Huyghe’s works often present themselves as complex systems characterized by a wide range of life forms, inanimate things and technologies.
For Pierre Huyghe the exhibition ritual is an encounter with a sentient milieu that generates new possibilities of co-dependence between events or elements that unfold. The exhibition is an entity whose time and space, in which it appears, are constituents of its manifestation.
His works are conceived as speculative fiction and often present themselves as continuity between a wide range of intelligent life forms, biological, technological, and tangible inert matter that learn, modify and evolve. They are permeable, contingent, and often indifferent to witnesses.
Pierre Huyghe (born in 1962, Paris) lives and works in Santiago, Chile. His work is internationally known and presented in various exhibitions around the world.
Recent exhibitions include Liminal, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2025); Liminal, Palazzo Grassi-Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy (2024); Chimeras, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland (2023), Pierre Huyghe , Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2023); Variants , Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker (2022), After UUmwelt , Luma Foundation, Arles (2021); UUmwelt , Serpentine Gallery, London (2018); The Roof Garden , Metropolitan Museum, New York (2015). In 2012 -2014, a major retrospective of Huyghe’s work traveled from the Centre Pompidou (France) to the Ludwig Museum (Germany) and to Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA).
Huyghe has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Nasher Sculpture Prize (2017); the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2015); Roswitha Haftmann Preis Award (2013); the Smithsonian American Museum's Contemporary Artist Award (2010); the Hugo Bozz Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2002), and DAAD artist in residency, Berlin (1999-2000), amongst others.
