OLIVIER RATSI
© Leslie Rosenzweig
French visual artist born in 1972, Olivier Ratsi explores the concepts of objective reality, time, space, and matter as abstract forms of information. Grounded in the experience of reality and its representations, as well as the perception of space, his works provoke viewers to reconsider their own understanding of reality.
As part of his work process, Olivier Ratsi creates systems that deconstruct our spatio-temporal reference points, often using the technique of anamorphosis, developed during his research. Making a break with objective reality, Olivier Ratsi’s works are not specifically aimed to unleash emotions or to perturb the senses, but rather to work as a catalyst for different points of view and cultural and psychological references. As such, the viewer is not deprived of his own subjective capacity to reconstruct/reconstitute reality. Instead, he is invited to make up his own mind and to experience the works through his own personal reactions.
Olivier Ratsi is known as one of the co-founders and former member of the artist collective AntiVJ. Now working as a solo artist, he has had solo and group exhibitions around the world, including at Denise René Gallery and Charlot Gallery, Paris, FR; Atsuko gallery, Tokyo, JP; Puerta Roja, Hong Kong, HK; and Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, US. His works have been exhibited in museums including OCT Museum, Shanghai, CN; K11 Art Village, Wuhan, CN; D-Museum, Seoul, KR; and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung,TW. His works have been presented at numerous festivals and events including Elektra, Mutek and International Digital Arts Biennial, Montreal, CA; Biennale Némo, Mirage and Bains Numériques, FR.
Olivier lives and works in Paris, France.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE GALLERY
SOLO SHOW
2023
”Echolyse”, Galerie de Rohan, Landerneau, France
”La Chute”, Pont des Arts, Cesson-Sévigné, France
2021
”Heureux soient les fêlés, car ils laisseront passer la lumière...” , La Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
2020
”Vanishing Points”, Marseille, France
2018
”Point(s) de Vues(s)”, Dostyk Plaza, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2016
”Pêle-Mêle”, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
”Plane”, Galerie Plateforme, Paris, France
2015
”D'Echolyse à Perspicere”, Biennale Internationale des Arts Numériques Mémo, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
”Anarchitecture Tokyo”, Atsukobarouh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
”Parcourir les Puzzles”, Anarchitecture Evry, Evry, France
2011
”Anarchitec3”, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
”Deconstruction”, Galerie du Théâtre de l’Agora, Scène Nationale d’Evry, Evry, France
”Anarchitecture-sur-Seine”, 16 Galerie, Marseille, France
2007
”X vs Y ”,Galerie Ars Longa, Paris, France
GROUP SHOW (SELECTION)
2023
”Superluminal”, Light Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary
”Coding images: The path of digital waving”, Lilanz Art Museum, Jinjiang, China
”La dialectique de l'ombre”, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris, France
”Fiat Lux”, Centre Tignous, Montreuil, France
2022
” Féeries d'hiver”, Bourse du Travail, Valence, France
”On the Edge of Senses”, Chengdu Times Art Museum, Chengdu, China
”Cinétique ! La Sculpture en mouvement”, Fondation Villa Datris, Espace Monte Cristo, Paris, France
”Chroniques”, Biennale, Friche La Belle de mai, Marseille, France
”Fascination light - (De)construction - light & space”, Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany
”On the Edge of Senses”, Times Art Museum Beijing, Beijing, China
”Art et Programmation”, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris, France
2021
”Lumière, Espace, Temps”, Le Grenier à sel,Avignon, France
”Small is beautiful !”, Galerie Denise René,Paris, France
2020
”Human Learning”, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
”Espace et tension”, Galerie Denise Réné, Paris, France
2019
”Fiction and Fabrication”, MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), Lisbon, Portugal
2018
”Paysage.Fiction”, Tetris, Le Havre, France
”Movement”, A joint exhibition with Galerie Denise René / Puerta Roja Gallery / Hong Kong
2017
”he Clock of the Time Traveler”, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
”Anamorphose”, Le Puzzle, Thionville, France
2016
”Lumière et Mouvement”, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
2015
”Vers une architecture de lumière”, La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France
”Cinétique Numérique Aujourd’hui”, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
2014
”Wonder of Fantasy”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2013
”Night Time – DREAMREAL”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
”D-Light”, Accenture Bercy, Paris, France
”Vision [trans]formées”, Galerie SHAG, Boulogne, France
2009
”Futur en Seine”, Fonderie de l'Image, Bagnolet, France
“L’architecture d’aujourd’hui” event. Grand Palais. Paris, France
2006
”Fragment Urbain”, Mediaruimte, Brussels, Belgium
FESTIVAL / INSTALLATION / VIDEO PERFORMANCE / MAPPING
2023
Light is life. Festa delle luci A2A, Convento San Francesco, Bergamo, Italy
Vilnius light festival / Vilnius, Lituany
2022
Amsterdam Light festival, Festival, Jules Schelvis bridge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021
]Interstice[ Festival, Hôtel de Ville, Caen, France
Fête des Lumière, Lyon, France
2020
Canal Convergence Festival, Scottsdale, USA
Bristol Light Festival, Millennium Square, Bristol, UK
2019
Constellations Festival, Maison de la Région, Metz, France
New Media Castle, Electric Castle Festival, Bànffy Castle, Bontida, Romania
Inasound, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France
2018
Microwave International New Media Art Festival, Exhibition Hall, Central, Hong kong
]Interstice[ rencontre des inclassables, Ecole Supérieure d'Arts & Medias de Caen-Cherbourg, Caen, France
2017
LEV Festival, Collegiate of San Juan Bautista, Gijon, Spain
2016
Festival Internacional de Mapping (FIMA), Morelia, Mexico
Vision'R lab, June 24 to 26, 2016, Jardin d'Alice / Montreuil, France
2015
Sonica, Glasgow, UK
Signal Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Festival International de Carthage, Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
2014
Nuit Blanche Off, Ivry, France
Nuit Noire, Paris, France
Mapping Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
