Didier Béquillard

Biography

In parallel with his research, which he has been involved in since the early 1990s, Didier Béquillard was Professor of Plastic Arts at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Toulouse from 1999 to 2005. He is a professor of plastic arts at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Toulouse, Option “design d’espace” and a visiting professor at the University of Architecture of Cagliari in Sardinia from 2002 to 2006.

Sculptures, engravings, pastels, the simultaneous use of different media immediately indicates Didier Bequillard’s tautological approach. He spatializes a universe where lines and curves are declined, without reservation of territory. He defines a simple figure, identified in order to multiply, sober in order to vary infinitely, closed in order to open up, inhabited in order to be inhabited. — Jackie Ruth Meyer, Albi 1994.

 

Scholarships

1999 D.A.P. scholarship for research abroad (Australia)
1993 FIACRE Grant, Individual support for creation

Solo Exhibitions

2017
“FestBau” with Barbara Nascimbeni, Oberfett Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2016
“Suite Mexicaine” Maison des Arts de Bages d’Aude, France
“FestBau” Galerie Licence 3, Perpignan, France

2012
“Cross-Towns” Galerie Licence III, Perpignan, France
“Città” Atelier Roland Schär, Paris, France

2010
“Onkel Tuca’s Bunker”, VRAC, Millau, France
“L’Atelier Blanc”, Villefranche de Rouergue, France

2009
“Le Salon Reçoit”, Toulouse, France

2008
“Hier und Da” with Valérie Krause, le BBB, Toulouse, France

2006
“Stillleben mit Flut”, GalerieXprssns, Hamburg, Germany
“Ausgewählte Stücke”, triennale d’architecture, GalerieXprssns, Hamburg, Germany

2004
“Paysages”, residency and exhibition at ENAC, Toulouse, France

2002
“Footing”, À la Plage, Toulouse, France

2001
“Lotissements”, Credac, Ivry, France
“Le salon reçoit”, Toulouse, France
“Ombres Blanches”, Toulouse, France

2000
“Deux pièces-cuisine”, Paris, France

1999
Galerie Anton Weller, Paris, France
Artspace, Sydney, Australia

1997
Espace des Arts, Colomiers, France

1995
Galerie Barbier Beltz, Paris, France

1994
Cimaise & Portique, Albi, France

1992
URN Köln, Germany
Galerie Eric Dupont, Toulouse, France

1991
Galerie Eric Dupont, Toulouse, France

Group Exhibitions

2019
“GemEINSAM”, Xpon-art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
“Like a House on Fire” Frappant Gallery, (triennial of Architecture) Hamburg, Germany
“Lier – délier – reliés”, La Belle Absente, Pari, France

2017
“Concrete Dance” Kunstvoll Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
“Ni tout à fait là, ni tout à fait ailleurs”, La Collection d’Ana D. Châteauroux, France
“À dessin 3”, Sète, France

2015
“Mur Murs”, le LAIT, Albi, France

2014
“Monument à Georges Perec – La Disparition”, Galerie Dix9, Paris, France
“Lettres de Babel” Atelier Corinne Laroche, Paris, France

2013
Drawing Off, Montpellier, France
“Échappées”, Sentier des Lauzes, St Mélany, France

2012
“Topos” Fondation Écureuil, Toulouse, France

2011
“Odyssée de L’Espace”, Espace des Arts Colomiers, France

2010
“Traversée d’Art”, St Ouen, France

2009
“La Sainte Jeanne vous en promet”, Toulouse, France
“Passé (re)composé” Galerie Ste Catherine & Musée Fenaille, Rodez, France

2008
Contemporary Art Triennal, Port Louis, Île Maurice
“Yokohama VDO Collection 08”, Month of France, Red Brick Ware House, Japon
“Anonyme Zeichner”, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
“Les Ecrans Documentaires”, Galerie Pascal Van Hoecke, Arcueil, France

2006
“Marcher”, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajars, France
“Les Territoires”, Fondation Espace Ecureuil, Toulouse, France

2005
“7 ans de réflexions”, A la Plage, Toulouse, France
“Déplacements”, Le BBB, Toulouse, France
“Territoires II”, Le vent des Forêts, Thillombois, France

2004
“Territoires I”, Le vent des forêts, Fresnes-au-Mont, France
“Regards sur la ville”, Galerie des Tourelles, Nanterre, France
“Open Mike”, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany

2003
“Habit ou Habitat”, Galerie Marcel Duchamps, Yvetot, France
“Sur plusieurs tableaux II”, Château de Taurines, France
“SIX”, CIAM, Toulouse, France

2001
“ODYSSEE 2000+1”, Rote Latern, Flensburg, Germany

2000
“Emplacement/déplacement”, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris, France
“Traversées”, la Menuiserie, Rodez, France
“Autour du Colloque”, Abbaye de Sylvanes, France

1999
“À Corps Perdu”, Cimaise & Portique, Caisse d’Epargne, Toulouse, France

1998
“Déplacements”, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris, France

1997
“Innenseite”, Documenta off, Kassel, Germany

1996
“Chez l’Un, l’Autre 4”, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris, France
Salon de Montrouge, France
Salon d’Art Contemporain, Verdun, France
“Pièces Montées”, Centre Culturel de l’Albigeois, scène nationale, Albi, France

1995
Université du Mirail, Toulouse, France
“Chez l’Un, l’Autre 2”, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris, France
“Chez l’Un, l’Autre 3”, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris, France

1994
“Rêves d’Espace”, Palais des Arts, Toulouse, France

1993
Salon de Montrouge, France
“Intérieurs”, Musée Denys Puech, Rodez, France
“Quelle Chaleur”, Cimaise & Portique, Albi, France

1992
Salon de Montrouge, France

1991
“Magasin d’artistes”, Rodez, France

Acquisitions

2016 Artothèque de Perpignan, France
2013 Médiathèque de Montpellier, France
2012 Artothèque du Lot, France
2007 Ville de Rodez dans le cadre d’un 1% au lycée agricole Laroque, France
1994 Artothèque, Albi, France
1993 FRAC Midi-Pyrénées
1990 Collection CAVIAR

Reviews

Suite Mexicaine, Julie Laurent, février 2016

Film

Didier Béquillard, In measured words
35mn film directed by Claude Mossessian, 2022.