Biography
A visual artist and stage director, born in Paris in 1984, Théo Mercier lives and works in his home city and Marseille. For more than 10 years now, he has been developing a polymorphous oeuvre at the intersection of arts and eras, a hybrid of museum and theatre, which he likes to see collide. A Fellow at the Villa Médicis in 2013, and a nominee the following year for the Prix Marcel-Duchamp, he has held solo exhibitions in France and around the world. Since 2014, he has created pieces for the stage, including Affordable Solution For Better Living, co-written with Steven Michel (Silver Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale). In 2021, he created Outremonde at the Collection Lambert as part of the Avignon Festival; its second chapter in June 2022 at Luma Westbau, Zurich; then a third and final instalment at La Conciergerie in Paris in autumn 2022. In June 2023 he is representing the French pavilion, entitled “Countries and Regions”, at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, in collaboration with Céline Peychet. He is also preparing a new solo exhibition at the Villa Médicis in Rome, scheduled for June 2023; and a new piece, Skinless, using waste materials, which will premiere in March 2024.