldoni in Paris, the Brussels Parliament, the Ministry of Education of the Flemish Community, the Toulouse Metro, the Collegiate Church of Sainte-Waudru in Mons, the Cities of Sittard, Maastricht and Amstelveen in the Netherlands, the University of Metz, the Théâtre des Abesses in Paris.
Specific projects have been carried out for the Cartier Foundation, Nina Ricci, Kenzo, Novotel and Coca-Cola.
His works are in the public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the FNAC, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the FRAC Pays de Loire, PACA, Bourgogne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Alsace, Picardie in France; the Museums of Contemporary Art of Antwerp, Ghent, Ixelles, the French Community in Belgium.
Living art
Living art
Since 2007, he has been investing in the field of the living arts with musical shows and performances that give pride of place to his objects and plastic creations. Books accompany some of these projects.
Le Diable abandonné, a lettrist fantasy in three paintings (three books, published by Éditions MeMo):
La Meuse obscure (production le corridor, Coproduction: Théâtre de la Place,
Scène Nationale du Granit in Belfort and LOD for the live musical version and in Dutch)
La forêt des origines, (production le corridor, Coproduction: Théâtre de la Place,
La Fabrique de Théâtre, S.P.A.S in La Bouverie)
L'horizon lent (production le corridor, Coproduction: Théâtre de la Place, La Fabrique de Théâtre, S.P.A.S à La Bouverie),
La Rivière Bien-Nommée, performance around a Kamishibai (production le corridor.); performed in February 2012 at the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris.
Le Benshi d'Angers, graphic performance for Le Fresnoy (production Le Fresnoy et le corridor), performed in November 2011 at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.
Oskar Serti is going to the Concert. Why ? Musical evening for the Vienna Konzerthaus (Klangforum production), the Luxembourg and Cologne Philharmonies, Hellerau in Dresden.
Les aveugles, opera inspired by Maeterlinck's work, composed by Daan Janssens (production LOD, Coproduction Le Manège de Mons, L'ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, Théâtre de la Place, VocaalLAB, with the collaboration of the corridor) for the Festival Via in Mons March 2012 but also for the Singel in Antwerp, the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Vooruit in Gent, etc.