Xavier Veilhan
Xavier Veilhan (; 1963) is a French artist who works with photography, sculpture, film, painting and installation art. Education
Veilhan attended the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, followed by the Berlin University of the Arts, where he worked in the studio of Georg Baselitz. He finished his studies at the Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques in 1989. Career

Veilhan works with a wide range of media: sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance work, and filmmaking. He experiments with the idea of the generic within industrialism and universal representations. He has represented France at the Taipei Biennial in 2002; the International Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana and the Lyon Biennale in 2003; the Valencia Biennale in 2005; and the Venice Biennale in 2017. He has also presented at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. He also has a number of permanent public installations, including Le Lion (2005) in Bordeaux; Deux Pingouins, Grand Pingouin, Jeune Fille en roller, Le Livreur de pizza, Ours, and Home au téléphone (2006) in Lyon's  Cité internationale neighbourhood; Jean-Marc Bustamente (2012) in Manhattan, La Crocodile (Olivier Mosset) in Lausanne and Romy and the dogs at the MAAT in Lisbon in 2019; and Romy (2022) at the Lille-Flandres station. A number of books have been written about or have included his work, including by writers Jean-Pierre Criqui (1990), Éric Troncy and Liam Gillick (1991), Dan Cameron, Gillick, Alison M. Gingeras, and John Miller (2000), Gingeras and Christine Macel (2004), Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Criqui, Laurent Le Bon, Arnauld Pierre, and Pierre Senges (2009), and Andrew Berardini and Yuko Hasegawa (2015). Selected exhibitions

Veilhan's art has been exhibited at venues such as Fundació Joan Miró, Barbican Centre, Kitakyushu Center for Contemporary Art, and the Gering & López Gallery. Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Selected films
As a director, Veilhan has worked on:
 2002: Le Film du Japon
 2003: Drumball
 2005: Cruiser
 2008: Radiator - in collaboration with Michael Elion
 2008: Furtivo 
 2010: L'affaire Dreyfus
 2011: Pendule Dripping
 2015: Vent Moderne
 2015: Matching Numbers

Collaborations 
 Stephen Thompson
 Compulsory Figures: An installation spectacle and ice performance by Xavier Veilhan for Stephen Thompson, a dancer and ice skater. Co-production: Théâtre National de Bretagne, Espace Malraux-National Scene of Chambéry and Savoie, as part of the European project Corpo Links Cluster,  Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussels), La Villette. Performances: Grande halle de la Villette, Paris (2019); Théâtre National de Bretagne (TNB) (2020) and Espace Malraux in Chambéry. Eliane Radigue
SYSTEMA OCCAM, 2013: A spectacle by Xavier Veilhan for OCCAM I, a harp piece by Eliane Radigue, performed by Rhodri Davies. Performances: MAMO – Cité Radieuse, Marseille (2013); Florence Gould Hall Theater (Fi:af), New York (2013); Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (Festival New Settings), Paris (2013); Musée national Eugène Delacroix, Paris (2013). Sébastien Tellier
Sébastien Tellier rencontre Xavier Veilhan, Maison des arts, Créteil, March 25, 2006. Val de Marne, 2006: Xavier Veilhan in collaboration with Sébastien Tellier. MAC VAL, Vitry, December 1-2, 2006. Ville Nouvelle, 2006: Xavier Veilhan in collaboration with Alexis Bertrand. Musical performance with Sébastien Tellier. Nuit blanche, City Hall, Paris. Air
Artwork - Air’s Pocket Symphony album 2007. Aérolite, 2007: Musical performance by Xavier Veilhan with Alexis Bertrand. Music: Air. Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, April 7, 2007. Daniel Buren
La Cabane éclatée aux Paysages fantômes, 2006-2007. Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, facade of Centre Pompidou Metz. Jordan, 2010: Polystyrene, 193.5 × 68 × 40. Erwan & Ronan Bouroullec, 35 Clouds Installation, 2010. 120 Nuits
Artistic direction, 1983-1984. References

 

French photographers
1963 births
Living people
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
French male painters
21st-century French painters
21st-century French male artists
French conceptual artists
French contemporary artists
20th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
French mixed-media artists