Prouvost
About
Laure Prouvost lives and works between Antwerp and London.
She was awarded the Turner Prize in 2013, the Max Mara Prize for Women in 2011, the Principal Prize at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival in 2010 and 2011, as well as the FIPRESCI Critics’ Prize at the 62nd edition of that festival, and the EAST International Award in 2009. In 2016, she was made a Knight of the Order of National Merit, and in 2019 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters. She represented France at the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (2019).
She has held solo exhibitions at numerous (inter)national art institutions such as De Pont, Bonnefanten, M HKA, among others. Her artworks are part of various collections.
Using video, drawings, tapestries, ceramics, photography, performance, and above all language, Laure Prouvost creates immersive installations that plunge the viewer into a state of personal and collective introspection. Words, images, memories, the five senses—everything that seems tangible and reliable—is turned upside down by the fantastical nature of the ambiguous narratives introduced by the artist. Her relationship with language, which is playful and full of humor, is shaped by her own experience and the gap between everyday spoken language in England and her mother tongue.
Published on
11 July 2025