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. The book was a finalist for the PhotoEspaña Best Photography Book Award (international category), received an honorable mention at the DGLab Book Design Awards, and was shortlisted for both the ADAGP MAD Revelation Artist Book Award and the Stiftung Buchkunst award. In 2021, her first monographic exhibition took place at Photoforum Pasquart in Switzerland.
The following year, her work was shown at the Mulhouse Photography Biennial (Musée des Beaux-Arts) and at Valletta Contemporary Gallery in Malta. Evolving versions of her ongoing project "Ondes" were presented in solo and group exhibitions in Berlin and at Contretype in Brussels in 2023.
This same series became the subject of her second photobook, "Ondes", published by XYZ Books in the summer of 2024, and exhibited at the Mulhouse Photo Biennial (2024), at the festival Itinéraires des Photographes Voyageurs in Bordeaux (2025), and at SCAN Tarragona (2025), among other events and festivals. The book "Ondes" was among the winners of the 2025 Photobook Prize at the Belfast Photo Festival and the 2025 Photobook Prize at the Photometria Festival, was shortlisted for the 2024 Fotofabrica Prize at the Diecixdieci Festival, and received a publishing grant from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in 2023.
In addition to her photographic practice, Bénédicte Blondeau has worked as a documentary filmmaker and is currently active as a photography curator for PEP - Photographic Exploration Project - which she founded in Berlin in 2019.
Solo and group shows:
2025 SCAN Tarragona (Ondes) (ES)
2025 RUIS exhibition - Ghent (BE)
2025 L’essentiel invisible - Screening at Les Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech festival in Dakhla (MA)
2025 Pour Gaza, benefit exhibition & sales - Les Chiroux cultural center, Liège (BE)
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) (FR)
2023 Keep your eyes peeled - AFF Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2023 "Too much of a good thing" - XYZ Books / a ilha, Lisbon (Ce qu'il reste) (PT)
2023 Archipel_0 - Contretype, Brussels (Ondes) (BE)
2023 Möglichkeit und Wirklichkeit - Haus am Lützoplatz, Berlin (Ondes) (DE)
2022 G37 Gallery - Berlin (Ondes, SOLO) (DE)
2022 « Sous influence » - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (Ce qu’il reste) (FR)
2022 «those eyes, these eyes, they fade» - Valletta Contemporary, Malta (Ce qu’il reste) (MT)
2021 Photoforum PasquArt - Bienne, Switzerland (Ce qu'il reste, SOLO) (CH)
2021 LUFT Exhibition, 48 hours Neukölln - Berlin (Ce qu’il reste) (DE)
2020 PHotoESPAÑA - Best Photo Book Award Exhibition - Madrid (Ce qu’il reste) (ES)
2019 November Exhibition, Planet Flow - Berlin (Ce qu’il reste) (DE)
2019 Loading Fest Projection night - Porto (Ce qu'il reste) (PT)
2019 Bolseiros&finalistas, Ar.co - Lisbon (Ce qu’il reste) (PT)
2018 Diaporama, Gulbenkian foundation - Lisbon (Anesthesia) (PT)
2017 Sorry Not Sorry, Rust vzw - Ghent (Anesthesia) (BE)
2017 Summer Exhibition 2017, Ar.co - Lisbon (Anesthesia) (PT)
2015 Het Zuiden van Europa - Ghent (Lieux intimes, SOLO) (BE)
2014 Academie voor Beeldende Kunst - Ghent (Lieux intimes) (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 (Ondes, finalist) (IR)
2025 Photobook Winner Photometria Festival (Ondes, finalist) (GR)
2024 Fotofabrica Prize - Diecixdieci Festival (Ondes, shortlisted) (IT)
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:
2024 NOVO magazine HS 29 - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, article by Nicolas Bézard
2024 Neptune Journal #2 (Ondes)
2023 Site Specific [ Tall Poppy Press ]: featured exhibition
2023 The Annihilation of Space and Time - Zerofeedback, Tokyo
2023 Sola Journal (instagram takeover)
2022 C004 : Valletta Contemporary Annual Publication : catalogue
2022 Urbanautica: "Bénédicte Blondeau. Intimate places", by Steve Bisson
2022 NOVO magazine HS 24 - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, article by Nicolas Bézard
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:
2024 Photobook days - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (FR)
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:
2024 OFF Festival screening matinee
2024 France 3 Grand Est - TV broadcast on the «those eyes, these eyes, they fade» exhibition in Mulhouse
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