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Jean-Pascal Flavien was born in 1971 in Le Mans, France. He studied Fine Arts in Rennes, France, Italy and at the University of California, Los Angeles and lives and works in Berlin. Flavien’s practice combines elements from architecture, sculpture, and the performative, to create works that are both precise and concrete but also poetic and evocative. Like preliminary sketches of large-scale paintings, his models for houses are maquettes for possible scenarios and perhaps views from the past or future of these fictional buildings. His altered domestic objects, such chairs, tables, outlets or blinds draw attention to the way in which design and architecture shape our experience of space but also how they can more fundamentally determine our experience of ourselves and of others.

Flavien’s recent solo exhibitions include: make-up house, San Gimignano Lichtenberg, Berlin (2022- ongoing); Greenhouse, Fabre, Paris (2019); house with things behind, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (2018); dancers sleeping inside a building, Les Ateliers de Rennes  –   Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Musée de la Danse, Rennes (2016); statement house (temporary title), RCA, London (2015); Cinonema, no drama cinema, South London Gallery, London (2012); Jean-Pascal Flavien, Kunstverein, Langenhagen (2012), and PLAY, HEDAH/Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2011). Flavien has also been included in exhibitions at: Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2019); Beirut Art Center, Beirut (2018); MAAT, Lisbon (2017); CAC Brétigny – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brétigny-sur-Orge (2016); Le Plateau – FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris (2016); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014). The life-sized project folding house (to be continued) was acquired for the collection of the NMNM Nouveau Musée National de Monaco and inaugurated in July 2016 on the museum’s outside terrace.