Michel François (born in 1956), lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Fascinated by the gestures of everyday life and the tensions that they reveal, François has distinguished himself, since the 1980s, through a unique practice in which disorder and ambiguity reign. In parallel to
his photographs being published as posters, and then in books format, the artist developped a specificapproach to sculpture and installation, where his works and images are often grouped, accumulated, and re-contextualized.

He has exhibited throughout Europe and abroad, including Documenta IX in Kassel (1992), the XXIInd Biennale de São Paulo (1994), the Kunsthalle in Bern (1999), the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), where he represented Belgium alongside Ann Veronica Janssens, Art Pace Foundation in San Antonio, Texas (2004), SMAK in Ghent and the IAC in Villeurbanne for Plans d’évasion (2009–2010), Mac’s at Grand Hornu for 45.000 affiches (2011), IKON Birmingham for Pieces of Evidence (2014), La Verrière, Hermès in Brussels for Philaetchouri with Ann Veronica Janssens (2015), the Biennale d’art contemporain in Rennes (2016), Wiels in Brussels for Le musée absent (2017), the Halle Verrière and the Centre International d’Art Verrier in Meisenthal for Panoptique (2021), Bozar in Brussels for Contre Nature (2023), and most recently the Palais de Tokyo in Paris for Toucher l’insensé (2024).

His work can be found in many private and public European collections.

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