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 revolves around the notion of para-architecture. Her research is rooted in an intersectional approach crossing feminism, psychology and domesticity. Badaut Haussmann works with sculpture, installation, image, text, video, sound ; the exhibition being her main medium, her approach being systematically contextual and situated. Drawing on specific knowledge of cinema, literature, architecture and design, she explores these disciplines as social and political expressions, injecting those references into her artistic devices. She addresses essential questions of our time in order to promote emancipation and the emergence of new forms of thought.

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts, Paris-Cergy in 2006, Haussmann was awarded the 2017 AWARE Prize (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions). She took part in the Pavilion residency programme at the Palais de Tokyo in 2011-2012, and at the Villa Kujoyama’s in Kyoto, Japan, in 2016.

In 2022, Badaut Haussmann was in residence at the Secession (Vienna, AU) for her research related to the tobacco industry through the historical, iconographical and mass manipulation lenses. In 2023 she was in residence with Les Magnétiques, hosted by Franklin Azzi architecture agency for her study of feminist architecture. She recently presented the Pavillon des Amours, a social sculpture developed to host specialist discussions on love as a political tool, the first edition of which was held in Paris in June 2023, with a second edition upcoming in November 2024 at Palais des Beaux-Arts in Bruxelles .

In parallel to her artistic practice, she taught at Paris Diderot University / Bétonsalon in 2014 and then at Parsons Paris - The New School between 2017 and 2022.

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).