Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media installation Deep See Blue Surrounding You.

Early life and education Prouvost was born in Croix, an upscale suburb of Lille, France, and attended a local school with a strong arts focus.

Prouvost studied film at Central Saint Martins and also attended Goldsmiths, University of London.

Career After graduating from Saint Martins, Prouvost worked as an assistant to the artist John Latham, who she describes as "more like a grandfather than my real grandfather". She has exhibited at Tate Britain and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Prouvost was awarded the biennial MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and her work has appeared in the private contemporary art collection Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy. That same year, Prouvost was the principal prize winner at the 57th Oberhausen Film Festival.

Prouvost won the Turner Prize in 2013 for an installation named Wantee made in response to the artist Kurt Schwitters. In a tea party setting a film describes a fictional relationship between Prouvost's grandfather and Schwitters. The work is named in reference to the habit of Schwitters' partner of asking guests if they "want tea". The panel described the work as "outstanding for its complex and courageous combination of images and objects in a deeply atmospheric environment". Prouvost was generally considered a surprise winner.

In 2018, Prouvost created an installation for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris titled Ring Sing and drink for Trespassing.

In 2024, Prouvost was among the 18 artists selected by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to create installations for the John F. Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6, set to open in 2026.

Other activities In 2018, Prouvost was a member of the jury that selected Helen Cammock as winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

Personal life Prouvost has three children. After living in the United Kingdom for 18 years, she moved to Antwerp in 2014. She lives and works in Molenbeek.

Selected works 2007: Owt, video 2010: I need to take care of my conceptual Grand dad, video 2010: The Artist, video 2010: It Heat Hit, video 2011: The Wanderer, video 2012: Why does Gregor never rings, video installation 2013: Farfromwords: car mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells, video installation 2013: Wantee, video installation 2014: Visitor center, video installation 2016: We would be floating away from the dirty past, video installation 2016: Lick in the Past, video 2017: Dit Learn, video 2019: Deep See Blue Surrounding You / Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre, in the French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale 2020: Re-dit-en-un-in-learning, video 2021: Touching To Sea You Through Our Extremities, sculpture at La Panne, Triennial Beaufort (Beaufort21) 2022: Every Sunday, Grand Ma, video installation 2022: Four For See Beauties, video installation 2023: We Belong, facade of KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Bruxelles, Belgium 2023: No More Front Tears, video and box letters, video installation presented at Art Basel Parcours (2023), and Malta Biennale (2024) 2023 : Shadow Does, video installation 2023 : You, My, Omma, Mama, video installation

Selected exhibitions 2012: The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom 2013: Laure Prouvost / Adam Chodzko as part of Schwitters in Britain, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom 2014: Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico 2014: Laure Prouvost: For Forgetting, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 2015: Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany 2016: Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China 2016: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt Am Main, Frankfurt, Germany 2016: Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland 2017: SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey 2018: BASS Museum, Miami, Florida, USA 2019: French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale 2020: Included in NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney 2020: Re-dit-en-un-in-learning CENTER at Lisson Gallery London 2020-2021: Deep See Blue Surrounding You / Vois ce bleu profond te fondre, LAM, Villeneuve d'Ascq 2021: Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 2022: Deep Travel Ink, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, South Korea 2022: Laure Prouvost: Theatergarden and A Be(a)stiary of the Anthropocene, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China 2023: Above Front Tears Oui Float, at the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway 2023: Ohmmm age Oma je ohomma mama, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 2023: Oma-je, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada 2024: Above Front Tears Nest in South, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, USA 2024: Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat, exposition de groupe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 2024: In the Mist of It All, Above Front Tears, Musée De Pont, Tilburg, the Netherlands 2024: Oui Move in You, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA, Melbourne, Australia 2024: Deep Travel Ink., Travel Agency, Fosun Foundation, Chengdu, China 2024: Pulled Towards You, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China

Permanent works 2021: In Your Own Time, tingalong, tingalong, Who's Been Here Since I've been gone?, Endless Express, Europalia Festival, Brussels-South station, Brussels, Belgium 2021: Touching to Sea You Through Our Extremities, Beaufort 21, Beaufort Biennale, De Panne, Belgium 2023: Oui Will Become One Another, Triennale Art & Industrie, Dunkirk, France

Awards 2011: Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2013 : Turner Prize