Agathe de Bailliencourt is an artist, born in Paris and currently based in Berlin. She works on canvas, paper, and directly onto built and natural environments. Recently, she has expanded her practice to include film, sculpture and print.
The recording of time is a recurring theme in her work. Since 2017, she has been interested in the reality of the present moment. Her recent work explores questions related to loss of control, collapse, acceleration, chain reactions, and, more recently, transformation.
Cinema runs as a common thread through her practice: a way of thinking, a syntax of time and space. It appears as a visual language, a compositional principle, a rhythm of editing, a mental archive, and a reservoir of images.
Since 2005, her work has been exhibited internationally. download cv
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Review in Kunstforum International, No. 306. Jens Asthoff, “Agathe de Bailliencourt, “Reactance”, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg”, English version here. October 2025.
Collaboration with Galerie Vera Munro in Hamburg, Germany. Solo exhibition “Reactance”, September 11, 2025 – January 6, 2026.
“Abstrakte Welten – 100 Jahre Griffelkunst”, group exhibition at Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst in Otterndorf., Germany. August 24 – October 5, 2025.
Residency in Venice at The Emily Harvey Foundation, March 18 – May 5, 2025.
Group exhibition curated by Printer’s Proof at Kastrupgårdsamlingen Museum, Copenhagen. March 26 – June 22, 2025.
“A fish in the percolator”, new series of unique serigraph screen-drawings with Handsiebdruckerei Editionen, Berlin, February 2025.
“Smash Cut”, solo exhibition at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen. Text by Jens Asthoff here. November 23, 2024 – January 17, 2025.
Residency at Villa Medici : French Academy in Rome, September 1 – 30, 2024.
“Pre-delay”, two new etching editions with Printer’s Proof, Copenhagen, November 2024.
Part of the exhibition “Berlin siebdruck: Hubert Riedel und ZWÖLF”, Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art (BLMK), Germany, September 9 – November 17, 2024.
Recipient of the 2024 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, New York.
Recipient of the Gerhard Bürger Stiftung scholarship at the Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall, February 2024.
Artist Residency part of “Room To Live” by Derek Tyman & Andy Webster, Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Center, Manchester, UK, January 30 – February 2, 2024.
“Making things go”, solo exhibition at Adrian Sutton Gallery, Paris, January 13 – March 23, 2024.
Passage, new series of unique serigraph screen-drawings with Handsiebdruckerei Editionen, Berlin, November 2023.
Six prints entering the public collection of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, October 2023.
Detail of 40 – 31.05.22
acrylic painting on raw linen canvas
Reactance
Solo exhibition at Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg. September 11 – January 6, 2026. More information here
Reactance
Solo exhibition at Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg. September 11 – January 6, 2026. More information here
Reactance
Solo exhibition at Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg. September 11 – January 6, 2026. More information here
Reactance
Solo exhibition at Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg. September 11 – January 6, 2026. More information here
January 19-50,
175 x 150cm, acrylic painting, glitter and spray on jute canvas, 2019
March 18–44
175 x 150cm, acrylic painting and glitter on raw cotton, 2018
January 19-50,
175 x 150cm, acrylic painting, glitter and spray on jute canvas, 2019
March 18–44
175 x 150cm, acrylic painting and glitter on raw cotton, 2018
Split focus 6
56 x 76 cm, ink on paper. 2023
Split focus 12
56 x 76 cm, ink on paper. 2023
Split focus 43
56 x 76 cm, ink on paper. 2024
Split focus 34
105 x 75 cm, ink on paper. 2024
Split focus 45
76 x 56 cm, ink on paper. 2024
A fish in the percolator (1/30)
68 x 49 cm, screen print monotypes on paper. 2025. Full edition here
A fish in the percolator (16/30)
68 x 49 cm, screen print monotypes on paper. 2025. Full edition here
A fish in the percolator (10/30)
68 x 49 cm, screen print monotypes on paper. 2025. Full edition here
Smash Cut
Solo exhibition at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen. November 22, 2024- January 17, 2025. Text by Jens Asthoff here
Smash Cut
Solo exhibition at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen. November 22, 2024- January 17, 2025. Text by Jens Asthoff here
54 – 17.09.22
175 x 150 cm, acrylic painting on raw linen canvas. 2022
40 – 31.05.22
175 x 150 cm, acrylic painting on raw linen canvas. 2022
Making things go
Solo exhibition at Adrian Sutton Gallery, Paris. January 12 – March 23, 2024. Text by Louisa Elderton here
Making things go
Solo exhibition at Adrian Sutton Gallery, Paris. January 12 – March 23, 2024. Text by Louisa Elderton here
77 – 01.06.23
200 x 150 cm, acrylic painting on raw cotton. 2023
Making things go, solo exhibition at Adrian Sutton Gallery, Paris. January 12 – March 23, 2024.
Projection of the video “54-81”, 2 min loop, 2022-2023. See an extract here
72 – 10.05.23 After DL
200 x 150 cm, acrylic painting on raw linen canvas. 2023. Full series here
76 – 24.05.23 After DL
200 x 150 cm, acrylic painting on raw linen canvas. 2023. Full series here
66 – 28.03.23 After DL
200 x 150 cm, acrylic painting on raw linen canvas. 2023. Full series here
“Radio Dice” for “So The Red Rose” by Derek Tyman & Andy Webster.
Dice game using the Radiogarden website: each throw determined continent, country, station, time and duration of listening,
All broadcast live at the “Wo bitte geht’s nach Arkadien?#2” festival, Kunstverein Ebersberg, Germany, 2021. More information here
Je m’en fous – paysage 24
70 x 100 cm, pencil on paper. 2011
Je m’en fous – paysage 78
100 x 70 cm, pencil on paper. 2018
Je m’en fous – paysage 80
70 x 100 cm, pencil on paper. 2018
From here to there
Acrylic paint on grass, one straight line of 270 meters with a shade of blue, Art Omi Residency, Ghent, New York. 2012
From here to there
Acrylic paint on grass, one straight line of 270 meters with a shade of blue, Art Omi Residency, Ghent, New York. 2012
Hues of time
Solo exhibition at Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, Texas. January 2014
Hues of time
Solo exhibition at Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, Texas. January 2014
Couleur du temps
Solo exhibition at Blain Southern, London, UK. December, 2015 – January, 2016
Oh mon dieu!
Projection of a drawing on the Berliner Dom, light installation realized with Skudi Optix for “Paint my House”, Berlin. 2008. Photo by Soeren Stache
Landscape by Landscape,
Glow-in-the-dark pebbles on grass with a recording of Morton Feldman’s “Crippled Symmetry”. National Museum of Singapore for the Singapore Night Festival, 2014
Here from here
40 m² of individually painted gravel, solo exhibition at Aloft, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, curator: Emi Eu, Singapore. October, 2016 – February, 2017
Here from here
40 m² of individually painted gravel, solo exhibition at Aloft, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, curator: Emi Eu, Singapore. October, 2016 – February, 2017
Untitled
Glitter on rock, solo exhibition at Château de Ratilly, Treigny, France. June-November 2018
Paysage 13
170 x 280 cm, acrylic painting, pastels and pencils on raw linen canvas. 2013
Paysage 6
170 x 220 cm, acrylic painting, pastels and pencils on raw linen canvas. 2012
Sky Window Outline
Acrylic paint on sheet metal and gravels, Beppu Project, Beppu, Japan. 2014
Sky Window Outline
Acrylic paint on sheet metal and gravels, Beppu Project, Beppu, Japan. 2014
Intrusion Rouge
Gouache paint on street, pavement, stairs. Intrude: Art & Life 366 Projects, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, China, curator: Biljana Ciric. 2008
Get it (W)All!
Enamel paint on road, pavement, store in front of the French cultural center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2007
Get it (W)All!
Enamel paint on road, pavement, store in front of the French cultural center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2007
Get it (W)All!
Enamel paint on road, pavement, store in front of the French cultural center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2007
Get it (W)All!
Enamel paint on road, pavement, store in front of the French cultural center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2007
Tokyo 2
75 x 105 cm, ink and acrylic on paper. 2004