TURSIC & MILLE
The work of Ida Tursic (b. 1974) and Wilfried Mille (b. 1974) expresses a deep engagement with today's forms of image representation. Found in magazines and the enormous data pool of the internet, anonymous pictorial material is being transformed into the traditional domain of painting. Obscene pornography, film scenes of burning houses, landscapes as well as mere abstract and geometrical elements – the subjects depicted illustrate the common overload of image production circulating through present media. Often alienated by overlapping layers of paint or interrupted by various patterns these paintings deal with the manipulation, re-utilisation and disappearance of images.
‘Something in the painting of Ida Tursic and Wilfried Mille makes us beautiful, and turns us into worthy onlookers. Herein lies the 'intangible' part of the oeuvre of Ida Tursic and Wilfried Mille. It is in the nature and making of this relationship which links us to it. And if this painting leaves plenty of room for tangible things, but does not assign them any place in particular, this is because its project is elsewhere: in the on-going quest for ways of expressing this intangible part which alone sets works of art apart from ordinary things, and makes a distinction between pictures and paintings.’
É. Troncy, ‘This Painting’ in Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille. Decade, Les presses du réel, 2011
Image: Kindness, 2021, oil on canvas, 200 x 150 cm.; 78 3/4 x 59 in. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur
Artist Talk
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1974
Ida Tursic born in Belgrade, Serbia
1974
Wilfried Mille born in Boulogne-sur-mer, France
Live and work in the South of France
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Berardo Museum – Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
FRAC – Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
FRAC – Bourgogne, Dijon
FRAC – Le Plateau, Paris
Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Fondation Francès, Senlis
Le Consortium, Dijon
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dôle
Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain de Sérignan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Smog Painting, 2024 (Pièce unique)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Window Gallery, Berlin
Stains, Stars and other Catastrophes
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Sweet Nothings
Almine Rech, New York
2023
The Woods
FRAC – Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Normandie, Caen
2022
Disastri
Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Tenderness
Almine Rech, Paris
The Thing
Four Studies for a Mound
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Consortium Museum, Dijon
2021
Strange Days
Galerie Max Hetzler, London (publication)
The Postponed Show
Le Portique, Le Havre
La Rencontre / The Encounter
Almine Rech, Shanghai
2020
The Crooked Show
Le Portique, Le Havre
Advertisement For A Better World
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2018
Are Men Unicorn?
Almine Rech, Brussels
Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul
Sunset e Pornografia
Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
2017
Paintings
Stiftung zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Weidingen
«Bianco Bichon, Nero Madonna, e altre distruzioni liriche»
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris
2016
Elizabeth Taylor in a landscape, painting nature's beauty and the caress of the smirking sun over the mountains
Almine Rech, Paris
2015
Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Pasta al nero di seppia
Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
2013
La nuit et cætera
Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny
2012
The Weeds
Almine Rech, Brussels
2011
Decade
FRAC – Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
Smears
Galerie 40m Cube, Rennes
It Was The Dirty End of Winter
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dôle
2010
Come in Number 51
Almine Rech, Paris
2008
6,5
Le musée de Sérignan, Sérignan
Story of Every Day
Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva
2007
Peg Entwistle
Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny
2004
New Work New Work
Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny
2002
The Wave
Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Nouvelles œuvres de la collection du consortium Museum
Le Consortium, Dijon
BeauBadUgly – L’autre Histoire de la peinture
Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Disorders
Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon
Lacan, The Exhibition: When Art Meets Psychoanalysis
Centre Pompidou, Metz
2023
Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism
Almine Rech, London
The Echo of Picasso
Museo Picasso, Málaga
das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape, curated by Christian Malycha
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
The Inner Island, curated by Jean-Marie Gallais
Fondation Carmignac, Villa Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, Hyères
Feeling of Light
Almine Rech, Brussels
Immortelle
MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain
Of Their Time (7) – A Look At Private Collections
FRAC – Grand Large, Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque
2022
Manche trugen Federn
Gregor Hildebrandt, Berlin
2021
The Modern Dog Painter
New Galerie, Paris
Blooming
Le Domaine de Pommery, Reims
Artistes à la Une Togeth'Her
Monnaie de Paris, Paris
La Bohème
Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli
Salon de Peinture
Almine Rech, New York
Children Power 2
Frac île-de-France, Paris / Romainville
Un Hiver à Gstaad Paris
Almine Rech, Paris
2020
Millénials. Peintures 2000–2020
Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux
"La vie dans l'espace". Accrochage des collections
Musée régional d'art contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
Made in France
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Winners of the Grand Prix Artistique of the Foundation Simone and Cino Del Duca
Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Summer
Almine Rech, Paris
2019
Collecting in the 21st Century: of their times (6th edition)
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Made in France
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Au fil des toiles
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Limoges
Les Enfants du Paradis
MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing
Easy rider: the myth of the motorbike as art
Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Firenze
Painting Zeitgeist?
Achenbach Hagemeier, Berlin
Input / Output: Painting After Technology
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2018
Painting the Night
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Cliche
Almine Rech, New York
2017
La Peinture en Apnée
FRAC – Bourgogne, Dijon
Oltreprima. La fotografia dipinta nell'arte contemporanea
Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Bologna
2016
30°
Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples
O Sol De Janeiro
Galerie Dix9, Paris
RUN RUN RUN
Villa Arson, Nice
Le temps de l'audace et de l'engagement - De leur temps (5)
Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (IAC), Villeurbanne
Tous les tableaux sont à l’envers
Entrepôt 9 - Galerie Barnoud, Quétigny;
Circuit, Lausanne
2015
Amours, vices et vertus
Galerie nationale de la Tapisserie, Beauvais
L´Ordre caché
FRAC – Bourgogne, Dijon
The Shell
Almine Rech, Paris
(un mural, des tableaux)
FRAC – Le Plateau, Paris
2014
Shit and Die
Pallazio Cavour, Turin
Trash Test / Crash Test
Foundation Francès, Senlis
Sinon le Chaos
Appartment, Paris
Halftone
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin | Paris
Choices
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Grey Flags
Galerie Backslash, Paris
Collection Gilles Balmet
Ecole Supérieure d´Art et Design, Grenoble et Centre d´Art le VOG, Fontaine
2013
Ceremonie
Melina Gloss Gallery, Paris
Je hais les couples II
Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels
L´astronaute
FRAC – Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
De leur temps collection privées
Centre d`Art, Le Hangar à Bananes, Nantes
Les Archipels réinventés
Les prix Fondation d´Enterprise Ricard, Vieille Charité, Marseille
Jamais deux sans toi
Chateau de Jau, Cases de Pène
Futur simple: saison I
FRAC – Bourgogne, Dijon
19 rue de Saintonge
Almine Rech, Paris
Terrible duo
Villa du Parc, Annemasse
2012
Spray Paint
Mitterand+Cramer, Geneva
La belle peinture est derrière nous
Le Lieu Unique, Nantes
Beautiful Painting is behind us
UGM / Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor
2011
My Paris. Collection Antoine de Galbert
ME Collectors Room, Berlin
C´est l´Amour A La Page
Musée Régional d´Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan
Exposition d'ouverture
Le Consortium, Dijon
2010
Perpetual Battle
Baibakow Art Project, Moscow
Centre Pompidou at the Hermitage Museum
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
La Belle Peinture Est Derrière Nous
Sanat Limani, Antrepo no. 5, Istanbul
2009
L´image Cabrée
Centre Georges Pompidou, 11th Award of the Fondation d´enterprise Ricard, Paris
Paisagens Oblicas
Museu Municipal de Faro
Arte na França O Realismo
Museo de Arte de São Paulo
La Rose Pourpre du Caire
Musée d´Art et d´Archéologie d´Aurrilac
N´importe Quoi
MAC, Lyon
Just With Your Eyes I Will See
FRAC – Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
2008
Não te Posso Ver Nem Pintado
Musée Berardo, Lisboa
The Freak Show 2
La Monnaie de Paris
2007
The Freak Show
MAC, Lyon
De Leur Temps
Musée d´Art Contemporain de Grenoble
2006
La Force de l´Art Superdéfense
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
Nos Amours de Vacances
Centre international d´Art Contemporain de Carros
2005
Nues & Nus
Musée Municipal de Bourbon-Lancy
2004
Widziec w Malarstwie
The Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
De Leur Temps
Collections Privés Française, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing
2003
Voir en Peinture
FRAC – Le Plateau, Paris
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Les presses du réel (Ed.): Decade, Dijon ,2011
Les presses du réel (Ed.): The Freak Show, Dijon, 2007
Interface (Ed.): Peinture vidéo, Dijon, 2006
Videos
Publications
Tursic & Mille: Stains, Stars and other Catastrophes
Exhibition Poster
2024
€ 15.00
das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape
Exhibition Poster
2023
€ 15.00
Tursic & Mille: Strange Days
Artist Edition
2022
Edition of 100 plus 20 APs, signed and numbered by the artists
Tursic & Mille: The Thing, Four Studies For A Mound
Exhibition Poster
2022
€ 20.00
Tursic & Mille: Advertisement For A Better World
Exhibition Poster
2020
Edition of 100
€ 20.00
Tursic & Mille
Alfonso Artiaco, Naples / Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Almine Rech Paris | Brussels | London | New York | Shanghai / Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2019
With texts by Noëllie Roussel, Bernard Marcadé and an interview by Alison M. Gingeras
€ 60.00
HALFTONE
Darren Almond, Tauba Auerbach, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Jeff Elrod, John Houck, Navid Nuur, Albert Oehlen, Michael Raedecker, Tursic & Mille, Kelley Walker, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris 2014
With a text by Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff
€ 15.00
Selected Press
Frog Magazine Summer 2023
Numéro January 2019
Numéro May 2015
Frog Magazine 2012
