The artist duo Jacent creates large-scale installations inspired by their intimate, domestic lives, where the public is received as a guest. Depending on the context, the pair adapt their multidisciplinary proposals that question our relationship to the exhibition experience. The fusion between art and life has been at the heart of their pursuits since they began collaborating in 2014. They have founded Tonus, an artist-run space based in Paris which perpetuates this state of mind.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
– Kunstverein Siegen (Germany), 2025
– CAC Brétigny, saison hors-les-murs, Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon (France), 2025
– Paris Internationale with Tonus [duo], Paris (France), 2025
– Salon d’été with Sans titre, Maison Louis et Olga Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne (France), 2023
– Basel Social Club with Tonus [duo], Basel (Switzerland), 2023
– House Call, Sans titre, Paris (France), 2023
– Don’t Push The River…, Le Shed, CAC Normandie, Maromme (France), 2022
– ...It Flows By Itself, Rolabola, Rouen (France), 2022
– Glücksspiel, Le jeu de l’amour et du hasard, sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf (Germany), 2022
– Cœur fleur, Cocotte, Treignac (France), 2022
– Salon Jacent, Liste Art Fair Basel – Special Guest Programme, Basel (Switzerland), 2021
– A Room of One’s Own, Plat-, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2019
– Hotel Jacent, PSM, Berlin (Germany), 2018
– L’Oasis, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2017
– Chez Jacent, Tonus, Paris (France), 2017
– Parade, Harpe 45, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2015
– Legacy, Lokal–Int, Biel (Switzerland), 2014
– 3rd mind myth, Tonus, Paris (France), 2014
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
– CAC Synagogue de Delme (France), 2025
– La Complicité, with works from the Frac Bretagne collection, EESAB - site de Quimper / Mollo, Douarnenez (France), 2024
– Les aspirateurs sont des éléphants sans défenses, Le Houloc, Aubervilliers (France), 2024
– Solstice, Crèvecœur, Paris (France), 2023-24
– Ceramics & Friends, We do not work alone, Paris (France), 2023-24
– Stickers!!, Cocotte, Paris (France), 2023
– House of Dreamers, villa Empain – Fondation Boghossian, Brussels (Belgium), 2023
– Still Making Art, Klaipėdos kultūrų komunikacijų centras, Klaipėda (Lithuania), 2023
– Meet Me Halfway, One gee in fog, Geneva, Wallstreet, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2023
– Mamoune, hosted by Sans titre at Pina, Vienna (Austria), 2022
– Mon palais, choir, Sans titre, Paris (France), 2022
– Systema, Cocotte, Marseille (France)
– Illusions of Comfort, Campoli Presti, Paris (France)
– Make Yourself at Home, Sans titre (2016), online, 2021
– Still Time, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris (France) 2021
– La Psychologie des serrures, CAN centre d’art, Neuchâtel (Switzerland), 2020-21
– Your Friends and Neighbors, High art, Paris (France), 2020
– Group show, Tonus, Paris (France), 2019
– Les Chemins du Sud, Mrac Occitanie, Sérignan (France), 2019
– Souvenir Art Summer Camp, Spazio Murat, Bari (Italy), 2019
– La Parole et l’écoute, Bagnoler, Bagnolet (France), 2019
– Somewhere in Between. Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe, Bozar, Brussels (Belgium), 2018
– Vous me rappelez quelqu’un, Frac Lorraine, Metz (France), 2018
– Wie werden wir uns wiedererkennen, Künstlerhaus Bremen (Germany), 2017
– Paris Internationale with Tonus, Paris (France), 2017
– On choisit pas sa famille!, Cocotte, Paris (France), 2017
– Canard au sans, Sans titre (2016), Paris (France), 2017
– Culture Pop Marauders, Mains-d’œuvres, Saint-Ouen (France), 2016
– 58e Salon de Montrouge, Le Beffroi, Montrouge (France), 2015
– EDEN unlimited_ tbc.tbc, off ABC art fair, Berlin (Germany), 2014
OTHER PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
– La Complicité, Le Frac en résidence, Frac Bretagne, EESAB - site de Quimper (France), 2024 [workshop]
– Postcards, Ancien Évêché, Toulon, 2023 [site-specific installation]
– villa Noailles shop, Ancien Évêché, Toulon, 2023 [shop]
– Cryto Cœur Collection, 2022 [NFT]
– Orange Rouge, collège Daniel Mayer, Paris (France), 2021 [collective work]
– Design Parade 2019, villa Noailles, Hyères (France), 2019 [festival]
– Artists who do books, ENSAD Nancy, 2019 [workshop]
– Feÿ, Rencontres d’arts, Château du Feÿ, Villecien (France), 2018 [festival]
– Design Parade 2018, Ancient diocese, Toulon (France), 2018 [festival]
– Alt_Cph, Fabrikken for Kunst & Design, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2018 [festival]
– Souvenir, Spazio Murat, Bari (Italy), 2018 [talk/event]
– Thursday Best, Bob’s Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany), 2017 [event]
RESIDENCY
– Maison flottante, Cneai (Centre National Édition Art Image), 2022
GRANTS
– Cnap (House Call at Sans titre, Paris), 2023
– Fondation des Artistes (Salon Jacent at Liste, Basel), 2021
PUBLICATIONS
– Some Flowers, published by Sans titre, 2023
– 461. A Decade of Contemporary Art, Fondation des Artistes, Dilecta, 2022
– La Psychologie des serrures, published by Sans titre (2016) and CAN centre d’art, Neuchâtel, 2021
– Sketches, March—August 2020, self-published, 2020
– Gifaillaer Gimaer, published by par My-Lan Hoang Thuy and Élise Fourché, 2019
– Jade Fourès Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm, aleï journal – monographs, 2018
– Do Not Iron, Sans Titre (2016) and Unemployed, 2018
COLLECTION
– villa Noailles
CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES
– Founders of the artist-run space Tonus, Paris, since 2014
– La Complicité, with works from the Frac Bretagne collection, EESAB - site de Quimper / Mollo, Douarnenez (France), 2024
– Mamoune, Pina, Vienne (Autriche), with Sans titre, 2022
EDUCATION
– ESAG Peninghen, Paris (France), 2002-2007
– Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan (Italy), 2005