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Ranging from assemblage to video and photography, Michel de Broin has developed a constantly expanding visual vocabulary. Piece by piece, the objects involved are sometimes universally recognizable but their behaviour defies their functions and uses taken for granted. Crafting new relationships between waste, productivity, risk and consumption, established modes of signification are endangered, yielding retooled technological environments that feed a constant questioning.
De Broin has exhibited widely in Europe and North America. The first mid-career institutional survey of his work was mounted by the Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, earlier this year. De Broin has held solo exhibitions and projetcs like Reciprocal Energy, at Musée d’art contemporain Val-de-Marne, France; Machinations at Musée national des beaux arts du Québec, QC; Reverse Entropy at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Disruption from Within at Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg, MB) ; Épater la Galerie at Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany. Group exhibitions include Beyond the Crisis, The 6th Curitiba Biennial, Brazil; Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland; Acclimatation, Centre d’art Villa Arson, Nice, France; Untethered, Eyebeam, New York, NY; De-con-struction, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; Canada Dreaming, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany; Damage Control, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON; and Au courant, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
In 2014 de Broin will unveil Mehr Licht, a newly commissioned 20-meter project in Berlin for the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, at the Bundestag federal parliament. His public art works and commissions in the last decade have included Possibilities, 2012, Mississauga; Interlace, 2012, Changwong; Majestic, 2011, New Orleans; Revolution, 2010, Rennes; Arc, Montréal, 2009; La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel, 2009, Paris; Overflow, 2008, Toronto; Encircling, Christchurch, 2006; Shared Propulsion Car, 2005, New York and 2007, Toronto; and Révolutions, 2003, Parc Maisonneuve-Cartier, Montréal.
Recipient of the 2007 Sobey Art Award, De Broin has also received grants from the Harpo Foundation (Los Angeles) and Krasner-Pollock Foundation (New York). His works are part of several private and public collections in France, Germany and Canada. Most recently, he has been awarded a residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, which will begin March 2014.
Michel de Broin currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada.