BERLIN.- Esther Schipper announced the representation of Camille Henrot.
Camille Henrot's work has been enormously influential on contemporary art. Over more than twenty years of activity, her impact can be traced in new approaches across media and artistic practices. The wide range of inspirations that informs her vision spans literature, second-hand marketplaces, poetry, cartoons, manga, social media, self-help, and, ultimately, the banality of everyday life. Henrot is interested in systems of rules, structures and codes of conduct – and how to break them. Her practice speaks with clarity and humor, humility and bravery, about the complexity of being a private individual and citizen in a globalized and overstimulated world.
Esther Schipper will represent Camille Henrot in partnership with Mennour and Hauser & Wirth.
Camille Henrot was born in 1978 in Paris, France. She currently lives and works in New York.
Henrot was awarded the Silver Lion for a promising young artist at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. She received the Nam June Paik Award in 2014 and the Edward Munch Award in 2015. She was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2013 and 2014 and a finalist for the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2010. In 2013, she received the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington. Her residencies include Callie’s (2020-2022); Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen (2020); Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2015-2016); Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington (2013) and the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York (2012).
In 2013, Henrot received widespread critical acclaim for her film Grosse Fatigue, made during a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. The film was recently ranked number 7 by ARTnews in a list of the 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century.
Henrot's first theatrical production, Commedia dell'Arte, a co-commission by Performa, Aspen Art Museum / Wheeler Opera House, and LYRA Art Foundation, will premiere at the Aspen Art Museum's AIR Festival, in July 2026. Her first public commission in New York City, with New York Public Art Fund, will also be unveiled in September 2026, remaining on view in Central Park until August 2027.
The artist's work has been exhibited at numerous international institutions. Selected solo exhibitions and comissions include: Paper Planes, Copenhagen Contemporary (2026); In the Veins, LUMA Arles (2026); Camille Henrot. Tuesday, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2025); Sweet Days of Discipline, Lokremise, St. Gallen (2023); Jus d'Orange, Fondazione ICA Milano (2023); Wet Job, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp (2022); Mother Tongue, Kunstverein Salzburg (2022); Mouth to Mouth, Munch Museum, Oslo (2022); Is Today Tomorrow, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2021); Mother Tongue, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (2021); Saturday, Tuesday, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2020); Silver Series 02: Camille Henrot, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2018); Days are Dogs, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017); If Wishes Were Horses, Kunsthalle Wien (2017); MAM Screen 006: Camille Henrot, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2017); Monday, Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2016); Luna di latte, Madre Museo, Naples (2016); MCA Screens: Grosse Fatigue, MCA Chicago (2016); Ma Montagne, Les Nouveaux Commanditaires, Pailherols (2016); The Pale Fox, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2015); Grosse Fatigue, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2015); Creating Realities. Encounters Between Art and Cinema. Chapter 4: 'Grosse Fatigue' by Camille Henrot, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); Grosse Fatigue, Tate Modern, London (2014); Black Box, Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); The Restless Earth, New Museum, New York (2014); and Snake Grass, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2014).
