Born in San Sebastian, in Spain’s Basque
Country in 1963, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa studied at the Basque
Country University of Fine Arts, then moved to Paris, where he attended
Paris's École des beaux-arts (ENSBA) and read philosophy at
the University of Paris-VIII and the Collège international
de philosophie.
Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, lives and works in Paris and
San Sebastian.
He is represented by the Carreras Mugica
Gallery, Bilbao, and the Clages Gallery,
Köln. He took part in collective shows : Populism (Frankfurt,
Amsterdam, Oslo, Vilnius, 2005), Urban realities (Martin Gropius Bau,
Berlin, 2005). He took part in the City
of Lyon 9th Biennale (2007) at the Sucrière
and in the Bilbao Guggenheim museum show “Chacun
à son goût” and just
recently had a soberly called “Lonely
at the top #4” a one-man show
at the MuHKA in Antwerp (2009). Agirregoikoa was one of the honorary
guests of the 31st Panorama of Brazilian Art of São Paulo.
In 2011, he took part in the Anglet Biennale
and his work "An
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" was exhibited at
the Passage souterrain (Paris). The Reina-Sofia (Madrid) will devote
a solo exhibition in autumn 2012.
Since 2006, Juan Perez Agirregoikoa has regularly collaborated with
the Éditions Matière. They have designed five books
together:
Camarades, à
présent je suis de droite (Comrades, I
Now Am on the Right, 2005); Faible
passion du réel / Le Théorisme, méthode de salut
public (Weak Passion for the Real/Theorism, Method
of Public Salvation, 2006); Concert
pour poing levé (Concert for a raised fist,
2007), Citations
pour le président Sarkozy (Quotations for
President Sarkozy, 2009); Rééducation
(Reeducation, 2012).
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