Spazio Nobile presents Vincent Fournier
Celebrating 10 years of artist’s representation
From plants to animals, from the transformation of species that fascinates him, a globetrotter at heart and a discoverer of new territories connected to man and nature, French artist Vincent Fournier never ceases to amaze us. His boundless curiosity and imagination guide him in his photographic creations, which he nourishes with his enlightened thinking as a 21st-century explorer.
Born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in 1970, he is currently living between Paris and Arles. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure de la Photographie in Arles in 1997.
He is a pioneer in his interpretation of life on earth and in space, which he extrapolates on the basis of advances in science and technology. From Space Project which keeps track of ‘cosmodromes’ and aerospace bases, to the bestiary and cabinet of curiosities Post Natural History, which was our inaugural exhibition at Spazio Nobile. He has continued the adventure with Auctus Animalis and, more recently, Flora Incognita, which feed his quest to bring nature to life and rebirth through reinvented flora and fauna.
A body of work centered around photography
His work explores the imaginaries of the future –both past visions and those we project for tomorrow– through various series: space exploration with Space Project (2007–21), humanoid robots in The Man Machine (2009–10), utopian architecture in Brasilia (2012–19) and Kosmic Memories (2021–22),
The reinvention of the living in Post Natural History (2013–22)
Auctus Animalis (2022)
and most recently, the flora of exoplanets with Flora Incognita (2024–26).
Selection of Museum & Gallery Solo Exhibitions
Flora Incognita, Spazio Nobile, Brussels, 2025 – Space Utopia, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris 2024 – Uchronie, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, 2023 –
Auctus Animalis, Prix Swiss Life à 4 mains, France, 2023 – Super Specimens, Sensations of the Extraordinary, Spazio Nobile, Brussels, 2022
– Post Natural History, Hangar Art Centre, Brussels, 2019 – Man Machine, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna – MAMbo, 2017 – Post Natural History, Spazio Nobile, Brussels, 2016 – Past Forward, Rencontres d’Arles, 2013
Selection of Museum & Institutional Group Exhibitions
Past Forward, International Art Festival BIWAKO Biennale, Japan, 2025 – Post Natural History, KG+ Kyotographie, Kyoto, Japan – Space, A Visual Journey, Fotografiska Museum Stockholm, 2024 – Civilization, Jut Art Museum, Taiwan, 2024 – Science-Fiction, Centre Pompidou Metz, France, 2023 – Civilization, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK – Unknown Unknowns, Triennale de Milan, Italy, 2022 – Civilization, MUCEM Marseille, France, 2020 –
Hello Robots, MMCA, Seoul, Korea – UCCA, Beijing – V&A Museum Dundee, 2019 – La Fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou Paris, France, 2018 – Design et Merveilleux, MAMC, Saint-Etienne, France, 2018 – The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museums Tokyo, Japan and ArtScience Museum Singapore, 2017
Selection of Acquisitions from Museums and Institutions
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, LVMH, JP Morgan New York, Société Générale Paris, MAST Foundation Bologna, Domaine des Étangs Massignac, Vontobel Zurich, Swiss Life, Black Gold Museum, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mâcon, Fondation Bullukian Lyon, Institut français du Cambodge, Phnom Penh.
The Brasilia series is on view at The Metropolitan Museum New York (The MET), Fifth Avenue, Gallery 916
Selection of Invitations
2017: Collaboration with NASA for the Space Utopia project, working with all major American space centers
2018: Panel discussion at the Centre Pompidou as part of the exhibition La Fabrique du Vivant
2019: Presentation at The MET for the conference In Our Time
2023: Roundtables with authors Enki Bilal, Alain Damasio, Vinciane Despret, Christophe Galfard, Patrick Gyger, and Ariel Kyrou at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
2025: Conference at Domaine de Chaumont, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France, alongside Vinciane Despret and Cédric Sueur
Selection of Collaborations
Louis Vuitton, Le Bon Marché Paris, Baccarat, Isetan Tokyo, Musée Guimet & TLmag, XPeng China, Columbia Pictures for the movie The Amazing Spiderman II
Kintsugi, C-Print on Washi paper, a special project with Musée Guimet for Spazio Nobile & TLmag, 2020. For French artist Vincent Fournier, this 15th-century technique was the point of departure for his new series of ten photograph shot at the Hotel Heidelbach (tea pavilion) at the Guimet Museum of Asian arts in Paris. Passionate about Japan, a country that he has been travelling to and working in for the past 20 years (for example he was recently in a group show, Future and the Arts at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo), these images of kimono-clad Japanese women that have been spliced and overlaid with gold paper, then photographed again, tell the story of “a beautiful accident,” he says. “Something beautiful that was broken, then reattached. For me, it has to do with the work of memory. When we search for a memory, incomplete and fragmentary, we necessarily change this memory.
We reattach the pieces in our minds. By bringing the memory to the surface, we modify it and recolour it with our present feelings. Our memories are memories of memories. It is a dynamic process from the past to the present and the future. I believe that kintsugi has something to do with that. This ‘reassembly’ is a way of integrating the past and its feelings into our immediate present.” V. Fournier
Books Selection
Flora Incognita, Spazio Nobile Editions, 2025 (release at Spazio Nobile on 2 March) – Uchronie, Filigranes, 2023 – Auctus Animalis, Filigranes, 2022 – Kosmic Memories, Noeve, 2021 – Brasilia, Noeve, 2020 – Post Natural History, Noeve, 2019 – Space Utopia, Noeve & Rizzoli, 2018
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Season XXXII- Vincent Fournier, Solo Show, Flora Incognita
23.1 – 2.3.2025
Rue Franz Merjay 142, B-1050 Brussels
Finissage Sunday Brunch & Artist”s Book signing
Sunday 2nd March 2025, 12-18.00,
in the presence of the artist Vincent Fournier
Download the catalogue Season XXXII- Vincent Fournier, solo show, Flora Incognita here
Viewing Room on Artsy
Part of Photo Brussels Festival
All photos by Barbara De Vuyst
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Vincent Fournier at NOMAD St Moritz
Spazio Nobile, Shining Peaks, 4th Floor
20-23.2.2025
Klinik Gut, Via Arona 24, St Moritz, Switzerland
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