Caroline Mesquita
Selected Works
Magpie egg (brown)
2024Patinated brass
36 × 29 cm (14 ⅛ × 11 ⅜ inches)
Egg (red I)
2024Patinated brass
56 × 44 cm (22 × 17 ⅜ inches)
Egg (red II)
2024Patinated brass
36 × 29 cm (14 ⅛ × 11 ⅜ inches)
Egg (blue I)
2024patinated brass / ottone patinato
56 × 44 cm (22 × 17 ⅜ inches)
Egg (blue II)
2024Patinated brass
36 × 29 cm (14 ⅛ × 11 ⅜ inches)
Egg (blue III)
2024Patinated brass
36 × 29 cm (14 ⅛ × 11 ⅜ inches)
Glouglou / Dindon
2022Patinated brass and paper
360 × 150 × 150 cm (141 ¾ × 59 × 59 inches)
Touterelle
2022Patinated brass and paper
360 × 150 × 150 cm (141 ¾ × 59 × 59 inches)
Pivert
2022Patinated brass and paper
360 × 150 × 150 cm (141 ¾ × 59 × 59 inches)
Corneille
2022Patinated brass and paper
360 × 150 × 150 cm (141 ¾ × 59 × 59 inches)
Flamand rose
2022Patinated brass and paper
360 × 150 × 150 cm (141 ¾ × 59 × 59 inches)
Moineau Bleu (small)
2024patinated brass and copper
31 × 20 × 22 cm (12 ¼ × 7 ⅞ × 8 ⅝ inches)
Echassier Bleu
2024patinated brass and copper
180 × 45 × 70 cm (70 ⅞ × 17 ¾ × 27 ½ inches)
Moineau Noir (Giant)
2024patinated brass and copper
180 × 120 × 140 cm (70 ⅞ × 47 ¼ × 55 ⅛ inches)
Goutte Bleue
2024patinated brass
56.5 × 44 × 2 cm (22 ¼ × 17 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Foule
2024patinated brass
80 × 120 × 2 cm (31 ½ × 47 ¼ × ¾ inches)
Seau
2024patinated brass
56.4 × 44 × 2 cm (22 ¼ × 17 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Goutte
2024patinated brass
77 × 60 × 2 cm (30 ⅜ × 23 ⅝ × ¾ inches)
Clé
2024patinated brass
56.4 × 44 × 2 cm (22 ¼ × 17 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Radio
2024patinated brass
56.5 × 44 × 2 cm (22 ¼ × 17 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Gant
2024patinated brass
56.5 × 44 × 2 cm (22 ¼ × 17 ⅜ × ¾ inches)
Toro
2022patinated brass
61 × 56 × 25 cm (24 × 22 × 9 ⅞ inches)
Georgia
2022patinated brass
108 × 98 × 24 cm (42 ½ × 38 ⅝ × 9 ½ inches)
Silvia
2022patinated brass
104 × 80 × 28 cm (41 × 31 ½ × 11 inches)
Billy
2022patinated brass
110 × 70 × 35 cm (43 ¼ × 27 ½ × 13 ¾ inches)
Romeo
2022patinated brass
15 × 94 × 24 cm (45 ¼ × 37 × 9 ½ inches)
Giorgio
2022patinated brass
102 × 62 × 27 cm (40 ⅛ × 24 ⅜ × 10 ⅝ inches)
Uccello
2022patinated brass
95 × 54 × 58 cm (37 ⅜ × 21 ¼ × 22 ⅞ inches)
Le Festin Restaurant
2020cardboard, painting, varnish
800 × 660 × 460 cm (315 × 259 ⅞ × 181 ⅛ inches)
Mimolette (sort of cheese)
2020lacquered aluminium, copper
94 × 95 × 63 cm (37 × 37 ⅜ × 24 ¾ inches) platform: 20 × 170 cm (7 ⅞ × 66 ⅞ inches)
Beurre (butter)
2020brass
70 × 135 × 62 cm (27 ½ × 53 ⅛ × 24 ⅜ inches) platform: 20 × 200 cm (7 ⅞ × 78 ¾ inches)
Crevettes (prawns)
2020brass, copper, lacquered aluminium
180 × 95 × 30 cm (70 ⅞ × 37 ⅜ × 11 ¾ inches) platform: 20 × 170 cm (7 ⅞ × 66 ⅞ inches)
Glace à l’eau (water ice)
2020lacquered aluminium, brass, copper, oak
197 × 35 cm (77 ½ × 13 ¾ inches) platform: 20 × 150 cm (7 ⅞ × 59 inches)
Spaceship seal
2017steel, stainless steel, resin, car paint
110 × 200 × 40 cm (43 ¼ × 78 ¾ × 15 ¾ inches)
Spaceship worm
2017steel, stainless steel, resin, car paint
50 × 190 × 80 cm (19 ⅝ × 74 ¾ × 31 ½ inches)
Spaceship umbrella
2017steel, stainless steel, resin, car paint
150 × 130 × 100 cm (59 × 51 ⅛ × 39 ⅜ inches)
Arche
2019brass / ottone
450 × 350 × 120 cm
Soft Evasion
2019cardboard, painting
260 × 450 × 300 cm
Video
Biography
Gallery Exhibitions
Other Venues
Selected Press
From the studio: Caroline Mesquita
Studio Visit
CV
2014
MSA, The Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles
2010 – 2013
MA Beaux-arts de Paris, Jury Honors, France
2007 – 2010
BA Beaux-arts de Rennes, France
2024
‘Blue Hour’, Sala Santa Rita, Rome
‘Verdet Bath’, HALLE FÜR KUNST, Steiermark
‘Eggo’, T293, Rome
‘CuCo & CO’, HAB Galerie, Nantes, France
‘The thieving magpie’, Hermès Window, Venice
2023
‘Art Club#37’, Villa Medicis, Rome
Bourse du travail Centre d’art, Valence, France
2022
‘Mid-Way’, Kunstforum Montafon, duo with Hans Schabus, Austria
‘Noctambules’, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
‘Mondi de ides’, Le Parvis, Tarbes
‘Portraits’, T293 Rome
2021
‘Noctambules’, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
2020
‘IN VIVO’, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
‘Le Festin’, Passarelle Centre d’art Contemporain, Brest, France
2019
‘La Casa dell’Eremita sul Naviglio’, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
‘Astray’, carlier | gebauer galerie, Berlin
‘Astray’, Galerie Municipal do Porto, Portugal
2018
‘Astray (Prologue)’, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon
‘Os & Oas’ (with Tore Wallert), Jo Brand, Glasgow
‘The Machine Room’, Art Basel | Parcours, Barfüsser Kirche, Basel
2017
‘Night Engines’, T293, Rome, Italy
‘L’engin’, Indiana, RATS collectif, Vevey, Switzerland
‘The Visitors’, SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland
‘The Ballad’, 221A, Vancouver
‘The Ballad’, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
2016
‘Pink everywhere’, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
‘Cream Sacrifice’, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
‘Some blue in my mouth’, MOT International, Brussels
2015
‘123 Soleil’, abc art berlin contemporary, Berlin
‘Windsurfers’, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
‘Bal’, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
‘Camping’, Union Pacific, London
‘Sloths’, Pavillon, Centre d’art du Parc-Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
2014
‘Les Bains-Douches’, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, France
2013
‘Tube’, 1m3, Lausanne, Switzerland
2022
‘L’amie modèle’, Mucem, France
‘Modernités cosmiques’, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
‘Festival Iminente’, Mucem, Marseille, France
2021
‘Capsule’, Buropolis, Marseille, France
‘La Diosa Verde’, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara
‘La Quinzaine Radieuse #13’, Piacé le radieux, France
2020
‘Sur pierres brûlantes’, Triangle France, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
‘Unterschiedswesen’, Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
‘Your friends and neighbors’, High Art, Paris, France
2019
‘Futur, ancient fugitif’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘The Assembled Human’, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
‘Cosmologic Arrows’, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
‘Fallen empires and refound desires’, Horst, Vilvoorde, Belgium
‘Big Orchestra’, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
‘La déesse verte’, Eldorado Lille 3000, Lille, France
2018
‘The Gravity show’. Grisebach Gallery, Berlin
‘GRAND OPENING (SUMMER RAPSODHY)’, KURA. at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan
‘Post-disaster Residencies’, Stadium de Vitrolles, France
‘Salle des Pas-Perdus’, DOC, Paris
‘Voici des fleurs’, la loge, Brussels
‘One long changing body’, Galerie carlier | gebauer, Berlin
‘CONDO’, Union pacific, London
2017
‘Les bons sentiments’, 19th Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize, Paris
‘Sticky Fingers’, Arsenal Contemporary, New York
‘Tender Comrades’, Studioli-Roma, Italy
‘Summer Show’, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm
‘NOTHING TO HIDE’, Sans Titre (2016), Paris
‘Parisque’, DOC, Paris
2016
‘COOL MEMORIES’, Occidental Temporary, Villejuif, France
‘I pledge allegiance’, On Stellar Rays, New York
‘Lodos’, Material Art Fair, Mexico City
2015
‘Mon horizontalité’, Saint-Ouen, France
‘Maladie d’amour’, Lili Reynaud Dewar’s studio, Grenoble, France
‘Le Bal Jaune special project’, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris
2014
‘Explore’, FRAC Ile-de-France, Le Château de Rentilly, Bussy, Saint-Martin, France
‘Europe, Europe’, The Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
‘Possibles d’un Monde Fragmenté’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
‘The Space Between Us’, Flax Foundation, Los Angeles
‘Memory Palaces’, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
‘Speedboat’, Nicelle Beauchene, New York
‘MOMENTUM? MAYBE THE TIME HAS COME TO LIVE OUR CORPORALITY RATHER THAN SPEAK OUR SEXUALITY’, PSM-Gallery, Berlin
2013
‘La Vie Materielle’, 15ème Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
‘Barbarie’, La Generale en Manufacture, Sevres, France
‘La Salon des Testeurs’, Chalet Society, Paris
2012
‘Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market’, Monnaie de Paris, Paris
‘BYOB’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘Skypy gang archange’, Le Commissariat, Chez Treize, Paris
2011
‘Nul PTYX’, Cité internationale des arts, Paris