Claire Fontaine is a Paris based collective artist founded in 2004.
After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a "readymade artist" and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today.
Selected Works
Someone is getting rich., 2012
Exhibitions
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London, Moscow
Claire Fontaine
Fighting GravityFighting Gravity aims to approach the threatening magma deposited inside our lives by the recent economical crisis. Since the blatant failure of the mechanisms that...2 Feb - 12 Mar 2011 Read more -
Moscow
Claire Fontaine
DESTROY AND REJUVENATERegina Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Claire Fontaine in Moscow, Destroy and rejuvenate. Claire Fontaine is a collective artist based...30 Jan 2009 - 21 Mar 2010 Read more
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REGINA Gallery take part in the Art 43 Basel
Dasha Gorshkova, Buro 24/7 June 8, 2012 -
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Claire Fontaine THE DANGER OF LIAISON
Emily Nathan, artnet November 15, 2011 -
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How to burn «P.I.G.S.»
Valery Ledenev, ART Chronika November 12, 2011
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Interview Сlaire Fontaine
Arseny Steiner, ART Chronika November 11, 2011
