Benjamin Bardinet

Benjamin Bardinet is worried that important aspects of the magic of art in public space are lost when everyone has mapped the terrain in advance. Bardinet’s contribution to the biennial is therefore a map in which we can get lost, a map with quotations, facts and rumours related to the exhibited works, a map that opens up new paths, detours or dead ends.

Biography

With a Master’s degree in Visual Arts, BENJAMIN BARDINET (1977, France) abandoned his initial ambition to become a lecturer while working as an exhibition guide at CAPC mus.e d’art contemporain in Bordeaux in 2001. Two years later, Bardinet joined Palais de Tokyo where he led the department of education. Taking advantage of the Palais’ “laboratory” approach to different forms of intervention and collaboration with schools, universities and apprenticeships, he instigated reflections on what is at stake in the mediation of contemporary art. After working at Jeu de Paume in Paris between 2013 and 2017, he has since been based in Grenoble, where he teaches a Master’s programme in Urban Design at the Graphic Design School, and writes exhibition chronicles for the cultural weekly, Le Petit Bulletin.

Benjamin Bardinet. *A Map to get lost*. Photo: Asle Olsen

Essay

Marius Wulfsberg is a research librarian
at the National Library and a literary critic
in Dagbladet. He is currently completing a commented edition of Camilla Collett’s letters from the period 1852-63, which will be published this autumn.

In his essay on Benjamin Bardinet’s A Map to Get Lost, he writes, among other things, about the place of walking in Western cultural history.

Read the essay here:
UNFOLDING A MAP