Laure Prouvost

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Laure Prouvost (2010)

Laure Prouvost (* 1978 in Croix , Nord Département ) is a French filmmaker and artist. She received the prestigious Turner Prize in 2013 . In 2019 she will represent France at the Venice Biennale .

life and work

Born near Lille in France , Prouvost went to a local school with a focus on art and studied from 1999 to 2002 at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts London . From 2007 to 2010 she continued her studies at Goldsmiths College of the University of London continued.

Laure Prouvost works as a video and multimedia artist . In 2010 her short film Monologue was awarded a main prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, with the jury awarding it, among other things, “subversive humor”. In 2011 she again received a main prize at the Oberhausen Festival for her film The Artist .

After Prouvost was able to exhibit at Tate Britain for the first time in 2010 , she was among the candidates for the Turner Prize in 2013. At the exhibition of the candidates in Derry , Northern Ireland , she showed the video installation Wantee , which depicts a fictional tea ceremony between the German artist Kurt Schwitters and her grandfather. The jury recognized the work as "outstanding and moving" and recognized it with the award.

The artist has one daughter and lives in London.

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2016: Laure Prouvost, all behind, we'll go deeper, deep down and she will say , Museum für Moderne Kunst , MMK 3, Frankfurt am Main.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ La Française Laure Prouvost en lice pour le Turner Prize. April 26, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013 (French).
  2. ↑ Venice Art Biennale 2019 - artist Prouvost represents France , article in the magazine Monopol 23 May 2018
  3. ↑ In Surprise Win, Laure Prouvost Takes Turner Prize , The New York Times, December 2, 2013
  4. ↑ International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - Prize Winner 2010
  5. ↑ Short Film Festival: Festival 2011
  6. ↑ British Art Award: Turner Prize goes to Frenchwoman Laure Prouvost , Spiegel Online from December 2, 2013
  7. ↑ Laure Prouvost wins Turner prize 2013 , The Guardian of December 2, 2013
  8. ↑ In a world of dream images in FAZ from September 6, 2016, page 38
  9. ↑ If the pictures work up a sweat in FAZ of October 5, 2016, page 12
personal data
SURNAME Prouvost, Laure
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French artist and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Croix , North Department