Julien Prévieux is an artist and professor at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since the late 1990s, he has developed a conceptual, visual, and performative practice that questions contemporary economic, technological, and administrative systems.

Winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2014, he has recently presented his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Art Sonje Center in Seoul, the MAC in Marseille, and the ZKM in Karlsruhe. His performances have been presented at the Actoral festival in Marseille, the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris, T2G in Gennevilliers, DiverseWorks in Houston, and Usine C in Montreal.

Julien Prévieux creates work that humorously and rigorously subverts the logic of labor, surveillance, and technological innovation. Through videos, performances, sculptures, drawings, and protocols, he highlights the invisible mechanisms that govern our behavior by overturning certain rules: patents and scientific experiments are transformed into choreographies, space law becomes a game to be activated verbally and physically, and letters of non-motivation become a means to refuse jobs. His works reveal the absurd and normative dimensions of contemporary economic and legal structures. By exposing the forms of control embedded in technology and administrative language, he transforms instruments of power into artistic materials, inviting a critical—and often ironic—reading of the various systems that shape our lives.

Julien Prévieux will talk to us about his monographic exhibition, which he is presenting at the Grenier à Sel in Avignon from April 17 to June 27, 2026.