Olivier Castel (born Paris, 1982) lives and works in London. He usually presents work under heteronyms and has created over thirty different identities since 2001. Often using ephemeral or temporal forms he works primarily with projections, reflective surfaces, light, text and audio. His work functions as a set of propositions, employing the imaginary and exploring the process by which something is made visible.
www.oliviercastel.net
oliviercastel@gmail.com
Solo exhibitions
2016
Communicating Vessels, Kunstraum, London
Soulstorm, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai
2015
Des distances dans lâme, Praxis Programme, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2014
Once across the bridge, phantoms came to meet them, And/Or, London
Fountain, Ibid., London (Raymond Roussel)
2013
The back of an image, Rowing, London (as Louise Weiss)
Imaginary Lives/ Eight Hearts, Concrete Cafe, Hayward Gallery, London (as Olivier Castel and Louise Weiss)
2012
Vive l’Amour, Schneeeule, Berlin (as François Morice)
2011
Variety, Dalston Superstore, London (as Edwy Plenel)
2010
RIBBONS! (The Shape of an Exhibition), Auto Italia, London (as Breer Lazidj Nahr)
2008
Terrence + Malick + Philippe + Parreno + Badlands + Smell of the Moon, 79A Brick Lane, London (as Olivier Castel, Censor, Joe Lawrence, Woody Pollen, David Whitney and Carl Laporte)
How Large the World is in the Light of Lamps, Curzon Soho Cinema, London (as Louise Weiss) with Kazimierz Jankowski
2007
A GOOD HOST IS A GHOST, Auto Italia, London (as Francis Frederick)
La Neige et la Nuit, Clockwork Gallery, Berlin (as Giorgio Silverio)
Group exhibitions
2016
Both Sides of the Curtain – Meeting Points 8, La Loge, Brussels
Who Are You?, SALTS, Basel
2015
L'Exposition d'un Film (produits dérivés), Cneai, Chatou
Yesterday Night, Rowhill Mansions, London
Tower, Ibid., London
The fifth artist, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
Archigram Presentation, Ibid., Frieze New York
Good Times & Nocturnal News, Lido, Venice (as Côme Ciment)
Things That Tumble Twice, Tenderpixel, London
Covert Joy, La Conservera, Murcia, Spain (as Carl Laporte)
M/Other Tongue, Tenderpixel, London
2014
Golden Age Problems: Wellbeing in the Entertainment Complex, Auto Italia, London
Insomnia, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (as Breer Lazidj Nahr)
FOAM, Project Number, London
Luminous Flux, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (as Olivier Castel and Louise Weiss)
2013
Good news & Nocturnal Times #2, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (as Côme Ciment)
Fall Scenes, Glasgow Masters Series, Glasgow
The Everything and Nothing Problem, Ceri Hand Gallery/ Jerwood Space, London
Spieltrieb, Ibid Projects, Art Basel Hong Kong (as Breer Lazidj Nahr)
13b, Liverpool (as Hideki Mathumoto)
Snap-frame drank, Vitrine Gallery, London (as Winnie Cott)
2012
Monaco Magazine: issue six launch, DRAF, London (as Winnie Cott, Sofia Coppola, Olivier Castel, Giorgio Silverio, Côme Ciment, Censor, François Morice, Woody Pollen, Breer Lazidj Nahr and Louise Weiss)
Rock My Religion, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna
Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London (as Winnie Cott)
Spieltrieb, Ibid Projects, London (as Breer Lazidj Nahr)
A Trusted Friend, Carlos/Ishikawa, London (as Olivier Castel, Casper Perrin Yoakum and Côme Ciment)
Monaco Magazine: issue five launch, Royal College of Art Library, London (as Sofia Coppola)
Sweets in Jars, Seeds in Bags, Jars in Stores, Bags in Stores, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (as Olivier Castel and Francis Frederick)
Getting It Wrong, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna (as Woody Pollen)
In the Belly of the Whale (ACT III), Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz (as Winnie Cott and Côme Ciment)
2011
Monaco Magazine: issue three launch, Banner Repeater, London (as Giorgio Silverio, Breer Lazidj Nahr, Olivier Castel, Edwy Plenel, Francis Frederick, Hideki Mathumoto and Louise Weiss)
Photomonth: Alias, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow (as Giorgio Silverio, Breer Lazidj Nahr, Olivier Castel, Edwy Plenel, Francis Frederick, Hideki Mathumoto and Louise Weiss)
In the Belly of the Whale, Cartel, London (as Côme Ciment)
Testing Ground | Time Scale, Zabludowicz Collection, London (as Louise Weiss)
2010
Monaco Magazine: issue two launch, ICA, London (as Giorgio Silverio)
Prospect New Orleans 1.5: Tableaux Vivants, A Wandering Retrospective, New Orleans (as Winnie Cott)
Surreal House: Fun House, Barbican Centre, London (as Louise Weiss) with Kazimierz Jankowski
No Soul For Sale, Auto Italia, FormContent, Tate Modern, London
Riff-Raff, Q Gallery, London (with Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle)
Ron Arad: Restless: Architectural Playgrounds, Barbican Centre, London (as Hideki Mathumoto)
2009
Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Tate Modern, London (as Olivier Castel, Paul and Marc and Raymond, Louise Weiss)
Melrose Place, James Taylor Gallery, London (as Olivier Castel, Sofia Coppola, Hideki Mathumoto, Edwy Plenel and Louise Weiss)
Menu, Savoy Cafe, London (as Censor, Côme Ciment, Constin Debuffu, Giorgio Silverio and Django Pemberton)
Murmurart, Selfridges, London (as Constintin Debuffu)
The Book of the Film, edited by Jennifer Bailey, London (as Sofia Coppola)
Yes Way!, Auto Italia, London (as Hideki Mathumoto)
Entrance and Underground: Friends of the Divided Mind, Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London (as Giorgio Silverio, Francis Frederick, Carl Laporte and Matsey Jones)
...and the Dark Show returns as a ghost, Paradise Row, London (as Julie & Maude Belgrand, Louise Weiss and Casper Perrin Yoakum)
2008
With love, Diter Rot, 2nd Vienna Biennial, Vienna (as Raymond Roussel)
The Dark Show, FormContent, London (as Julie & Maude Belgrand, Louise Weiss and Casper Perrin Yoakum)
Honey Hönig, Auto Italia, London (as Carl Laporte)
The Dark Show, The Wallis Gallery, London (as Julie & Maude Belgrand, Louise Weiss, Casper Perrin Yoakum)
Epic, Auto Italia, London (as Francis Frederick)
Picasso's Guitar, Bookartbookshop, London (as Django Pemberton)
2006
Today is a beautiful day, NOG, London (as Julie & Maude Belgrand)
Paper, Flux Factory, New York (as Censor)
Wasting Time, The Crypt, London (as Girogio Silverio)
2005
FutureMap05, The Arts Gallery, London (as Raymond Roussel)
Degree Show, Central St Martins, London (as Raymond Roussel, Zabriskie Suso, Muumipapan Urotyot, Casper Perrin Yoakum, Hideki Mathumoto, Paul and Marc and Raymond, Natacha Belami- Bellélaine and Matsey Jones)
2004
Debra's Show, Charlotte Road, London (as Muumipapan Urotyot)
Wallpaper, NOG, London
Student workshop/ exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London (as Apassenger Karrange)
2003
Engrave Danger, Fondazione Culturale Italo Svedese, Venice (as Censor)
2002
We Still Don't Know, Fulham Road, London (as Mahadra Totti and Joe)
Projects
2014
Basement.TV, collborative performance with Julia Crabtree & William Evans, Jesse Darling and Alice Theobald, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
2013
The back of an image, late night tour of the Odeon Holloway, Rowing Projects, London
2012
People on Sunday, Ibid Projects, London, with Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle
2009
N I G H T S C H O O L, Window Gallery, Central St Martins, London, with Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle
2008
A HISTORY OF TWO MOUNTAINS (closed shows), for About curated by Zayne Armstrong, Auto Italia, London, with Katie Guggenhein and Justin Jaeckle
2007
Just what is it that makes today's artist-run spaces so different, so appealing?, Cubitt Gallery, London, with Bettina Brunner
A HISTORY OF TWO MOUNTAINS / ONE THE ORIGINAL / TWO A COPY / BOTH EQUALLY HEAVY, Auto Italia, London, with Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle
Talks, Screenings & Performancess
2016
Playing and Reality, King's College, London (panel discussion)
Transmision Lecture series, Sheffield Hallam University and Site Gallery, Sheffield (artist talk)
2015
Tell me your dream, RIFF Reykjavík International Film Festival, Reykjavík (screening)
A Reading (part of The Fifth Artist), Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (performance)
Des distances dans lâme, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz (artist talk)
A Reading (part of M/Other Tongue), Tenderpixel, London (performance)
2014
Sandberg Institut, Amsterdam (artist talk)
2013
The Trouble With the Pseudonym, ICA, London (panel discussion)
HYPER SPECIFIC TO SUPER GENERAL, Liverpool Biennial (artist talk)
2012
People on Sunday – on Monday: Film Screening, Ibid., London (with Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle) (screening)
2011
The Naming Ceremony, Whitechapel Gallery, London (artist talk)
A Conference about Philippe Parreno Part 1: Construction of Character, Serpentine Gallery, London (artist talk)
2010
No Soul For Sale, FormContent, Tate Modern, London (performance)
2009
After Hours, for Wallis Gallery at Paradise Row: Kinder Bar, Upper Brook St, London (screening)
The Mock and other superstitions, issue 2 launch, Donlon Books / Xmarks Böship, London (screening)
2007
A GOOD HOST IS A GHOST, Auto Italia, London (artist talk)
2005
Loop 05: London Loop, Barcelona (as Paul and Marc and Raymond) (screening)
Student Film Night, Camden Arts Centre, London (as Paul and Marc and Raymond) (screening)
Publications
2015
Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London [FORTHCOMING]
The Exhibition of a Film, HEAD, Geneva
'Protest Against Forgetting,' Codice Italia, Bompiani, Milan
2014
Relief: issue 2. London
2012
Monaco Magazine: issue 6. (as Winnie Cott and Olivier Castel)
Monaco Magazine: issue 5 (as Sofia Coppola and Carl Laporte)
La Doublure, The Everyday Press, London (as Raymond Roussel)
Getting It Wrong, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna (as Woody Pollen)
2011
Monaco Magazine: issue 4 (as Côme Ciment, Giorgio Silverio and Sofia Coppola)
Monaco Magazine: issue 3 (as Côme Ciment, Giorgio Silverio and Sofia Coppola)
Alias, Photomonth, Krakow (as Giorgio Silverio)
Monaco Magazine: issue 2.5 (as Censor)
Philippe Parreno Exhibition Activity Book (with Emily Rand)
2010
Monaco Magazine: issue 2 (as Breer Lazidj Nahr, Louise Weiss)
Monaco Magazine: issue 1 (as Censor, François Morice, Woody Pollen)
2009
Friends of the Divided Mind (as Giorgio Silverio, Francis Frederick, Carl Laporte and Matsey Jones)
The Book of the Film (as Sofia Coppola)
The Mock: issue 2
2008
The 2009 Calendar (as Edwy Plenel) (with Eddie Peake)