Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann

Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann (Paris, 1980) lives and works in Paris, France, and in London, UK. She is co-represented by Galerie Allen (Paris) and Emanuela Campoli (Paris and Milan), and collaborates regularly with Ellen de Bruijne (Amsterdam).

Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann's artistic practice is based on the development of a project-based method. Her research is part of an intersectional feminist approach that crosses psychology and constructed environments, focusing on forms of emancipation and empowerment as much as on structures of conditioning and alienation. Badaut Haussmann works in sculpture, installation, image, text, video and sound, with the exhibition as her main medium, and her approach systematically contextual and situated. Drawing on her specific knowledge of cinema, literature, architecture and design, she explores these disciplines as social and political expressions, injecting these references into her artistic devices, demonstrating the interdisciplinarity and transversality at play in the approach to her projects.

In 2022, Badaut Haussmann was in residence at the Secession (Vienna, AU) for her research into the tobacco industry through its geo-political, iconographic and mass manipulation histories. She recently worked on the Pavillon des Amours, a social sculpture developed to host specialist discussions around love as a political tool, the first edition of which took place in Paris in June 2023 and the second edition in Brussels in autumn 2024. Also in 2023, she carried out a long-term study of queer and feminist architecture as part of the Magnétiques residency with the Franklin Azzi architecture firm.

Alongside her artistic practice, she taught at Paris Diderot University / Bétonsalon in 2014, then at Parsons Paris - The New School from 2017 to 2022. Badaut Haussmann was a guest artist at the École supérieure d'art du Pays-Basque for the first half of 2024. She was also a member of the Frac Corsica's technical acquisition committee from 2021 to 2024 and has sat on a number of juries. She is a founding member of *DUUU Radio.

A graduate of the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy in 2006 and holder of a master's degree from the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-St Denis in 2024, Badaut Haussmann was awarded the AWARE prize in 2017. She participated in the Pavilion residency programme at the Palais de Tokyo in 2011-2012, and at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, Japan, in 2016.

Her work has been the subject of several solo shows such as Le Pavillon des Amours at Palais des Beaux-Arts in Bruxelles (2024) ; Le Pavillon des Amours at Mondes Nouveaux in Paris (2023); The Tobacco Files at Fonds de dotation Franklin Azzi in Paris (2023); Sec & Metallic (part II) at Emanuela Campoli in Milan (2023); Sec & Metallic (part I) at Emanuela Campoli in Milan (2022);As if a house should be conceived for the pleasure of the eye, she says at Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam (2021); Le sentiment, la pensée, l’intuition at Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne in Rochechouart (2019).

The artist's work was included in several group shows, the most recent include: Anniversaire at CAPC in Bordeaux (2023); Vous n'avez pas besoin d'y croire pour que ça existe at Frac Pays de la Loire in Nantes (2023); Illusions of comfort at Campoli Presti in Paris(2022); Des corps, des écritures at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (2022); Les Flammes Histoires at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (2021); Le cauchemar de Greenberg at Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris (2021); Bread and Salt at The Community Centre in Pantin (2021); ...barely pausing/pausing barely... at
A Tale of A Tub in Rotterdam (2021); Dust :The plates of present at Centre Pompidou in Paris (2020); JOMO at MACRO in Rome (2020); MRAC (2019); Instance 1-8 at Beeler Gallery in Columbus (2019); Anthea Hamilton : Projects at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge (2018); HÄMALTI & PATRIÆ at MUSEION in Bolzano (2017); Flatland / Abstractions narratives #2 at MUDAM in Luxembourg (2017); Jardin infini. De Giverny à l'Amazonie at Centre Pompidou in Metz (2017).