Mélanie Matranga

Artist

Born in 1985 in Marseille, Mélanie Matranga graduated from l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in 2011.

Winner of the Frieze Artist Award and nominated for the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize in 2014, she has benefited from several solo and group exhibitions, both in France, notably at the Palais de Tokyo in 2015, and abroad, at Tongewölbe T25 (Ingolstadt), Indipendenza (Rome), Artists Space (New York) and Museum Ludwig (Cologne). In 2016, she also took part in the 5th edition of the contemporary art biennale Ateliers de Rennes. She is represented by the Karma International art gallery in Zurich, where her work was exhibited in 2015. In 2018, she presents a solo exhibition at Villa Vassilieff, Paris.

Mélanie and the Fondation

Exhibitions

Photo : Aurélien Mole / Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
Photo : Aurélien Mole / Fondation d'entreprise Ricard

Poésie Prolétaire

from 15 January to 23 February 2019

Cette exposition emprunte son titre et en partie son humeur à la revue Poézi Prolétèr, créée par les poètes Katalin Molnar et Christophe Tarkos, et par l’artiste Pascal Doury à Paris à la fin des années 1990.

Curator
François Piron
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Prize 2016 PARIS

from 5 September to 29 October 2016

The Fondation d’entreprise Ricard will present its eighteenth annual prize this coming autumn, curated by Isabelle Cornaro.

Curator
Isabelle Cornaro
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PRIZE 2014 L'EPOQUE, LES HUMEURS, LES VALEURS, L'ATTENTION

from 10 September to 31 October 2014

 » A press release usually greets the viewer with the wrong hand. By immediately setting the exhibition in an artificial landscape of references, concepts and analysis, it awkwardly takes its distance from it. Most of the time it euphemizes the conditions of the exhibition’s making and neutralizes the discussions and questions which sparked during its conception, in order to offer an image of self-evidence. »

Curator
castillo/corrales

Textwork