Agathe de Bailliencourt (Coming soon)
Agathe de Bailliencourt (1974) has lived in Berlin since 2007. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Cergy Pontoise and graduated from the Ecole Boulle. She has exhibited at the Singapore Biennale (2006), the Zendai Museum in Shanghai (2008), the Embassy of France in Tokyo (2009), Blain Southern in London (2015), Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in Singapore (2016), and Château de Ratilly in France (2018). Her works are part of the public collection of the Kupferstichkabinett Museum in Berlin. She has won awards and residencies with organizations in Tokyo, New York, Marfa, and on the Isle of Skye and has just been awarded the 2024 Fellowship by the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation in New York.
Her project at the Villa Medici
During her residency at Villa Medici, Agathe de Bailliencourt will consult Carlo Scarpa’s archives held at the MAXXI museum and talk with art historians and experts on Venetian glass. Based on these documents and interviews, the goal of this research is to create a series of unique glass works, transposing the artistic heritage that Scarpa and other artists brought to life in their time into a contemporary context that questions notions of loss of control, collapse, and transformation.
Portrait © Agathe de Bailliencourt
Photo © Agathe de Bailliencourt