Laure Catugier

Laure Catugier (1982, Toulouse, France) lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the École d’Architecture de Toulouse and the École des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse. Currently researcher at DAAS (Decolonizing Architecture Advanced Studies).

As a visual artist with an architectural background, Catugier’s work is connected to the

architectural elements of Modernism and the subsequent movements that drew inspiration from it. She explores the diversity of global post-war architecture through residencies around the world. Her research focuses on the social aspect of modernist buildings and in particular on collective housing and its progressive norms, spaces, forms and uses.

Since 2015, she has obtained several residency grants in Germany, Austria, Japan, Russia, Iran, Czech republic, Egypt, Israël, Poland, Estonia, Taiwan and Bolivia. She is the winner of the International Celeste Prize, as well as scholarships from the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Berlin, the Pilecki Institute Warsaw and the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. last year she was nominated for the Book Revelation Prize ADAGP (Paris) and shortlisted for the international Allegro Prize.

Her work has been exhibited internationally (selection) : Liebling Haus – White City center (Tel Aviv), Total Museum (Seoul), In Sonora Festival (Madrid), Artum Foundation (Warsaw), Laznia Contemporary Art Museum (Gdansk), Centraltrack Gallery (Dallas, US), Galerie Weisser Elefant, German-Japanese Cultural Center and Korean Cultural Center in Berlin; Stadtmuseum and Institut Français in Düsseldorf; Jeune Création at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in Paris; OXO Tower (London), Festival des Artes Binnar (Porto) and Arte Fiera Bologna. Upcoming:

Public Art in a metro station in Toulouse (FR).