Elsa Werth

Elsa Werth was born in 1985 in Paris (France), where she lives and works.

She is engaged in a multidimensional practice: installation, sculpture, video, artist's book, and sound. Through an economy of means, she claims non-spectacular gestures as resistance tactics. She diverts words, objects, and gestures from their common use. Her approach counters commodity production and challenges normalised information, questioning the criteria for works of art to exist in an environment where representations are standardised.

Elsa Werth received the Humankind Leo Burnett Prize in 2013 and the Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard Prize for contemporary art in 2022. Her most recent solo shows include “24/7” at B09K in Changsha (China), “Titre un à usages multiples” at Lendroit éditions in Rennes (France), “Give and Take” at Bloom in Düsseldorf (Germany), and “Parties de cartes” at Centre des livres d'artistes in Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (France). Her works are part of public and private collections, among others: Centre Pompidou Paris, Centre National des Arts Plastiques (France), Centre des Livres d’Artistes (France), Kadist, and several Fonds Régionaux d'Art Contemporain: Franche-Comté, Normandie-Caen, Occitanie-Toulouse, Pays de la Loire (France).