Exhibition SHIFTING HORIZONS, Aurélie Pertusot
Landscape, light, architecture and space – all these elements come together in the work of Aurélie Pertusot. The French artist engages in a dialogue with them, creating installations and paintings inspired by place, its materiality and forms, but also by the fleeting impressions they evoke. As part of the Weekend of Architecture in Gdynia, Aurélie Pertusot will present her latest solo exhibition at Studio Rozalia. It will feature both works from recent years and pieces created especially for the Gdynia exhibition – entering into dialogue with the city’s modernist architecture and seaside landscape. The exhibition has been organised by the Pilecki Institute Berlin in cooperation with the Gdynia Development Agency and with the support of the ŁAŹNIA Centre for Contemporary Art. The event is part of the Exercising Modernity programme.
Opening: 29.08.2025, godz. 19:30
Studio Rozalia, Skwer Kościuszki 22/1, 81-380 Gdynia
The exhibition will last until 28.09.2025
Artist talk: 30.08.2025, 10:30
Opening hours:
Tuesdays and thursdays: 16:00-18:00
Saturdays: 11:00-15:00
In Gdynia, the urban layout and architectural forms derive from city’s unique coastal landscape – shaped by its proximity to the sea, the wind, and the light. This dialogue between architecture and the natural environment also resonates in the artistic approach of Aurélie Pertusot. Her site-responsive installations emerge from the surfaces, material and immaterial qualities, and forms that define the particular site.
In the exhibition, her works appear to emerge from walls, windows, and the ground, transforming their perception. They challenge the boundaries between structural support and artistic intervention, highlighting the porous relationship between artwork and environment.
By resonating with Gdynia’s modernist architecture and its landscape, the exhibition offers a variety of experiences of intangible transitional spaces, whether physical or mental ones, always fleeting and being in motion. Several of the works have been specially adapted for this context, responding directly to the specific conditions of the exhibition space.
Aurélie Pertusot, photo: Orange.ear
Aurélie Pertusot is a French visual and sound artist living and working in Berlin and Nancy. She creates a wide variety of pieces including installations, drawings and performances. She engages in regular musical and visual improvisation sessions as part of her background research and since 2011 she has been facilitating artistic exchanges between Germany and France focussing on the links between space, architecture & sound.
She was born in 1983 in Nancy and in 2007 she obtained her master’s degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art in Nancy, receiving a special mention from the jury. In 2008 she co-founded the duo ‘Les Trotteuses’ to create concerts of experimental music exclusively using alarm clocks. From 2016 to 2018 she took part in the sound-art research project ‘Arthesis’ at the ENSA Fine Arts School in Bourges (fr). Her work has been nominated for the Neuköllner Kunstpreis (Berlin) in 2019 and the André Evard prize in 2015. She was a fellow of exercizing modernity academy in 2022 and a fellow of the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation (de) in 2021 and 2019. Her pieces and performances have been presented in Europe and Asia (La maison Romaine in Epinal, Soundseeing festival in Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Centre Pompidou Metz & Paris, Quiet Cue, Galerie Mario Mazzoli & Noiseberg in Berlin, Cave 12 in Genevia, Gothenburg Biennial, Fyns Museum in Odense, Ny Musikk at Bergen Kunsthall, open mex in Dortmund, and more recently in A4 Musem in Chengdu).
2023 she was invited for a solo show « Gh-Ostalgies » at Laźnia Contemporary Art Center in Gdansk (pl). In 2021, her monographic exhibition « Concentration » at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Nancy (fr) emphasized the diversity of her practice. At this occasion, 2 of her installations enters the museum’s collections.
work : Etude n°4, 2023, drawing, pen on tracing paper, DIN A3. Photo Daria Szczygieł