Agathe de Bailliencourt

Agathe de Bailliencourt (1974) has lived in Berlin since 2007. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Cergy Pontoise and is a graduate of the Ecole Boulle. She has exhibited at the Singapore Biennale (2006), the Zendai Museum in Shanghai (2008), the French Embassy in Tokyo (2009), Blain Southern in London (2015), the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in Singapore (2016), the Château de Ratilly in France (2018). Her work is in the public collection of the Kupferstichkabinett Museum in Berlin. Winner of awards and organization residencies in Tokyo, New York, Marfa, on the Isle of Skye, she has just received the 2024 grant from the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation in New York.

 

 

During her residency at Villa Medici, Agathe de Bailliencourt will consult Carlo Scarpa’s archives held at the MAXXI museum, and interview art historians and experts in the field of Venetian glass. Based on these documents and interviews, the aim of this research project is to create a series of unique glass works, transposing the artistic heritage that Scarpa and other artists brought to life in their time, into a contemporary context questioning notions of loss of control, collapse and transformation.

Agathe de Bailliencourt