Emmanuelle Rapin

L’attente, l’oubli / Awaiting oblivionAppartement, Berlin - November 2009

Site-specific installation :4m3 dead leaves / neon lightDigital print “The house of memory” - 70cm x 100cm

The Cabinet of wild curiosities (vanity, still-life, objects and memento mori)

Belle au bois dormant/ The Sleeping beautyGold plated thimble and rose’s thorn - 2010

Hamlet-the time is out of jointGold-plated knitting needles, bones, red wool - 30cm in length, variable height.-2010

Still-life jacket (transplant): Jacket, tulle, wild birds leaves- 80cm x 50cm x 40cm - 2010

Morning Bagatelles, 3 photographs, digital print - 35cmx50cm - 2010

Plaie d’épaule (greffe)/ Woundshoulder (transplant):Round metalic srtucture, wild duck wing - 15cm x 35cm - 2010

Morning Bagatelles (Berliner blue) -3 Cyanotypes on silk, 65cm x 65cm each - 2012

Myosotis (Forget-me-not)Sculpted bone,metal clamp- 13cm x 8cm x 7cm -2012

Belle de jourSwarovski stones, natural hairs - 20cm x 60cm x 2cm- 2010

Perforation toolsBones, needles, brass, silver, carnelian stone - 2010

Recycled Love 3 - D. as a constellation-Embroidery with natural hairs on silk - 35xm x 45 cm x 15cm - 2011

Recycled Love 2 - D. as a constellation- (detail)

Vanity wings I (plaie d’épaule)-wearable still-life object-primed wild duck wing feather, black agate, brass structure with black velvet covering, 2 metal pins, grey satin corded rop,925 silver broach, 7cm x 5cm x 30cm - 2011

Vanity wings II(plaie d’épaule)-wearable still-life object -primed wild duck wing feather, agate pearls, red coral pearls sewed on a brass structure with black velvet covering, red satin corded rop, 925 silver broach, 7cm x 4cm x 32cm - 2011

Vanity scales (plaie d’épaule)-wearable still-life object- bohemian glass pearls embroidered on fish skin,draped on a brass structure with black velvet covering,925 silver broach, 6cm x 9cm x 11cm - 2011

Melancolie Photograph digital print - 65cm x 105cm - 2010

Frustration ISite specific installation, glued needles on a wall, 160cm x 200 cm - 2010

Frustration IIPerforated 2mm steel sheet, 60cm x 120 cm - 2010

To get the needle...

Augustine ornementale I (Hysteria set)-embroidered black and white print on watercolor paper, coton and satinthread, pearls, 50cm x 40cm -2011

Augustine Ornementale II (Hysteria set) -Engraved battery, 6cm x 2cm x 7cm - 2011

Augustine Ornementale III (Hysteria set) -lace lead Peter Pan collar , perforated and embroidered lead sheet, black coton thread, hook, 21cm x 6cm x 28cm - 2012

Still-life _Richter with razor-bladePerforated book - 24cm x 30cm - 2010

Nature morte au cerfperforations on watercolor paper, 56cm x 76cm - 2010

Nature morte aux pieds de porcsperforations on watercolor paper, 38cm x 56cm - 2009 Still-life with steermaskperforations on watercolor paper, 38cm x 56cm - 2009

Abattoir#3Embroidery on wall paper, Red coton wires and pearls, 53,5cm x 70cm - 2010

Reliefs erotiques Embroidery on wall paper,Red coton wires, 22cm x 30cm - 2008

La chuteSite specific installation, embroideries on wall paper,Red coton wires, 260cm x 280 cm (variable dimensions) - 2008

Embroideries_ Holbein stitch

La chuteSite specific installation, embroideries on wall paper.For the xhibition “Pandora’s box” - BAC 2009, Barcelona

Emmanuelle Rapin1974 – french nationalityWorks and lives in Berlin.

EDUCATION

2003-2005: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA/ National Academy of Arts, Paris); Participant of Research Program La Seine for young artists directed by Tony Brown.

1998- 2002:ENSBA (National Academy of Arts, Paris): June 2002: Diplôme National Supérieur d’Arts Plastiques (DNSAP/ Diploma for Multimedia) withHonours.2000-2002: Studies with Jean-Luc Vilmouth (multimedia) and Didier Semin (art theory)1998-2000: Studies with Vladimir Velickovic ( painting)April-July 2001: Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (HdK); Scholarship

1996-2000:University Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne:1999-2000: Master of Arts: Ritual of the Memory in Art, studies with Nathalie Reymond.1996-1997: University Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne “Licence d’Histoire de l’Art “(Bachelor History of Art - modern and contemporary art)

1993-1996:University of Bourgogne, Dijon:“Licence de Lettres Modernes “(Bachelor of Modern French Literature)

1992:Lycée Louis Lapicque, EpinalBaccalaureate (high school diploma)

EXHIBITIONS2011:Rag Revolution! - Kunsthalle Faust /Workshop Hannover e.v. Hannover, Germany.

2010:Ayran & Yoga/ Fresco Mondo - Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale, Galerie im Regierungsviertel/ The Forgotten Bar, Berlin,Germany.Thriller - curated by Xavier Mazzarol and Eric Stephany, Berlin, Germany.My life BarBar – artists working in the scene bars, curated by Despina Stokou, Appartement, Berlin.Forgotten Things - curated by Daniela Lehmann, Galerie im Regierunsgviertel: The Forgotten Bar (initiated by Tjorg Douglas Beer). Berlin, Germany.Highlight what you love (Equinox II) - curated by Silja Leifsdottir, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany.Speederbike Primitive (Equinox I) - curated by Despina Stokou, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany.BAC!09 Pandora’s Box - International Festival for Contemporary Art, part Fragment of Feminity, curated by Katerina Valdivia Bruch,CCCB, Barcelona, Spain.

2009: L’attente, l’oubli - solo show: one night site specific installation, Appartement, Berlin.Gedanken zur Revolution - Leipzig, Germany.Between us...11 - Gallery Miss China Beauty, Paris, France.

2008: Slick Dessin / Art Fair for drawings - Gallery Miss China Beauty, Paris, France.Trans-europa hotel/ Ophelia 9026 - solo show, Gallery Pitrowski, Berlin, Germany.

2007:En Bordure … - solo show, site specific installation, Belfort French National Theatre, Belfort, France.

2006: The house of Dr R – curated by Anne Davidian invited by Nouriel Roubini, New-York, USA.Riches et Célèbres - Salon Jeune création 2006 (Art Fair), La Bellevilloise, Paris, France.A mon Seul Désir - alive picture in collaboration with Cendrillon Belanger, Gallery Miss China Beauty Paris, France.Point à la ligne 2 - solo show, Trans-europa/hotel 3, Gallery Miss China Beauty, Paris, France.A Fleur de peau - Gallery Eric Dupont, Paris, France.

2005:Emergency Biennale in Chechnya - world tour exhibition, curated by Evelyne Jouaneau.Beyond the Copan - curated by Carlos Gardenas (France) Martin Grossman (Brazil), Tony Brown (Director of the Research Program La Seine, Paris) , Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France.FIAC 2005 Gallery Miss China Beauty, Paris, France.UrbanFest - Installation Trans-europa/hotel 2, in collaboration with Veljko Vidak, Festival UrbanFest, Zagreb, Croatia.2004:The Ubiquity Conference - about The office of artistic delocalization COPAN Building Sao Paulo organized by the Dena Foundation, Cultural Center of Récollets, Paris/Publicated in Janus magazine N° autumn17/04, Paris, France.EXO Gallery, Sao Paulo ,Brazil.Office of Artistic Delocalization - Interactive Installation, COPAN Building, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2003:Art Fair Mulhouse 003 - Mulhouse, France.Pas n’importe où, juste à côté - Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France.