Bianca Bondi

Born: 1986

Johannesburg in South Africa

She lives and works in Paris.

Bianca Bondi was born to a South African mother and an Italian father. Her heart having been set on becoming a pilot since the age of six, she undertakes the equivalent of a BAC in Science while simultaneously studying French and Art in Johannesburg. Following a series of fortuitous events, she pursues her studies at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg majoring in Fine Arts, with the intentions of eventually directing a cultural institution. At the age of nineteen, she travels to Paris intent on seeing her favorite art works in real life. After meeting the drummer of a French punk band, she
decides to stay in France and continue her studies at the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy.

Her passion for physical science and the occult sciences enabling her to conduct experiments, using various techniques, on materials chosen for their potential for transformation or their intrinsic properties; thus developping her research and her formal and material investigations in art. Fascinated by ecology and spiritualism, Bianca Bondi creates multidisciplinary works of a transformative nature, in which the objects’ aura is key. Her installations and sculptures highlight the interconnectedness of elements within the world, their transience, and reveal the cycles of life and death.

Solo shows

2021
Underland, galerie mor charpentier, Paris(FR)
The Daydream, Open Space #8, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, (FR)
The Faint House of Yes, 10ème édition du « Voyage à Nantes », Nantes, (FR)
La Vitrine : Bianca Bondi, FRAC Ile de France, Paris, (FR)

2020
Still Waters, Centre d’art le Parvis, Tarbes, (FR)

2019
Mother Lemon, galerie A Pick, 6ème édition du programme hors site « Orbital Projects » de José de la Fuente, Turin, (IT)
Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds, VNH Gallery, Paris, (FR)

2018
Diet & Psychology, Les Limbes - Céphalopode, Saint Etienne, (FR)
Gradually, then Suddenly, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris, (FR)
SWEETTEETH, Hazard, Johannesburg, (RSA)

2017
Repressed Memories Return…, Cité des Sciences, Paris, (FR)
A Series of Discreet Events, La Villa Belleville, Paris, (FR )

Group shows (2017 >2021)

2021
2nd Biennale de Thailande, Korat, Nakon Ratchasima, (TH).
La mer imaginaire, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, (FR).
Life to Itself, CIAP Vassivière, (FR).
A Sunless Future?, mor charpentier, Paris, (FR).

2020
Words at an Exhibition, Biennale de Busan, Corée du sud, (KR).
L’Homme Gris, Casino Luxembourg, (LU).
Anatomie du Quotidien, Maison forte de Hautetour, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, (FR).
Crystal Clear, Pera Museum, Istanbul, (TR).
De(s)rives, Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris, (FR).
Composite Materiality, El Jundi Gallery, Marbella, (ES).
Programme Spécial, Atelier Poush, Clichy, (FR).
Chapter 3}, Het HEM, Zaandam, (NL).
Le Vaisseau d’Or, Galerie Vallois, Paris, (FR).

2019
Où les eaux se mêlent, 15ème Biennale de Lyon, Usines Fagor Brandt, Lyon, (FR).
Alchemistry, IK Lab, Tulum, (MX).
From Flood to Flight. Myths, Songs & Other Stories, Premier Regard, Paris, (FR).
Brasero, Chapelle de la Madeleine, Arles, (FR).
MERDELAMERDELAMER, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienne, (AT).
IncarNations, BOZAR - Palais des BA, Bruxelles (BE).
Have a Butcher’s, Ballon Rouge, Bruxelles (BE).
La Baie aux 2 Lunes, EAC Les Roches, Le Chambonsur-Lignon, (FR).
Some of us…, Nord’art, Büdelsdorf, (DE).

2018
11ème Prix Meurice, Hôtel Le Meurice, Paris, (FR).
Décadence, Franklin Azzi Architecture, Paris, (FR).
A Hole in Time, CAC La Traverse, Alfortville, (FR).
Se mettre au vert, Maison des Arts et Loisirs, Laon, (FR).
Des fils ou des fibres, CAC Meymac, (FR).
Material Narratives: Get it While It’s Hot, DOC, Paris, (FR).
INTOTO, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, (FR).
Biennale de la Jeune Création, Centre d’art de la Graineterie, Houille, (FR).
Crashtest, La Panacée, Montpellier, (FR).
Continent des anecdotes, Galerie Felix Franchon, Ixelles, (BE).

2017
Built like a memory, Tag Team Studio, Bergen, (NO).
8th Young Triennal, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, (PL).
Dans la place, Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris, (FR).
Ainsi jouaient les enfants seuls, Les Ateliers des Arques, (FR).
Freak Park, La Villa Belleville, Paris, (FR).
Pillars, Carrington Gallery, Gent, (BE).
Preparatory portrait of a young girl, Plato, Ostrava, (CZ).
Les Vies de Cagliostro, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris, (FR).

Exhibition of the artist