Bio
Belgian conceptual artist Audrey Guttman (b. 1987, Brussels & Paris) creates multidisciplinary works that hold up a mirror to inner life, revealing the tension between our outer selves and lived experience. Through installation, cyanotype, collage, and poetry, she employs philosophy and art history as investigative tools, crafting each exhibition as a new chapter in her ongoing inquiry.
Drawing from her background in art history, literature, and philosophy, Guttman transforms found materials and vintage imagery into subtly layered compositions that operate as visual poetry. Her practice investigates the paradoxes of presence and absence, revealing hidden worlds and making the invisible visible through a delicate interplay of light, time, and form, each piece an offering to memory.
From her carte blanche exhibition at Christie's Paris celebrating the Surrealist centenary to gallery shows across Europe, Guttman's singular practice has established her as a distinctive contemporary voice whose vocabulary stems from the avant-garde. Her work invites viewers into a unique labyrinth where fragments of reality transform into reflections of our collective psyche, one that doesn't lead to answers, but to an ever-widening field of meaningful questions.
Photo: Yeocheva, 2024
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EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Learning to Fly, Saint Laurent Babylone & Saint Laurent Rive droite, Paris & LA
2024 Images du labyrinthe: L’atelier surréaliste. Carte blanche à Audrey Guttman. Christie’s Paris, France
2024 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
2022 I’ll be your mirror, Ketabi Projects, Paris
2021 Au-delà du visage : Audrey Guttman / Jiří Kolář, Futura Art Gallery, Pietrasanta
2021 Là où les années ne tournent pas les pages, Il Salviatino, Florence
2021 Through The Looking-Glass, Spazio Nobile, Brussels
2021 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
2025 Aenigma, curated by Maddalena Pelù, Heldenreizer, Munich
2025 Nous n’irons plus au bois, curated by Marie-Puck Broodthaers, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin
2025 Par Grazia Ricevuta, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini, Tesoro di San Gennaro, Napoli
2024 Nouvelles Résolutions, II, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris
2024 Par Grazia Ricevuta, curated by Alberto Mattia Martini, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan
2024 UNIQUE, Beyond photography, Hangar Photo Art Center, Brussels
2024 Art Brussels booth, Galerie Mighela Shama
2024 Drapé, Galerie Ketabi Bourdet, Paris
2024 Art Paris booth, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris
2023 Greetings from - Le monde en carte postale, Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, Paris
2023 Light my Fire, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris
2023 artgenève booth, Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva
2023 Art Paris booth, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris
2022 Glace à l’Italienne, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris
2022 Minutiae, Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva
2022 Art Paris booth, Ketabi Bourdet, Paris
2021 Nouvelles Résolutions, Ketabi Projects, Paris
2020 Sorry We Are Claus, curated by Gregory Decock, Avee gallery, Courtrai
2020 Beyond the bushes, Art Sablon, Brussels
2019 Collage Atlas, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium
2018 The Shape of Music (trio show), Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta
2018 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
ARTIST BOOKS
2024 Images du Labyrinthe, Christie’s Paris
2024 Doll House Blues, Galerie Mighela Shama
2022 I’ll be your mirror, Ketabi Projects
2021 Là où les années ne tournent pas les pages, Gli Ori Editori
2021 Al di là del volto, Futura
2020 Making Arrangements, self-published