Yves Hayat

Yves Hayat (born 1946 in Cairo, Egypt) is a French visual artist.

Early life and career Hayat was born in 1946 in Cairo, Egypt. After the Egyptian Revolution, he left Cairo with his family in 1956 to live in the South of France. In 1967, he started studying art at the Ecole Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Nice. In the 1970s, he began a career in advertising and marketing. In 1996, he returned to art, which he practiced alongside his advertising career for several years, before devoting himself entirely to it in early 2000

Yves Hayat's art focuses on the current state of the world, of this ultra-media universe, of its domination by images, icons of appearance, luxury and violence. Using superimpositions, misappropriations and transparencies, Yves Hayat stages his works. He brings face to face beauty and horror, indifference and fanaticism, luxury and violence, confronting the viewer with the human ambivalence and the contradictions of this world

Yves Hayat lives between Paris and Nice, where he has his artist’s studio. Since 2006, he has exhibited his works internationally in London, New York, Istanbul, Paris, Monaco, Cologne, Geneva, Vienna, Kuwait and Beirut, among many others.

Selected exhibitions

Solo

2025, Ceci n'est pas une photo, Mark Hachem Gallery, Paris 2024, Profano vs. Sacro, Peter Frey Gallery, Verona, Italy 2023, Contemporary prisons, Mark Hachem gallery, Paris, Fr 2023: Weapons of mass seduction, Galerie Frey, Salzburg, Austria 2022: L'enfer du décor, Contemporary Art Center, Perpignan, Fr 2020: The Dark side of the dream, Galerie Frey, Vienna, Austria 2019: Il lato oscuro della felicità, Vento Blu Art Gallery, Polignano, Italy 2018: Femmes au bord de la crise de guerre, Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris, Fr 2018: Quid novi ?, Crypte de la Cathédrale, Grasse, Fr 2017: Le Parfum, cet obscur objet du désir, Musée International de la Parfumerie, Grasse, Fr 2017: L’Ultimo giorno prima dell’Eternità, San Silvestro al Quirinale, Rome, Italy 2016: Sale Temps, Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris, Fr 2015: Violent Luxury, Shirin Gallery NY, New York, USA 2015: Passion(s), Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2015: Transparencies, Art Space Gallery, London, UK 2014: Mythification/Mystifications, Mark Hachem Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon 2013: Yourope in Progress, Fondation Valmont - Palazzo Bonvicini, Venice, Italy 2010: TheNumber4 Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait 2009: L'illusoire réel et le réel illusoire, Galerie Bernard Mourier, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Fr 2008: Kamil Interior Design and Art Gallery, Monaco 2004: Statuts de femmes, Town hall of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, Fr 2006: Vénus/désastres, Sainte-Réparate Gallery, Nice, Fr 2006: Rapt, Alliance française de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay 2006: Il y a une ombre au tableau, Maison de la Culture Roguet Saint Cyprien, Toulouse, Fr 2005: Terminus ou les Vanités contemporaines, Abbey, Valbonne, Fr 2002, Frère(s), VanRam Gallery, Ghent, Belgium 2001: Frère(s), Les Docks, Marseilles, Fr

Group

2022: Exode(s), Parcours Art Contemporain, Saint-Raphaël, Fr 2022: Mise en Cène, The R. Castang Collection, Chapelle du Quartier Haut, Sète, Fr 2022: Respirer l'art, International Museum of Perfumery, Grasse, Fr 2021: Passion particulière, Centre Internationald'Art Contemporain, Carros, Fr 2018: Summer group show, Ca' d'Oro, New York, USA 2016: Middle East Art Exhibition, Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland 2015: Vitraria Glass+A Museum, Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Venice, Italy 2015: Maddox Gallery (Curated by James Nicholls), London 2014: Galerie der Moderne, Klosterneuburg Closter, Vienna 2014: Mises en scènes, Biennale, Château-Musée de Cagnes-sur-mer, Fr 2012: Vibrations totémiques, Château Royal de Collioures, Fr 2011: Zwischen Tür und Angel, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna 2010: Lateral Bodies, Spazio Thetis, Venice, Italy 2010: Clairs-obscurs, Château Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-mer, Fr 2007: L’Art en Capital “Sociétal / existentiel”, Grand Palais Paris, Fr 2007: Mémoires des enfants cachés, Masks video, Filgamesh Theatre, Festival d’Avignon, Avignon, Fr 2007: Freud... beau comme un symptôme, International Contemporary Art Center, Carros, Fr

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Exhibitions in museums and institutions

2024 Tejiendo identidades, diàlogos, huellas y futuro, Arte al Limite Museo, Valparaiso, Chile 2022: L'enfer du décor, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Perpignan, France 2021: Passions particulières, Centre International d'art Contemporain, Carros, France 2018: Quid novi ? Crypt of the Cathedral of Grasse, France 2017: Le Parfum, cet obscur objet du désir, Musée International de la Parfumerie de Grasse, France 2017: L’Ultimo giorno prima dell’ Eternità, Chiesa San Silvestro al Quirinale Rome, Italy 2016: Middle East Art Exhibition, Basel Art Center, Basel, Swiss 2015: Vitraria Glass+A Museum, Palazzo Nani Mocenigo, Venice, Italy 2014: Galerie der Moderne, Klosterneuburg Closter, Vienna, Austria

Collections

Triptyque Crucifixion, Klosterneuburg Monastery , Austria Triptyque Fleurs blessées, International Museum of Perfumery, Grasse, France Retable Palestine, «Mise en Cène» collection of Roger Castang, Perpignan, France Babel, Musée de la Palestine en exil (Institut du Monde Arabe), Paris Concerto facciale, Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens. La Confusion des sentiments Installation, Fernando Galan Art.es collection, Madrid Concerto facciale triptych, Arte Al Limite MUSEO, Chile.

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