Pascal Dombis ist ein bildender Künstler, der sich mit Themen wie Sprache, Ton, Kontrolle und Irrationalität befasst. Er kreiert instabile und dynamische, visuelle Werke, die auf den Exzess, die Unberechenbarkeit und das Schablonenhafte technischer Prozesse.aufmerksam machen.
Er lebt und arbeitet in Paris, Frankreich.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2017 Perspectives Inversées, Jardin du Palais-Royal & IBU Gallery, Paris – FR
Crack Time, TZR Galerie, Düsseldorf – DE
Time Is Time Was, Espace Orenga de Gaffory, Patrimonio – FR
Image is Time, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Gand – BE
2016 Reality is a Scanning Pattern, Stiftung Bartels Fondation, Basel – CH
2015 The Limits of Control, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Gand – BE
CONTROL, TZR Galerie, Düsseldorf – DE
Text(e)~Fil(e)s, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris – FR (cat.)
The End(less), Budapest Art Factory, Budapest – HU
2014 Mixed Grill(e), RAYGUN Art Projects, Toowoomba – AUS
Irrational Geometrics, Holly Hunt, New York – USA
2013 Post-Digital, TZR Galerie, Düsseldorf – DE
The End(less), Nuit Blanche, Métro Gare de Lyon, Paris – FR
Glitch_Stitch, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Gand – BE
2012 Extra_Vague, Galerie RX, Paris – FR
Eurasia, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong – HK (cat.)
Eurasia, TZR Galerie, Düsseldorf – DE (cat.)
Le Musée en Herbe, Paris – FR
IBU Gallery, Paris – FR
2011 Gott ist Tot, Claudio Bottello Contemporary, Turin – IT
Pourquoi ?What_Next ?, Nuit Blanche, Saint-Eustache, Paris – FR
2010 Text(e)~Fil(e)s, Palais-Royal, Paris – FR (cat.)
IBU Gallery, Paris – FR
EXCES I, The Page Gallery (Die Galerie), Seoul – KR (cat.)
EXCES II, Wooson (Seok) Gallery, Daegu – KR (cat.)
2009 Image-Flux, Galerie RX, Paris – FR (cat.)
Time Spirals, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong – HK (cat.)
2008 Géométries Irrationnelles, Galerie municipale, Vitry-sur-Seine – FR ( cat.)
2007 BLINK, Artpool, Budapest – HU (cat.)
RRB, Espace Orenga de Gaffory, Patrimonio – FR
2006 @tom1k, Hôtel Pams, Mairie de Perpignan, Perpignan – FR
2005 SpamScape, Maison Populaire, Montreuil – FR
Château de Linardie, Senouillac – FR
2004 Hyper-Structures, Fort Napoléon, La Seyne-sur-Mer – FR (cat.)
Galerie Mabel Semmler, Paris – FR (cat.)
2002 Galerie Mabel Semmler, Paris – FR
2001 Galerie EOF, Paris – FR
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2018 Artistes & Robots, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, Paris – FR (cat.)
Cape Town Art Fair, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Cape Town – SA
Carte Blanche, Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop, Hamburg – DE
2017 Cybernetic Consciousness, Itaú cultural, Sao Paulo – BR (cat.)
Modus Operandi, The Société, Bruxelles – BE
Interferences, Galerie NMarino, Paris – FR
Cape Town Art Fair, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Cape Town – SA
Das Skulpturenprojekt, Städtische Galerie, Villingen-Schwenningen – DE
FNB JoburgArtFair, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Johannesburg – SA
Variation, Cité internationale des arts, Paris – FR
A bao a qou, Bamhaus, Luxembourg
2016 Monochrome, The Société, Bruxelles – BE
Connected, Centrale for contemporary art, Bruxelles – BE (cat.)
Société de Service, Plateforme, Paris – FR
Cape Town Art Fair, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Cape Town – SA
Interactivo, Galería Odalys, Madrid – ES (cat.)
Summer Exhibition, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Gent – BE
Bizarro, Galerie Frédéric Castaing, Paris – FR
RE-culture 4, Agora Argyri, PATRAS – GR (cat.)
The End(less), Studio Abel14, Paris – FR
2015 Nel Blu dipinto di Blu, da Yves Klein a…, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Acri – IT (cat.)
Perspectives, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
Ré-émergence, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil – FR (cat.)
Cine Retrospective, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth – AUS
ArtParis, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Paris – FR
London Art15, Galerie Pascal Janssens, London – UK
Voltaje, Centro Creativo Textura, Bogotá – COL
Variation, Espace des Blancs Manteaux – Paris, FR
The End(less), La Noche en Blanco, Bogotá – COL
Arte-Scienza, Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste, IT (cat.)
2014 Art14, Galerie Pascal Janssens, London – UK
ArtParis, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Paris – FR
Summer Show, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Gent – BE
Portrait, Galerie RX, Paris – FR
Art Taipei, The Cat Street Gallery, Tapei – TW
2013 NOISE, 55th Venice Biennale of Art (Collateral Event), Venise – IT (cat.)
Année Lenôtre, Les Nouvelles Folies Françaises, Domaine National de St-Germain-en-Laye – FR (cat.)
Oltre il sublime, Art Space Luisi Spa, Trieste – IT
Wonder Works, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong – HK
Plaisir, Galerie RX, Paris – FR
Made in light, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence – FR
Made in light, Fondation EDF, Paris – FR
Artshow Busan, The Page Gallery, Busan – KR
Show Off, the Media Art Fair, Galerie RX, Paris – FR
KIAF, The Page Gallery, Seoul – KR
2012 Schrift und Bild, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf – DE
Won Ocean, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck – DE
Plaisir, Galerie RX, Paris – FR
Update_4 Biennal, iMAL, Bruxelles – BE
Non & Digital, The Central House of Artists, Moscow – RU
Show Off, the Media Art Fair, Paris – FR
Autour du Psychedelisme, Galerie Janos, Paris – FR
2011 Hybrid Boy, TZR Galerie, Düsseldorf – DE
HK Art Fair, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong – HK
SOAF, The Page Gallery, Seoul – KR
Signal 8, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong – HK
2010
Tou_R0se, Traverse, Centre Bellegarde, Toulouse – FR
Salon Dessin Contemporain, Galerie RX, Paris- FR
HK Art Fair, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong – HK
New Era, Galerie RX, Paris – FR
Paratissima, Claudio Bottello Contemporary, Turin – IT
2009 EcritureAbstraction, Galerie RX, Paris – FR
HK Art Fair, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong – HK
2008 Imaging by numbers, Block Museum, Chicago – USA (cat.)
art.ficial 4.0, Instituto Itaú cultural, Sao Paulo – BR (cat.)
Great wall of Oakland, Oakland – USA
Videoholica 08, Velchev Art Museum, Varna – BU
Signal 8, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong – HK
2007 Traverse, Centre Bellegarde, Toulouse – FR (cat.)
Victory Media Network, Dallas – USA
Slought in Berlin, Galerie Heike Curtz, Berlin – DE
Slick, Galerie Numeriscausa, Paris – FR
2006 Almost Art, Slought Fundation, Philadelphia – USA
Process Revealed, Artpool, Budapest – HU
Trampoline, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham – UK
2005 Espace Recherches / DesignLab, Salon du Meuble, Paris – FR
Nuit d’Art, Place Saint Sulpice, Paris – FR
2004 Plasticité, Galerie Mabel Semmler, Paris – FR
Generative Art Conference, Milan – IT
International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Rosario – AR
Canon Digital Creator Award, SVA Computer Art, New York – USA
2003 Canon Digital Creator Award, Spiral gallery, Tokyo – JP (cat.)
2002 Espace Cardin, Paris – FR
2000 Le temps fractal, Galerie Xippas, Paris – FR (cat.)
Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York – USA
1999 Fractalisations, Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-Mer – FR (cat.)
Fractalisations,Abbaye de Ronceray, Angers – FR
Habiter les réseaux, Galerie de l’école des Beaux-Arts, Metz – FR
Centre Culturel Français, Turin – IT
1997 Fractal Art, Fondation Ricard, Paris – FR (cat.)
Fractal, Palazzo Economo, Trieste – IT
Zoom, Visual Arts Gallery, Purchase College, New York – USA (cat.)
Caos Vertiginoso, Galleria Cruce, Madrid – SP
1996 Microcosmos, University of Georgia, Athens – USA
Vous avez dit Fractal, Musée, Médiathèque, Le Parefeuille, Enclos de la Source, Uzès – FR
Modernita, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin – IT (cat.)
1995 Galerie Arx, Turin – IT (cat.)
Art Fractal, Galerie Angle, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux – FR
1994 Ars Electronica (Honorary Mention), Linz – AT (cat.)
1993 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge – FR (cat.)
1991 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge – FR (cat.)
Jeune Peinture, Paris – FR (cat.)
1990 Jeune Peinture, Paris – FR (cat.)
1988 Multi Media Art Gallery, New York – US
Plan de Travail, Lyon – FR
1986 Plan de Travail, Lyon – FR
Public Art
2019 Lujiazui HARBOUR CITY, Shanghai, Chine
Pascal Dombis & Gil Percal
Double Connections, 2019
On going, scheduled for delivery in 2019
Maitre d’ouvrage: Ville de Shanghai, Chine
2016 Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Strasbourg – FR
Ligne-Flux, 2016
Pascal Dombis and Gil Percal
Client: Ministry of Culture / OPPIC, FR – Architect: Marc Mimram
2015 Kings Square, Perth – AUS
Irrationnal Geometrics, 2015
Pascal Dombis and Gil Percal
Client: City of Perth, AUS
Collections
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, KR
Ville de Vitry-sur-Seine – FR
Musée des Beaux Arts, Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest – HU
Seiko Epson Corp. – JP
Canon Inc. – JP
Victory Arts Collection – USA
Block Museum, Chicago – USA
Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio – IT
Yageo Foundation – TW
Publications (selection)
2018 Pascal Dombis, Monograph, Supernova éditions
L’art au-delà du digital, Dominique Moulon, nouvelles éditions Scala
Artistes & Robots, Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Jérôme Neutres, RMN
2015 Art et Numérique en résonance, Dominique Moulon, Maison populaire et les nouvelles éditions Scala
Mathematics and Art – A Cultural History, Lynn Gamwell, Princeton University Press
2014 Géométrie de l’excès, Michel Verlinden, Focus Vif Express
2013 Lettering Large The Art and Design of Monumental Typography, Steven Heller, Mirko Ilic, The Monacelli Press
Artpool – The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe, Artpool, Budapest
2012 A New Regime of Images, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Art Absolument
Pascal Dombis’ Eurasia, Kay Heymer, TZR Galerie, Düsseldorf
2011 CensorZip, Pipeline Magazine, issue #24
Spigolature tra Venezia e la Francia, Giancarlo Pagliasso, revue Zeta
2011 Aesthetics of Digital Art, Simon Erohin, publisher: Aletheia (Russian)
Exces, Henri-François Debailleux, Die Galerie, Seoul
2009 Art, Code, and the Engine of Change, Paul Hertz, CAA Art Journal
2008 Philosophie de l’ornement : D’Orient en Occident, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Galilée
2007 From Technological to Virtual Art, Frank Popper, MIT Press
SpamScape, Maria Maccotta et Pierre Vermeersch, La Re-Visite, Traverse, Toulouse
Dombis fait bonne impression, Henri-François Debailleux, Libération
2006 Au-delà de la mélancolie, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Galilée
2004 La Main de l’Homme, Blackhawk, La Seyne-sur-Mer
2002 La folie du voir, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Galilée
Pascal Dombis : Les peintures bien roulées de la computation, Joseph Nechvatal
Dombis, des lignes à l’infini, Henri-François Debailleux, Libération
2000 L’art depuis 1945, Hervé Gauville, Hazan