Xavier Antoinet

lives in Berlin, works between Germany and France.

Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (2010), Arles, France.
Gratuated of a Master degree in Contemporary History "China and its people through the eye of western photographers 1884-1937" essay directed by Pr Jacques Weber (2007), Université de Nantes, France.

Founding Member of the Anachronique Symposium Committee (2010).

Exhibitions

April15
Signal Industriel, Usimages / Diaphane, Agglomération de Creil, France

Nov14
Die Vergenssenskurve, Neues Deutschland - Fump Studio, Berlin, Germany.

April14
The smell of Dust (collective), KUNSTHALLE São Paulo, commissionned by Sue Elie Andrade dé, São Paulo, Brazil.

April13
Signal Industriel, La Forge Cavrois Maiheux, Roubaix, France.
April13
Signal industriel, Musée du Verre, Tréllon, France.

Dec12
Usine des mémoires Espace Electra, Fondation EDF, Paris, France.
Oct12
Usine des mémoires Espace Culture Université d'Artois, Arras, France.
Oct12
Usine des mémoires Ecole Estienne, Paris, France.
Sept12
La courbe de l'oubli (solo) Straat Galerie, Marseille, France.
Juin12
Usine des mémoires Usine de la Forge Cavois Maiheux, Roubaix, France.

Mar11
En tout autre lieu, Pavillon de Lanfant, Aix en Provence, France.

Jul10
Heimlich, exhibition during the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France.

Jul09
Europhophop, project Exhibition in European Parliament in Berlin, Germany.
Work in Progress, during the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France.
(jury : Elina Brotherus, Eric Baudelaire, Charles Freger; curator : Didier Mouchel)
Apr09
Europhophop, project in Espace Van Gogh d'arles, France.

Nov08
Opening screening for the project Europhophop, espace Dune, Paris, France.

Publications

March-April14
Everymonth, published by Léa Habourdin, Paris.

May13
Essay on the western photographers in China published in La France en Chine, co-edition CrHia/Université de Nantes, Les Indes Savantes, 2010. Mars12
Portfolio in Qu'avez vous fait de la photographie,Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Actes Sud, France.
Sep09
Portfolio in Work in Progress magazine#2, published by the Student Association of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France, 2009.
May09
Sample of the work Vers le Youkali, published in Merian travel book, Russia, 2009.

Corporate photographies published in main european newspapers [Le Monde(fr), Le Figaro(fr), Le Soir(be), Frankfurter Allgemeite, La Provence(fr), Telerama(fr), FranceMusique.com…].

Award

Prix jeune chercheur CILAC, Belfort, France, 2011, with the project Usine des mémoires.
Winner of the Arca-Swiss award, Arles, France, 2008.

photography of the main page :

Monument, la courbe de l'oubli, 2012

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