Yann Sérandour

Yann Sérandour was born in 1974 in Vannes, he lives and works in Rennes.

The work of a historian could be that of filling gaps, giving meaning to a suite of events from exhumed documentary sources and to construct, like a novelist, a plot in order tell us a story that really took place. The work of Yann Sérandour is similar to the work of that historian: using artifacts borrowed from his predecessors, potential accidents and chances, he leads investigations and indexes missing pieces, in order to prolong and cast doubt on histories.

The work of Yann Sérandour has often referred to conceptual art of the sixties and seventies, periods of particular interest to him because of their copious diffusion in the form of publications and prints – his material of predilection. In his recent work, he moves his attention to other fields and more distant times, strengthening a temporal gap with our contemporaneity.

Yann Sérandour: Chaleureuses salutations,

Solo show
Interface, Dijon
May 13 - July 15, 2023

Singuliers

Group show including the work of Yann Sérandour
IMEC, Abbaye d’Ardenne, St Germain-La-Blanche-Herbe
June 10 - Octobre 23, 2022

Ce devant quoi

Solo show
Laurel Parker Book, Romainville
June 5 - July 29, 2022

Before Waiting Becomes Part of Your Life

Collective show with the works of Mark Geffriaud, Apostolos Georgiou, Tirdad Hashemi, Paul Heintz, David Horvitz, Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Roman Ondak, Pak Sheung Chuen, and Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
May 14 - July 19, 2022

Ce devant quoi

A collective exhibition by Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
March 26 - May 7, 2022

The Modern Dog Painter

Group show with works by Yann Sérandour
New Galerie, Paris
Dec 9 - 23, 2021

Unfolding

Group show with works by Yann Sérandour
Laurel Parker Book, Romainville
May 29 - July 31, 2021

Paris Gallery Weekend 2020

Paris Gallery Weekend
gb agency, Paris
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of July 2020

Yann Sérandour, project

Solo show
gb agency, Paris
From June 13 to July 5, 2020

Activity of Matter

Group show
gb agency, Paris
From November 30th 2019 to January 11th, 2020

Yann Sérandour, How...

A solo show by Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
From September 7 to September 25, 2019

Yann Sérandour, Les eaux Courantes (Running Waters)

Solo exhibition
Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux
eb 23 to May 19, 2019

Yann Sérandour, Harpsichord Suites for Still Dogs

Solo Show
gb agency, Paris
April 1rst - May 27, 2017

Yann Serandour, Un vingtième

Solo exhibition
April 1st - May 1st, 2016
La Chaufferie, Strasbourg

Fiac 2015

Art Fair
Grand Palais, Paris
22-25 October 2015

FIAC 2014

Art Fair
Grand Palais, Paris
23 - 26 October 2014.

CHOICES, Collectors Weekend 2014

Gallery Itinerary
Paris
23 - 25 May 2014

Yann Sérandour: Cactus Cuttings

A solo exhibition by Yann Sérandour
gb agency
April 19 to May 31, 2014

Yann Sérandour at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard

Conference
Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
May 6th 2014

Yann Sérandour at M HKA

Group show
M HKA in Antwerpen
Untill May 11, 2014.

El Hotel Eléctrico at M HKA with Robert Breer, Roman Ondak and Yann Sérandour

Group exhibition
M HKA, Antwerpen
21st February - 11th May 2014.

Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Jiri kovanda, Yann Sérandour - La Panacée, Montpellier

Group exhibition
La Panacée, Montpellier
February 7 - September 14, 2014

Inventing a Future

Inventing a Future, group exhibition
gb agency
January 26 - March 13, 2013

A common feeling

Group exhibition
gb agency
from April 21 to May 26 2012

Yann Sérandour: Cloudy With a Chance of a Ray of Sunlight

A Solo show by Yann Sérandour
gb agency
From May 7th to June 18th, 2011

Nord, Nord-Ouest

Group show
gb agency
From June 25 to July 25, 2009

'Berlin-Paris', a gallery exchange

group exhibition
gb agency
From February 6 to 14, 2009

Yann Sérandour: Weiss

A solo show by Yann Sérandour
gb agency
From November 15, 2008 to January 10, 2009

Time Files

Group show
gb agency
27 January to 10 March 2007

Monographs

2020: HOWOHWHWOOWHWHOWOH, text by Yoann Thommerel, Edition Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain
2009: Inside The White Cube, Édition palimpseste, JRP|Ringier, Christoph Keller Series, Zürich; Inside The White Cube, Overprinted Edition, JRP|Ringier, Christoph Keller Series, Zürich (Les plus beaux livres suisses Awards, 2009)

Catalogues

2016: Individual Stories: Collecting as Portrait and Methodology, Sternberg Press/Kunsthalle Wien
2014: La Disparition des lucioles, Arles, Actes Sud Beaux-Arts; Art by Telephone… Recalled, Paris, Editions Mix; At the Speed of Stone, x Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2013: Hotel Abisso, Centre d’art contemporain, Genève; L’Origine des choses, Centre national des arts plastiques (Paris), CENTRALE for contemporary art (Bruxelles), MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Gent; Les Prairies, biennale d’art contemporain de Rennes, Paris, B42; Remake. Le livre et la céramique en question, Musée Royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Atelier du Livre de Mariemont; Various Small Books, Cambridge, MIT Press
2012: The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space, San Francisco, CCA Wattis Institute; Speech Objects, Blois, Musée de l’objet
2011: Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, Books on Books, Paris, Christophe Daviet-Théry; Artissima 18, Turin; Incidents of Mirror-Travel in Yucatan and Elsewhere, Mexico, Museo Tamayo; Une exposition à être lue / An exhibition to hear read, vol. 3, Londres, David Roberts Art Foundation; Tableaux parisiens, Marfa, The Do Right
2010: The Future Issue: Les plus beaux livres suisses 2009, Bern, Swiss Federal Office of Culture; Au pied de la lettre, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Les Presses du réel (french/english); Chefs-d’œuvre ?, Centre Pompidou-Metz (french); On Gaps and Silent Documents, Leuven, Stuk (flemish/english); Une forme pour toute action, Printemps de Septembre, Dijon, Les Presses du réel (french)
2009: Là où je suis n’existe pas, Printemps de Septembre, Dijon, Presses du réel (french)
2008: Can Art Do More?, Art Focus 5, Jerusalem Foundation (hebrew/english); Re-construction, Biennial of Young Artists, 3rd Edition, Bucharest, Metacult (romanian/english)
2007: Informacion contra informacion, Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea CGAC (catalan/spanish/english); Special Collections, The University Gallery, Leeds, Wild Pansy Press (english); Strictement Confidentiel, Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière/Silvana Editoriale, Milan (english/french)
2006: Incipit, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
2004: Guardare, Raccontare, Pensare, Conservare, Quatre parcours du livre d’artiste des années soixante à aujourd’hui, Corraini Editions (italian/english/french)

Artist books

2013: Sextodecimo, Christophe Daviet-Théry, Paris & Cneai, Chatou
2010: (Perfect Lovers), éd. Entre-Deux, Nantes
2008: A Well Bound Book, Christophe Daviet-Théry, Paris
2006: En position (jaquette sur catalogue), éd. Fondation d’entreprise Ricard; Cahier Clairefontaine, éd. Cneai, Chatou; [Supplement], éd. Cneai, Chatou
2004: Supplement; Thirtysix Fire Stations

Press articles selected

2019: Yann Sérandour, Parc Saint Léger Centre d’art contemporain, Jean-Marc Huitorel, Artpress, issue 467, juin; Les Eaux courantes, de Yann Sérandour, Journal du Centre, 22 Fev
2018: Vanessa Morisset, Pièces pour clavecin, 02 magazine, issue 84
2017: Rémi Baert, Exposition-partition, Mouvement, 23 sept
2014: Martin Herbert, Ten exhibitions on in May you won’t want to miss – in Basel, Los Angeles, Dundee, Bregenz, New York, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Tokyo and London, Art Review, mai; Coline Milliard, Paris Gallery Beat: Six Must-See Shows This May, Artnet News, 15 mai
2012: Céline Chazalviel, Feuilleté/er. Comme une matière façonnée pour en apprécier les strates, comme on parcourt un livre, in L’Expérience du récit, Lorient, EESAB
2009; François Aubart, Histoires d’archives, 02 magazine, issue 51; Emmanuelle Lequeux, Yann Sérandour : Fraîcheur conceptuelle, Beaux-Arts Magazine, n°296; Chris Sharp, Yann Sérandour: Weiss at gb agency, Paris, Art on Paper, vol. 13, n°4; Jean-Marc Huitorel, Yann Sérandour à gb agency, Art Press, n°353; Lillian Davies, Yann Sérandour at gb agency, Artforum International, Feb; Marjorie Micucci-Zaguedoun, Yann Sérandour, un artiste peut en cacher un autre, Poptronics, 6 janvier; Sarah Ihler-Meyer, Yann Sérandour, Weiss, galerie gb agency, Paris, Paris Art, janvier
2008: Sébastien Pluot, Living Archives, l’histoire de l’art comme archive disponible, L’art même, n° 38, 1er trimestre; Jean-Max Colard, « Expos. Yann Sérandour », Les Inrockuptibles, n°678, 25 nov.-1er dec; Emmanuelle Lequeux, « Yann Sérandour, galerie gb agency », Le Monde, 6 dec
2007: Jérôme Delgado, Les flammes d’une ville, Le Devoir, Montréal, 11-12 août; Jean-Max Colard, Pile ou Face, Les Inrockuptibles, n°602, 12 juin; The moment you realise you are lost, Johann König, Berlin, Art Review; Sophie Gironnay, Thirty-Six Fire Stations, Canadian Architect, Sept; Aurélien Mole, Vivement Lundi !, Art 21, n°12; Pierre Tillet, Yann Sérandour, Cneai, Chatou, Frog Magazine, n°5; Sammy Engramer, Yann Sérandour, Conteur d’Art Conceptuel, 02, revue d’art contemporain, n° 41

Interviews

2021: Yann Sérandour in conversation with Nicolas Vamvouklis, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, online
2009: Thierry Davila, Clairefontaine : entretien avec Yann Sérandour, in Là où je suis n’existe pas, Printemps de Septembre, exhibition catalogue, Dijon, Presses du réel
2006: Charlotte Laubard, « Entretien avec Yann Sérandour », Incipit, exhibition catalogue, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris

Artist’ writings

2013: American / English, in Bibliothèque d’un amateur, Richard Prince’s Publications 1981 - 2012, Paris, Christophe Daviet-Théry / VIAINDUSTRIAE publishing
2011: Conversation between Jonathan Monk and Yann Sérandour, in Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, Books on Books, Paris, Christophe Daviet-Théry
2010: Gradiva Rediviva, Back Cover, design graphique, typographie, etc., n°3, Winter 2010
2008: Serial Readers : fortune et infortunes des livres d’Edward Ruscha, in Nouvelle Revue d’esthétique, n°2, 2008
2007

Yann Sérandour
Inside the White Cube - Overprinted Edition, 2009

Softcover, 267 x 267 mm
84 pages
Published by JRP|Ringier in the Christoph Keller Editions series.
Copublished with gb agency, Paris
Edited by Yann Sérandour et Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié
ISBN: 978-3-03764-042-5