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 collective exhibitions curated by Anne Immelé: « Sous influence » at the «Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse» (together with Matthew Genitempo and Batia Suter among others) and «those eyes, these eyses, they fade» at Valletta Contemporary Gallery in Malta with Awoiska van der Molen, Bernard Plossu and Nigel Baldacchino. Later that year, her series "Ondes" was featured in a solo show at G37 gallery in Berlin. This ongoing project was also part of the Archipel_0 group show at Contretype in Brussels and the Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit exhibition at Haus am Lützoplatz in Berlin in 2023.
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:
2024 Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Musée des Beaux-Arts (Ondes, collective) (FR) (upcoming)
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 The Essential, Loosen Art - Rome (Ce qu’il reste, collective) (IT)
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:
2019 Ce qu'il reste
Photo book published by XYZ Books
Awards / Prizes:
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)
2020 Photo España’s best book award, international category (Ce qu’il reste, finalist)
2020 ADAGP MAD Revelation Artist Book Award (Ce qu’il reste, shortlisted)
Publications:
2023 The Annihilation of Space and Time - Zerofeedback, Tokyo
2023 Sola Journal (instagram takeover)
2022 Urbanautica: "Bénédicte Blondeau. Intimate places", by Steve Bisson
2022 NOVO magazine HS 24 - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, article by Nicolas Bézart
2021 Flare: Bénédicte Blondeau: Ce qu’il reste, by Miriam Edmunds
2021 Exit Magazine: Exit #81 - Blackness (Anesthesia)
2021 The zone zine (Ce qu'il reste - with sound by Guglielmo Piva)
2020 Dienacht (Ce qu'il reste)
2020 Grandmama’s Print (Ce qu’il reste)
2020 Cahier d'images (mixed portfolio)
2020 Photocaptionist (Ce qu’il reste, instagram takeover)
2020 MAD tv and ADAGP (Ce qu'il reste)
2020 Malenki (interview, Ce qu'il reste)
2020 Yearbook 2020, book and online exhibition - Shutter Hub (Refuge)
2020 Camera Austria (Ce qu'il reste)
2019 Phases Magazine (Ce qu'il reste)
2019 The Heavy Collective: Friday Fry Up (Ce qu'il reste)
2019 GUP magazine: GUP #61 - Escape (Ce qu'il reste)
2019 Ce qu'il reste - self-published photo book
2018 Scopio Magazine - Contrast, Porto (Ce qu'il rete)
Talks:
2023 Conversation on "Ondes" with Jean-Marc Bodson and Emmanuel d'Autreppe - Contretype, Brussels (BE)
2022 The photo book - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (FR)
2021 "Ce qu'il reste" - Photoforum PasquArt - Bienne, Switzerland (CH)
2019 Unseen Book Market - Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Ciclo de Conferências de Fotografia III - Unidade curricular: Fotografia,
Arquivo Fotográfico de Lisboa, Lisbon (PT)
Others:
2022 'Zenaïde' - 6 panels album cover for Jean De Lacoste, Esc.rec. label
2022 'Ce qu'il reste' selected for the Belgian photo books exhibition at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles