Biography

Béatrice Balcou (1976, France) lives and works in Brussels.

In performances, sculptures and installations Béatrice Balcou creates secular rituals intended to care for the works of other artists and invitations to take time. By focusing on the different temporalities and materialities of the artwork and the behaviour of the viewer, she investigates the perceived value of art and the role assigned to it by our contemporary lifestyles.

Her work has been exhibited, among others : Musée d'art de Joliette (Québec, CA), M Museum (Louvain, BE), BEIGE (Brussels, BE), La Ferme du Buisson contemporary art center (Noisiel, FR), Exile (Berlin, DE), Casino forum d'art contemporain (Luxembourg, LU), A tale of a tub (Rotterdam, NL), Rozentraat (Amsterdam, NL), Jeu de Paume (Paris, FR), CAB Foundation (Brussels, BE), Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, JP), Salle Principale (Paris, FR), FRAC Ile-de-France (Paris, FR), FRAC Franche-Comté (Besançon, FR), FRAC Bretagne (Rennes, FR), FRAC Corse (Corte, FR), FRAC Champagne-Ardennes (Reims, FR), kunsthalle (Recklinghausen, DE), La Galerie (Noisy-le-Sec, FR), Société (Brussels, BE), Jaqueline Martins gallery (Brussels, BE ), Été 78 (Brussels, BE), MAC VAL contemporary art museum of Val-de-Marne (Vitry-sur-Seine, FR), Kunstverein Langenhagen (DE), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), WIELS (Brussels, BE) and Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR).

Béatrice Balcou’s work has been collected by many including Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Centre National des Arts Plastiques CNAP (Paris), FRAC Île-de-France (Paris), FRAC Franche-Comté (Besançon, France), FRAC Corsica (Corte, France), FRAC Normandie (Rouen, France), FRAC Lorraine (Metz, France), CIRVA (Marseille, France), Cera–M Museum (Leuven, Belgium), Fondation CAB (Brussels), MACS Musée des arts contemporains du Grand-Hornu (Mons, Belgium), Kunsthalle (Recklinghausen, Germany) as well as various private collections in France, Belgium, Germany and United States.

A monograph Ceremonies & has been published by MER editions (2021) in collaboration with Luc Derycke and Émilie Renard, with essays by authors such as Vanessa Desclaux, Christophe Gallois, Zoë Gray, Béatrice Gross, Julie Pellegrin, Émilie Renard , Septembre Tiberghien, Eva Wittocx and texts by the artist.