Introduction

Noémie Goudal’s practice involves the construction of ambitious staged, illusionistic installations within the landscape, documented using film and photography. Goudal’s interventions are under pinned by rigorous research examining the intersection of ecology and anthropology, interrogating the limitations of theoretical conceptions of the natural world. Noémie Goudal (b. 1984) lives and works in Paris. In 2010, she graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, UK.

Solo Exhibitions

2024  

Contours of Certainty, Mostyn Museum, Llandudno, UK

2024  

Inhale, Exhale, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR

2023  

ANIMA, performance co-written with Maëlle Poésy ; PS21 Chatham, New York, USA ; Tate Modern, London, UK ; Venice Biennale 2023, 51st International Theatre Festival, Venice, IT ; Centre Pompidou, Paris ; Théâtre L’Azimut ; Espace des Arts, Scène Nationale Chalon-sur-Soâne ; Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, FR

2023  

Inhale, Exhale, House of Arts, Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture, Veszprém, HU

2023  

Post Atlantica, Pile Pont Expo, Saint-Gervais, FR

2023  

Post Atlantica, LUX Scène Nationale, Valence, FR

2022  

Phoenix, Église des Trinitaires, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, FR

2022  

ANIMA, performance co-written with Maëlle Poésy, Collection Lambert, 53ᵉ Festival d’Avignon, Avignon, FR

2022  

Décantations, La Vitrine, Frac Île-de-France, Paris, FR

2022  

Post Atlantica, Edel Assanti, London, UK

2021  

Post Atlantica, Grand Café – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, FR

2021  

Study on Erosion, Gare de l’Est, Photodays, Paris, FR

2021  

Telluris, Reggio Emilia, Fotographia Europa, IT

2021  

Noémie Goudal, Arendt House, LUX

2021  

Frieze London, London, UK

2019  

Observatorium, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, DEU

2019  

Telluris, Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Le Locle, CHE

2019  

Telluris, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Victoria, AUS

2019  

Démantèlements, Tosetti Value, Turin, IT

2018  

Stations, Fotografiska, Stockholm, SWE

2018  

Stations, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FIN

2018  

Telluris, Edel Assanti, London, UK

2017  

Telluris, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR

2017  

Southern Light Stations, Fotofestiwal, Łódź, POL

2017  

Cinquième Corps, Jumieges Abbey, Jumièges, Normandy, FR

2017  

Stations, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

2016  

Cinquième Corps, Le Bal, Paris, FR

2015  

Southern Light Stations, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK

2015  

The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, NLD

2015  

The Armory Show, Solo Booth, Edel Assanti, New York, USA

2014  

Haven Her Body Was, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR

2014  

In Search of the First Line, Edel Assanti, London, UK

2014  

The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

2013  

The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise, HSBC Prize for Photography, l’Arsenal, Metz, FR

2012  

Haven Her Body Was, Project B, Milan, IT

2012  

Haven Her Body Was, Edel Assanti, London, UK

2010  

Les Amants, HotShoe Gallery, London, UK

2010  

Les Amants, Uno + Uno Gallery, Milan, IT

Group Shows

2025  

Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Sharjah City, AE ↗

2024  

Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR ↗

2024  

Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Nasher Museum of Art ; Cantor Arts Center ; Anchorage Museum, USA ↗

2024  

Arpenter, Photographier la Nouvelle Aquitaine, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine La MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR

2024  

French Photography Today, Sunkgog Art Museum, Séoul, KOR

2024  

New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024, National Museum of Women in the arts, Washington, USA

2024  

Tongues of Fire, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, NOR

2024  

PHOTO24, Melbourne Photo Biennale, Melbourne, AUS

2023  

Prendre le soleil, Hangar Y, Paris, FR

2023  

Photography Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum, Londres, UK

2022  

Terras Nullius: excavations from Image 3.0, Serendipity Arts Festival, Panjim, Goa, IND

2022  

Le paysan, le chercheur et le croyant. Chapitre II, POUSH, Aubervilliers, FR

2022  

Le promontoire du songe, Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR

2022  

L’Horizon des Évènements, Chateau dʼOiron, Oiron, FR

2022  

Chants du Ciel, Les Rencontres dʼArles, Arles, FR

2022  

Image 3.0, Le Jeu de Paume in partnership with the CNAP, Le Céllier, FR

2022  

Off the Beaten Track, Gallery Baton, Séoul, KOR

2021  

Rocks !, ICICLE, Paris, FR

2021  

Échos Toujours Plus Sourds, Atelier Delacroix, Musée du Louvre, Paris, FR

2021  

A Year of 13 Moons, Galerist, Instanbul, TUR

2021  

Songs of the Sky: Photography & the Cloud, C/O, Berlin, DEU

2021  

Bella Vista, Grand Café — Centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, FR

2020  

Accerelate your Escape: Gary Hume Explores the Hiscox Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2020  

On Earth, Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR

2019  

Korea International Photography Festival, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, KOR

2019  

On Earth, Atelier des Forges, Rencontres dʼArles, Arles, FR

2019  

Mountain Geographies, Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Le Locle, CHE

2019  

Moonlight, 50 Years of Photographing the Moon, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg Museum of arts, SWE

2019  

Inner Space, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT

2019  

Meltown, Project Pressure, Natural History Museum, Vienne, AUT

2018  

Wilderness, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

2018  

Traces, Kasteel Wijlre, Wijlre, NLD

2018  

Loading… Works from the Foam collection, Foam, Amsterdam, NLD

2018  

When Records Melts, Unseen Amsterdam, NLD

2018  

Elsewhere, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

2017  

Cure3, Bonhams, David Ross Foundation, London, UK

2017  

Fragments, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR

2017  

Space Oddity, The Month of Photography, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Créteil, FR

2017  

À quoi rêvent les forêts ?, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FR

2017  

Simultaneous Ideos, Guangzhou Photo Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong, CH

2016  

Up/Down, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK

2016  

Performœurs, L’Abbaye — Espace d’Art Contemporain, Annecy, FR

2015  

Wilderness, The New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen, DNK

2015  

Vita Vitale, Azerbaijan Pavilion, 56ᵗʰ Venice Biennale, Venice, IT

2015  

Tokyo International Photography Festival, Tokyo, JPN

2015  

A Woman’s Hand, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2015  

Constructs / Constructions, Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, New Delhi, IND

2015  

Xenotopia, The Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, UK

2014  

Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, TBA21-Academy, Isla del Coco, CRI

2014  

Les esthétiques d’un monde désenchanté, Abbaye de Saint André — Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, FR

2014  

Architectures d’urgence, Pavillon Vendôme — Centre d’Art, Clichy, FR

2013  

Fotográfica Bogota, Museo de Bogota, COL

2013  

Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2013  

Maison Martin Margiela × H&M, Global Fashion Event, New York, USA

2012  

Unseen Photography Fair, Amsterdam, NLD

2012  

Festival Image Vevey, Vevey, CHE

2012  

Arrival and Departures, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancone, IT

2012  

Ristruttura, Project B, Milan, IT

2011  

Talents of the Royal College of Art, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, NLD

2011  

Unnatural Nature, The Cob Gallery, London, UK

2011  

The Marquise Went Out At 5 O’clock, Edel Assanti, London, UK

2011  

New Sensations, House of the Nobleman, London, UK

2011  

Women in Art Photography, Taschen Store, Humble Arts Foundation, London, UK

2011  

The Morouge Room, Hospital Club, London, UK

2010  

Anticipation, Selfridges Gallery, London, UK

2010  

RCA Talents, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2010  

Heft: Weight and Touch in Contemporary Sculpture, Winchester Discovery Centre, Winchester, UK

2010  

RCA Summer Show, Hoopers Gallery, London, UK

2010  

Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, CAN

2010  

New Sensations, House of the Nobleman Museum, Milan, IT

2010  

Ricardo Pezza Prize, Triennale Museum, Milan, IT

2009  

International Talent Support, Trieste, IT

2010  

Fotosintesi Photography, Festival Piacenza, Milan, IT

Public Collections

Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

Cnap, Paris, FR

Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande, FR

Foam, Amsterdam, NLD

Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections, Paris, FR

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CHE

FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR

FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine La MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR

FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, FR

Government Art Collection of Great Britain, UK

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA

Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Warwickshire, UK

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SWE

Musée de la Roche-Sur-Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon, FR

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, IND

UH Art Collection and Galleries, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Foundations & Selected Private Collections

Andaz Hotel Collection, Amsterdam, NLD

Arendt House, Luxembourg, LUX

Artwise Curators, London, UK

Catlin Art Foundation, London, UK

Conran Art Foundation, London, UK

David Roberts Arts Foundation, London, UK

Derwent Collection, London, UK

Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, DEU

Drake Foundation, London, UK

Equinor Art Programme, Stavanger, NOR

Hiscox Collection, London, UK

HSBC Corporate Art Collection, London, UK

Kadist Collection, Paris, FR

Land Securities Collection, London, UK

Morpheus Hotel Collection, Cotai, Macao, MFM

Saatchi Collection, London, UK

Villa Lena Foundation, Pisa, IT

Books

Soulèvements, RVB Books, 40 pages, 2020 ↗

Stations, RVB Books, 44 pages, 2017 ↗

Observatoires, RVB Books, 16 pages, 2016 ↗

The Geometrical Determination of The Sunrise, Actes Sud, 104 pages, 2013 ↗

Haven Her Body Was, Edel Assanti Milan / Project B Gallery, 49 pages, 2012

Awards & Residencies

2024  

Prix Marcel Duchamp, Nominated, Paris, FR

2023  

Women to Watch UK, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA

2023  

Royal Photographic Society Awards, Honorary Fellowship, Bristol, UK

2022   

Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography, Nominated, Jerusalem, ISR

2022  

Commission for Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine La MÉCA, Bordeaux, FR

2020  

Special commission for CNAP, L’image 3.0, FR

2019  

Shanghai Photofair, Exposure Award Winner, Shanghai, CHN

2018  

La Manufacture de Sèvres, Residency, Sèvres, FR

2018  

Richard Neutra VDL House, Residency, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2014  

Cité Internationale des Arts, Residency, Paris, FR

2013  

HSBC Photography Award, Paris, FR

Texts

2022  

Eva Prouteau, Post Atlantica ↗

2018  

Emma Lewis, Revolutions ↗

2018  

Sinziana Ravini, The Art of Inhabiting a Picture ↗

2017  

Frédérique Aït-Touati, Chaosmos ↗

2014  

Dr Cliff Lauson, The View from Here ↗

2014  

Marta Gili, Emptying the Landscape ↗

2013  

Bernard Marcelis, The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise ↗

2012  

Emma Lewis, Sebastien Montabonel, Suspended Disbelief: The Photography of Noémie Goudal ↗

2012  

Christiana Campanini, An Interview with Noémie Goudal ↗

Selected Press

2024  

Art Basel ↗

2024  

Aesthetica ↗

2024  

Financial Times ↗

2024  

Le Monde ↗

2023  

Télérama ↗

2022  

Le Monde ↗

2022  

L’Humanité ↗

2022  

Libération ↗

2022  

British Journal of Photography ↗

2022  

ArtReview ↗

2022  

Wallpaper* ↗

2022  

AOC ↗

2022  

The Guardian ↗

2021  

Aesthetica ↗

2018  

Photomonitor ↗

2016  

Frieze Magazine ↗

2016  

Le Monde ↗

2016  

Lens Culture ↗

2016  

Libération ↗

2015  

Frieze Magazine ↗

2014  

ArtPress ↗

2012  

British Journal of Photography ↗

2012  

Foam Magazine ↗

Recorded Interviews

2022  

Noémie Goudal, L’atelier A, Arte ↗

2022  

Below the Deep South, Noémie Goudal, Cartels FRAC Auvergne ↗

2022  

Ecological Fiction: In Conversation with Noémie Goudal, ASAP | Art ↗

2022  

Le quart d’heure de l’art : Noémie Goudal, Radio Anthropocène ↗

2022  

Fable écologique et nouveaux récits du vivant, France Culture ↗

2021  

Noémie Goudal, Matérialité et Dispositif, Actes d’Arts ↗

2021  

Twist, L’appel de la montagne, entre magie et menace, Arte ↗

2021  

À Saint-Nazaire, le trouble dans les paysages de Noémie Goudal, France Culture ↗

2021  

Noémie Goudal, artiste invitée à Sèvres - Manufacture et Musée nationaux,  ↗

2020  

Noémie Goudal, Elle × Paris Photo, Fisheye L’Agence ↗

2020  

Noémie Goudal, Soulèvements, RVB Books, France Photo Books ↗

2017  

Noémie Goudal: Cinquième Corps, Département de la Seine-Maritime ↗

2016  

Noémie Goudal: Artist Talk, Paris Photo ↗

2015  

An Interview with Noémie Goudal, The Photographer’s Gallery ↗

Contact

Edel Assanti

Charlie Fellowes

charlie@edelassanti.com

Noémie Goudal

noemie@noemiegoudal.com

Instagram

@noemiegoudal

Credits

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