Clément Cogitore

Clément Cogitore (b. 1983, Colmar, France) is an artist and filmmaker whose work operates between contemporary art and cinema. He studied at the École des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg and at Le Fresnoy — National Studio for Contemporary Arts — and was a resident at the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Medici, 2012–13). He teaches at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

His practice combines film, video, installation, and photography to investigate collective memory, ritual, the sacred, and the relationship between human communities and their self-representations. His first feature film, Ni le ciel ni la terre (Neither Heaven nor Earth, 2015), set during the Afghan war, received the Grand Prix at the Critics' Week at Cannes. His documentary Braguino (2017) — about two feuding families isolated in the depths of the Siberian taiga — was screened at Telluride, San Sebastian, and Toronto. His short Les Indes galantes (2017), in which Krump dancers reinterpret an extract from Rameau's opera-ballet, was nominated for the César and subsequently staged as a full operatic production at the Opéra national de Paris in 2019 for the institution's 350th anniversary. In 2018, his video installation The Evil Eye received the Prix Marcel Duchamp.

His work has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou, the ICA London, the Hirshhorn Museum, and MoMA, among others.