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Olivier CULMANN
Olivier CULMANN
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Olivier Pulmann began The Others in 2009, while he lived in New Delhi. Though a self-portraits series covering the archetypes of the different social or religious categories of Indian society, Olivier Pulmann appropriates the codes and practices of neighborhood studios, while exploring the limits of the photographic medium.
Exhibitions
2018
The Others
Salon PhotoDoc.
Espace des Blancs Manteaux, Paris
04.05.2018 – 06.05.2018
Biography
Born in 1970 in Paris, Olivier Culmann is photographer since 1992 and member of the collective Tendance Floue since 1996. Social conditioning and free will live in the work of Olivier Pulmann. Straddling absurd and derisory, his work analyses with a millimeter acuity the question of our daily lives and our relationship with images. Relentlessly returning to his obsessions and ours, he takes us by his humour and his art of narration.
Awards
Niepce prize, 2017
3rd World Press Photo prize (category Contemporary Topics), 2008
Fujifilm Euro Press Photo prize, 2004
Scam Roger Pic prize, 2003
Monographies Filigranes prize, 2000
Mention at the Grand Prix de la Ville of Vevey, 2000
World Press Masterclass, 1998
Villa Médicis Hors Les Murs, 1997
Bourse Déclic of the Fondation de France, 1996
Reporter au Japon prize, 1996
Editions
The Others, published in 2015 at editions Xavier Barral
Watching TV, published in 2011 at editions Textuel
La passion, dit Max, in collaboration with the writer Alain André, published in 2007 at editions Thierry Magnier
Intouchables, published in 2004 at editions Atlantica
Une vie de poulet, published in 2001 at editions Filigranes
Les Mondes de l’école, realized in collaboration with the photographer Mat Jacob and published in 2001 at editions Marval
Exhibitions
Retrospective 2001-2016 :
Centre d’Art Contemporain Photographique Villa Pérochon, Niort, France, 2016
Espace Bazacle, Festival MAP, Toulouse, France, 2016
The Others :
Place de la République, Paris, France, 2017
Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden, 2017
La Capsule, Le Bourget, France, 2017
Manege, Photobiennale de Moscou, Russia, 2016
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France, 2015-2016
Delhi Photo Festival, New Delhi, India, 2015
Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China, 2014
Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland, 2014
Watching TV :
Dityvon gallery, Angers, France, 2018
Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 2014
Atelier d’Art Visuel, Apt, France, 2013
Maison de l’Image, Grenoble, France, 2013
Public Art Festival Alwan 338, Bahrein, 2013
Nabad Gallery, Amman, Jordan, 2013
Regard Sud gallery, Lyon, France, 2013
Palais Mirbach et Galerie de l’Institut français, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2011
Nepal Art Council, Katmandou, Nepal, 2011
The Pool Gallery, New Delhi, India , 2011
Biennale Internationale de l’Image, Luang Prabang, Laos, 2010
Artothèque de Grenoble, France, 2010
Festival Fotoleggendo, Rome, Italy, 2010
Galeries Jules Verne et Paul Bert, Photautomnales de Beauvais, France, 2011
Biennale Internationale de la Photographie, Liège, Belgium, 2010
Neemrana Gallery, Cochin, India, 2010
Alliance française de Chennai, India, 2010
Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India, 2010
Alliance française de Chandigarh, India, 2010
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore, India, 2010
Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Calcutta, India, 2009
Alliance française de Delhi, India, 2009
Mapamundistas’09, Citadelle de Pampelune, Spain, 2009
Musée The Family of Man, Château de Clervaux, Luxembourg, 2009
Galerie des Franciscains, Saint-Nazaire, France, 2009
Espace Malraux, Chambéry, France, 2007
Light Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco, 2007
Rencontres cinématographiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Bobigny, France, 2006
18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, United-States, 2006
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France, 2006
Les Mondes de l’école (in collaboration with Mat Jacob) :
Parc de Champagne, Reims, France, 2013
Bibliothèques de Bobigny, France, 2011
Bibliothèques de Pantin, Maison des arts de Créteil et Forum du Blanc-Mesnil, France, 2010
Tour Eiffel, Paris, France, 2008-2009
Biblioteca José Vasconcelos, Mexico, Mexico, 2006
Fototeca del Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico, 2006
Institut français de Marrakech, Morocco, 2004
Centre André Malraux, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2001
Festival Chroniques Nomades, Honfleur, France, 2000
Centre Culturel Français de Bamako, Mali, 1999
Galerie de l’Entretemps, Le Bon Marché, Paris, France, 1996
Others exhibitions :
Diversions, Biennale Internationale du Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China, 2015
Down Towns, Triennale Photographie et Architecture, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2015
Diversions, Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland, 2014
Atlantiques, festival Photo de Mer, Vannes, France, 2012
Watchers, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Paris, France, 2011
The Mid Road, Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, France, 2011
Villes Fantômes (Namibie), Galerie Chambre à Part, Strasbourg, France, 2009
Autour, New York 2001-2002, QPN, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France, 2008
Marée noire, Festival photo Nature et Paysage, La Gacilly, France, 2006
Autour, New York 2001-2002, La Scam, Paris, France, 2004
Atlantiques, Festival International de la photo de Mer, Vannes, France, 2003
Intouchables, Festival Terre d’Images, Biarritz, France, 2001
Marée noire, Centre Atlantique de la Photographie, Brest, France, 2000
Collections
BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France), Paris, France
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Fondation Neuflize OBC – ABN AMRO, Paris, France
Private collectors
Commissariat et jury
Curator in India for biennale Photoquai organized by Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, 2011
Member of World Press Photo’s jury, 2009