ABOUT MARGOT WALLARD


 

CONTACT
margot@wallard.com
+33 (0) 621607454


Born in 1978, in Paris.  
In 1997, she created a series about Free parties and organizes many exhibitions in alternative space in Paris.
In 1999 she starts the Atelier Reflexe, promoting and creating place that treats the photographic research as artistic expression.
In 2001 she organizes a slide show projection throughout the city during the international photographic festival of Arles.
She then became the assistant of Véronique Bourgoin artist photographer and founder of Atelier Reflexe.
In 2004 she participates at the project EX-IN about public and private space, a book and an exhibition at the gallery Maeght of Barcelona presented this project. The same year a retrospective of her photography about free party are presented at the Heart Gallery in Paris.
She’s started the project No Name, No City. Her inspiration comes from their travels in Ukraine, Russia and China.
A first exhibition of the project No Name No City was showed in the Museum Quarter of Vienna during the month of Photography in November 2004.
She collaborated in 2007 with the European project EU Women initiated by Véronique Bourgoin. Between 2008 and 2009 an exhibition, a cd-rom and a book of this project were presented in United States, Poland, France, Austria and Spain.
In 2008, she starts the project My brother Guillaume and Sonia about his brother and the relation he had with his girlfriend, both were alcoholics. This project is publish by Journal edition, in 2013.
In 2010 she settled in Sweden and started a photography school Atelier Smedsby with the photographer JH Engström.
They have published three books together: Foreign Affair (2011) and 7 days, Athens, November 2011 (2012), Karaoke Sunne (2014) published by Super Labo edition.
In 2012 she started a new project, Natten, about her relationship with Swedish nature. This project was exhibited in Landskrona Foto Festival (Sweden) in 2014. The series was also shortlisted for The Source-Cord Prize in 2014, The Leica Oskar Barnack Award and The Dummy Award Kassel in 2015.
The book Natten was published by Max Ström in spring 2017.  It was selected as one of the best photography books of 2017 by the renowned Swedish daily SVD.
Since 2018 she has been working on two projects combining family archives and photographs taken in Oran in Algeria and Normandy in France, where her family comes from. Both projects  are linked to the personal family archives  of Margot Wallard.  They will be published and exhibited in 2023-2024.

Wallard is represented by Galerie VU in Paris and  Dorothée Nilsson Gallery in Berlin.


CV

Selected Exhibitions

2023
Normandie, Festival Planches Contacts, Les Franciscaines, Deauville
2022
Love Songs, photographie de l’intime, MEP Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris
Free Party 1998-2005, Galerie LENEUF, Paris
2020
Natten, Vista Point. Re-Connecting Nature, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Postdam, Germany
2019
Natten, Paris Photo, Galerie VU, France
2018
Natten, Galerie VU, Paris, France
2017
Natten, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2016
Natten, Paris Photo
Natten, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam, Holland
Natten, Athens Photo Festival
2015
Natten, Gallery Nabokov, Paris, France
2014
Natten, Landskrona Fotofestival, Sweden
2011
Vrai ou Faux?, Raum linksrechts é Loge, Hamburg, Germany
Vrai ou Faux?, Ventilazione Wasagasse Ecke Hörlglasse, Wien, Austria
2010
Magic Trick, Gallery Cobertura Photo, Seville, Spain
2009
I bought me a cat, Gallery Micamera, Milan, Italy
Magic Trick, New York Photo Festival 09, New York, United States
2008
I bought me a cat, Fotografia International Rome’s Festival, b>Gallery, Italy
EU Women, New York Photo Festival 08, New York, United States
2007
EU Women, Foto Festival, Gallery FF, Lodz, Pologne
EU Women, Instqnts Chavirés, Montreuil, France
EU Women, Gallery Cobertura Photo, Seville, Spain
2005
Tu te souviens de cette teuf?, Heart Gallery, Paris, France
2004
EX-IN, Gallery Maeght, Barcelona, Spain
Schaugrund, Museum Quartier, Vienna, Austria
2003
Poussièeres Parallèes, Khumbamela 2003 India, Gallery Une Galette dans l’Art, Paris
Reflexe VIII, Arles Photo Festival, Espace Siqueros, Arles, France


Collections
Maison Européen de la Photographie (MEP) Paris, France
Musée Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France


Grants
2008: DRAC Ile de France for the project No Name No City.
2002: Mairie de Montreuil, project on alternative circuses Circus Road System and ELXT90

Awards
Shortlisted with the series Natten of Leica Oskar Bismarck Award in 2015
Shortlisted with the dummy Natten of Dummy Award Kassel in 2015
Shortlisted with the series Natten du Source-Cord Prize en 2014


Monographs
Natten, Max Ström, Sweden 2017
My brother Guillame and Sonia, Journal, Sweden 2013


Collective Books
Karaoke Sunne, with JH Engström, Superlabo Edition, Japan, 2014
7 Days, Athens, November 2011, with JH Engström, Superlabo Edition, Japan, 2012
Forein Affair, with JH Engström, Superlabo Edition, Japan, 2011
EU Women, Atelier Reflexe, Montreuil, France/Fotohof, Salzbourg, Autriche, 2007
Reflexe X, Centre d’Information Reflexe & Dirk Bakker, Paris, France, 2005
EX_IN, Fotohof Editions Salzbourg, Autriche / Silverbridge, Paris, France, 2004
Reflexe VIII, Centre d’Information Reflexe & Dirk Bakker, Paris, France, 2003
Reflexe VII, Centre d’Information Reflexe & Dirk Bakker, Paris, France, 2002
Reflexe VI, Centre d’Information Reflexe & Dirk Bakker, Paris, France, 2001
Reflexe IV, Centre d’Information Reflexe & Dirk Bakker, Paris, France, 1999