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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:

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:

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)

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   L'intervalle blog: "La logique des vibrations, par Bénédicte Blondeau, photographe", by Fabien Ribery

2024   L'alsace: "Les “Mondes impossibles au cœur de la 6e Biennale de la photographie", by Frédérique Meichler

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   L'intervalle blog: "Ce qu’il reste de la justice, de l’ordre, de la beauté sacrée, par Bénédicte Blondeau, photographe", by Fabien Ribery

2023   The Annihilation of Space and Time - Zerofeedback, Tokyo

2023   Sola Journal (instagram takeover)

2022   C004 : Valletta Contemporary Annual Publication : catalogue

2022   C4 Journal: "those eyes – these eyes – they fade at Valletta Contemporary, Malta", by Alexander Mourant

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)

2021   Linx + (Lieux Intimes)

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    France 3 Grand Est - TV broadcast on the «those eyes, these eyes, they fade» exhibition in Mulhouse

2023   "Par Ouï-dire" - radio documentary on the series "Ondes" as part of the archipel exhibition at Contretype - La première (BE)

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

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