Marie-Françoise Plissart
Marie-Françoise Plissart (born 1954) is a Belgian photographer and video artist.
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Marie-Françoise Plissart

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- Name
- Marie-Françoise Plissart
- Born
- 1954
- Birthplace
- Brussels, Belgium
- Occupation
- Photographer, video artist Marie-Françoise Plissart (born 1954) is a Belgian photographer and video artist.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Fields
- visual arts
- Honours
- Commander of the Order of the Crown
- Languages
- French
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• Name — Marie-Françoise Plissart • Born — 1954 • Birthplace — Brussels, Belgium • Occupation — Photographer, video artist Marie-Françoise Plissart (born 1954) is a Belgian photographer and video artist.
Career
Career
Plissart explored the photo novel format, collaborating with the comic artist Benoît Peeters in several projects. Plissart is also known as an architecture photographer. She won a Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture for the exhibition "Kinshasa:The Imaginary City".
Individual
Individual
• Droit de regards: Vienna (Musée d'Art Moderne, December 1985), Toulouse (Ombres blanches, March 1986), Berlin (Litteraturhaus, October 1986), the Hague(Centre culturel français, January 1987), Amsterdam (Maison Descartes, March 1987) • À la recherche du roman-photo: Bruxelles (Palais des Beaux-Arts, June–July 1987), Rotterdam (galerie Perspektief, September 1987), Liège (les Chiroux, January 1989), Geneva (Saint-Gervais, November 1989) • Aujourd’hui, Charleroi: Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, Octobre 1993) • Bruxelles brûle-t-il?: Brussels (Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Beursschouwburg, May 1994) • Martini, Martini, Bxl, Beursschouwburg: Brussels (KunstenfestivaldesArts, May 1996) • Photo narrative: Eastern Michigan University (Art department, November 1996) • Brussel’s architecture: Osaka (International House, October 1997) • Bruxelles, Horizon vertical: Bruxelles (Le Botanique, January 1999) • Kinshasa, the imaginary city: Venice (Biennale of Architecture, September 2004), Brussels (Bozar, June–September 2005), Johannesburg (June 2006) • A World without end, rétrospective personnelle, Musée de la photographie d'Anvers (2008).
Identity
Identity
Marie-Françoise Plissart is recorded as having received Commander of the Order of the Crown.

Photo de groupe des magistrats sur l’escalier extérieur le 1er septembre 2017, le jour de l’ouverture de l’année académique
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Marché de Molenbeek vu du toit de l’église Saint Jean Baptiste
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1954
Marie-Françoise Plissart born at Brussels metropolitan area.
Books
• Fugues (with Benoît Peeters), éditions de Minuit, 1983 • Droit de regards (after a lecture by Jacques Derrida), éditions de Minuit, 1985; nouvelle édition: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010. (English edition: Rights of Inspection:Monacelli Press) • Prague (en collaboration avec Benoît Peeters), Autrement, 1985 • Le mauvais œil (in collaboration with Benoît Peeters), éditions de Minuit, 1986 • Aujourd'hui, éditions Arboris, 1993 • Bruxelles, horizon vertical, éditions Prisme, 1998 • Kinshasa, récits de la ville invisible, éditions La Renaissance du Livre/Luc Pire, 2005. • Mons (in collaboration with Caroline Lamarche, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2009.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3291824: Marie-Françoise Plissart
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- Un exemple de collaboration interartistique : Élégie à Michel-Ange de Sandrine Willems et Marie-Françoise Plissart, Visible, 2023
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