Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec at Centre Pompidou-Metz

7 October '11 – 30 july '12

Metz
France

The Centre Pompidou-Metz presents the first major retrospective in France dedicated to the work of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.

Respectively graduates of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts in Cergy-Pontoise, Ronan (b. 1971) and Erwan (b. 1976) Bouroullec began working together in 1999 in a partnership that thrives on permanent dialogue and a shared determination to produce objects of ever greater precision and finesse. Today, their designs are manufactured by such prominent names as Vitra, Magis, Alessi, Established & Sons, Axor Hansgrohe, Kartell, Kvadrat, Cappellini, Camper and Ligne Roset. Also involved in more experimental design with Galerie Kreo, they occasionally undertake architectural projects as well.

Named "Designers of the year" at the 2002 Paris Furniture Show, other awards include the City of Paris Grand Prix du Design (1998), the New Designer Award at the New York International Contemporary Furniture Fair (1999) and the Danish Finn Juhl Prize (2008). Their work has been shown in a number of monographic exhibitions - London's Design Museum (2002), the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam's Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, La Piscine, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie in Roubaix (2004), Villa Noailles in Hyères and ELAC (2008), le Grand Hornu, Belgium (2009) and more recently at Arc en rêve in Bordeaux in 2011.

Curated by:

Laurent Le Bon, Director and Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou-Metz
Hélène Guenin, Head of Curatorial Department, Centre Pompidou-Metz