
BENOÎT PIÉRON
Born in 1983
Lives & works in Paris
Benoît Piéron works on the creation of moments, installations, and objects exploring the sensuality of plants, the boundaries of the human body, and the temporal nature of waiting rooms. His creative journey encompasses various practices, including patchwork, existential gardening, and wallpaper design.
Having a long-term disease, Benoît Piéron has a very close relationship with the hospital ecosystem. He has developed a practice that not only draws inspiration from this environment but seeks to give plasticity to disease. To do this, Benoît uses as raw material used hospital sheets from different hospital departments. Far from the romantic heroism of the usual metaphors for malady, Piéron places himself in a joyous gray zone. Through his art, he endeavors to explore these uncharted territories, viewing it not as a burden but as a potential source of creative expression.
Central to Piéron's practice are contemplations on the experience of waiting and the complex interplay between health and illness. His work delves into the subtle boundaries that exist between presence and absence, the interior and exterior, the human body and the architectural structures that surround it, and the temporal aspects of medical institutions that mold the patient experience.

Benoît Piéron. Monstera Deliciosa
October 26th, 2023 - January 7th, 2024
© mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, photo: Georg Petermichl
Benoît Piéron. Monstera Deliciosa
October 26th, 2023 - January 7th, 2024
© mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, photo: Georg Petermichl

Benoît Piéron. Monstera Deliciosa
October 26th, 2023 - January 7th, 2024
© mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, photo: Georg Petermichl
Monstera Deliciosa
MUMOK, Vienne
26.10.2023 – 07.01.2024
In his first solo museum exhibition, French artist Benoît Piéron invites us into the kind of a waiting room we are all familiar with from doctors’ offices and hospitals. Piéron’s waiting room is not a place to “kill” time, however, but a site of metamorphosis into which the outside world intrudes in the form of enigmatic objects and images. Snow globes, a chromatic cloudy sky, the play of light and shadow, a water leak, and the figure of a bat turn a forlorn space into a vibrant and lyrical setting.
Curated by Manuela Ammer
© mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, photo: Georg Petermichl

2023. Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Photo: Andy Keate.
2023. Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Photo: Andy Keate.
2023. Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Photo: Andy Keate.

2023. Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Photo: Andy Keate.
Gallery, London. Photo: Andy Keate.
Gallery, London. Photo: Andy Keate.
Slumber Party
15/07 - 12/11/2023
Chisenhale Gallery
London, UK.
Slumber Party – Piéron’s first solo exhibition in the UK – applies a vital softness to the harsh uncertainties of life and death, and supplants the often distressing, stale and clinical atmosphere of hospitals with a sense of possibility and renewed imagination.
Cotton sheets that once lined hospital beds in the UK and France are stitched together to create an expansive patchwork canopy. Traces of hospitalised bodies – faded secretions and stains – stretch across the gallery, crafting a collective corpus of matter and memories, and revealing beauty in the discarded.
Anchored by a giant wooden table leg and topped with an oversized pin cushion, the installation plays with scale to evoke the proportions of a domestic den. Linked to the times Piéron has spent in hospitals, throughout his childhood and later life, the space simultaneously becomes a refuge and a portal through which to journey into other realities – a dreamscape that is also a means of survival.

Der Pinkelnde Tod Or What The Dead Do.
Kunstverein Bielefeld
09 septembre - 29 octobre 2023
Liverpool Biennial
uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things
10/06 – 17/09/2023
The 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The sacred Return of Lost Things’ addresses the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool and is a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing. In the isiZulu language, ‘uMoya’ means spirit, breath, air, climate and wind.
Env. 80 cm
Palais de Tokyo, " Exposé.es"
Nature : installation vidéo composée d’une porte d’hôpital reconstituée avec un système de
rétroprojection
Matériaux : bois, dispositif audiovisuel
Ci-après dénommée l’ « Œuvre Vidéo ».
Oxygène (2023)
Nature : installation sonore
Durée : 29 minutes
Palais de Tokyo, " Exposé.es"
"Exposé.es", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2023

Paris + par Art Basel, Paris, Oct 2022, © Gregory Copitet

© Aurélien Mole
© Aurélien Mole
Monstera, 2022
Porte serum, sparadrap, seau, goudron végétal, Monstera, lampe horticole, peluche psychopompe en patchwork de draps réformés des hôpitaux
1,90m 60 x 60cm
Vue d'exposition Horizones - Fondation Ricard, 2022, Paris
© Aurélien Mole
© Aurélien Mole
Le carrousel , 2022
(Flore des salles d’attente)
Présentoir à carte postales, carte postale éditée par la Fondation Pernod Ricard à 1000 exemplaires, tête de peluche psychopompe
2m 60 x 60 cm
Vue d'exposition Horizones - Fondation Ricard, 2022, Paris
© Aurélien Mole

Porte sérum, peinture de tagueur, yeux de peluches, patchwork de draps réformés des hôpitaux (secteur chirurgical), chaînette, carte géologique de la zone entre Dungeness et Sissinghurst dans le Kent (Royaume Uni), attache élastique pour la fixation de bandes de compression, tambour à broder, manchon de contention, main articulée en bois, vernis à ongles et faux ongles
2,12m 73 x 40 cm
Vue d'exposition Horizones - Fondation Ricard, 2022, Paris
© Aurélien Mole
© Aurélien Mole
Tirage Epson P20 000 sur Baryta Hahnemühle 315G
Vue d'exposition Horizones - Fondation Ricard, 2022, Paris
© Aurélien Mole
"Horizones", Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, 2022
Drapeaux 2, 2021
Draps réformés des hôpitaux, porte drapeau
80 x 135 cm, Porte drapeau : 160cm
Vue d'exposition Illness Shower, 2022, Sultana Summer set, Arles
© François Deladerrière
↑ Vue d'exposition, Illness shower, Sultana Summer set, Arles, France, 2022
© François Deladerriere

Paravent, 2022
Patchwork en draps reformés des hôpitaux, cloison d’intimité d’hôpital
Patchwork with repurposed hospital sheets, medical screen
155 x 183 x 40 cm
Vue d'exposition Cottagecore, 2022, Galerie Sultana, Paris
© Aurélien Mole
Savon (pour Auricio), 2022
Huile d’olive, soude caustique et huile de laurier, saponification à froid
Olive oil, sodium hydroxide, laurel oil, cold saponification
Vue d'exposition Cottagecore, 2022, Galerie Sultana, Paris
20 x 5 x 5 cm
Le Rouge à Lèvres, 2015
Sang de l'artiste, cire, lilas blanc
Artist's blood, wax, white lilac
Vue d'exposition Cottagecore, 2022, Galerie Sultana, Paris
11 x 3 x 3 cm
4 3/8 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/8 in

Peluches Psychopompes, 2022
Patchwork en draps réformés des hôpitaux
Patchwork of repurposed hospital sheets
20 x 43 x 8,5 cm
© Aurélien Mole
"Cottagecore", Galerie Sultana, Paris, 2022
© Tadzio
Benoît Piéron, "[random]", Les Tanneries, Amilly, France, 2018

210 x 175 x 230 cm
Marc Domage © Fondation d'entreprise Hermès

Le Lit, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, 2011

Dans un haricot médical en tôle émaillée, du sable fin et un petit râteau . Trois comprimés affleurent à la surface comme des rochers, l’ampoule d’un sablier cassée a libéré son sable pour rejoindre la dune miniature.
La pièce est accompagnée d’un ensemble d’ampoules de sabliers sécables représentant 36’30. Ainsi activable, la pièce devient un support d méditation pour une pratique sacrificielle du temps.
"La Cabane", 2017
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Soft Touch Illness Shower Benoît Piéron |
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Recent solo show : 'Bandage', (galerie du Haïdouc à l’Antre Peaux,2022) Bourges, France; 'Illness Shower', (Sultana Summer Set, 2022)Arles, France; Deux Drapeaux, Une Belladone, (l’alcôve,2021) Paris ; PLAID, (Cité Internationale des Arts,2021), Paris; Seconde eau, soft walls, patch.E.S & soap, (Cité Internationale des Arts, 2021) Paris ;'[random]', (Tanneries,centre d’art contemporain, 2018), Amilly, France Select group show : 'Paris +, by art Basel', 2022, Paris; 'C’était Mieux Avant', (Palais De Tokyo, 2022), Paris ;'Cottagecore', (Galerie Sultana, 2022) Paris; 'La Deuxième Première Fois Ft. Carla Adra', (La Galerie Noisy Le Sec, 2022); 'Horizones', Nominé Pour Le 23 Ème Prix De La Fondation Pernod Ricard, 2022), Paris; 'Formes Du Transfert', (Fondation Hermès, Magasins Généraux, 2022), Pantin; 'VIH/Sida L’épidémie N’est Pas Finie', (Mucem,2021), Marseille; FIAC, (Mendes Wood, 2021) Paris; 'Mort Is More', (Brasserie Atlas, 2021) Bruxelles; Qui Vive, Le Mat, (Ancenis, 2021); 'La Mort Comme Performance SM', (Mac Lyon, 2021); 'Plantagorie', (Cité Internationale Des Arts, 2021), Paris; 'Le Regard Du Temps', (Cultur Foundry, 2021), Paris; 'Condensation', (L’atelier, 2021), Séoul, Corée; 'Condensation', (Le Forum, 2021),Tokyo, Japon. |
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