Caroline Mesquita
Born in 1989 in Brest, France
Lives and works in Marseille
contact@carolinemesquita.net
Education
2014 MSA^, The Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2010-2013 MA Beaux-arts de Paris, Jury Honors, FR
2007-2010 BA Beaux-arts de Rennes, FR
Awards
2017 19th Prize Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
2013 Sculpture Prize Joseph Ebstein, Paris, FR
Solo exhibitions
2026 PEANA, CDMX, MX (upcoming)
Centre d’art Le Creux de l’enfer, Thiers, FR (upcoming)
Union Pacific, London, UK (upcoming)
Kunsthal Gent, Gand, BE (upcoming)
2025 Compagnons, Centre d’art Bastille, Grenoble, FR
Caroline Mesquita, Chapelle Saint Sébastien, Plestin-les-Grèves, FR
Soupe primordiale (duo avec Martin Belou), Space Collection, Liège, BE
2024 Verdet bath, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, AT
Blue hour, Sala Santa Rita, Rome, IT
Eggo, T293, Rome, IT
CuCO & CO, HAB Galerie, Nantes, FR
2023 Caroline Mesquita - Art Club #37, Villa Médicis, Rome, IT, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
The Ballad, Bourse du travail Centre d'art, Valence, FR
2022 Mid-way, Kunstforum Montafon, duo with Hans Schabus, AT
Noctambules, CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel, CH
Mundi de Ideis, Le Parvis Centre d'art contemporain, Tarbes, FR
Portraits, T293, Rome, IT
2021 Noctambules, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, USA
Humans and animals, Statement Art Basel with Union Pacific, Basel, CH
2020 In vivo, Pivô, São Paulo, BR
Le Festin, Passerelle Centre d'art contemporain, Brest, FR
2019 La Casa dell'Eremita sul Naviglio, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, IT, curated by Cloé Perrone
Astray, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
Astray, Galeria Municipal do Porto, PT, curated by Sofia Lemos
2018 Astray (Prologue), Kunsthalle Lissabon, PT
Os & Oas, JoBrand, duo with Tore Wallert, Glasgow, UK
Night Engines, Centre Pompidou, MAM, Paris, FR
The Machine Room, Parcours Art Basel, Historisches Museum Basel, CH, curated by Samuel Leuenberger
2017 Night engines, T293, Roma, IT
Night engines, Present Future Artissima with T293 and carlier | gebauer, Turin, IT
The Visitors, SALTS, Basel, CH, curated by Elise Lammer
L'engin, RATS Collectif, Indiana, Vevey, CH
The Ballad, 221A, Vancouver, CA, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum
The Ballad, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum
2016 Pink everywhere, Kunstverein Langenhagen, DE, curated by Valérie Chartrain
Cream sacrifice, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
Some blue in my mouth, MOT International, Brussels, BE
2015 123 Soleil Victoria, abc, Art Berlin Contemporary, DE
Bal, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
Windsurfers, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
Sloths, Pavillon du Centre d'art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR
Camping, Union Pacific, London, UK
2014 Les Bains-Douches, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, FR
2013 Tube, 1m3, Lausanne, CH
Group exhibitions
2026 Bearing Forms, La Traverse, Marseille, FR (upcoming)
Superglue, or Inventing the Friend , Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT (upcoming)
Baba Yaga, Eden Island, Brussels, BE
2025 To open eyes, Centre Pompidou Málaga, ES
HAPPY PLACE, Biennale für Freiburg 3, DE, curated by Lorena Juan
Animal, Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc, Landerneau, FR
Gillet et compagnie, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, FR
Velvet Morning, 24 Beaubourg, Paris, FR curated by Martha Kirszenbaum
2024 Le sens de l'orientation, Galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, FR, curated by Xavier Veilhan
I’ll give it to someone special, Sans titre, Paris, FR
Future in now, Le Parvis Centre d'art contemporain, Tarbes, FR
Une nouvelle jeunesse (with Laure Prouvost), Contemporaine de Nîmes, FR, curated by Anna Labouze et Keimis Henni
2023 Au hasard des oiseaux, Biennale internationale de Saint-Paul de Vence, FR, curated by Claire Staebler and Ludovic Delalande
2022 L’ami.e modèle, Mucem, Marseille, FR, curated by Mathieu Mercier
Modernités cosmiques, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, FR, curated by Michel Gauthier
Collettiva #1, Gallery Monitor, Pereto, IT
Do Animals go to Heaven?, Agavino Collection, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera, IT
Festival Iminente, Mucem, Marseille, FR
2021 La diosa verde, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, MX, curated by Dorothée Dupuis
ONE DECATE OF FEMALE SCULPTORS, König Galerie, KHK, Vienna, AT
Capsule, Buropolis, Marseille, FR, curated by Jean-Christophe Arcos
La Quinzaine Radieuse #13, Piacé le radieux, FR
2020 Sur pierres brûlantes, Triangle France, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR, curated by Céline Kopp and Marie de Gaulejac
Unterschiedswesen, Von Bartha, Basel, CH, curated by Fabian Schöneich
Your friends and neighbors, High Art, Paris, FR
So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
2019 Futur, ancien, fugitif, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
The Assembled Human, Folkwang Museum, Essen, DE
Cosmologic Arrow, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, SE, curated by Caroline Elgh
Fallen empires and refound desires, Horst, Vilvoorde, BE, curated by Evelyn Simons
Big Orchestra, SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, FRANKFURT, DE, curated by Matthias Ulrich
Lille 3000 - ELDORADO, Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, FR, curated by Dorothée Dupuis
2018 The Gravity Show, Grisebach, Berlin, DE, curated by Verena Gillmeier
GRAND OPENING (Summer Rhapsody), KURA., Fonderia Artistica Battaglia Milan, IT
Loopstar, Mother Culture, Los Angeles, USA
Post-disaster Residencies, Stadium de Vitrolles, FR, curated by Paul Paillet and Jonathan Vidal
Salle des Pas-Perdus, DOC, Paris, FR, curated by Michel François
Voici des Fleurs, La Loge, Brussels, BE
One Long Changing Body, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
CONDO, Union Pacific, London, UK
2017
Les bons sentiments, 19ème Prix Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR curated by Anne-Claire Schmitz
Sticky Fingers, Arsenal Contemporary New York, NYC, USA, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum
Tender Comrades, STUDIOLI, Roma, IT, curated by Pauline Baudemont
Summer Show, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, SE
NOTHING TO HIDE, Sans titre (2016), Paris, FR
Parisque, DOC, Paris, FR, curated by Marie de Gaulejac
2016
COOL MEMORIES, Occidental Temporary, Villejuif, FR, curated by Myriam Ben Salah
I pledge allegiance, On Stellar Rays, New York City, USA, curated by Elisa R. Linn & Lennart Wolff
Lodos, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MX
2015 Le Bal Jaune special project, Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, Paris, FR
Mon horizontalité, Untilthen, Saint-Ouen, FR, curated by Julie Boukobza
Maladie d'amour, Lili Reynaud Dewar's studio, Grenoble, FR
2014 Explore, FRAC Ile-de-France, Le Château de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, FR
Europe, Europe, The Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thomas Boutoux
Possibles d’un Monde Fragmenté, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR, curated by Enrico Lunghi
The Space Between Us, Flax Fondation, Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, USA
Speedboat, Nicelle Beauchene, New York, USA, curated by Alex Ross
Memory Palaces, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, DE
MOMENTUM? MAYBE THE TIME HAS COME TO LIVE OUR CORPORALITYRATHER THAN SPEAK OURSEXUALITY, PSM-Gallery, Berlin, DE curated by Petunia, Art and Entertainment Magazine
2013 La Vie Matérielle, 15ème Prix Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR, curated by Yann Chateigné
Barbarie, La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, FR
Le Salon des Testeurs, Chalet Society, Paris, FR
2012 Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, FR
BYOB, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel
Skypy Gang Archange, Chez Treize, Paris, FR
2011 Nul Ptyx, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR, curated by Laetitia Paviani
Screenings
2025 Actoral,
Cycle de projections
par Laure Prouvost, MUCEM, FR
2020 Vidéodrome in Lucca, cycle The myth of plenty, IT
Vidéodrome in Corsica, cycle Les Métamorphoses, FR
2019 Petunia Symposium, Goethe in the Skyways, USA
DAMA, Turin, IT, curated by Elise Lammer
2017 Notte Bianca, Villa Medici, Rome, IT, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto
2016 Launch Petunia 7 at Beverly's New York City, USA
Residencies
2024 Rouvrir le monde, Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
Outdoor commissions
2025 L’oiseau soleil, 1% du Village Charlot, Beasoleil, FR