Education
1998 – 2003, MFA Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, studio Annette Messager, Paris, FR
1999 – 2002, Paris-4 Sorbonne University (Art History & Archeology), Paris, FR
2002 – 2004, Gobelins, L’école de l’image (Studio photography), Paris, FR
Residencies
2019, American Academy in Rome, MondriaanFonds Affiliate Fellow (with Dina Danish), IT
2018, Sandra Natali Rose residency program (with Dina Danish), Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, IT
2014, Lo Schermo Dell’Arte film festival, VISIO Residency program, Florence, IT
2013, Ashram Joytinat, Festival Dolce India, Corinaldo, IT
2013, ViaFarini, Milan, IT
2012, VISIO - European Workshop on Artists’ Cinema 2012, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Florence, IT
2012, PiST///Istanbul, TUR
2009 – 2010, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Culture, Amsterdam, NL
2007 – 2008, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2003, Casino-Luxembourg / Forum d'art contemporain, LU
Fellowships / Stipends
2020, Development stipend, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, NL
2019, International Presentations Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2018, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna Sanda Natali Prize, International Presentations Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, NL + IT
2017, Stipendium Program for Established Artists, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2016, International Presentations Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2015, Projectinvestering Kunstenaar, Mondriaan fonds, NL
2014, Production stipend, Institut Français de Florence/ Lo Schermo dell’Arte film festival, IT
2014, Research stipend, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, NL
2012, Institut Français de Florence, IT
2012, PiST-Istanbul/ Mondriaan Fund, NL-TR
2011, Basisstipendium, Fonds BKVB, NL
2010, Tom and Yvonne De Swaan
2009, Maisons Descartes Amsterdam (NL)
2007 – 2010, Dutch Ministry of Culture, Education and Science
2003, AFAA, FR, photography project: ‘Typology of Wastelands in Beirut’
2001, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Internship, Venice, IT
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020, Rita Urso, “JB Maitre & Dina Danish: Victor Hugo Was Here”, Milan, IT
2020, Martin van Zomeren & Stigter van Doesburg, “Window series: JB Maitre & Dina Danish: Victor Hugo Was Here”, Amsterdam, NL
2018, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna - Villa delle Rose, 'Whatever They Do, May It All Turn Out Wrong' (with Dina Danish), curated by Giulia Pezzoli, Bologna, IT
2018, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, 'Death Ship Paintings', Amsterdam, NL
2018, Rita Urso Gallery, 'WARNING: The Grape-Train Has No Breaks', Milan, IT
2017, PuntWG, ‘The Admirer and the admired’ (with Dina Danish), Amsterdam, NL
2016, INSTITUT FÜR KUNSTGESCHICHTE DER LMU, ‘The Admirer and the admired’ (with Dina Danish), curated by María Inés Plaza Lazo, Munich, GER
2016, Rita Urso Gallery, ‘Fluid Carrying the Hope of Ships in Distress’, Milan, IT
2016, TYSON Raum, ‘The Admirer and the admired’ (with Dina Danish), by invitation of Patricia Schnurr, Köln, GER
2014, Palazzo dell'Arte dei Giudici e Notai: ‘Le Poète, la Cité, la Machine’, by invitation of Leonardo Bigazzi, Florence, IT
2014, Mandala République, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2013, This Is What I Meant, P//////AKT platform for contemporary art, Amsterdam
2013, Post-Sculpture, 1m3, Lausanne (with Bruce McLean, curated by Clément Dirié)
2012, Gündüz Filmi, PiST Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul, TR
2012, Stripe Paintings, La Salle de Bains, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Lyon
2012, (with Øystein Aasan, curated by Arlène Berceliot Courtin)
2012, Dans le vêtement..., Anyspace Gallery, Bruxelles
2011, Not On Sculpture, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan
2011, Villa Tokyo, Tokyo (with Martin van Zomeren)
2011, ‘Not Necessarily Words’, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2008, DSM Office, Sittard, NL, ‘A Personal Anthology Of Mediatic Images’
2008, GallerySpace, JVE, Maastricht, NL, ‘Plywood as media’
2008, MissChina Gallery, Paris, FR, ‘Plywood as media’
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021, Press Eject and give me the tape, GMVZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020, ‘Cinque Mostre’, curated by E. Rodini, I. Gianni, American Academy in Rome, IT
2020, 'The Populist', Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
2020, ‘Dust - the plates of the present’, curated by Thomas Fougeirol, Joey Tang, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2018, Art Dusseldorf, Rita Urso, Davide Allieri, Erika Hock, Elizabeth McAlpine, Cosar HMT, DE
2018, Mi-Art 2018, Milan, IT
2017, ‘They Took His Fries, He Took Their Lives’, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
2017, ‘Purple Drank’, Rita Urso, Milan, IT
2017, ‘wordswordswords’, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
2017, Praz-Delavallade, ‘The plates of the present, so far’, curated by Thomas Fougeirol, Paris, FR
2016, Martin van Zomeren, ‘For Your Everyday Use’, Amsterdam, NL
2016, EYE Amsterdam Film Museum, ‘International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam- IDFA 2016’, Amsterdam, NL
2015, Dutch Central Bank, ‘Acquisitions 2015’, Amsterdam, NL
2015, EYE Amsterdam Film Museum, ‘International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam- IDFA 2015’, Amsterdam, NL
2015, CCA Glasgow, ‘TRANSIT film festival’, Glasgow, UK
2015, CCNY Baxter Street, ‘DUST: the plates of the present’, curated by Sonel Breslav, New York city, USA
2015, Espace Moins-1, ‘Axis Mundi’, curated by Julia Geerlings, Paris, FR
2015, Rita Urso Gallery, ‘OPHELIA, Della muta eloquenza’, curated by Paola Caravati, Milan, IT
2015, Gallery Martin van Zomeren, ‘Fa Fa Fa’, Amsterdam, NL
2015, Dutch Central Bank, ‘Acquisitions 2014’, Amsterdam, NL
2014, Codex, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2014, 2014 ‘It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it’, Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam
2013, ViaFarini V-I-R, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Milan
2013, Rue Française, Oh My Gold, Paris
2013, Book Machine, Centre Pompidou, Paris (curated by Patrick Javault and Christophe Boutin)
2013, Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles, Blackboard, Arles (curated by V. Birolli, A. Blanc)
2012, Pigna Project Space, (Drawing) Quote!, (curated by F. Stocchi & N. Oberthaler), Rome
2012, Contemporary Istanbul (curated by PiST///), Istanbul
2012, Group show with Alexandra Leykauf, Praneet Soi, Navid Nuur, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2011, C O D E X (curated by Pierre Leguillon), Institut curatorial de la Head–Genève, CH
2011, D e p i c t i o n s i m i l a r, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2011, 56eme Salon de Montrouge, La Fabrique, Paris, FR
2011, Light Box, Bureau Des Videos/ JRP Ringier Film Program, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2010, Guggenheim Museum, Play Biennial, New York, USA
2010, Claudine Papillon Gallery, Paris, FR, ‘Partis pris’
2010, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL, ‘Form & Content’
2010, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, GR, ‘10 ausgewählte Positionen’
2009, Rijksakademie Open Ateliers 2009, Amsterdam, NL
2009, In-Situ/ F. Leclerc Gallery, Paris, FR, “Cultural memories/ Récits Parallèles’
2009, Reinier Van Ewijk Projects, Amsterdam, NL ‘Research-Innerconnection’
2008, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL, ‘Chanting Baldessari’
2008, Slick 08 art fair, Miss China Gallery, Paris (FR)
2008, La Générale, Paris, FR, ‘Second Life’
2008, FLACC, Genk, BE, ‘Open Days’
2007, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL, ‘Video Weekend’
2006, Agence Borderline, Esch-sur-Alzette, LU, ‘Be my lucky number’
2005, Miss China Gallery, Paris, FR, ‘Videobox#2’
2005, ENSB-A, Paris, FR, ‘Urbanismes’
2005, 2ème Biennale de St. Cloud, St. Cloud, FR, ‘D’un espace à l’autre’
2003, Casino/ Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, LU, ’Hybrid-liquid:
Workshop exhibition
2003, ENSBA, Paris, FR, MFA exhibition
2002, SKC Centrum, Beograd, RS, ‘Pont des Arts’
Publications
2018, ‘Whatever They Do May It All Turn Out Wrong’, museum catalogue of solo exhibition (with Dina Danish), Editions Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, published by CORRAINI edizioni, Italy; English and Italian language
2016, «Jokes by Jean-Baptiste Maitre» IDFA catalogue, NL
2016, «RM Basics 00 Human Needs», catalogue of group exhibition, ReflektorM edition, Maria PLaza Lazo, Munich
2014, DUST, The plates of the present photogram project organized by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, by invitation of Arlène Berceliot-Courtin, Paris, FR
2013, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Thomas Raat, Melanie Ebenhoch, designed by Our Polite Society, P/////AKT editions
2012, Artist book Shaped Cinema, isbn 978-90-72076-48-9 / Edition: 500 / Jan van Eyck Ac. publishing/
2011, Wallpaperism, 2011, Format: 21 x 29,7 cm, 82 pages, edited by BoaBooks, Isbn:978-2-940409-43-3
2011, Villa Tokyo, exhibition catalogue, isbn 978-83-932884-0-3 organized and published by Raster Gallery, Warsaw.
2011, Salon de Montrouge, Text by Clara Schulmann: Jean-baptiste Maitre: Shaped Cinema, Editions Particules (FR), 2011
2009, Chanting Baldessari at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht. Isbn: 978-90-7225-149-7, editors Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Selected Reviews
2019, «Jean-Baptiste Maitre & Dina Danish, Museo d’arte Moderna di Bologna», La repubblica; il Corriere; Il Resto di Carlino; Arte e Critica City magazine; Artribune magazine; James magazine; Formeuniche; Exibart, etc.
2018, «Rondje Art Rotterdam Week », Trendbeheer, by Najiba Brakee, NL
2018, «Art Rotterdam 2018 - Gezien en gehoord », Metroplis M, by Domeniek Ruyters, NL
2017, «Atelier Dina Danish En Jean-Baptiste Maitre», Trendbeheer, by Najiba Brakee, NL
2017, «Goede start nieuw seizoen PuntWG met Jean-Baptiste Maitre en Dina Danish» by Saskia Monshouwer, Monshouwer editions, NL
2016, «Vernissage – The Admirer & the Admired: Dina Danish & Jean B. Maitre», Reflektor M, GE.
2016, "Critic's Guide Amsterdam: A roundup of the best shows on during Amsterdam Art Weekend" by Gabriela Acha, Frieze Magazine.
2016, «Il montaggio della realtà. Jean-Baptiste Maitre a Milano», by Andrea Lacarpia, Artribune, IT
2016, «Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Fluid Carrying the Hope of Ships in Distress | RitaUrso Artopia», by Elena Bordignon, ATPdiary, IT
2016, « L’ “hand-made cinema” di Jean-Baptiste Maitre in mostra a Milano » By Marco Roberto Marelli, FormeUniche.org, IT
2015, «Jean-Baptiste Maitre in: The Art World Demystified, Hosted by Brainard Carey», Radio Interview from Yale University Radio WYBCX, New Haven, USA
2015, «The Ceramic Turn», Metropolis M, October 2015, NL
2015, «Ophelia della muta eloquenza», Juliet art magazine online, July, IT
2015, «De 10 beste werken op de Amsterdam Art Fair», Metropolis M online, May, NL
2015, « Martin van Zomeren: Fa Fa Fa », in Exhibitionist.nl, May, NL
2014, ATP Sunscreen > Jean-Baptiste Maitre, A*T*P* DIARY , ATP-Sunscreen program, invited by anna Franceschini and Diego marcon.
2013, «Jean-Baptiste Maitre», in Eigen Huis & Interieur magazine, June, NL
2013, «Comment Filmer Un Livre?», Video recorded conference on the work SHAPED CINEMA by Patrick Javault, Centre Pompidou, FR
2013, «The fith element: the vedic space», in Drome online magazine (Sept 2013), by Antonella Malaguti, IT
2013, «Residencies without borders», in Drome online magazine (July 2013), by Fulvio Chimento, IT
2013, «Het Origineel», in De Groen Amsterdamer (n°16, April 2013), by Koen Kleijn, NL
2013, «Knappen en klippen», in Tubelight magazine (May 2013), by Julia Geerlings, NL
2012, «Not on Sculpture», in Mousse website, by Giorgio Verzotti, ENG
2011, Verzotti, Giorgio, ARTFORUM, September 2011, pg. 365
2011, Verhoel, Tessa, MetropolisM, N.2 2011, pg. 31-32
2011, van der Lint, Roos, Kunsbeeld nr. 3, March 2011, pg. 15
Selected film/video screenings
2017, Greylight Projects, 'Out of the Blue', Hoensbroek and Brussels, BE
2016, Van Reenen School, in the program: JAN HENDERIKSE EN DE ZERO-BEWEGING, curated by Kunst Reserve Bank, by invitation of Wjm Kok, Bergen, Netherlands
2015, 2015 LUMA,Texas State University School of Art & Design, San Marcos, USA
2013, Livres Filmés, La Compagnie, curated by Patrick Javault, Marseille, FR
2012, Images moving images, Fondazione White Fish Tank, Ancona, IT (curated by Anna Franceschini)
2012, Maison des ensembles, SensoProjekt video program and lecture, Paris, FR
2011, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, séances Le Silo, Shaped Cinema, Paris, FR
2010 – 2011, Light-Box Centre Pompidou-Selection Bureau des Vidéos/ Clément Dirié, Shaped Cinema, Untitled (Sculptures at the BonnefantenMuseum), Paris, FR
2010, Play Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2009, Fondation Ricard, Untitled (Sculptures at the BonnefantenMuseum), Paris, FR
2008, Istituto Svizzero, An Interview with Jayson Blair, Roma, IT
2001, Rencontres internationales Paris/ Berlin, FR/ GE
Lectures / workshops
2013, External lecturer, Expanded Cinema, University of Amsterdam (class of Sophie Berrebi), Amsterdam, NL
2012, VISIO - European Workshop on Artists’ Cinema 2012, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Florence, IT
2012, Images Moving Images, Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, curated by Anna Franceschini, Fabriano, IT
2012, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, La Salle de Bains Contemporary Art Center, Lyon, FR
2012, Monday Talks: Jean-Baptiste Maitre, PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul, TR
2011, Not on Sculpture, Public conversation with Giorgio Verzotti, Galleria N. Rusconi, Milan, IT
2010, Nieuwe Vide Haarlem, Jean-Baptiste Maitre: the idea of the metalogue, in the framework of the 2010 show: The Object Lag Intangible, A Play, lecture, Haarlem, NL
2008, Instances Of Translation, talk, with Pages Magazine, Teheran, IR
2008, Workshop for BA students, ABKM school of Fine Art, Maastricht, NL
2008, Lecture ‘A photographic metalogue’, in Opening Week, JVE, Maastricht, NL
2007, Workshop ‘The department of Reading’, KunstFabriek, Berlin, GR
2007, Lecture ‘Experience in Beirut’, Avans Hogeschool/ AKV St Joost, Den Bosch, NL
2007, Lecture ‘anticipating XXIst century’s iconography’, in Opening Week, JVE, Maastricht, NL
Public and Corporate Collections
Philara Museum, Düsseldorf, GE
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
DSM, Sittard, NL
ViaFarini, Milan, IT
Andaz-Hyatt, Amsterdam, NL
Andaz-Hyatt, Amsterdam, NL
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten collectie, Amsterdam, NL