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Marie-Pierre Bonniol (*1978, Marseille, France) is an artist, curator, producer, author and researcher based in Berlin and Paris. She holds a Maîtrise (Master) in Arts from the University of Aix-Marseille, and a Master in Aesthetics and Sciences of art from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is also an alumna of CABS Antiquarian Books (St. Olaf College, Minnesota) and Oberhausen film festival seminars.
Active since 1993, at first with fanzines, and then with many different projects, her current main research subjects are experimental film, shifts of perception, the myth of Bachelor machines and the dispositives of creation. As researcher and speaker, she is currently engaged in projects on amatorat, philia and the aesthetics of books, also as ensembles and collections.
Her work as artist and curator has been presented in several institutions such as ZKM in Karlsruhe, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Lieu unique in Nantes, Consortium in Dijon, CAPC in Bordeaux, Palace in St.Gallen, Dampfzentrale in Bern, Cafe OTO in London, Centre Pompidou in Metz and the National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires, on an invitation of Alberto Manguel. In 2023, she is invited curator of Xcèntric, the film department of CCCB in Barcelona with Experiment 120, her programmes of experimental short films for children.
Never too far from books and documents, obsessed by certain novels (Borges’ Fictions, The Invention of Morel), her artistic practice takes the form of videos, photographs, drawings, installations, assemblages, programmes and texts, through dispositives, collections, projections, imaginary structures and fictions that have been quoted by the writer Enrique Vila-Matas in some of his texts.
Transdisciplinary, her work has multiple entries (literature, visual arts, experimental film, research, curating), often in articulation with music and aesthetics. It follows, in its acts, the motto of the Argentinian writer Fogwill on “writing to not be written” in a general sense of self-determination, self-realization and responsability, with a strong interest in experimental and crossover practices. This practice has received in 2021 the Joseph Rovan prize for the project Hôtel des Autrices, which has also been nominated for the european Blauer Bär Prize of the Senate of Berlin in the same year.
Her studio, Studio Walter, is based in Berlin, Germany. Her films are distributed by Film-Maker’s Cooperative (New York), Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Julie Tippex (Paris) and Studio Walter (Berlin).
2024/2025
CURA, Le Volcan, Le Havre, France
CEAAC and Bibliothèque nationale universitaire (Bnu), Strasbourg, France
2023
Zines & Amatorat, Archiv der Jugendkulturen, Berlin
Zines & Amatorat, Bremer Zine Festival, Bremen, Germany
Zines & Amatorat, La Fanzinothèque / Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Research residency, La Fanzinothèque / Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Hop residency, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
Cinema 3/99, Xcèntric/CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
Festival BBmix, Carré Belle Feuille, Boulogne-Billancourt, France (since 2005)
2022
Experiment 120, OORtreders, Pelt, Belgium
Experiment 120, CinEmotion Rex, Friburg, Switzerland
Experiment 120, OORtreders, Pelt, Belgium
Fluchtplan, research blog, Berlin, Germany
Experiment 120, Los Angeles International Children’s Film festival, USA
Experiment 120, Film-Makers’ Coop, New York, USA
Experiment 120, Border Crossing, Poland
Experiment 120, FAME / La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
2021
Guy Maddin, OFNI / Bloc, Poitiers, France
Guy Maddin, The Film Gallery, Paris, France
Experiment 120, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Metz, France
Experiment 120, Borealis Festival/Cinemateket, Bergen, Norway
Experiment 120, le lieu unique, Nantes, France
Experiment 120, BBmix festival, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Flatpack festival, (Jury), Birmingham, UK
Hôtel des Autrices, Réseau des Autrices, Berlin, Germany
In partnership with Rhizome (Québec), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), La Marelle (Marseille). Joseph Rovan Prize 2021, nomination to the Blauer Bär Prize 2021.
2020
Experiment 120, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Experiment 120, le lieu unique, Nantes, France
Experiment 120, Festival MV / Interface, Dijon, France
The original playlist of Experiment 120 (Experimental films for kids) had a special mention from the No Lockdown Art programme of Pépinières Européennes de créations / Creaconnections, Transculture, Paris, France.
2019
Imaginary musics, Traumathek, Köln, Germany
Imaginary musics, Psych in Bloom / Komma, Esslingen, Germany
Imaginary musics, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Imaginary musics, Arkaoda, Berlin, Germany
Imaginary musics, Tiff, Leipzig, Germany
Imaginary musics, Semaine du Bizarre / Théâtre Berthelot, Montreuil, France
Imaginary musics, Festival MV / Consortium, Dijon, France
2018
4/40, extracts of beauty, Ausland, Berlin, Germany
Saravah revisited (commission), le lieu unique, Nantes, France
2017
Collection Morel / Chapter of the shadows, National library of the Argentinian Republic, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Excerpts of blue, Espace d’en bas, Paris, France
Imaginary musics, Palace, St.Gallen, Switzerland
2016
Collection Morel / Supplements to the Bachelor machines, Théâtre Berthelot, Montreuil, France
Collection Morel / The Bachelor machines, le lieu unique, Nantes, France
New York night, Le 104, Paris, France
2015
Collection Morel / Four programmes, MUDAM, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Carte-blanche to Julie Tippex / Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2014
Collection Morel / Manifesto exhibition, PointCulture, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Club Julie, le lieu unique, Nantes, France
Club Julie, Kill Your Pop / Péniche Cancale, Dijon, France
2010
Club Julie, le lieu unique, Nantes, France
Club Julie, Espace B, Paris, France
Club Julie, Nuits Sonores, Lyon, France
Julie Tippex Berlin Series, Bang Bang Club, West Germany, Berlin, France
2008
Tippex Wedding Festival, Corsica Studios, London, United-Kingdom
Futuresonic (music programme), Manchester, United-Kingdom
Takeaway shows KX, Saint-Pancras station, London, United-Kingdom
DIY Boogie fanzines fair, CNEAI / Point Ephémère, Paris, France (2004-2008)
Disco-Babel day, La Cartonnerie, Reims, France
2006
The Beach of Tender, La Plage, Paris, France
Starball, Planetarium / La Géode. Cité des Science, Paris, France (2002-2006)
2005
Discographisme, Galerie Corentin Hamel, Librairie Leo Scheer, Paris, France
Elvis’ House (music programme), La Villette, Paris, France
Rock & Amour in Wallonia, Le Comptoir, Liège, Belgium
The Tender’s Guinguette, La Guinguette Pirate, Paris, France
Festival Disco-Babel, Mains d’œuvres, Saint-Ouen, France
Disco-Babel Day, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Mobile (programme), FRAC Île-de-France / Ville de Boulogne Billancourt, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
2004
Nouveau Casino (artistic direction), Paris, France (2000-2004)
2002
The Analogical Night, 3 bis F, Aix-en-Provence, France
1999
Rock’n’Roll Artitude, Avignon’s Art School, Avignon, France