Clément Cogitore


Clément Cogitore is a French contemporary artist and filmmaker. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representations.

Early life and studies

Clément Cogitore grew up in Lapoutroie, in eastern France. Studying in Strasbourg at the :fr:École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg|Academy of Applied Arts and then at :fr:Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains|Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Clément Cogitore developed an artistic practice halfway between Cinema and Contemporary Art.

Career

Since 2011, Cogitore’s work has been screened and exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Centre Georges Pompidou, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, MACRO, Museum of Fine Arts, MoMA, MNBA, SeMA Bunker,  .
In 2010 his short movie Parmi nous was awarded the Grand Prize of the European First Film Award. That same year his documentary movie Bielutine was selected for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight. The following year he became resident of the Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome.
In 2015, his first feature film The Wakhan Front was selected at the Cannes international film festival – Critic’s week, awarded by the Gan Foundation. That same year he won the BAL Prize for contemporary art. In 2016, he won the SciencesPo Prize for contemporary art and the 18th Ricard Foundation Prize for contemporary art. In 2017, Cogitore released his documentary movie Braguino.
In 2018, Clément Cogitore was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize for Contemporary Art, for his work The Evil Eye. Since 2018, he is teaching at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, where he is in charge of one studio.
To celebrate its 350th anniversary, Cogitore will stage Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera ballet, Les Indes galantes at the Opéra National de Paris. The première has taken place in September 2019. Les Indes Galantes was selected by The New York Times as one of the best opera productions of 2019, nominated best opera production 2019 by the Giornale della Musica and won the Forum Opera Trophy of the Best new opera production 2019.
Cogitore’s work is represented in several public collections and private collections.

Solo shows

Feature films