Mimosa Echard

Mimosa Echard’s artistic practice explores both biological and artificial processes, diving into the contradictions of our contemporary aspirations. The artist plays with the coupling of dichotomies – form and the formless, the artefact and the organic, fluids and solids – reconciling and giving voice to a fractured universe. Her recent research on myxomycetes, unicellular organisms that are at the intersection of the animal, plant and fungi kingdoms, and may be endowed with a form of memory, was at the heart of her exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in 2022.

Mimosa Echard is the winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2022.

She has exhibited her work in various internationally renowned institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022) ; Collection Lambert, Avignon (2021-2020) ; Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, (2020); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2020) ; Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Ivry — Le CRÉDAC (2020); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019, 2017); Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2019); Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul (2018); Cell Project Space Gallery, London (2017); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); Mains d’oeuvres, Saint-Ouen (2012).

Mimosa Echard’s works are part of collections of the MAC VAL; CNAP — Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris; Sadami Art Foundation, Dhaka; Ettore Fico Foundation, Torino; Collection IAC — Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes; FRAC Corse; FRAC Bourgogne; FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, among others.