Amélie Bouvier

Amélie Bouvier (b. 1982) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. 

Her artistic practice builds from historical research in the field of astronomy to question issues related to cultural memory and collective heritage. Astronomers in particular, and scientists in general, don’t only explain the world, they also represent it through the construction of diagrams, illustrations, photographs or equations. For Bouvier, scientific imagery is an extension of knowledge that reveals ideological and ethical frameworks, which risk cloaking aspects of the reality they aim to represent. She is particularly interested in the sky and stars as a landscape that exposes current socio-political contradictions and knowledge gaps. While her work is based on historical facts, data and visuals, she consistently mixes this with speculative imagery, adapting tools and techniques to present alternative potentialities. 

Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (Aomori, JP); Galeria Arsenał (Białystok, PL); CHRONIQUES - Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques (Aix-en-Provence, FR); ISELP contemporary art center (Brussels, BE); and the Museo Patio Herreriano (Valladolid, ES). She has participated in group exhibitions at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris, FR); Le Pavillon Namur (BE); Festival Safra’Numériques (Amiens, FR); Sesc Ipiranga (São Paulo, BR); the Verbeke Foundation (Kemzeke, BE); the Museo de Arte Prehispánico Rufino Tamayo (Oaxaca, MX); the Cerveira International Art Biennial (Cerveira, PT); and many others. Her first monograph, Staring Into the Night, was published by Hopper & Fuchs in 2024.