Education

2004

DNSEP, École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, France

2002

DNAP, École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, France

Solo Exhibitions

2022

Some farmed, others mined, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

2018

Outsourced Affects, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

37,5° C, Galerie des Enfants, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2017

Iron Levels, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy

2016

Broken Things Float Faster, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2015

Davide Balula, Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece

DAVIDE BALULA: A LIGHT TO REPEAT [ ] ON THE WALL, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK

A journey through you and the leaves, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

2014

Ember Harbor, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2013

1. Turn West / 2. Form a Circle with your Mouth / 3. Let the Sun Set In, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

2012

The Buried Works, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

2011

Wall to Wall, Blackston, New York, NY USA

Niagara Falls and Cranberry Leaves, Gallery Clifton/Benevento, NY USA

2010

Introduction (with Charlie Jeffery), La Chambre Claire, Annecy, France

Le compas dans l’oeil, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

« Là », Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto, Portugal

2009

American Wall Nut, Fake Estate Gallery, NY, USA

The Doors behind the darts, Envoy Gallery, NY, USA

Endless Pace (Mechanical Clock for Dancers), Performa Biennale, 590 Madison Ave Building, NY, USA

2008

Le Lac, le mensonge, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France (catalogue)

2007

De la place pour le sable, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

Endless Pace, Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna, Austria

Sirène du Mississipi, Musée de l’Objet, Blois & Ecole des Beaux Arts de Châteauroux & Bourges, France

Sirène du Mississipi, Project Room, CCC, Tours, France

White Hey Mister Wave !, SMP, Marseille, France

2006

L’Appareil : Un inventaire de la Collection, Nuit des Musées, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Free Hand, Second Hand, Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Paris, France

2005

Low Fidelity, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

Performances

2018

Mimed Sculptures, Kunstsammlung NRW: K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany

Screaming Humans (Clock), Kura – Grand Opening (Summer Rhapsody), Milan, Italy

Medicine Cocktail, Kura – Grand Opening (Summer Rhapsody), Milan, Italy

Endless Pace, Carte Blanche You x Art x Centre Pompidou, Amis du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Calories and Dance Moves for the Internal Organ Systems, Nacht der Museen, Schirn, Germany

Dust and Spores on a Dancer’s Clothes, Brief Encounters ’18, Lustwarande - Platform for Contemporary Sculpture in Baroque park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands

User les lieux comme des vêtements portés, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France

2017

Mimed Sculptures, Bass Museum, Miami, FL, USA

2016

Speaking in Flames (The Voice of the Fire Breather), Nuit Blanche 2016, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

Mimed Sculptures, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland

Dart Dart Dart, Dart Dart Dart Dart, Public Art Fund, New York, NY, USA

Flexibles (Exercices d’étirements), la box, Bourges, France

Tree, Branch, Leaf, Fruit, Merlin 3, Athens, Greece

2015

Interrupting Words with Burp Sounds, Project 8, New York, NY, USA

Wall Nut (Zeibekiko Dance), Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece

Painting the Roof of your Mouth (Ice Cream), Art Basel Parcours, Basel, Switzerland

2014

Squares, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

Speaking in Flames (The Fire Breather’s Voice), MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY USA

A dumpling with soup in it, with Francesco Stocchi, Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, France

User des lieux comme des vêtements portés, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2013

Analog Heart, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA USA

A Sculpture to Open Doors, Elizabeth Cline & Machine Project, Los Angeles, VA USA

Air Drawings of the Guggenheim Museum, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

2012

Manifestation de couleurs, Biennale de Belleville, Paris, France

Endless Pace (Mechanical Clock for Dancers), Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

A Car Ride is a Musical Score (with Tyler Coburn), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA (in collaboration with François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA).

2011

Niagara Falls and Cranberry Leaves, Niagara Falls, Canada

Mechanical Clock for 60 Dancers, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2009

Endless Pace (Mechanical Clock for Dancers), Biennale, 590 Madison Ave Building, NY, USA

Group Exhibitions

2022

Every kind of wind : Calder and the 21st Century, curated by Kelly Taxter, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, NY, USA

Power Flower, Fleurs ! Biennale des Arts de Nice, le 109, Nice, France

The Devil You Know, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Pas sommeil, la fête dans tous ses états, Exporama, Rennes, France

Faut-il voyager pour être heureux ?, Fondation EDF, Paris, France

2021

Deux Ex Machina, Musée Saint Léger – Musée de Soissons, Soissons France

Nothing is Lost: Art and Matter in Transformation, GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergame, Italia

2020

Laps, Galeries du Forum Meyrin, Meyrin, Switzerland

58th October Salon | Belgrade Biennale 2020 The Dreamers

Collectionner au XXIe siècle – Si une accumulation reflate une vie... De leur temps (6), Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

Ways of Seing, Daejeon Museum of Art, Seo-gu, South Korea

2019

Horology, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York City, NY, USA

How to Bumb into a Sculpture, galerie frank elbaz, Dallas, USA

After Image, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France

Cookbook’19, Panacée MoCo, Montpellier, France

2018

Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Le Grand Ecart : 10 nommés du Prix Marcel Duchamp, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China

Objet de tendresse, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France

Close at Hand, Gagosian, San Francisco, CA, USA

SCULPTER (faire à l’atelier), Le Musée des beaux-arts, le Frac Bretagne et La Criée centre d’art contemporain Rennes Rennes Métropole, France

VARIA, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, France

2017

L’air vibre du bourdonnement des insectes, Musée départemental d’art contemporain, Rochechouart, France

14e Biennale de Lyon, Mondes flottants, La Sucrière / MAC Lyon, Lyon, France

PARIS TEXAS, curated by Paul Galvez, galerie frank elbaz, Dallas, TX, USA

VARIATIONS [sur un même thème], Le Parvis, Tarbes, France

2016

Expérience sonore, Musée d’Art moderne, Troyes, France

Le Temps de l’audace et de l’engagement – De leur temps, Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne, France

Everybody is crazy but me, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium

2015

The Housebreaker (Burglar), curated by Gaël Charbon, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia

Imaginarii, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Fondazione Carriero, Milan, Italy

Prix Marcel Duchamp, Carré d’Art- Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France

Chromophobia, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

Quiet Tremors, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2014

TALKlikeSex, TBD, New York, NY, USA

Shit or Die, organized by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah and Marta Papini, Artissima, Turin, Italy

Ben Salah and Marta Papini, Palazzo Cavour, Torino, Italy

Bielefeld Contemporary – Contemporary art from private collections in Bielefeld, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany

Rockaway!, MoMA PS1, Rockaway Beach, New York, NY, USA

Squares, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

From The Balcony, organized by Elizabeth Jaeger, Brooklyn, NY USA

LAPS, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France

Laisser les sons aller où ils vont - Oeuvres du Centre national des arts plastiques et du Frac Franche-Comté, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

PLIAGE/FOLD, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France

Davide Balula, Jonathan Binet, Simon Collet, Blaise Parmentier, Guillau me Pellay, Élodie Seguin, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France

Des choses en moins, des choses en plus, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2013

Earth, Wind, Fire, Ether, Patricia Low Contemporary, St-Moritz, Switzerland

5 Minutes After The Show, CCC / Université François Rabelais, Tours, France

L’Abri, Galerie Michel Journiac, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Experienz #2 - Materializing the Social, WIELS centre d’art contemporain, Bruxelles, Belgium

Un nouveau festival 2013, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

2012

Expérience Pommery #10, domaine Pommery, Reims, France

The Mystery Spot, Fondation d’entreprise RICARD, Paris, France

Être sauvage de Rousseau à nos jours, ESAAA, Annecy, France

2011

Wall to Wall, Blackston, New York, NY USA

European - American - Friendship, Part I of a II-Part Project, DUVE Berlin, Germany

Danser sa vie, danse et arts visuels aux 20è et 21è siècle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curated by Christine Macel and Emma Lavigne

SOURCE, Blackston, New York, NY USA

Itinéraire Bis, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

C’est l’amour à la plage, Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France

De A à B, de B à P, Entrepôt-galerie, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

Elémentaires, Collégiale Sainte-Croix, Loudun, France

Berlin-Paris, Galerie Frank Elbaz at Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2010

La Méthode graphique et autres lignes, Ecole municipale des BeauxArts Galerie Edouard-Manet, Gennevilliers, France

From A to B, From B to P - De A à B, de B à P, Bielefelder Kunstervein, Germany

The Endless Pace (12h Variation for 60 dancers), Nuit Blanche 2010 , Toronto, Canada

Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa

Guatavita, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY USA

La musique du hasard, Palais de Thau, Reims, France

Habitat (Some Pleasures and Discomforts of Domestic Life), 21st21st, New York, NY USA

Les Elixirs de Panacée, curated by Ami Barak, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, France

The Zero Budget Biennale, KLEMM’S, Berlin, Germany

Ce qui vient, Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d’art contemporain, Couvent des Jacobins Rennes, France

Perpetuum Mobile, Four boxes Gallery, Krabbesholm Hojskole, Skive, Denmark

Blindspot, The Wild Project, New York, NY USA

Au fil de l’oeuvre, La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-Le-Sec, France

The Zero Budget Biennale, Rokeby, London, UK

Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

ON/OFF, La Platine, Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Etienne, France

Black Mirror, Centre d’art scénique contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland

L’écart absolu, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Besançon, France

The Zero Budget Biennale, Pianissimo, Milan, Italy

2009

Un nouveau festival, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

The Zero Budget Biennale, Galerie Cardenas/Bellanger & Galerie Schleicher/Lange, Paris, France

Toe, Tap, Stomp, Step, Stamp, Spank, Snap, Slide, Shuffle, Shim, Sham, Scuff, Riffle, Pick, Leep, Hop, Heel, Flap, Dig, Click, Clap, Chug, Brush, Wing. Fake Estate Gallery, New York, NY USA

Seven in one ! seven in one third !!, Kate Werble gallery, New York, NY USA

Zweckgemeinschaft, Mica Moca, Berlin, Germany

L’avenir d’une Illusion, Centre d’Art Contemporain Passages, Troyes, France

Robot Monkey Baby Jesus Part I, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY USA

Mesure du désordre, Le parvis centre d’art contemporain, Ibos, France

Picnic, Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, France

As Small As It Gets, curated by Hanne Mugaas, Paul-Aymar Mourgue d’Algue & Fabienne Stephan, Art Since the Summer of ‘69, New York, NY USA

Return to Function, curated by Jane Simon, MMoCA, Madison, WI USA

Builder Vor Boatin, curated by Dirk Skreber, Silver Shed, New York, NY USA

008. Collections, nouvelles connexions, Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France

2008

The Possibility of an Island, MOCA, Miami, FL USA

Je reviendrai, nouvel accrochage permanent du Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Uovo open Office, Berlin, Germany

Nuit Rouge, CCC, Tours, France

Antidote, Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France

Volume(s), Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

The Sound Of Art, TONSPUR_expanded at Freiraum/quartier21 and in the public space at MuseumsQuartier, curated by Georg Weckwerth, Vienna, Austria

2007

The Sound of Music, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk, Belgium

Inventaire 2, MacVal, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Du machinique et du vivant, curated by Régis Durand, La Réserve, Pacy-sur-Eure, France

Science Fictions, curated by Severin Dünser, Czarna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

L’amorce ou la partition des possibles (sculptural bootlegs and remixed artworks), LIA, Grenoble, France

Anzengruber Biennale, Caté Anzengruber, Vienna, Austria

The lab, Into position, Vienna, Austria

The Potential Meanings of Sound, Seoul, Korea

The ubiquitus aural SFX, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Songwon Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Logiques du rêve éveillé, curated by Maëlle Dault, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France

Off Modern, La Station, Nice, France

Balula & Contador meet Coffin, Green House, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Section Amour, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

360, Translucent, CCC, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France

2006

This Is Not For You, Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

Nuit Blanche, Section Amour Residency, Amiens, France

Section Amour, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

L’Appareil : Inventaire de la Collection, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Re-shuffle : Notions of an Itinerant Museum, Art in General, New York, NY USA

Deaf, From the Visible to the Audible, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

Accords excentriques, Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, France

… D’où l’écoute prend forme, Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France

Free Hand, Second Hand, Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Paris, France

The Wrinkle Party, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cinema muet en concert : Metamorphoses, Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France

Global Tour, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005

Shobus-Mobium, Japan : Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Gifu, Yamaguchi, Daizaifu, Beppu, Nagoya…

J’en rêve, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

I still believe in miracles, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Mots d’ordre, Mots de passe, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France

Popisme, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France

Amour notices, Consortium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Inhabituel, Centre culturel Français, Milan, Italy

2004

Captain Subzero in the Spiral Peninsul, Glassbox, Paris, France

Occupations, Scène Nationale de Cergy-Pontoise, France

Mon Choix, La Vitrine, Paris, France

After Hours, Glassbox & Pnut, Paris, France

Study of a Pigeon Career, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia

Ecoute, Atelier des enfants, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Heavy Bricks, Wall of Sound & Mobile Home for a Spiral Tiger Device Installation, Le Plateau-Frac Île-de-France (collaboration with Palais de Tokyo and Centre Pompidou), France

Avril.dot, Confluences, Paris, France

Espace Daylight, La Vitrine, Paris, France

Ganattack, Vooruit Art Center, Ghent, Belgium

2003

Betrug, Loop Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Collections

Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, France

Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur, France