MAXIME CHABAL
- PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
- GHOST IMAGE
- ALTER_ATION
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DE PROFUNDIS
- DOUBLE EXPOSURE
- CORE (CsO)
- SOLEIL DE PLOMB
- UN CHANT D’AMOUR
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UNTITLED (After Grünewald)
- HARDBEAT
Based in Germany
chabal.maxime@gmail.com
My work focuses on the human body and the complexity surrounding its representation. At first sight cold and clinical, my language reveals a certain delicacy, tenderness and fragility upon closer inspection. The heart of my practice lies in the materials I use, particularly metals, which I manipulate using a variety of techniques to challenge their supposed solidity and hardness. In my installations, sculptures, collages, and performances, recurring and haunting images emerge, imbuing my work with a collective, forgotten and affected history. These evanescent and dissident figures engage in a dialogue with my critical research into Western architecture and the history of health and clinical practices. By invoking and transgressing these dominant apparatuses, I wish to highlight how they have impacted the formation of subjectivities and underline the ways in which they have often been used to stigmatize and categorize.
To carry out my exploration, I actively collaborate with professionals from various scientific and cultural fields. In the past, I have worked with immunologists, biologists, and neuropsychologists, as well as historians of science and health, thus enriching my work with diverse perspectives. By pooling knowledge in this way, I hope to understand how these regimes of knowledge are formed and how, in their hegemony, exclude. Using strategies close to abstraction, I refuse to operate by simply reproducing a sterile aesthetic, so as not to offer a fixed and rigid representation of the bodies involved. Instead, by allowing space for vulnerability and viscerality, I expose these constraining frameworks which, in their precariousness, become the embodiment of new forms of porosity.
Studies
2021 - 2024 Master of Fine Arts, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (DE)
Classes of Pia Stadtbäumer & Kader Attia
2018 - 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts, ENSBA National School of Fine Arts, Lyon (FR)
Selected exhibitions
2025
Planned Obsolescence, MediaMarkt Village, Hamburg (DE), (curator)
2025 FORVER UNLIMITED, Crack Bellmer, Berlin (DE)
2024 Abyss Abyss Abyss, frappant galerie, Hamburg (DE)
2024 Day & Night, galerie Gruppe Motto, Hamburg (DE)
2024 Separation of powers, AUF MONTAGE, Golden Puddle, Hamburg (DE)
2023 HOMOÖSTASE, frappant galerie, Hamburg (DE), (curator)
2023 It’s human nature ?, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnof, Hamburg (DE)
2023 UNIVOLVED JUNCTIONS, Culterimgallery, Berlin (DE)
2023 Relate to..., ICAT, Hamburg (DE)
2023 Imagining health, ICAT, Hamburg (DE)
2022 Non Knowledge, laughter and the moving image, ICAT, Hamburg (DE)
2022 Tensions, Kuenstlerische Tatsachen, Jena (DE)
2022 Wetland, Hardrives, Hardwares, Studio Peragine, Hambourg (DE)
2022 I_U_SO_MUCH_RIGHT_NOW, villa Magdalena, Hamburg, with Aliha Thalien (duo show) (DE)
2022 A single Violent Transplant, Théâtre des expositions, Paris (FR)
2021 I’ve never promised you a rose garden (part I), EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e. V, Hamburg (DE)
2021 Daylight, all night long, monopole, Lyon (FR)
2021 Il n’y avait plus d’été, Bac à sable, Lyon (FR)
2020 Système D), Secret location, Vaulx en Velin (FR)
2020 Rendez la chambre forte, 27 rue Hypollite Flandrin, Lyon (FR)
Performances
2024 Separation of powers, AUF MONTAGE, Golden Puddle, Hamburg (DE)
2023 5to9, M.I.N.I.S.T.R.Y, HFBK Lerchenfeld 2, Hamburg (DE)
2022 Anesthesia, A single violent transplant, Théâtre des expositions, Paris (FR)
2020 Ex-Nihlo with Bastien Charmette, CNSMD Lyon (FR)
2018 Serie of 3 performances, His touch changed everything, collaboration with Tii Ansio, London (UK)
Prize/Residencies
2025 Arbeitsstipendium für bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Hamburg (DE)
2022 Deutschlandstipendium, HFBK (DE)
2022 Art&Science residency program, Kuenstlerische Tatsachen, Jena (DE)
2021 Performance residency program, Bac à Sable, Lyon (FR)
2021 Prize from Kenza Fondation, Paris, France (FR)