Agnes Thurnauer Paris, France, b. 1962

Lives and works in Paris.

Thurnauer studied cinema and video art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and she is a self-taught painter.

Thurnauer works with a number of other media, her work overtly goes beyond the abstraction/figuration divide and mixes words (messages found in mass media) and images to probe the plasticity of text and the textuality of painting while tackling socio-political issues and art history.

Her solo shows include the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent, Belgium; Musée des beaux-arts d'Angers; Springhornhof, Neukirchen; Centre d'art Contemporain, Bayeux, and Cambridge University. She also had group exhibits at the Lyon Biennial; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, and others.

Her works belongs to many private and public collections such as the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes and Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

For more infomation visit the artist website. 

www.agnesthurnauer.net