Pascal Lièvre

b.1963

I started out as an artivist in the 1990s, working as an artist for people discriminated against because of HIV/AIDS and for migrants.

I emerged on the contemporary art scene in the 2000s with a practice of videos and performances based on covers mixing popular music and political texts and re-enactments of historical performances by queer artists and/or artists assigned to women. Performativity of gender and sex, my work very quickly explored feminist, queer and philosophical bodies of work.

Since 2020, I have been active in the association les ami.e.s du patchwork des noms, where I have been working on the association's archives, conducting interviews, and in 2023 I began a series of works celebrating the memory of activists who have died of AIDS. In 2023, I took part in two of the three exhibitions on HIV/AIDS in France, at the Palais de Tokyo and the MAMC in Strasbourg.

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Artist & HIV activist involved in feminist, queer bodies of work.

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The works have also been shown abroad

Ronald Felman Gallery (New York), Flatland Gallery (Amsterdam), Art Statements Gallery (Hong Kong), Muu Gallery (Helsinki), Blackwood Gallery (Toronto), Westfaelischer Kunstverein (Munster), Casino (Luxembourg), National Gallery of Canada (Toronto), National Portrait Gallery (Washington), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Darling Foundry (Montreal), Villa Medici (Rome),
Fabrica de pensule in Cluj (Romania), Lebuinuschurch (Deventer), Red Brick House (Yokohama), Videocube op de uitmarkt (Ut- markt), Kunstverein Galerie Nord, (Berlin), Herzliya Artists’ Residence (Israël), The 5th Floor (Tokyo) Le Cube (Rabat, Marocco), Fontain Art Fair (New-York), Nakahashi Galery (Tokyo), Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, (Maurice), Satelitte Gallery (Vancouver), Institut Français (Casablanca), Galerie Jan Colle (Gent), Institut Français (Tokyo), MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto), Musée des Beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa).


The works have been shown in France :

FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FRAC Ile-de-France, FRAC Occitanie, FRAC Réunion, FRAC Aquitaine, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Fondation Pernod Ricard (Paris), Maison des arts - centre d’art contemporain de Malako , Abbaye Saint-André de Meymac, Ingres Museum (Montauban), Centre Pompidou (Paris), MACVAL (Vitry-sur-Seine), Espace Croisé (Roubaix), MIAM (Sète), CAPA (Aubervilliers), CAC - La Traverse (Alfortville), Transpalette - Centre d’art contemporain (Bourges), Fort Saint André (Villeneuve lès Avignon), AFIAC, Musée des Beaux arts d’Orléans, Musée des Beaux arts de Nantes, Génerateur (Gentilly), La Station (Nice), Plateforme (Paris), Eternal Network (Tours), Les Voûtes du Port (Royan), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Les Sheds (Pantin), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS), Centre Pompidou (Metz), CIAM (Toulouse), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), École des Beaux arts de Tours, Médiathèque d’Annecy, Galerie du Rutebeuf (Clichy), Quang Gallery (Paris), Ecole du Baoum (Grenoble), Le Parvis, video K (Pau), La Fabrique Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (Toulouse), Angle (La Roche-sur-Foron), Longère Sudel Fuma, Saint-Paul, (La Réunion), Galerie Mouvements (Paris), Metavilla (Bordeaux), Espace 29 (Bordeaux), Quai des arts, Cugnaux, (Toulouse), Ici Gallery (Paris), MAIF Social Club (Paris), Musée Thomas-Henry (Cherbourg), Galerie Frederic Lacroix (Paris).