MICHEL MAZZONI

For Michel Mazzoni, photography is a process-based activity that requires movement and circulation of both the body and the gaze. A keen observer of his surroundings, the artist generally focuses on insignificant, precarious, or neglected elements in order to reveal the many interstices that punctuate the course of existence and to which we do not necessarily pay attention. Engaging as much with spaces, solids, voids, rough edges, and off-screen elements as with the memories they generate, the artist's fragmented images unfold according to the places that host them, like punctuation marks, in an attempt to formalize a moment suspended in the frantic pace of our daily lives. (Excerpt from text by Clémentine Davin)

Michel Mazzoni. Lives and works in Brussels.

Selected solo exhibitions: 2025 Composition VI, ma. art space, Brussels 2024 CRAFT, galerie LRS52, Liège 2023 Agrégat, Contretype Brussels; Flat Cuts, centre d’art Nei Liicht (Luxembourg) 2022 Verticales, S7, Académie Royales des Beaux-arts, Liège; Rien, presque, L’Orangerie, centre d’art contemporain, Bastogne 2021 Périphéries, Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz; Waveforms, Centre Tour à Plomb, Brussels 2020 UNTITLED 180365 (duo with Adriaan Verwée), V2vingt, Brussels; L’art dans les chapelles, Chapelle ND des Fleurs, Moustoir-Remungol, curated by Eric Suchère 2019 Other Things Visible, Le Botanique, Brussels; Dumitru, installation with book material, Maison 8, Brussels 2018 405 Nm, Secret Room I Penthouse Art Residency I Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels; Everything You Can See Trough That Little Hole, Espace Contretype, Brussels 2017 Amorces, Art Brussels, solo show stand FWB, Curated by Frederic Collier 2016 Ray Light, Frederic Collier/Contemporary, Brussels; Dérives, Archiraar Gallery Brussels (duo with Sébastien Delvaux), Terra Incognita, Gallery VMS Pradhan, Brussels 2015 Glow, Incise, Charleroi 2014 Onde, Triade Gallery, Timisoara & French Institute 2013 White Noise, Museum of photography, Charleroi; Drift, Anyspace Gallery, Brussels

Selected group exhibitions: 2025 Trust the artist, Rossicontemporary, Brussels; Pierre(s), LRS52 Gallery, Liège 2024 Unlimited, 22a Gallery, Veltem-Beisem; A Public Affair, Cloud Seven, Brussels; Orienta, Saïdja, Maroc 2023 (BIT.20), L’Ahah, Paris; Points, LRS52 Gallery, Liège; Underneath the visible, Montoro12 Gallery, Brussels 2022 Couleur / Lumière, La Maison des Arts, Brussels; Collections croisées, FRAC Auvergne, Cnap et musée d’Art et d’Archéologie d’Aurillac; X10, Espace d’Art Contemporain V2Vingt, Brussels 2021 Close up on Belgian contemporary art, Musée d’Ixelles & Degroof Petercam, Luxembourg; V Group Show, Alfa Gallery, Miami; Si Muove, Timisoara Capitale Culturelle Européenne 2021 2020 Inside-Out, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Off, Galerie les Bains Douches, Pontivy 2019 Osmoscosmos, Centre de la photographie Genève; Esquisse pour un shelter-studio, Espace St Mengold, Huy 2018 Archives du futur, Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels; Miroirs, biennial of contemporary art, Enghien; ZONES, Mulhouse biennial, FABRIKculture Hégenheim 2017 Turn/Return. Bogardenkapel Brugge; Permanent collection, Musée d’Ixelles 2016 Off-7, CCAM Scène Nationale, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy; Impressions Japonaises, espace contretype, Brussels 2015 INDENT, Société, Brussels; ACID DROPS IN A ZEN GARDEN, Frédéric Collier Contemporary, Brussels 2014 Distant Proximity, Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels; DIP ART, French Institute Of Timisoara 2013 Le monde tel qu’il est, Le Bleu du Ciel/Biennale de Lyon Résonances, Lyon; Art Brussels, international contemporary art fair; Art Rotterdam, international contemporary art fair; Subject/Matters, Frédéric de Goldschmidt Projects, Brussels

Public Collections: Ville de Lyon BM/Artothèque FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’azur (FR) Centre d’art Nei Liicht (Dudelange, Luxembourg) National Bank of Belgium - BNB Brussels Museum of Photography, Charleroi (BE) FRAC (Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain), Auvergne (FR) Musée d’Ixelles (BE) Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière (BE) BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), Paris Artothèque Grenoble (FR) Contretype Brussels (BE) Le Botanique Brussels (BE)

Several artist’s editions are in the collections of the following libraries: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / ARGOS Library, Brussel / San Telmo Museo (ES) / Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée Royal de Mariemont, Artist’s books (FR) / Cabinet du livre d’artiste, Rennes (FR) / Institut pour la photographie, Lille (FR) / Artothèque d’Annecy (FR) / Library of ESA, St-Luc Tournai (BE) / The KBR, Royal Library of Belgium / Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp / Bibliothèque Municipale, Lyon (FR)