Laurent Grasso
Laurent Grasso
Laurent Grasso (b. 1972, Mulhouse, France) is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Paris. His immersive installations, blending film, neon, sculpture and painting, unfold like enigmatic landscapes. Treating each project as a cinematic composition, Grasso orchestrates hypnotic systems that reveal the invisible. His interest focuses on ancient beliefs, electromagnetic energies, surveillance systems, natural phenomena and their profound mutations, which the artist reincorporates into imagery that blur the usual temporal and spatial boundaries, creating new perspectives on our vision of reality. His works function as speculative apparatuses, inviting us to navigate between past and future, science and myth, control and uncertainty, where perception is continually unsettled and new possibilities emerge.
The work of Laurent Grasso has been subject of numerous solo exhibitions internationally, including Heredium, Daejeon, South Korea (opening August 2025); Jumièges Abbey, Jumièges, France; Tao Art, Taipei; Collège des Bernardins, Paris; Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, South Korea; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum, Shanghai; Palais Fesch, Ajaccio, France; Fondation Hermès, Tokyo; Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland; Contemporary Art museum of Montreal, Montreal; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kunstverein, Arnsberg, Germany; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MIT, List, Visual Art Center, Cambridge, USA, among other. He also took part in numerous international art contemporary biennials such as: Ennova Art Biennale; Biennale of Sydney; EVA International; Gwangju Biennale; Manifesta 8, among others. Alongside, Laurent Grasso has been invited to make major installations in the public space such as: Roots of the Future, commission for the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis; Solar Wind, permanent light installation on the Calcia silo’s walls on the Paris ring road; but also Memories of the Future, permanent neon installation on the Leeum Samsung Museum facade in Seoul; and many more.
His work is represented in major public collections worldwide including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France; GAMeC, Bergamo; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal; as well as prestigious private collections: Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Michael Ringier Collection, Zurich; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Yuz Foundation, Shanghai.