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Bénédicte Blondeau [b. 1986] is a lens-based artist born in La Louvière, Belgium. She studied Photography at Ar.co [Lisbon, Portugal] and Academy of Fine Arts [Ghent, Belgium] and earned a Master’s degree in Applied Communication at IHECS [Brussels, Belgium].

She participated in various exhibitions and talks across Europe and her work has been published in numerous magazines internationally. In 2019, her first photo book "Ce qu'il reste" was released by the Lisbon-based publisher XYZ books. "Ce qu'il reste" is a finalist for Photo España’s best book award, received an honorable mention at the DGLab Book Design Awards and has been shortlisted for the ADAGP MAD Revelation Artist Book Award and the Stiftung Buchkunst "Best Book Design From All Over the World". In 2021, her first monographic exhibition took place at Photoforum Pasquart in Switzerland.

In 2022, her work was part of two exhibitions curated by Anne Immelé at the photo biennial of Mulhouse and at the Valletta Contemporary Gallery in Malta. During the following years, ongoing versions of her series "Ondes" were featured at G37 gallery in Berlin (solo), Contretype in Brussels and Haus am Lützoplatz in Berlin.

In 2024, her second photo book "Ondes" was released by XYZ Books. The series is part of the "Those eyes, the eyes, they fade" exhibition in the "Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse" as part of the Photo Biennial 2024.

Bénédicte Blondeau also worked as a documentary movies director and is currently curating photography exhibitions for PEP - the Photographic Exploration Project - that she founded in Berlin in 2019.

Solo and group shows:

2025 SCAN Tarragona (ES) (Ondes) (upcoming)

2025 L’essentiel invisible - Festival OFF Arles - Special screening with Les Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech (FR)

2025 Itinéraires des photographes voyageurs, Bordeaux (Ondes) (FR)

2024 Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Ondes, collective) (FR)

2023 Keep your eyes peeled - AFF Gallery, Berlin (collective) (DE)

2023 "Too much of a good thing" - XYZ Books / a ilha, Lisbon (Ce qu'il reste, collective) (PT)

2023 Archipel_0 - Contretype, Brussels (Ondes, collective) (BE)

2023 Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit - Haus am Lützoplatz, Berlin (Ondes, collective) (DE)

2022 G37 Gallery - Berlin (Ondes, solo) (DE)

2022 « Sous influence » - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (Ce qu’il reste, collective) (FR)

2022 «those eyes, these eyes, they fade» - Valletta Contemporary, Malta (Ce qu’il reste, collective) (MT)

2021 Photoforum PasquArt - Bienne, Switzerland (Ce qu'il reste, solo) (CH)

2021 LUFT Exhibition, 48 hours Neukölln - Berlin (Ce qu’il reste, collective) (DE)

2020 PHotoESPAÑA - Best Photo Book Award Exhibition - Madrid (Ce qu’il reste, collective) (ES)

2019 November Exhibition, Planet Flow - Berlin (Ce qu’il reste, collective) (DE)

2019 Loading Fest Projection night - Porto (Ce qu'il reste, collective) (PT)

2019 Bolseiros&finalistas, Ar.co - Lisbon (Ce qu’il reste, collective) (PT)

2018 Diaporama, Gulbenkian foundation - Lisbon (Anesthesia, collective) (PT)
2017 Sorry Not Sorry, Rust vzw - Ghent (Anesthesia, collective) (BE)
2017 Summer Exhibition 2017, Ar.co - Lisbon (Anesthesia, collective) (PT)
2015 Het Zuiden van Europa - Ghent (Lieux intimes, solo) (BE)
2014 Academie voor Beeldende Kunst - Ghent (Lieux intimes, collective) (BE)

Books:

2024 Ondes

Photo book published by XYZ Books

2019 Ce qu'il reste

Photo book published by XYZ Books

Awards / Prizes:

2025 Photobook Winner Belfast Photo Festival

2024 Fotofabrica Prize - Diecixdieci Festival

2023 Publishing grant - Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (photobook Ondes)

2022 BUP Book Award (Ondes, shortlisted)

2021 Best Book Design From All Over the World 2021, Stiftung Buchkunst (Ce qu'il reste, nominated)

2020 DGLab Book Design Awards 2020 (Ce qu’il reste, design by Joana Durães, honorable mention)