Bio — Audrey Guttman

Born in Brussels in 1987, lives and works between Paris and Brussels. Audrey Guttman is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist who has made the invisible her territory. Collage, cyanotype, drawing, installation, poetry: each medium becomes a means of exploring memory, desire and dream — everything that surfaces beneath waking consciousness. Following the Surrealists in her relationship to the found object and to assemblage, she has formulated her own equation: chance + time = revelation. Trained in art history, literature and political science, Guttman weaves a constellation of references, from Belgian Surrealism to art brut, from Old Master painting to the photographic avant-gardes of the twentieth century. Each of her solo exhibitions is a chapter in an ongoing inquiry into what makes us who we are: the masks we wear, the desires we repress, the identities we cobble together. Collages that deconstruct feminine archetypes, cyanotypes that suspend bodies in an otherworldly light, installations that give questions a place to stand in space. Everything returns to a single question: how do we step outside the frames — social, aesthetic or gendered — that confine us? In 2024, Christie's Paris gave her carte blanche for the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto. With Images du labyrinthe: l'atelier surréaliste, she transformed the auction house into a playground: a life-size game of snakes and ladders, a fictional studio set up in homage to Breton, and everywhere the trace of a loving reading of Surrealism — that of an artist who practises it from within. Hers is the path of an artist driven by philosophical questions and anchored in the historical avant-garde. She also publishes artist's books in which poetry and image answer one another. Her work functions as a labyrinth without a centre: no definitive answers, only passages that open onto new enigmas.

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Among Audrey Guttman’s exhibitions are a carte blanche at Christie’s Paris for the centenary of the Manifesto of Surrealism (2024), where she turned the auction house into a labyrinth of games, artworks and texts to convey the Surrealist experience. The same year, she presented “Learning to Fly” for Saint Laurent in Paris and Los Angeles, and turned Galerie Mighela Shama in Geneva into a doll’s house for “Doll House Blues”.

She previously explored the Kabbalah with “Tsimtsoum” (Ketabi Bourdet and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, 2023), entered into dialogue with Jiří Kolář at the Futura Art Gallery in Pietrasanta (2021), and has exhibited in Florence, Brussels and Paris. Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions in Paris, Munich, Berlin, Naples and Milan, and hosted in residence at the Chapelle Saint-Antoine in Naxos (2023) and the Hangar Photo Art Center in Brussels (2020). She graduated from Sciences Po Paris and the EHESS, where she earned a research master’s degree in the history, theory and literature of art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Learning to Fly, Saint Laurent Babylone & Saint Laurent Rive droite, Paris & LA

Images du labyrinthe: L’atelier surréaliste. Carte blanche à Audrey Guttman. Christie’s Paris, France

Doll House Blues, Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva

2023

Tsimtsoum, Ketabi Bourdet and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels

2022

J’ai vu le fond de l’absurde et je n’ai pas fait le poids, Handle with care, Paris

I’ll be your mirror, Ketabi Projects, Paris

2021

Au-delà du visage : Audrey Guttman / Jiří Kolář, Futura Art Gallery, Pietrasanta

Là où les années ne tournent pas les pages, Il Salviatino, Florence

Through The Looking-Glass, Spazio Nobile, Brussels

Making Arrangements, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels

2020

Masks, Galerie Emilie Dujat, Art Sablon, Brussels

2019

Diaphores, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2026

Salon Sonia, curated by Caroline Smulders and Yves Zlotowski, Galerie Zlotowski, Paris

2025

L’œil nomade, curated by Valérie Cueto, Galerie Perrin, Paris

Aenigma, curated by Maddalena Pelù, Heldenreizer, Munich

Nous n’irons plus au bois, curated by Marie-Puck Broodthaers, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin

Per Grazia Ricevuta, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini, Tesoro di San Gennaro, Napoli

2024

Nouvelles Résolutions, II, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris

Per Grazia Ricevuta, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan

UNIQUE, Beyond photography, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels

Art Brussels booth, Galerie Mighela Shama

Drapé, Galerie Ketabi Bourdet, Paris

Art Paris booth, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris

2023

Greetings from - Le monde en cartes postales, Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, Paris

Pour l'amour de l'antique : en finir avec la Renaissance, tribute to Paul Veyne, Hôtels d'Agar, Provence

Light my Fire, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris

artgenève booth, Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva

Art Paris booth, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris

2022

Glace à l’Italienne, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris

Minutiae, Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva

Art Paris booth, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris

2021

Nouvelles Résolutions, Ketabi Projects, Paris

2020

Sorry We Are Claus, curated by Gregory Decock, Avee gallery, Courtrai

Beyond the bushes, Art Sablon, Brussels

2019

Collage Atlas, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium

2018

The Shape of Music (trio show), Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta

Unnatural Symmetry, Rochester, NY

EDUCATION

2013 EHESS, Paris , Master of research in Art history, theory and literature

2011 SciencesPo, Paris , Master in communication, Ecole de la Communication

2009 SciencesPo, Paris , Political science

RESIDENCIES

2023

La Chapelle Saint-Antoine, Naxos, Greece

2020

Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels