Lou Masduraud
*1990, lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland
Lou Masduraud graduated in 2012 a bachelor degree at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France and in 2024 a Fine art master degree at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva, Swizerland.
In her practice of sculptures and installations, Lou Masduraud proposes forms of reversals and alternatives to dominant realities. Approaching the network of human activities as a complex system of managed infrastructures, Lou Masduraud develops a body of work that functions as formal and conceptual investigation of specific elements such as fountains, basement windows and street lamp posts which belong to the daily experience of the public and the private space, exposing the relations of power and desire that underlie them. Masduraud not only blurs the boundaries between the function and the ornament, craft technique and conceptual practice, the outside and the inside, but eviscerates the skeleton of the structures we inhabit with an interpretive and voyeuristic take, questioning normative regulatory systems and enabling counter-narratives for public life.
Lou Masduraud was awarded in 2023 the Geneva Manor Art Prize and in 2024 the Federal Price; Swiss Art Award in Basel.
Recent solo exhibitions include: 2025; Le Grand Café, CAC, Saint Nazaire, FR; 2024; Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH; Institut français d’Allemagne, Berlin, DE, ADA, Rome, IT ; Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel, CH. 2023; MAMCO, Prix Manor, Geneva, CH. 2022 ; CAN, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, CH; May Day, Basel, CH. 2021; La Maison Pop, Montreuil, FR. Recent group and collectives exhibitions in European institutions include Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Genève, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Villa Medicis Rome, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève, CAPC Bordeaux, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard Paris, Kunsthaus Hamburg, MCBA Lausanne, MO.CO Montpellier, CRAC Alsace, Kunsthalle Basel, Biennale de Lyon, Moscou Biennal.
Solo Exhibitions
2028
Ferme Asile, duo show w/ Gina Proenza, Sion - upcoming
2027
Istituto svizzero, duo show w/ Heidi Bucher, Rome - upcoming
Gallery Ada project, Rome - upcoming
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully - upcoming
Sissi club, Marseille - upcoming
2026
Skin to Skin
Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva
2025
Ta crème immunitaire
Le Grand café, CAC, Saint Nazaire
2024
What cracks ?!
Kunsthaus Langenthal
Oxydations
Institut français d’allemagne, Berlin
Get out of here
Gallery Ada project, Rome
Mananagement opera
Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel
2023
MAMCO, Prix Manor, Geneva
LISTE art fair, with Alexandra Romy gallery, Basel
2022
Parallels
CAN, Centre d’Art Neuchatel, Neuchatel
WET MEN
May Day, Basel
2021
Systm soupir
La Maison Pop, Montreuil
2017
Coil interior (with Antoine Bellini)
Hard Hat, Geneva
2016
From you through them to situation
La Bf15, Lyon
Group Exhibitions
2027
Quinquennale, Paris - upcoming
Tribunal, La Loge, Bruxelles - upcoming
Open end Acte III, Cimetiere des rois, Geneve - upcoming
Klöntal Triennale, Diesbach/Glarus - upcoming
2026
Restons unis 2
Galerie Perrotin, with sissi club, Paris
not in a silver casket cool with pearls
Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris
The Sigh of the Mountain
Haus fur kunst, Uri
Nuit Blanche
Reflet Machine, Paris
Sonnendeck, Rosengarten, WC Welle-7
Stadtgalerie, Bern
Génies du lieu
Triennale Bex Art
Maintenance ? Développement !
Le Commun, Geneva
Textiles Fictions II
Le Transpalette, Bourges
Révolutionnaire!
L’Arc - Scène Nationale du Creusot, Le Creusot
I (as in instinct)
Galerie Sissi club, Marseille
Artgenève art fair, with Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva
2025
Echo chamber
Shower, Seoul
Paris Internationale art fair, with Sissi club
Celébration
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Haute-Loire, Chateau de Rochechouart
Psot Netebras Xul
MAMCO, Geneva
Just an everyday object
Krone couronne, Bienne
Lisboa Não Sejas Francesa
Galleria Foco, Lisbon
Un repas sans champignons est comme un jour sans pluie
CRAC Alsace, Altkirch
Artgenève art fair, with Prix de La Mobilière, Geneva
Small sculptures
Sharp projects, Copenhagen
2024
I’ll give it to someone special
Galerie Sans titre, Paris
Art cologne art fair, with Windhager von Kaenel, Cologne
Artissima art fair, with Ada Project, Turin
Le chant des sirènes
Villa Medicis, Rome
Slow Days, Fast Company
Gallery Lange+Pult, Geneva
Swiss Art Award, Basel
Seriously, yes
Windhager von Kaenel, Zug
Arcadia
Bally foundation, Lugano
The fountain show
Kunsthal Mechelen, Mechelen
Une clameur
Château de Voltaire, Ferney Voltaire
Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu
MCBA, Lausanne
Temps de mars
Musée des Beaux Art, La Chaux de Fonds
Power up
Le Grand cafe, CAC, Saint Nazaire
2023
Artissima Art fair, with Ada Project, Turin
MO.CO, Biennale SOL!, Montpellier
The cup of water that gives itself to thirst
2023 Galerie Sans titre, Paris
Antéfutur
CAPC, Bordeaux
Hannah Villiger : Amaze me
Muzeum Susch, Susch
The alignment problem
Live In Your Head, Geneva
2022
L’arcobaleno riposa sulla strada
Istituto Svizzero, Roma
Radical Sources
Krone Couronne, Biel
Art-o-rama art fair, with Alexandra Romy, Marseille
Switch the witch
La Rada, Locarno
Basel social Club, represented by Cherish, Basel
Swiss Art Award, Basel
La Charge
Circuit, Lausanne
New Age Same Same
Gallery Exo exo, Paris
triple take
Gallery Wilde, Basel
2021
Les flammes
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Lemaniana
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung
Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal
New flesh
Forde, Geneva
2020
La Maison Pop, JOUVENCX
Nuit Blanche 20, Montreuil
Vallauris Morghulis
Mecène du sud, Montpellier
Sculpture Garden Biennale, Geneva
Creative beginnings. Professional end.
Villa Vassilieff, Paris
2019
Down the liminal valley
Duplex (duo show avec Cécile Bouffard), Geneva
Là ou les eaux se mêlent
15ème Biennale de Lyon, Bureau des pleurs, Lyon
L’almanach des aléas
Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
Storytelling
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
SEDONA
Villa du Parc, Annemasse
2018
Further Thoughts on Earhy Materials
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Brazil, Torino
6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
New Swiss Performance Now
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
2017
Feed your friends
ODD, Buccarest
2016
Black fruit real beat
Titanik, Turku, Finland
Jeune création 66
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Labor ø Labor
Triangle France, Marseille
2015
Swiss Performance Art Award
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
PULSE BIG BODIES
Theatre de l’Usine, Genève
2014
Live In Your Head, 6 - 4 - 2
Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva
Performance proletarians!!!
Le Magasin, CNAC, Grenoble
Pas de bourrée, pas de biche
Parc Saint Leger, CAC, Pougues les Eaux
Awards & Public Art / Kunst am bau
2026
Public sculpture, Vivantes, Coeur de cité, Meyrin - upcoming
2025
Public sculpture, Milky way, Artflow Limmathal, Zurich & Limmat valley
Public sculpture, Source aux nymphes, Commune de Thônex
2024
Laureate Swiss Art award
2023
Laureate Prix MANOR Cultural prize of Canton de Genève
2020
Public sculpture, Commune de Thônex
Public collections
Collection FMAC Genève (CH), 2026
Collection BNS (CH), 2025
Collection FCAC Genève (CH), 2024
Collection FRAC Occitanie (FR), 2024
Collection MAMCO, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Genève (CH), 2023
Collection CNAP (FR), 2023
Collection FRAC Champagne Ardenne (FR), 2023
Collection FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine (FR), 2022
Collection MAMVP - Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR), 2021
Collection FMAC Genève (CH), 2021
Collection FCAC (CH), 2019