Béatrice Balcou
BEATRICE BALCOU
is a visual artist who lives and works between Lille (France) and Brussels (Belgium). In 2000 she started to center her work around the body. If this work combines video and photography, the essence of it is more located in a creative process related on the performance and the participation of non professionnals. In 2005 she starts a residency with the theater “Le Vivat” at Armentières (France). That year will enable her to continue her research in the field of living arts. In 2007, she has been accepted for the research program “ex.e.r.ce”, situated in the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier, directed by Mathilde Monnier and Xavier Le Roy. During this high level program she works with among others Jérome Bel, Jan Kopp, Jonathan Burrows, Jan Ritsema, Loïc Touzé and Mark Tompkins.
Today Béatrice Balcou’s work explores various strategies for approaching choreography through anthropology and creates pieces from visual arts or dance. From 2007 on, she works on a practical and theoritical thesis at the University of Rennes (France) untitled "The question of reality in contemporary dance". In 2008 she will teach a masterclass on the relation between dance and visual arts at the Lille University of Dance.
Her work has been shown in France at the theater Le Vivat in Armentières, at the Malterie in Lille, at the museum of contemporary art in Issoudun, at the EROA of Gondecourt, at the gallery Tal Coat in Hennebont, at the gallery Le Lieu in Lorient, at the “Piscine” Museum of Art and Industry in Roubaix ant at “l’atelier d’Estienne” in Pont-Scorff during the festival “Art chemin faisant”. In Belgium it was shown at the cultural center De Markten in Brussels, at the gallery S&H De Buck in Gent, at the Beneden gallery in the cultural centrum in Kortrijk. In Romania it has been shown in the National Center of dance in Bucharest.
Béatrice Balcou has had residencies at Nadine and at Bains Connective in Brussels, and at the museum of contemporary art of Issoudun and the Vivat in Armentières in France. In 2003, she participated at Mission Jeunes artistes (Forum de l’image) in Toulouse (France), a springboard for young photographers. In 2004, she received subsidies from the Regional Management of the Cultural in Nord-Pas-De-Calais France (DRAC).
Béatrice Balcou
Rue du Fort, 12 - 1060 Brussels, Belgium
Born in France 15-02-1976
+32 (0)25 385 0882 (B°
+32 (0)4 941 657 84 (B)
+33 (0)6 63 03 67 06 (FR)
bbalcou@gmail.com
PERFORMANCES
- Pieds Joints, lancer la jambe droite, festival Vivat la danse, 2008, Armentières (F)
- Points de rencontre, 11ème sommet de la francophonie, Centre National de la Danse, 2006, Bucarest
- Easy Listening, Museum of contemporary art, 2006, Issoudun ( F)
- Le Podo-laboratoire, Festival Vivat la danse, 2005, Armentières (F)
- Prothèses Party, Way of choreography - Hélène Cathala / Festival Solo-soli Lille, European capital of the culture 2004, France / Galery S & H De Buck, Gent (B)
- Modèle vivant, Atelier 2 à Villeneuve d’ascq, France /School of fine arts of Cambrai, 2004 (F)
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
- Easy Listening, Museum of contemporary art, 2006, Issoudun (F)
- Installations and projections, Le plateau, La malterie, 2006, Lille (F)
- Corps de Ballet en Kit, Le Vivat, 2005,Armentières(F)
- Prothèses, Galerie S & H De Buck, 2005,Gand (B)
- Performing sculptures, EROA, 2005,Gondecourt (F)
- Les Transphotographiques, Centre de la culture / Beneden Galerie, 2004, Courtrai (B)
- Rencontres photographiques de Lorient, Galerie-arthotèque Tal Coat,2003, Hennebont (F)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Voorbij de grens, Centre De markten, 2005, Brussels
- Les Paravents, La Piscine, musée d’art et d’industrie, 2005, Roubaix (F)
- Femmes-modèles, La malterie, 2004, Lille (F)
- L’art chemin faisant – le corps en jeu, l’atelier d’Estienne, Pont-scorff (F)
- Salon de Montrouge, photography section, 2002, Montrouge (F)
- Naissance corporelle, Galerie Le Coin,1999, Rennes(F)
- Ritournelles, Galerie Le Coin, 1999, Rennes
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES
- Residency at Nadine, 2007, Brussels
- Residency at Bains Connective, 2007, Brussels
- Residency at the center of contemporary of art, 2006, Bucharest
- Residency at the museum of contemporary art Saint Roch, 2006, Issoudun
- Residency at EPSM Bis, Theater Le Vivat, 2005, Armentières
- Grant : individual support for creation (Fiacre), 2004, Drac Nord-pas-de-calais ( regional management of the cultural ministry)
- Mission young artists, Forum de l’image, 2003, Toulouse, France (springboard for young photographers)
ACQUIRED BY COLLECTIONS
- gallery Le Lieu, Lorient (F)
- gallery S & H De Buck, Gand (B)
- gallery Tal Coat, Hennebont (F)
- private collections
STUDIES
2007– University of Rennes II, France
Doctorate, member of the center for studies and research into the visual arts.
2007– National Center of choreography, Montpellier, France
ex.e.r.ce directed by Mathilde Monnier and Xavier Le Roy ( with Mathilde Monnier, Jérôme Bel, Xavier Le Roy, Jan Ritsema, Loïc touzé, Marten Spangberg, Jan Kopp, Jonathan Burrows, Mark Tompkins …)
2000 -2002 – University of Paris I Panthéon – La Sorbonne, Paris
- University teaching qualification, option theatre and visual art studies.
- 1st year doctorate student, dictinction
1996 -1999 – University of Rennes II
- Master of Arts, distinction
- Licence of Arts, merit analysis of cinema and photography, distinction