DOMINIK BARBIER : FROM VIDEO ART TO IMMERSIVE ART
A renowned artist, he deploys immersive artistic creations in space.
Plastic splendor, formal mastery, poetic narrative, extreme demands.
– 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
– 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
ANNE VAN DEN STEEN & DOMINIK BARBIER : ART AT THE HEART OF SCENOGRAPHY
Since 2011 and the design of the La Marseillaise Memorial (Marseille – 2011),
over 40 ambitious shows and immersive exhibitions for prestigious sites and museums in France and Italy.
Most of them have called us multiple times :
… Musée Arles antique, Marseille History Museum, Selinunte Archeological Park
… Mémorial to the Deportations (Marseille), Archives of Bouches-du-Rhône, Millau Viaduct etc…
– 2024: spectacular video creation : 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