Cécile Hartmann is a french artist and filmmaker based in Paris. Born in Colmar, she studies Art at the National Fine Arts Academy of Paris (2000) and Art History in Human Sciences at the University of Strasbourg.
Inspired by documentary aesthetics and Minimalism, her work questionnes the divisions between a constructed world and a natural world.
Using different mediums and image regimes she fuses video, photography and performative gestures to create effects of instability and sublimity in her representations. Close to the terrestrial surface, in search for hidden layers and collective mythologies, her cinematic language plays on the indecisive nature of perception, between the visible and invisible, the organic and non-organic, past and futur, darkness and light.
Main exhibitions included : Achrone, MOCA, Hiroshima, Et voici la lumière, Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, The family of the invisibles, SEMA Séoul Museum of Art, AGITATIONISM, Eva Internationale Bienniale, Limerick, De la Casa a la Fabrica, Palau la Virreina, Barcelone, French Edges, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paysages de la conscience, MAMBO, Bogotà, Microclimat, CCC, Tours.
Filmography
Le Serpent Noir 2021
Production Fondation des artistes
The one who repeat (in progress)
Production Hiroshima Art Document
Holistic Partition, 2016 (Film installation)
Production Hiroshima Art Document
Achrone (Achronology in Dubaï) 2011
Grand Prix Art vidéo, Festival Côté-Court Pantin 2011
Prix du Pavillon, Festival Côté-Court Pantin 2011
French Edges Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2012
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal 2012
Collection CNAP 2015
Collection de la Mairie de Paris 2012
Collection Jean-Conrad et Isabelle Lemaître 2013
Production Cecile Hartmann Studio
Supra-Continent 2010 (film installation)
Collection Frac Limousin 2011
Production CRAC Chelles
Kessoku (Le contrat) 2006
Mention spéciale du jury, Festival Côté-Court Pantin 2007
Collection Point Ligne Plan
Production Institut Français
Relay 2004
Collection Point Ligne Plan
Production Institut Français
Time & Tide 2002
Collection Point Ligne Plan
Production Cecile Hartmann Studio
You 2002
Collection Point Ligne Plan
Orange Project 2000
Production Saint-Germain-des-Prés Parcours