MARGUERITE BORNHAUSER

Marguerite Bornhauser was born in 1989 and lives and works in Paris. After studying literature and journalism, she joined the National School of Photography in Arles and graduated in 2015.

Her first solo show was at the museum of European Photography in Paris (MEP) in 2019. Her work has been shown in several art institutions, galleries and art festivals in many different countries such as France (Paris, Arles, Toulouse, Deauville) Cincinnati, London, Brussels, Portugal, Istanbul, Switzerland and shortly in Japan. Her work has also been exhibited in public spaces; the subway in Paris and billboards in USA with the Cincinnati art museum.

Marguerite Bornhauser adds editorial work to her photographic research. Her first self published book, Plastic Colors, was selected among the finalists of the first book award of Mack books in 2015 and published in 2017. Her book „8“ was published by Poursuite in 2018. In 2019 she published Red Harvest with the same publisher. She published her fourth book with Editions La Martinière in 2021 and is about to publish her fifth book.

She also collaborates with french and international magazines and newspapers as a photo journalist and portrait photographer while working as a fashion photographer also.

Exhibitions

2023

• Galeria Carlos Carvalho Arte, (solo), Lisboa, (PT)

2022

• Gallery BILDHALLE, (solo), Amsterdam, (NL)

• Arco Lisboa, Galerie Carlos Carvalho Arte, (PT)

• Le Grand Café – centre d’art contemporain, Saint Nazaire, (FR)

2021

• Bahrain, French Alliance, (FR)

• Paris Photo, Gallery Carlos Carvalho Arte, (FR)

• Kyotography, Gallery HOSOO, Kyoto, (JPN)

• Photo London, Gallery Carlos Carvalho Arte, (UK)

• Emerging Photographer of the year, Nikon, Photo London, (UK)

• Kyotographie, Gallery Hosoo, Kyoto, (JPN)

• Superzoom, Galerie Joesph, Paris, (FR)

• Renk ver bana, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, (TUR)

• Hangar Art Photo Center, Photo Brussels Festival 05, (BE)

2020

• Paris Photo, november - cancelled due to covid

• Festival In Cadaquès, October Portes ouvertes de Montreuil, (FR)

• Photo London, october - cancelled due to covid

• Espace Futur, Not so crazy girls, Paris. (FR)

• Invisible Stranger, Carlos Carvalho Gallery, Portugal, (PT)

• RATP Metro Paris, Moisson Rouge, June Photo London, (FR)

• Théâtre national de Chaillot, june - cancelled due to covid

• Nuits de la Photo, Switzerland, (CH)

2019

• Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, (FR)

• Salon de la Photo, Paris, November Festival été Indien, Arles, (FR)

• Francs Bourgeois, Arles, (FR)

• Maison Européenne de la Photographie, (solo), Paris, (FR)

• Galerie Made, (solo), Paris, (FR)

• AMP Studios, London, (UK)

2018

• Marion Vidal, Paris, (FR)

• Jeune Création, ProjectionM (FR)

• Havas gallery, Paris, (FR)

2017

• Rue des Filles du Calvaire, Paris, (FR)

• Rue de l‘Université, Paris, (FR)

• What‘s Up Photo Doc, Paris, (FR)

• Hameau des Baux, Paris, (FR)

• Ourcq Blanc, (duo), Paris, (FR)

2016

• Triton, (solo), Paris, (FR)

• Issy-les-Moulineaux, (solo), Paris, (FR)

• Galerie Atelier du Midi, Arles, Les rencontres de la photo d‘Arles, (FR)

• Musée Dupuy, (solo), Festval MAP Toulouse, (FR)

• Galerie Atelier du Midi, (duo), Arles, (FR)

• Art rooms, London, ione & mann, (UK)

• L‘avant goût du Hameau, Maussane, (FR)

2015

• Agnès B, Paris, (FR)

• Festival Planches Contact, Deauville (FR)

• Le BAL, Paris -Display - (FR)

• BETC, Paris, September Nord Pinus, Rencontres d‘Arles, (FR)

• Eglise Saint-Julien, Arles, (FR)

• Palais de l’Archevêché, Arles, (FR)

• Public art exhibition, (solo), Cincinnati Art Museum, (USA)

• La Manutention, Paris, (FR)

Books

• 2019, Marguerite Bornhauser, Percevoir, Editions de La Martinière,

texts by Flavien Berger and Simon Baker

• 2019, The world within, Hangar art center, texts by Christian Caujolle

and Delphine Dumont

• 2019, Red Harvest, Poursuite Editions, text. by Simon Baker

• 2018, 8, Poursuite Editions

• 2017, Plastic Colors, Les Editions du Lic

• 2017, Carnet de Résidence du Hameau des Baux, Poursuite Editions

• 2017, Fisheye photobook

• 2016, 8, Self published

• 2015, Festival de créations photographiques à Deauville Edition 6, Filligranes Editions

• 2015, Echappées Belles, Edition Diaphane

• 2015, Plastic Colors, Self published, January

Awards & Residencies

• 2021-2024 / Residency carte blanche for Le Grand Palais, Paris

• 2022 / Residency at Chapelle Saint Antoine, Naxos, Greece - july

• 2022 / Residency in Détroit, USA - june & october

• 2020 / Winner of the emerging photographer of the year Photo London

• 2020 / Shortlisted in the Foam Talent Call, 2020

• 2016 / Residency on archaeological excavations in Arles with the Departmental Museum of Antique Arles, the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research, the National School of Photography and the Photo Festival of Arles

• 2016 / Residency in Hameau des Baux in Maussane

• 2016 / Shortlisted for the Athens Photo Festival

• 2015 / Book Plastic Colors short-listed for the First Book Award, Mack books

• 2015 / Residency Planches Contact Photo festival in Deauville with Fondation Louis Roederer

• 2014 / Residency in Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin