Loris Gréaud (born February 7, 1979, in Eaubonne, France) is a conceptual installation artist, as well as a filmmaker and architect.
[4] He developed and continued this project at the ICA in London, the Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen (Switzerland), the museum La Conservera de Murcia (Spain) and finally at the Vienna Kunsthalle (Austria), ending at Art Basel alongside the publication of a catalogue by JRP Ringier that charted the entire project.
Although international collectors and museums have made some important acquisitions of his work,[5] Greaud chooses to appear only occasionally in galleries and markets.
[7] In 2016, he produces the Sculpt project specifically for the LACMA in Los Angeles, his first exhibition on the West Coast of the United States.
[12] After acquiring the work MACHINE in 2018,[13] the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris invited Gréaud to design a specific exhibition, as part of the permanent collections, entitled Glorius Read.
[14] In 2020, after several years of development with the Casa Wabi Foundation, Gréaud will inaugurate a perennial project entitled The Underground Sculpture Park.
The artist has chosen some twenty works emblematic of his production, which will be buried for eternity in the gardens of Alberto Kalach, which are an extension of the architecture designed by Tadao Ando.
He believes that only the idea and the project itself should be its governing principles, defining in particular the conditions of appearance, display, distribution, and even the length of time and cost.