Maxime Bondu

Maxime Bondu lives and works near Geneva. Born in Paris area in 1985, he begins his studies in Art History and Archeology at the University of Marne la vallée and then enters the Fine Art school of Brest where he graduated in 2009.

Represented by Jérôme Poggi Gallery, his work has been shown in many institutions, galleries and artist runs spaces. His work focuses on the notion of Information, read from the past or projected into the future and his practice is made of multiple case studies. A short subject list of his work would include, for example, an abandoned cinema, chromatic experiments, the conquest of space and ideologies of progress (The Color of the Cosmos, 2015), the World Chess Championship 1972, research on telekinesis and the Cold War (The Remote Viewer, 2015), artificial intelligence (The Deep War, 2015). Also into community experiments and collective projects, he set up a regular camp site in an old quarry on the Loire valley (Dampierre, FR), and drew, built and developed collectively bermuda, a mutualized space for research and production at Sergy (FR). Since 2019 he is teaching architecture at Alice, EPFL (CH).