Dominik Barbier

DOMINIK BARBIER
A renowned artist, he deploys immersive artistic creations in space.
Plastic splendor, formal mastery, poetic narrative, extreme demands.

FROM VIDEO ART TO IMMERSIVE ART
– 1983 to 1995: video art and installations / residencies (Japan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Europe) / numerous awards at festivals
– 1991: The NoWayBuster Project, immersive installation : Hérouville, Montbeliard, SaoPaulo, DenHaag
– 1992: passage to galleries (AB, Paris – Hillside Terrace, Tokyo – Ivan Dougherty, Sydney)
– 1994: Villa Medici outside the walls: Australia
– 1992 to 1995: collaboration with Heiner Müller / documentary I Was Hamlet (TV multicast, theaters, festivals)
– 1992 to 2004: creations and collaborations in the theater (Créteil, Maubeuge, Annecy, Valenciennes, Marseille, Avignon)
– 2003: Hamlet Machine, total spectacle: Lyon, Amsterdam, Marseille, Rome, Palermo
– 2011: design and construction of the La Marseillaise Memorial (Marseille),
– 2011 Dominik Barbier and Anne Van den Steen direct their work towards the public space:
more than 40 immersive exhibitions and monumental video creations for museums since 2011
– 2021: cinema production: All the words burn (and other projects in progress)
– 2022: design and creation of the Wall of Souls, video wall of names for the Marseille Deportations Memorial
– 2024: immersive artwork : Achilles and the Trojan War + scenographic design of the exhibition, Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes


2003 Hamlet Machine: total spectacle by Dominik Barbier, text by Heiner Müller
7 actors, 1 dancer, 3 musicians, with 3 stages and 14 screens around the audience
Lyon – Amsterdam – Marseille – Rome – Palermo (2002 to 2004)


2011 Marseillaise Memorial: immersive show tour
A spectacular dive into the effervescence of revolutionary ideals
Marseille – permanent system since 2011


2024 Achilles and the Trojan War: exhibition at the crossroads of traditional scenography and immersive scenography
A sharp and spectacular contemporary rereading of the myth of Achilles and the Iliad
Nîmes – Museum of Romanity

Dominik Barbier : www.dominikbarbier.com