Michel de Broin

Michel de Broin studied at Université du Québec à Montréal and Concordia University. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is installation art, photography and video art. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are public art. Conceptual art is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Montreal. Residence is recorded at Paris and Berlin. Work by Michel de Broin is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art de Joliette, Cinémathèque québécoise and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Distinctions recorded are Sobey Art Award and UQAM Recognition Award.

• Name — Michel de Broin • Born — 1970 • Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Occupation — Visual artist • Known for — sculptor • Education — Concordia University UQÀM • Website — micheldebroin.org • Awards — Sobey Art Award (2007)

Michel de Broin was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1970. He studied studio arts at Concordia University, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1995, and at UQÀM where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1997. After starting his career in Montreal, from 2005 he lived in Paris, London and Berlin before returning to Montreal in 2011.

Shared Propulsion Car consists of a wrecked Buick 1986 car whose engine was replaced by bicycle pedals. It was presented in New York at Exit Art and Toronto at Mercer Union. A Toronto policeman issued a ticket for "Operating an Unsafe Vehicle" to Dean Baldwin, the driver of the pedal car, but the charge was later dismissed in court. Black Whole Conference consists of a group of chairs attached to each other at the legs to create a sphere. It is part of the collection of the Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne. Overflow, a piece in the ruined remains of an old Toronto prison chapel, consisted of a waterfall bursting out of a window. La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel was created for the Nuit Blanche in Paris (2009). It consists of a 26 feet mirror ball made of 1000 mirrors and suspended from a crane 150 feet above the Luxembourg Garden. The mirror ball broke a Guinness World Record. Majestic was presented as a satellite project of New Orleans Biennal in 2011. Lamposts blown down by hurricane Katrina were assembled in the shape of a star. The sculpture was acquired by the National Gallery of Canada thanks to a donation by the philanthropists Donald and Beth Sobey.

• Illustration — Bloom, Michel de Broin, St. Patrick's Island, Calgary, Alberta 2015 De Broin's sculpture entitled Bloom, which was inaugurated in August 2015, is "one of the most visible landmarks on Calgary's St. Patrick's Island. The sculpture, which was commissioned by the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, is "23 metres-high, with working lights on many of its branches that illuminate its surroundings at night." Révolutions is a sculpture representing a staircase twisted into a knot. It was installed in 2003 during the renovation of Papineau metro station in Montreal. Monument is a sculpture installed in a parc of Winnipeg in 2009. It reinterprets the classical theme of drapery by presenting two ghostly characters standing under a sheet. L'Arc (2009) is a monument commemorating Salvador Allende. It is situated on the île Notre-Dame in Montreal.

2013 • Solo show at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal 2012 • Oh Canada, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA 2011 • Car Fetish. I drive therefore I am, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Suisse • Parking de sculptures, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France 2009 • La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France • Disruption from Within, Plug In, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2008 • Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Énergie Reciproque, Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France • Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Acclimatation, Centre d'art Villa Arson, Nice, France 2007 • De-con-struction, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Machinations, UQAM Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006 • Michel de Broin; Machinations Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada • Reverse Entropy, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany • Réparations, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2003 • Damage Control, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2002 • Épater la Galerie, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany