Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Fabrice Hyber , France
From his beginnings in the 80s, to becoming one of the youngest winners of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1997, the artist has enjoyed growing international attention. He has exhibited in many prestigious institutional venues in France and abroad, and has participated in major international art events for over 20 years. In 2018, Fabrice Hyber was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 2022, Fabrice Hyber presented a major solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris.
Fabrice Hyber’s work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions, as in 2019 with Prototypes at Appartement 22 in Rabat (Morocco); in 2017 with hyberDUBUFFET at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris (France); in 2015, director Bart De Baere of the MuHKA in Antwerp (Belgium) presented Formes des mots and invited the artist to take part in the 6th Moscow Biennale (Russia); the White Box in New York (USA), an alternative venue in the Bowery district, presented Maison des POFS curated by Tony Guerrero; the CRAC Languedoc Roussillon in Sète (France) devoted an ambitious monographic exhibition to the artist entitled 2716m2, featuring over 300 paintings; in 2013 with Raw materials at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle (UK); in 2012, the monographic exhibition Matières Premières at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (France), which met with great public and critical success; Essentiel at the Fondation Maeght, where he presented his homeopathic paintings in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France), an exhibition which was revived in 2014 by the Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen (Germany), as well as Prototypes d’objets en fonctionnement (POF) at the MAC/VAL in Vitry (France); 2012 saw the inauguration of the monumental ceramic fresco Sans Gêne, commissioned by the Institut Pasteur in Paris (France).
The artist has also enjoyed significant exhibitions at prestigious institutions, notably in 2020 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (France) with Notre monde brûle; in 2019, at the Fondation Cartier in Paris with Nous les arbres or at the Fondation Carmignac in Porquerolles (France) with La Source; in 2018, at the Musée de Vence in Saint-Paul-de-Vence (France) with Picasso et après : un éloge de la fabrique (Picasso-Méditerranée); in 2015, the Centre Pompidou Metz (France) presented, the group exhibition Aura. Art et télépathie de Rodin à nous jours, curated by Pascal Rousseau, bringing together works by artists from the 19th to the 21st century, from Rodin to Fabrice Hyber; in 2014, he took part in the Busan Biennale (South Korea), and was also present in the exhibition Narcisse, l’image dans l’onde at the Fondation François Scheinder in Wattwiller (France) and in Brave New worlds: Utopia in Dystopia at the Metropolitan Museum in Manila (Philippines); in 2013, he took part in the Lyon Biennale (France).
Solo show of Fabrice Hyber
The exhibition will open on the 24th of May
From May 24th to the end of July, 2025
The gallery
Since the opening of the first gallery in Paris in 1993, followed by the one in Brussels in 2008 and a second space in Paris in 2013, Nathalie Obadia has exhibited emerging and recognized artists of the international contemporary art scene. In the fall of 2021, Galerie Nathalie Obadia has opened a new space in the Matignon Saint-Honoré district in Paris.
For many years, the gallery has also participated in the rediscovery of deceased artists like Martin Barré, Josep Grau-Garriga, and Seydou Keita. The mission of the gallery is also to promote artists to institutions in France and abroad.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia participates in international art fairs : Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Miami Beach, Paris+ by Art Basel, Paris Photo, Art Genève, Art Dubai, Art Brussels, Art Luxembourg, Art Paris, 1-54 Marrakech, TEFAF Maastricht, TEFAF New York among others.
Gallery artists
Brook Andrew, Edgar Arceneaux, Martin Barré, Nú Barreto, Valérie Belin, Carole Benzaken, Guillaume Bresson, Rosson Crow, Luc Delahaye, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Flexner, Roger-Edgar Gillet, Quentin Gouevic, Josep Grau-Garriga, Laura Henno, Fabrice Hyber, Shirley Jaffe Estate, Hoda Kashiha, Seydou Keïta, Sophie Kuijken, Robert Kushner, Guillaume Leblon, Eugène Leroy, Romana Londi, Lu Chao, Rodrigo Matheus, Meuser, Johanna Mirabel, Youssef Nabil, Youssef Nabil, Frank Nitsche, Manuel Ocampo, Shahpour Pouyan, Laure Prouvost, Jorge Queiroz, Fiona Rae, David Reed, Antoine Renard, Jason Saager, Sarkis, Andres Serrano, Jessica Stockholder, Mickalene Thomas, Nicola Tyson, Joris Van De Moortel, Agnès Varda, Viswanadhan, Wang Keping, Brenna Youngblood, Ni Youyu, Jérôme Zonder