Practical information
Main exhibitions at the gallery :

News / Press
Press news from Benoît Barbagli (Sine Fine)
Selection of works
Immersion, 2022
8"16'
Video for the exhibition All Around Water
Music and Image Benoit Barbagli, Montage Evan Bourgeau
Born from earth, 2020
Series, 90° above, 120 x 65.8 cm, 5 copies
Participation Katalina Cearca Lea Bloch and Aimée Fleury
The Winter Rite, 2021
Series, The shape of the sea -Ecotopia Ink on canvas 180 x 285 cm Unique
Learn more about the Ecotopia project
Deep Blue, 2022
Series, Jazz-Water ,Photograph, 90 x 60 cm, 3 copies
Participation of Aimée Fleury
Exhibitions personal
2022 All around, water, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
2022 Origin of joy, Epi Gallery, Ingrande-sur-loire
2022 New Wave, Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Turin, Italy
2021 Under the Chaos Life, Mansard Gallery, Paris
2021 The sea at work, Port-Lympia cultural space, Nice
2021 Ecotopia - Interview, Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule
2020 90° over the fire, Windsor Hotel, Nice
2020 Alive, Château de la Napoule, Mandelieu-la-Napoule
2015 Telepathy Room, SuperVue, Hotel Burrhus, Vaison-la-Romaine
2015 In a second of inspiration, exterior façade of the MAMAC and TNN, Nice
Exhibition created for the Réveillons-Nous festival organized by Irina Brook
2015 A kind of metaphor like the (planet) Earth, Paris 18ème
Exhibition realized in partnership with the association Diameter, Travelling Gallery
2015 Here the earth, Rosalina, Nice
Exhibition realized within the framework of a Botox(s) event
Duo Exhibitions
2022 Aleas, curated by Alain Jaquet, exhibition in apartment with Jacque Renoir
2018 Emosophia, curated by Caterina Zevola Open Bach, Paris (with Bertrand Lanthiez)
2017 Derrière la Mer, Galerie de Beuil, Beuil (with Anne-laure Wuillai)
Exhibitions with the Palam Collective
2021 Orées, Villa Cameline, Nice
2020 Under the ice the water, Caisse d'épargne de Nice Masséna, Nice,
2020 In the presence of, Sainte-Elisabeth Chapel, Villefranche-sur-Mer
2019 Azimuth, Galerie Eva Vautier, Nice, and the FRAC PACA in the framework of Des marches et démarches
Group exhibitions
2022 A rose is a petinua is a mimosa, Eva vautier Gallery, Nice
2021 L'horizon, Gallery Eva Vautier Hors les Murs, La menuiserie, La Motte-Servolex
2020 With pleasure III, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
2020 Voila l'été, The resort, Nice
2020 Fire walk with me, Museum of Naive Art, Nice
2018 With pleasure II, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
2019 Nopoto, BelOeil, Nice
2019 Bâtir, villa Le Roc Fleury, Cap d'Ail
2019 Life is a movie, 109, Nice
2019 100 titles, BelOeil, Nice
2018 With pleasure, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
2018 Memory and the Sea, curated by Rebecca François, Nice
2018 Private Choice, curator Nadia Candet, Paris
2018 Une collection 5, curated by Camille Frasca, Paris
2017 Nothing is lost.... curated by Camille Frasca, Paris
2017 Une collection, curated by Camille Frasca, Nice
2016 An ideal palace of strange egos, Ideal Palace of the Factor Cheval, Hauterives
2016 Prefiguration of the ideal palace of the strange egos, Ideal palace of the factor Cheval, Hauterives
2015 Odyssey, La Marine Gallery, Nice
Exhibition organized by the Villa Arson, graduating students 2015
2014 Des corps compétents, Villa Arson Art Center, Nice
2013 Work in progress, Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
Group exhibition and curatorial work organized in partnership with Eva Vautier
2013 Manca, performative concert, MAMAC, Nice
Performance /Workshops/ Residencies
2019 Polychrome, Utopia residence, Ponte-Leccia, Haute-Corse
2018 School of Nice - From Pop Art to Happenings, Hong-Kong, French May 2018, leading a workshop on performance art as a representative of the School of Nice.
2013 Avatar, workshop, École d'art de l'Université Laval, Québec, Direction Pascal Broccolichi and Julie Faubert
2012-2013, Des corps compétents, workshops, HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland under the direction of Arnaud
Label Rojoux, Patrice Blouin and Christophe Kihm
2011 Fluxus concerts and performances, Performance at MoMA (Newyork City) with Ben Vautier Foires
2019 DrawingNow, Paris, Galerie Eva Vautier,
2018 ArtParis, Paris, Galerie Bertheas,
Permanent presentation
Bertheas Gallery, Vichy, Saint-Etienne, Paris
Eva Vautier Gallery, Nice
Publications
2022 All Around Water, Ecological and Social Manifesto of the All Around Water exhibition
2022 New Wave, Exhibition catalog
2019 Ecotopia, book about the ecotopia project
2014 Ici la terre, le mémoire, thesis directed by Joseph Mouton and Thomas Golsen, Villa Arson, Nice
2014 Ici la terre, l'expédition, Co-publication for the project Ici la terre, realized with the texts of Tristan Blumel
Training
2015, DNSEP, Villa Arson, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nice
2013, DNAP, Villa Arson, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nice
2011, Licence III Philosophy, Nice Sophia Antipolis University
Biography
Benoît Barbagli born in 1988 in Nice.
He lives and works between Paris and Nice.
Request for information
Information request form about the artist Benoit Barbagli
Critical text on Benoit Barbagli
See the exhibitions of Benoit Barbagli
Important articles:
Manifesto All around the water Manisfeste written during the eponymous exhibition at the eva vautier gallery
Anthropocene, our freedom Critical text on the link between Art ecology and freedom by Benoit Barbagli, written for the publication of the Ecotopia edition
External documentation
Works & editions
See all the Works of Benoit Barbagli available online
Benoît Barbagli’s workshop is vast. Ocean, river and mountain are his performative spaces. Art emerges there, a vital emergence within the collective. His plural and multi-medium propositions blossom in itinerant gestures. Art moves in nature.
In his peripatetic devices, the path makes sense, the nudity is candid, and the work manifests itself in surges. The configurations are multiple, the rituals varied and, often, the expedition that leads to the artistic experience is done with visual artists. His camera is described as “flying”. It is passed from hand to hand and the signature is frequently shared or collective.
Benoît Barbagli explores the borders. It draws from the substratum of creation in search of its germinations from a mutualized food. The Mountain creates as much as the sea, as the artist friend, by its presence, by its movement, by the principle of life, by essence random, which moves it. Art seizes moments of the Living that always manifests itself where we do not expect it, in unheard of sequences that we sometimes struggle to grasp in their unfolding. With humor, lightness, strength and delicacy, Barbagli invites us to sketch the moments and incites us to consider them in their ephemeral beauty. An ode to Vitality.
The four elements are recurrent. They animate and structure the artist’s series in Heraclitean spurts. Fire, water, air, earth. Benoît Barbagli’s universe is poetic, polysemic, playful and funny. He likes to “hijack the Text expo Under the chaos life references of culture to return them to nature.” What makes a work? The project? Its manifestations? He orchestrates meetings, a community is created around the project and the creative space becomes a joyful pretext for life.
To pay homage to the living, to give him his place, the artist erases himself, il puts in scene, puts himself in scene and yet fades with a lot of elegance, the ego dissolves in the interconnected, I is another. Benoît Barbagli, it is the romanticism reversed. His return to nature takes place in a peaceful setting where egotism is annihilated, where praise is stripped of pomp, where art emerges in its simplest expression.
In the Mediterranean Sea in winter, a hand holds a bouquet in the icy water, the fertile sea is also deadly lately. Eros and Thanatos come together, amorous ardor and mortuary homage are the two sides of the same mirror. In an attempt at love with the torch, a naked body throws itself off a cliff, the diver’s tomb or unquenchable passion? The moment is in suspense, an unresolved space subject to the projections of the viewer. The grace, the fall and the rebound – or not, are all part of it. Bodies carry a stone under the troubled surface of a lake, emergence of a new Atlantis or Sisyphean perspective of an inevitable collapse after an umpteenth attempt? The artist and his acolytes bring their stone to the visual building.
Benoît Barbagli is the sherpa of the mountain, he transports his canvases there so that the latter creates. It removes the museumization of the woman’s body by returning it to the earth. It captures the spark igniting the beam. He walks on the anthropocene by questioning the stars, born of chaos.
Text written by Pulchérie Gadmer on the occasion of the exhibition Under the chaos, life