Pierre Bismuth is part of the group exhibition Glass Bits, opening on Thursday 3 October at Maniera, Brussels. The artist will present his installation One Man’s Mess is Another Man’s Masterpiece, consisting of 80 broken glass slides. The exhibition runs until 21/12. (Image: Pierre Bismuth, One Man’s Mess is Another Man’s Masterpiece, 2007, detail.)

Newspaper no. 141 is now online.

Newspaper no. 140 is now online.

Pierre Bismuth is among the artists included in Lacan, the exhibition. When Art Meets Psychoanalysis at Centre Pompidou-Metz, the first exhibition devoted to the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), curated by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Bernard Marcadé. Lacan, the exhibition runs from 31 December 2023 to 27 May 2024. (Photo: still from Pierre Bismuth, En suivant la main gauche de Jacques Lacan – L’âme et l’inconscient, 2012, black and white video, sound, 5 min 50 sec)

MOREpublishers (Quenast, BE) continues its collaboration with Pierre Bismuth with the new edition 19 Evening Standard News + 1 retail price, a set of 20 A4 digital prints in a stamped envelope, signed by the artist in an edition of 30 (+ 10 A.P.) at a cost of 80 €. For more information on this and other MORE editions by Bismuth, please contact info@morepublishers.be.

Newspaper no. 138 is now online.

In the exhibition "Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' Books as Statements (1960-2022)" at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, curator, editor, and collector Moritz Küng brings together a wide selection of international positions dedicated to the blank book as an artistic medium. Among the 259 artists' books on display, Küng includes fine examples by Pierre Bismuth, stanley brouwn and Ian Wilson. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive catalogue published by Walther & Franz König, as well as a lecture performance by Küng entitled "Conceptual Art for Dummies".

Following his recent solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Pierre Bismuth will open an iteration of Everybody is an artist but only the artist knows it at West Den Haag (NL) (25/03 - 10/07). The presentation and catalogue, which title alludes to Joseph Beuys' famous statement ‘Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler’ were created together with the Centre Pompidou. The show at West Den Haag varies widely in form, including new productions such as a culinary collaboration with Asad Raza, as well as Bismuth's readymades, photographs, flags, videos, food and even a modified car that once belonged to a famous Belgian art collector. Visitors can taste a new chocolate with a ‘decolonial’ flavor, specially manufactured for the Dutch public. Bismuth stimulates different senses and his work becomes fantasy reality. The coherence is in the way meaning and poetry can be produced from the most mundane activities. Without necessarily wanting to be innovative, and with a strong awareness of his numerous influences, Bismuth has built up a large body of work in which deconstruction of the norm is the way to influence reality and perception of it. 

As part of Everybody is an artist but only the artists knows it, Pierre Bismuth's solo exhibition on view until February 28th at Centre Pompidou, the artist will give a talk at the museum on January 13th, at 7pm (in French, Petite Salle, free entry). Pierre Bismuth will be discussing with Jean-Pierre Criqui, curator of the exhibition, Pauline Mari, art historian specialized in the links between cinema and the fine arts as well as with Hans Theys, philosopher and art critic. The evening will be punctuated by an intervention of Mathilde Serrell and her guest Victoire Finaz de Villaine, expert in chocolate and member of the French Academy of Chocolate and Confectionery.

Everybody is an artist but only the artist knows it, Pierre Bismuth's first solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris, will open on October 20th and will be on view until February 28th. The title of the exhibition is a paradoxical reinterpretation of a famous statement by the German artist Joseph Beuys (“Everyone is an artist”). It brings together emblematic works alongside others made specially for the occasion. Two new works in particular mark this exhibition: the Saab automobile that once belonged to a great collector of conceptual art, in which the upholstery has been entirely redone and now features the names of the artists included in said collection. The second work, Pierre Bismuth - Chocolat au lait pour amateur de chocolat noir (2021) is based on the artist’s recipe and freely available for visitors to take. “The bachelor [meaning the artist himself] makes his own chocolate”, wrote Marcel Duchamp in the early 20th century. Pierre Bismuth, following in the footsteps of artist-cum-chocolate-makers such as Ed Ruscha and Dieter Roth, is perpetuating this blend of art and cocoa. An exhibition catalog will be published for the occasion, tracing the artist's vast œuvre and including an interview with Jean-Pierre Criqui as well as texts by Bernard Blistène, Marie-José Sondeijker, Dessislava Dimova, Dieter Roelstraete and Asad Raza. 

Jan Mot's booth at Art Basel (CH) with works by Francis Alÿs, Pierre Bismuth, stanley brouwn, Andrea Büttner, Mario Garcia Torres, Joachim Koester, David Lamelas, readymades belong to everyone®, Vonna-Michell and Ian Wilson (photo: Studio Shapiro).