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STUDIES

1998 / MA visual arts (DNSEP), Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg (FR).
1997 / Student exchange program at Edinburgh Art Academy (UK).
1996 / BA visual arts (DNAP), Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg (FR).
1991 / Baccalaureate in Applied Arts - Fine Arts, Tours (FR).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

- 2017 / This is not Versailles, galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin (DE). (with support of DRAC Ile de France, AIC)
- 2014 / The Fake, The Fold and The Erased, galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin (DE)
- 2013 / ABC art fair, solo show galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin (DE)
- 2012 / Le Verbe Voir, galerie Le Lobe, Chicoutimi (Qc)
- 2011 / La Detente, La Fermeture Eclair, Caen
- 2011 / Une chose est sure, [...], SECONDroom Anvers (BE)
- 2011 / The Direct Matching Hypothesis, galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin (DE)
- 2009 / Thank you for watching, Samsa, Berlin (DE)
- 2008 / Our dried voices, Souterrain, Berlin (DE) (support french Institut Berlin)
- 2008 / Mentalgaraj, La Maison Rouge / Le Vestibule, Paris
- 2008 / Fast fade to grey grey grey, galerie Ronmandos, Amsterdam (NL)
- 2007 / The Third Room, SecondRoom, Bruxelles
- 2005 / Le contraire d un feu, centre d art contemporain C. Lambert, Juvisy s/Orge

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

- 2018 / expo/seminar, programme Lodgers, MU KA Anvers. Invitation Marc Nagtzaam / St Lucas Antwerp (BE)
- 2018 / Flip, Kask/Gent, curator Kasper Andreassen, Gand (B)
- 2017 / Detour - Instruction - Colmatage, projet exTend ed, Alexandra Sa, CAC le 116, Montreuil
- 2016 / L espace du dessin - le dessin dans l espace, Musee Estrine
- 2016 / La route des hommes, curators W. de Vleeschouwer, G. Johannes Loods12, Wetteren (BE)
- 2015 / Landing on a blank page, performance, Art on Paper, Bozar Brussels
- 2015 / The Laocoon Dilemma, curated by Jürgen Dehm, Galerie Sturm, Nuremberg
- 2013 / Souvenus de si loin, Verksmidjan a Hjalteyri, Akureyri (IS)
- 2011 / 100 drawings against vietnam war, Komplot (B) / Le Commissariat
- 2011 / Anonymously yours, Bn projects E. Lambion, maison Gregoire, Bruxelles
- 2010 / (THE OLD SOW) [...], WIELS Projectroom, Bruxelles (BE)
- 2010 / Uber zeichnung, galerie Olaf Stuber, Berlin (DE)
- 2009 / On paper, galerie Wendt&Fridmann, Berlin (DE)
- 2008 / 58T, commissaire E. Lambion, Gare Congres Brussels (BE)
- 2007 / The Cause, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam (NL)
- 2007 / Wrong time, wrong place, TENT, Rotterdam (NL)
- 2006 / Frederic magazine, Galerie Eof, Paris
- 2005 / Gemutlichkeit, VKS gallery, Toulouse
- 2003 / Galerie du 9 bis, curator Damien Deroubaix, Saint-Etienne
- 1998 / Curator Joel Benzakin, Art fair Strasbourg

RESIDENCIES / GRANTS

- 2013 / Bourse d aide individuelle a la creation, DRAC Ile de France
- 2012 / Le Lobe, Chicoutimi (Quebec)
- 2008 / Aide a l exposition, French Institute Berlin
- 2007 / Kaus Australis, Rotterdam (NL)
- 2003 / Triangle France, Friche de la belle de mai, Marseille (FR)

PUBLICATIONS / WRITINGS

- FROM WHERE WE ARE, Laetitia Gendre and Miriam Rohde, Choreography as conditioning,
dir. Heike Langsdorf & Alex Ateaga, KASK editions 2018
- La Detente, artist book, Brussels 2011. Publie.net, invitation by François Bon.
- Se constitue a la rencontre, in Nioques 6,2009.
Chief editor J.M. Gleize,invitation Nathalie Quintane.
- De la Perspective, in Baston Blanco n3, 2009. Editor Mario Fletcha.

OTHER PROJECT / WORKSHOPS

- 2016-2019: FROM WHERE WE ARE
a workshop developed in collaboration with Miriam Rohde (architect).
Toneel Theater Academy, Maastricht (NL) KASK, Gand (BE), APASS, Bruxelles (BE),
Hochschule Luzern / Technik & Architektur (CH)...
soon: Oct 2019 / Participation to the seminar «Thinking through practice»,
KASK Gand (BE); invitation Heike Langsdorf.
- 2017: FILMER, DESSINER
1 week long workshop with students at ESA-Pyrénées
- 2010: Workshop in the city art school, Vitry s/Seine

PUBLICATIONS / CATALOGUES / BOOKS

- exTend ed, dir. Alexandra Sa, texte de Maryline Robalo, 2017
- Absalon on and off, artist book, Re: surgo! Berlin, 2016
- Kulturschtifung des Bundes magazine N°23, 2014
- Year 2013, Komplot, Bruxelles, 2013
- Collection revue #3, Paris 2012
- La Détente, livre d artiste, Bruxelles, 2011
- Sérigraphie, édition de 35, par Bongoût, Berlin, 2008
- Pie Bible, avec Tobias Zielony, dir M+M, ed. Verlag für moderne kunst Nüremberg, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2YAy-YFDhg
- Frederic magazine, livre collectif de dessin, Paris, 2006
- Le contraire d un feu, catalogue, ed. centre d art contemporain Camille Lambert, Paris, 2005
- Armpit of the Mole - drawing book, projet Michael Quistrebert, Fondatìon 30km/s, Barcelona, 2005
- ALORS, livre de dessins, ed. FLTMSTEPC, Paris, 2002
- Contribution à divers fanzines éd. FLTMSTEPC entre 2002 et 2005

PRESS

- Heidi Ballet, The fake, the fold and the erased, Le Salon, mai 2014.
http://welcometolesalon.be/?journal=Exhibition_reviews&id=104
- Verena Straub, Frieze magazine d/e n°15, juin 2014.
http://frieze-magazin.de/archiv/kritik/laetitia-gendre/?lang=en
- Silke Hohmann, Laetitia Gendre in Monopol magazine (DE), 2008.
- David Maroto, Kaus australis is not so far (about the show The cause) in Fucking good art nï¿½17, 2007.
http://www.fuckinggoodart.nl/fga17.html#kaus

Online portefolio on New York Drawing Center viewing program :
http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/search_result.cfm (+enter laetitia gendre)