Hoël Duret – 2020 laureate of the Te Whare Hēra Visual Arts Residence [fr]
As part of the Te Whare Hēra Visual Arts Residency, the next Artist in Residence, Hoël Duret, will spend four months in Aotearoa from January until May 2020.
Born in 1988 in Nantes, Hoël Duret is a French artist living and working between Paris and Nantes. He graduated with an MA from the ESBA Fine Arts School in Nantes in 2011. His practice is transdisciplinary and his corpus filled with installations, videos, performances, paintings and sculptures. His work often features references to cinema, design, painting, dance, music and literature.
His creations have been shown in the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris (modern and contemporary art museum), Seoul Art Museum, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Martos Gallery in Los Angeles amongst others.
His time in New Zealand will be dedicated to producing a short film which will be showcased in the Villa Merkel in Germany.