PIERRE PAUZE

pierrepauze@hotmail.fr

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BIO

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Pierre Pauze is a French artist and filmmaker whose work explores how technology transforms the way we produce images, value, narratives, and collective beliefs.

Working across film, installation, and digital systems, his practice draws from artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet culture, science, economics, and law. Rather than treating technology as a subject to illustrate, Pauze often uses technological systems themselves as artistic material: protocols, networks, algorithms, financial mechanisms, or legal structures can become part of the work.

A recurring interest in his practice is the way images acquire power through circulation. His recent research looks at memes and internet-native characters as a new form of collective mythology: images that can be created by an individual, transformed by thousands of people, distributed by algorithms, and eventually generate their own communities and economies. This has led him to investigate questions of authorship, ownership, virality, and value in the age of generative AI.

Pauze regularly collaborates with scientists, engineers, and researchers. His projects often begin with existing technologies or scientific ideas and develop them into experiments, fictional systems, or films. His work moves between speculation and implementation: some projects remain narratives, while others involve building actual technological or economic mechanisms.

Film plays a central role in his practice. Situated between science fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema, his films use fiction to investigate systems that are often difficult to see directly, from technological infrastructures to scientific models and economic structures. Mass, created with June Balthazard, explores matter, emptiness, and perception through a narrative combining scientific research and science fiction.

More broadly, Pauze’s work examines a recurring question: what happens when technologies begin to produce not only tools and images, but also new forms of culture, belief, and power?

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He is a recipient of the Artagon Prize, the Agnès b. Prize, the ADAGP Digital Art & Video Revelation Prize, and the Hauts-de-Seine Prize at the Salon de Montrouge. His work has been presented at institutions and exhibitions including Centre Pompidou, Monnaie de Paris, FIAC, La Villette, Es Baluard in Palma, K Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Luma Arles, and Centre Pompidou-Metz, as well as the Taipei, Beijing Digital Art, and Chengdu biennials.

His films have also been presented in cinemas and international film festivals. He is currently a resident at POUSH, following previous residencies at the Cité internationale des arts and The Spur.

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Selected exhibitions

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2026

- « Prayers to Fornax »: a group show curated by Yifengwei and Pennydan xu at Hyundai Artlab Motorstudio Beijing.

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- L'esprit d'atelier, MOCO la Panacée, curated by Numa Hambursin, Rahmouna Boutayeb and Alexis Loisel Montambaux. Montpellier France.

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-In the Spaces Between, Arts at CERN, curated by Monica Bello, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

 

2025

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- Cosmos Archeology 2, National Museum of China, curated by Iris Long, Beijing, China

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- Festival accès)s(, Le bel ordinaire, curating Sasha Notey, Pau

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- Kunst and Rausch, AAC's art Fondation, curated Frank Motz, Weimar, Germany

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- Demain si le jour se Lève, 3 bis f centre d’art contemporains, curating Marie de Gaulejac, Aix en Provence, France

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- From AI to slop, Avant gallerie, curated by Alebertine Meunier and Hugo Duplessis. Paris

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2024

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- Le Nouveau Printemps, edition designed by Alain Guiraudie & curated by Clement Postec, Toulouse, France

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- Cosmos Archeology, at Shanghai Astronomy Museum.
Curated by Professor Sarah Kenderdine and Iris Long. Shanghai China

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- "Draw me a Bull", Solo Show, Gallery EXPANDED ART, curated by Anika Meier, Berlin, Germany

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- "Dissolved Time: Studies of the Past in Future - Anniversary of China-France Diplomatic New Media Art Exhibition" Meilun Art Museum, curated by Liu Lei & Tang Jin, Changsha, China

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2023

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- Insomnie, Curated by Yvannoe KrÜger, POUSH & Palais Chaillot Theatre national de la danse, Paris

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- Art Macau Biennial, "The Statistics of Fortune" chief curator Qiu Zhijie. Macao Museum of Art

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- Water Memory, Fluids futurs, Centre Pompidou Paris

 curating Alicia Knock and Marie Siguier.Paris

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- 37x Grand opening, curated by Hugo Pouchard, Dubai

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- AI in creative process, conference with Justine Emard & Nicolas Bourriaud, PCA Stream,Paris

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- Ordinal Alley, bitcoin 2023, curating Hugo Pouchard, Miami

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- "Sphère, code, cylindre", curating Delphine Ract Madoux,

 Musée Granet, Aix en Provence

 

 

2022

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- Arte TV, Twist "Art et soif d'ivresse" 

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- "After Party", Biennale Chroniques,curating: Mathieu Vabres, Panorama la Friche belle de Mai, Marseille

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- Portfolio #1 : De l'équation au mythe, projection/débat, moderation: Marion Zilio, Gaité Lyrique, Paris

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- "xSublimatio", exposition personnelle au Cube, Issy les Moulineaux (92)

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-« toi et moi on ne vit pas sur la meme planète » , curated by Bruno Latour and Martin Guinard, Centre Pompidou Metz

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-« Chengdu Biennale-Super Fusion » selection by Mr. Fan Di’an & Qiu Zhijie, Chengdu Museum of contemporary art, China

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2021

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-"Recomposer, des mondes pluriel", projection et conversation avec Hans Ulrich Hobrist, Luma Arles.

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- Sans relache, commissariat Yvannoé Kruger & Poush Manifesto, FIAC , Monnaie de Paris

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-Around video Art fair, commissariat Haily Grenet, hotel Moxy, Lille

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- Joie de vivre, Galerie Bertrand Grimond, Paris

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- Avalanche, commissariat Nelson Pernisco et Andy Rankin, Galerie Pal project, Paris

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-Watches and Wonder, H08 Hermès, Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, Genève 

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-'Dis] Play Off [Line' /  10 avril-30 mai 2021 Centre d'art les Tanneries, Amilly

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- 65e édition du Salon de Montrouge, commissariat Ami Barak et Marie Gautier, Beffroi de Montrouge, France

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2020

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- Biennale de Taipei, "You and I don't live on the same planet" commissariat de Bruno Latour et Martin Guinard, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

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-Art Paris-Art Fair 2020, Gallerie Eva Hober, Paris 

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- #20 d’accès)s(, commissariat Jean Jacques Gay, Centre d’art le Bel Ordinaire, Pau, France

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- Please love party, accrochage sur les cimaises  de l'ADAGP, (remise du prix Art-numérique art vidéo, Portrait sur l'atelier A de Arte), Paris

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-Lonely, Spaced in lost, Online, Commissariat Yvannoé Kruger et Filip-Andreas Skrapic

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2019

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- Festival OVNi, foire Camera Camera, Galerie Eva Hober, Nice. 

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-Artagon Live, Cité internationale des arts, Commissariat de Anna Labouze et Keimis Henni. Paris, 

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-Video Forever, Apocalypse now, exhilarating, commissariat de Barbara Polla, Galerie Analix Forever,  Chicago, USA

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-Panorama 21, « les revenants »,

commissariat Jean-Hubert Martin, au Fresnoy - Studio National, Tourcoing

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-Futures of Love, Magasins généraux (Créés par BETC), Commissariat de Anna Labouze et Keimis Henni. Pantin, France

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-Festival VIDEO VIDEO, Jean Conrad et Isabelle Lemaitres, Gallerie Bruno Mory, France

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2018

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-Le Petit Prince Meets Media Art: The Dreams and Ideals in Life, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

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-A Bigger Splash, Galerie PCP, Paris

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-Festival VIDEO VIDEO, Jean Conrad et Isabelle Lemaitres, Gallerie Bruno Mory, France

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- Festival Cent pour Cent, Grandes halles de la Villette , Paris,

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- C'est toi ou c'est moi, Fondation Pini, Milan, Italie

 

2017

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-FELICITA 17, ENSBA, Paris, France

commissariat de Joan Ayrton

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-Clips Claps, Caro Sposo, Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen, Paris

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-VIDEOBOX FESTIVAL , Carreau du Temple , Paris

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-The Spur, Museu d'art mordern i contemporani de palma, Majorques.

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-Electric night vol. 15 （2/4, 2/5）のご案内, Palais des Paris, Takasaki, Japon

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2016

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- Laureat Prix Agnes B, Fondation Brownstone, Paris

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-"Festin chez Trimalcion" (Atelier La Mine, Montreuil, été 2016)

commissariat de Théo Mario Coppola

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- VIDEOFORMES, Fotomat’, Clermont-Ferrand

-  Backslash festival,Tokyo data collective, Zurich
 

- Exposition «3D Trans», DNAP, ENSBA, Paris

- REPONS, proposition d’ABA, commissariat de Alicia Knock. Paris

- Exposition du Prix Artagon, passage de retz, Paris

- Projection, Yodh Song, LImousine, album siam road

   Bocalupo film production's birsthday, Commune Image, Saint-Ouen.

- Esprits libres, La recyclerie, Paris

2015

- Fill up my Wall, Galerie 92, Paris
- Exposition Prix Amis des beaux Arts (section Prix du portrait)
- Diffusion Tv MORAMORA documentaire 52 min , KTO TV


2014

-Call me, Paris, exposition collectives ABA avec la
participation de Danh Vo. Curating: Angéline Scherf / Anais Lepage

2013

-68 bis, Paris. Exposition collectives ABA, avec la participation de
Ange Leccia. Commissariat de Odile Burluraux

 

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