Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren is a french artist whose work focuses on aesthetic constructions from an institutional critique, frequently carried out in the public sphere or in historical buildings, with formal, conceptual, political and social implications, which in the first instance are experienced in a non-rational way, but which fundamentally put into crisis and confront the traditional operation of exhibition spaces and institutions, since they are produced and shown as art, in a different way in unconventional places.

Buren received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1986 and the Imperial Premium in Japan in 2007. In 1985 he created his most controversial public installation, “Les deux plateaux” in the courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris. His career has been the subject of major exhibitions, for example, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2005, and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2003, among others. In 2012, his show Excentriques was presented as part of the Monumenta cycle at the Grand Palais in Paris, and, in 2014, he performed an intervention at the Hospicio Cabañas, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. L’Observatoire de la Lumiére is an intervention in the Louis Vuitton Foundation building, presented between 2016 and 2017. Daniel Buren has made more than 3,000 public interventions worldwide, as well as hundreds of permanent works.