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Jef Bourgeau
 
 
About the Artist

Jef Bourgeau is one of the great minds in today’s art. He is the ultimate fabulist, challenging all our assumptions about art.

From the start, Bourgeau has worked within a practice we now identify as Post-Art: appropriation, deconstruction, relinquishment of authorial control, subverting traditional art exhibition and distribution practices, and other such strategies. A key element of this practice is that most of what we now experience is highly sophisticated simulation.

There is not one Jef Bourgeau but many. Not only has he adopted several modernist and more recent idioms in quick succession, but he has also invented several contradictory personae. Bourgeau has presented himself as artist and art dealer, conceptualist and craftsman, pragmatist and dreamer, bully and recluse.

Throughout his career Bourgeau has fashioned his own identity as one might manipulate an artistic medium, drawing on a fundamental model from his own generation, not so much preoccupied with the issue of identity as suspending it. Bourgeau exemplifies post-20th century theories of the self in which identity derives from an innate multiplicity that presents itself to the world in a shifting set of roles and exigencies.

His work is an on-going narrative yet without a story. Or, at the least, without resolution. There is a tension in his work that is relentless; like all great art, never entirely allowing the viewer the comfort of completing the imagery.

Bourgeau’s work has an allusive Duchampian wit, a Magrittian mystery, and a diabolic Swiftian mastery. Since narrative plays as a primary means of organizing people's lives and experiences, Bourgeau has created a long string of art narratives that some critics have described as superfictions. Other critics have suggested that his work is so far beyond what can properly be considered art, that they use the term “post-art” to describe it. Yet within all these definitions Bourgeau has set up a powerful negative logic, aimed to question the nature of art and art institutions. And, most profoundly, the culture that builds and decides such things.

- Jan van der Marck, THE ART OF JEF BOURGEAU

 
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Lock Out @ Detroit Institute

1999
mixed

After its third day, the exhibition ART UNTIL NOW has its gallery door pulled shut and padlocked.

A Day in the Life

1992
lego house, video

A lego house with video, presents a castration fantasy to the sound of an elocution reading.

The Wrong Show

1997
mixed

An installation that attempted to break current boundaries of political correctness, titled The Wrong Show and exhibited at The Wrong Museum.

Nigger Toe

1997

Magnifying glass and Brazil nut. This piece was created for the Wrong Show, in the space dealing with racism and its root causes.

Raid (Police Chief Thompson)

2000
torn art magazines

During an exhibition and symposium dealing with art censorship (Dennis Barrie was to be the keynote speaker), a squad of police pushed their way into the gallery to enforce decency laws.

American Beauty

1994
mixed

On the last day of this museum show a visitor took a hammer to the plaster sculpture of a child.

Hatrack & Origin of the World

1991
multi-media

Bride Stripped...

2002
photograph

During the opening exhibition of kaBOOM! bachelors were handed scissors and encouraged to "strip/snip" the bride bare.
 
Education and biography
Select Exhibitions

2004-2007
A Fifteen Year Survey at Oakland University Gallery(traveling) - Rochester, MI
Brick Lane Gallery - London
The White Room - Los Angeles
Wayne State University - Detroit
Urban Institute for the Contemporary Arts - Grand Rapids
The Majlis Cultural Center - Bombay, India
Marygrove Gallery - Detroit
The District Gallery - Birmingham, Michigan
555 Gallery - Detroit
2000-2003
La Musee d'Art et d'Industrie - Roubaix, France
Detroit Contemporary - Detroit
Cranbrook Art Museum - Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
La Braderie - France
1999-2000
Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit
Galerie Blu - Detroit
1998
Kalamazoo Institute for the Arts - Kalamazoo
Kumamoto Museum - Japan
Hokkaido Museum of Art - Japan
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art - Cleveland
Mitsukoshi Museum of Art - Fukuoka, Japan
1997
San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose
Takamatsu City Museum of Art - Japan
Honolulu Academy of Arts - Hawaii
San Francisco Art Hotel - California
Daimaru Museum - Osaka, Japan
Sogo Museum of Art - Yokohama, Japan
1996
Columbus Museum of Art - Columbus, Ohio
Cranbrook Art Museum
Art Seattle - Seattle, Washington
Portland Museum of Art - Oregon
1995
SoMa Gallery - La Jolla, California
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Mint Museum - Charlotte, NC
O.K Harris Works of Art
Space Gallery - Chicago
Contemporary Arts Museum - Houston
Detroit Institute of Arts
1994
Gahlberg Arts Center - Illinois
Institute of Contemporary Arts - Boston
Zolla/Lieberman - Chicago
The Drawing Room - Amsterdam
LedisFlam - New York
O.K. Harris Works of Art

AS CURATOR -
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:

ROOM 7, Pontiac Michigan:
JANUARY 1996 - MATISSE SLEPT HERE, a multi-media installation based on Matisse’s color palette and travels.

JANE SPEAKS MODERN ART, Pontiac Michigan:
SEPTEMBER 1996 - ART UNTIL NOW, an international survey of contemporary art.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MCA), Pontiac Michigan:
September 1997 - DOCUMENTA USA, a multi-media investigation into the process of deciding art.
JUNE 1998 - THE WRONG SHOW, a review of politically incorrect art of the nineties.
August 1998 - NAKED IN THE NINETIES, an inquiry into controversial art of the last decades.
January 1999 - BLIMEY, the most comprehensive survey, before or since, of the Young British Artists working in the nineties. The exhibition included over 130 artists with eponymous catalogue, published in England by 21 publishing.
August 1999 - THE CHILDREN’S HOUR, an exhibition of children and their place in the art of the last 100 years.

URBAN INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS (UICA), Kalamazoo
March 1999 - DOCUMENTA USA, a multi-media investigation into the process of deciding art. Including Jenny Holzer, Peter Halley, Christo, Vito Acconci and 100 other artists.

MUSEUM OF NEW ART (MONA), Pontiac Michigan:
August 2000 - NEW GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY, 15 young german photographers, with a solo exhibition of Wolfgang Tillmans work
September 2000 - E-MONA, artists from over 30 countries e-mailed their art to the museum, where it was printed out on a wide-format digital printer and exhibited. An example of "instant" art.

MUSEUM OF NEW ART (MONA), Detroit Michigan:
September-October 2001 - DOCUMENTA USA II, a new, improved version of the first Documenta USA.
March 9 - April 28 - kaBOOM!
Over the course of the exhibition, museum visitors were invited to smash, drop, throw and slash artworks, including work by Man Ray, Haim Steinbach and Lucio Fontana.

ARTCORE
August 2002 - April 2003
Founded and directed ARTCORE, an empty storefront-to-gallery project in downtown Detroit.
Nine such collective galleries were opened in abandoned buildings.

 
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