Raphaël Zarka
Raphaël Zarka was born in 1977 in Montpellier, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Raphaël Zarka graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and from the Winchester School of Art (UK). His work in the expanded field of sculpture also includes photography, drawing and writing. He is notably the author of three essays on forms and spaces of skateboarding, in which he puts forward a transversal and transdisciplinary approach to popular cultures.
“Raphaël Zarka belongs to a generation of artists who have quietly renewed the relationships between art and knowledge. An erudite collector of stories, facts and images, the results of his various investigations—touching the surface of objects in an allusive or subliminal manner—are crystallised in his sculptures. A concrete and sensitive way of annexing related or heterogeneous areas to art while remaining within the regime of sculpture. While the cognitive sources that suffuse his work are not always explicit in the object itself, they form a tangled and personal network of referents discussed in the numerous texts and interviews accompanying his work. The artist’s interest in skateboarding is well known, a sport to which he has devoted several artworks and three erudite studies. It seems clear that he is interested in skateboarding not so much as a culture, a technique, or a subject as a relational, economic, and ethical model. A specific register of action (and of inertia) applied to knowledge and to artistic production.” (Guillaume Désanges)
His work is part of many French institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Val-de-Marne in Vitry as well as in six French regional contemporary art collections (FRAC) and at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP). His works also feature in the international collections such as the ones of the Mudam in Luxembourg (MUDAM), BPS22 - Musée d'art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, the Museum of New and Old Art in Hobart (MONA), Tasmania, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco, and the Zabludowicz collection in London, amongst others.
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Rampe Cycloïdale, 2018View more details
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Abstraction Gnomonique 01, 2020View more details
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Abstraction Gnomonique 11, 2020View more details
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Abstraction Gnomonique nº15 (version 1), 2020View more details
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Abstraction Gnomonique nº15 (version 2), 2020View more details
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Adler nº1, 2022View more details
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Floris nº1, 2022View more details
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L'Oisellerie, 2022View more details
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Lavaur nº1, 2022View more details
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Lescours nº1, 2022View more details
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L’Oisellerie nº1, 2022View more details
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Suite Serlienne 5 P.2, 2022View more details
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Raphaël Zarka
Tautochrone 23 May - 27 Jul 2024 GalerieGalerie Mitterrand is pleased to present a new solo exhibition by French artist Raphaël Zarka, from May 23 to July 27, 2024. Entitled Tautochrone, this exhibition brings together two sculptures,...Read more -
Raphaël Zarka
Sculpture Gnomonique 4 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 GalerieThose who enter the porte cochère of 79 rue du Temple (home to Galerie Mitterrand) may notice a 17th -century sundial on the upper facade of the hotel de Montmort....Read more
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À Trélazé, une oeuvre gigantesque: "C'est la première fois que je sculpte à une telle échelle"
Emmanuel Poupard, Ouest France, December 8, 2023 -
Raphaël Zarka, un artiste sur la piste de Buckminster Fuller
Juliette Bessette, Centre Pompidou, June 19, 2023 -
ARTIST-SMUGGLERS
Catherine Francblin, ARTPRESS, January 23, 2023
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PARIS GALLERY WEEKEND
25 & 26.05.2024 May 16, 2024On the occasion of Paris Gallery Weekend 2024 and of the opening of the exhibitions Tautochrone by Raphaël Zarka et Notes de My-Lan Hoang-Thuy, Galerie...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE TOKYO
17.02 > 21.04.2024 February 8, 2024The Fondation d'entreprise Hermès and the Institut français de Tokyo are pleased to announce the exhibition Riding Modern Art by French artist Raphaël Zarka. Raphaël...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - MAISON HERMÈS GINZA
16.02 > 31.05.2024 February 7, 2024The Hermès Foundation is holding an exhibition called 'Ecology: Dialogue around Circulation', which questions the practice of ecology in art.It consists of two dialogues: a...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - LA DOUBLURE, TRÉLAZÉ
Inauguration le 14.07.2024 January 3, 2024Dernier acte de la revitalisation du site, La Doublure , une création du plasticien Raphaël Zarka est récemment engagée. En regard des vestiges de l’unique...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - RAMPE CYCLOÏDALE À ROUEN
23.09.2023 September 23, 2023On Saturday September 23, 2023, Raphaël Zarka's La Rampe cycloïde will be inaugurated on the square in front of the Hôtel de Ville, place du...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - MUDAM, LUXEMBOURG
30.06.2023 > 18.02.2024 June 27, 2023Deep Deep Down Collections are only exhibited to a small extent. Much of the art rarely sees the light of day. What if we rendered...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE MARTELL
30.06 > 31.12.2023 June 27, 2023The Almanach exhibition is the inaugural research project of the Fondation d'entreprise Martell, which, after 5 years of existence, is becoming a platform for research...Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - L'INCLINÉE - LES SUBS, LYON, FR
28.09.2022 - 08.10.2022 October 1, 2022 Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - OUT OF CONTROL - AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, WHISTLER, CA
17.09.2022 - 08.01.2023 October 1, 2022 Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - CYCLOID LEDGES - SKATESHOP NOZBONE, PARIS, FR
From 8 september 2022 October 1, 2022 Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - PAR ENCHANTEMENT - BIENNALE D'ENGHIEN, BE
Artwork visible until 2025 October 1, 2022 Read more -
RAPHAËL ZARKA - BOTTEGA VENETA - SAN FRANCISCO, USA
Opening in July 2022 October 1, 2022 Read more