Etienne Marc French, b. 1995
Etienne Marc is a french designer craftsman born in Amiens. He studied product design in Reims and Contextual Design in the Design Academy of Eindhoven where he started to develop a hands-on practice and a deep interest in materials and their mediated meanings, using design as a tool to champion a space for enjoyment through symbolism. Etienne Marc produces objects that bring trickery, spectacle, and humor. His use of materials borrowed from traditional art mixed with ones that refer to the physical reality of our time play with our expectations and challenge traditional meanings and values, aiming to question or even uplift the notion of the replica.
Born 1995 in France
Lives and works in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
EDUCATION
2017 - 2019
MA Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven
2014 - 2017
BA Design d’Objet at ESAD Reims
EXHIBITIONS
2020
Limbo, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
Pantheon Phantasma, exhibition during IMM/Passagen, Cologne, Germany
2019
Alert Objects, Gallery VARTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania
Graduation Show 19, Dutch Design Week, Campinaterrein Kanaaldijk-Zuid, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
La Villette Makerz, Festival 100%, Folie L5, 211 Avenue Jean Jaurès, Paris, France
2018
Summer edition of Annex at M+B, curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, 612 North Almont Drive, Los Angeles, California
2017
DDay's, Bernard Chauveau édition, Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, France
TUTORING
2019
Three-weeks workshop about ceramic, aluminium casting, glassblowing with Kostas Lambridis DoMake Workshop at Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands
WRITING
2019
On the logic of taste, Historical Promiscuities and Restyling, Perspectives after C
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Spectrum 2
Summer Group Show 2 Jun - 30 Sep 2024Artists and designers featured in the group show SPECTRUM 2: Gytis Arošius / Kotryna Butautytė / Daydreaming Objects / Vilius Dringelis / Kiki van Eijk / Faktura / Govert Flint...Read more -
Etienne Marc & Dorian Renard
RECEPTION ROOM 23 Feb - 24 Mar 2023Dorian Renard and Etienne Marc with identical backgrounds as designers present within Galerija Vartai a collection of domestic objects whose functional and prosaic nature is sublimated by a sculptural approach....Read more -
Alert Objects
Group exhibition 13 Dec 2019 - 24 Jan 2020Curators: Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė Vartai gallery launches a new series of annual exhibitions dedicated to contemporary design. The aim of the project, realized in collaboration with Lithuanian and...Read more
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Vilnius Gallery Weekend 2024
5 September - 8 September, 2024 Aug 20, 2024On the 5-8th of September, the 9th edition of Vilnius Gallery Weekend (VGW) invites residents and guests of Vilnius to get to know the contemporary...Read more -
Spectrum 2
Summer Group Show 2 Jun - 30 Sep 2024Artists and designers featured in the group show SPECTRUM 2: Gytis Arošius / Kotryna Butautytė / Daydreaming Objects / Vilius Dringelis / Kiki van Eijk...Read more -
Etienne Marc & Dorian Renard
RECEPTION ROOM 23 Feb - 24 Mar 2023Dorian Renard and Etienne Marc with identical backgrounds as designers present within Galerija Vartai a collection of domestic objects whose functional and prosaic nature is...Read more -
Galerija VARTAI at COLLECTIBLE SALON
28 - 30 May 2021Galerija VARTAI at the virtual contemporary design fair COLLECTIBLE! From May 28 -30, 2021, we will represent design projects by 9 individual and collaborative designers...Read more -
Koen Kleijn, art historian and writer shares his thoughts on contemporary design exhibition "Alert Objects" at Galerija VARTAI.
Dec 18, 2019Read more -
Alert Objects
Group exhibition 13 Dec 2019 - 24 Jan 2020Curators: Vytautas Gečas and Marija Puipaitė Vartai gallery launches a new series of annual exhibitions dedicated to contemporary design. The aim of the project, realized...Read more
