NICOLAS GROSPIERRE
Nicolas Grospierre (1975) is a photographer, mainly of architecture, and an artist working in the expanded field of photography. He studied political science and sociology at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and the London School of Economics before turning to photography. He lives in Warsaw.
His work as a photographer has focused on one hand on documentary projects, which explore the collective memory and hopes of modernist architecture, now that the utopian ideology behind it has faded away. His works, often composing a broader artwork series, subjectively explore the atlas of 20th-century architecture, often in its ideological, metaphorical,and dystopian dimensions. They also address the notion of identity (and nationhood) from an East-West perspective, and the relation of individuals to their built environment and to the Anthropocene.The other side of his work focuses on conceptual photography, emphasising mind games and visual paradoxes, while presenting attractive and sensual images and even installations.
Grospierre’s portrait was shot in the Royal Łazienki Palace, inside the exhibition "Heliograms in the Salle de Salomon".
HELIOGRAM
Nicolas Grospierre has been awarded the Golden Lion at the 11th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2008) for the exhibition Hotel Polonia in the Polish Pavilion, and has also received the Polityka Passport Award the Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland (2009) and two Graham Foundation of Chicago grants in 2014 and in 2020. His monograph, Open-Ended, was published by Jovis Verlag (Berlin, 2013) and his work has been included in Shooting Space. Architecture in contemporary photography (Phaidon).
His work on modernist architecture was published by Prestel in 2016 as Modern Forms (edited by Elias Redstone and Alona Pardo).
Grospierre’s works are held at the National Museum in Warsaw, Rubell Family Collection, Jan Michalski Foundation, Coleccion Los Bragales, Coleccions DKV, Signum Foundation Collection, ARUP Collection, APT Collection, PAMM Miami, Jozami Collection and the 21st Century Museum. His works have been exhibited in many individual and collective exhibitions around different parts of Europe and America.
Work Details
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Heliogram (Cerulean Clouded Moon), 2025
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Velvet, oak frame
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90 x 100 x 7 cm
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Unique
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Not for sale

