Marie-Pierre Bonniol

Photo credit: David Stieffenhofer/Studio Walter, 2023.

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Marie-Pierre Bonniol (*1978, Marseille, France) is a Berlin based artist, curator and research fellow who works internationally. She graduated in Aesthetics and Sciences of Arts (MA, 2000) and in Visual Arts (MFA, 2024) from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the affective dynamics of creation, and the matrices and machineries of transformation and transmission. She takes a particular interest in the myth of Bachelor Machines, and the conceptual structures of books and collections.

Her work takes the form of photos, films, installations, texts and programs which have been presented by several institutions such as in Waterworks Museum and the Museum of Science in Boston (2024), CCCB in Barcelona (2023), Anthology Film Archives and the Film-Maker’s Cooperative in New York (2022), Centre Pompidou in Metz (2021), Cafe OTO in London (2021), CAPC in Bordeaux (2020), LagosPhoto in Nigeria (2020), ZKM in Karlsruhe (2019), the National Library of Argentina in Buenos Aires (2018) and Lieu Unique in Nantes (2016).

In 2025, she is invited artist and curator of CEAAC and the National Academic Library in Strasbourg with a series of exhibitions and talks on bibliophilia and collections for Strasbourg UNESCO World Book Capital. She is also associate visual art curator of Le Volcan in Le Havre within the CURA curatorial programme (Cnap/French Ministry of Culture).