Biography
Biography of Gilles BARBIER
Gilles Barbier was born in 1965 in the New Hebrides, a Franco-British condominium in Melanesia in the South Pacific. The archipelago gained independence in 1980 and became Vanuatu. He arrived in Europe in 1985 and settled in Marseille in 1989. A graduate of the Marseille Luminy art school, he played an active part in the emergence of the Friche Belle de Mai by setting up artist residency workshops (Astérides). In 1995, he contributed to the creation of the Galerie de la Friche, where he organized several exhibitions, as well as the “Garages Hermétiques”, a series of conferences where artists, philosophers, writers, sociologists and critics are also invited. At the same time, he teaches at the Beaux-Arts in Aix-en-Provence. His studio became a place for experimentation in all directions, and at the end of the 90s, he gradually gave up his involvement in the world of artistic associations, as well as his teaching duties, to devote himself entirely to his work as an artist. He nonetheless pursued a certain idea of transmitting knowledge by training assistants in drawing, gouache or sculpture techniques, familiarizing them with the rigor of his many production protocols.
Gilles Barbier works with numerous galleries in France and abroad. His work is regularly exhibited in prestigious venues and museums.
Solo exhibitions
2024
- Depuis la Terre jusqu’au ciel, Polaris center d’art, Istres
- Solo Show Gilles Barbier, Galerie Huberty & Breyne, Art Paris 2024
2023
- Owner? Tenant? Huberty & Breyne Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2022
- Gilles Barbier, Le château, Space for sale, Nice, France
- The Feast of King René and Queen Jeanne, Château de Tarascon, Centre dʼArt René d’Anjou, Tarascon, France
- Drawings, Solo Show Gilles Barbier, Drawing Now, Paris
2021
- Working on Sundays, Le Hangar à bananes, Nantes, France
- Production machines, Musée Soulages, Rodez, France
2020
- Entre, dans, derrière, sous, sur…, galerie GP&N Vallois, Paris, France
2019
- Laughing at Clouds, The Chimney Gallery, New York, USA
2018
- Still life, Julio Gonzales gallery, Arcueil, France
2017
- Wold-Wide-Wave, Villa Beatrix Enéa – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Anglet, France
- Artist Impression, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2016
- Echo system, curator Gaël Charbau, MMCA, Seoul, South Korea
2015
- Echo système, curated by Gael Charbau, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2013
- Gilles Barbier, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2012
- Six Short Stories of the Dice Man, Galerie GP & N Vallois (Project Room), Paris, France
2011
- The Emmentalist, curated by Arnaud Fourrier, Médiathèque, Colombiers, France
2010
- There is no moon without a rocket, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
- Shipwreck, Loop & Ignition, Twig Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009
- Banana Riders, Galerie GP & N Vallois (Project Room), Paris, France
- The Rink, curated by Eric Mangion, Villa Arson, Nice
2008
- The Cockpit, the Ship, what we see from the Porthole, Espace Claude Berri, Paris
- Gilles Barbier, Galerie Taché-Lévy, Brussels, Belgium
2007
- Gilles Barbier, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
2006
- Gilles Barbier, curated by Françoise Cohen, Carré d’Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, France
2005
- Gilles Barbier, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
2004
- Gilles Barbier, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
2003
- Gilles Barbier, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- Gilles Barbier, Juliane Wellerdiek Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2001
- Le Bénévolat dans l’action, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- Gilles Barbier, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, United States
- Gilles Barbier, Juliane Wellerdiek Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- Pique-nique au bord du chemin, curator: Nathalie Ergino, MAC, Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille
2000
- One man show, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, FIAC, Paris
- Gilles Barbier, curator: Jean-Claude Guillaumon, Saint Fons Art Center
- Gilles Barbier, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, United States
- Gilles Barbier and Alain Bublex, Galerie Juliane Wellerdiek, Berlin
- La meute des clones transchizophrènes, curator: Benoît Decron, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne
1999
- The pack of the transschizophrenic clones, curated by Thom Collins, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
- Copywork, curator: Diana C. du Pont, Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
- Corrected environments, curator: Christoph Doswald, Espai Lucas, Valencia, Spain
- Hyper désir, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
1998
- Gilles Barbier & Roland Topor, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1997
- Eternité méthode dure, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- Saverio Lucariello, Gilles Barbier, Frac Paca, Marseille
- Containerize, curated by Micz Flor, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1995
- Comment mieux guider notre vie au quotidien, Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris
- Les Pages Roses, curators: Paolo Bianchi, Martin Sturm, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
Group exhibitions
2024
- Désordres – Extracts from the Antoine de Galbert Collection, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France
- Surfer sur la Vague, curated by Richerd Leydier, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille
- Voyages Extraordinaires, Collection Frac Picardie, Cheongju Museum of Art, Korea
- Effervescences, curated by Patricia Laigneau, Château du Rivau, Léméré, France
- Disette et Abondance, Musée Domaine des Saveurs, Les Planons, France
2023
- Hypersensitive, Musée dʼarts de Nantes, Nantes, France
- Grandeur Nature. 18 artists in the garden Château de fontainebleau with the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, fontainebleau, France
2022
- The Things. A history of still life curated by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- Hyperrealism, ceci nʼest pas un corps, Musée Maillol, Paris, France
- Breathing in the art, when contemporary art sublimates the world of perfume, Musée international de la parfumerie, Grasse, France
- Thatʼs All Folks!Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
- The Magic Forest, curated by Chris Dercon, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France
- Le Serpent cosmique, as part of Lille 3000
- Utopia, Musée de lʼHospice Comtesse, Lille, France
- Awaken, First order engagement and beyond, Château de Cavlus, Cavlus, France
2021
- Le grand bazar, Selected by Jean-Hubert Martin from the Antoine de Galbert Collection Château d’Oiron, Oiron, Plaine-et-Vallées, France
- Marginalia. In the secret of comic strip collections curated by Marie-Claude Beaud, Damien MacDonald, Stéphane Vacquier, NMNM – Villa Sauber, Monaco
- Galerie de Portraits, Galerie Le Minotaure & Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, Paris, France
- Not even dead! Requins Marteaux turn 30 La Fabrique Pola, Bordeaux, France
2019
- Le Rêve dʼêtre artiste, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France
- I eat therefore I am, Musée de lʼHomme, Paris, France
- The Moon, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Jungle Fever, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
- Now is the Time – Wuzhen Biennale, Wuzhen, China
- LʼArt mange lʼArt – De la table au tableau, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
- Figures de lʼanimal, Centre dʼArt Contemporain Abbaye, Meymac, France
- Par hasard Vol II, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
- Mythes – Triennale de Sculptures, Musée Despiau-Wlérick, Mont-de-Marsan, France
2018
- Gold, MUCEM – Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerrannée, Marseilles
- Advertising for a work of art : Autour du portrait, Atelier 34zero, Jette, Belgium
- Le Ventre, Yoko Uhoda Gallery, Liège, Belgium
- Et Dieu créa la femme, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
2017
- Barbier-Mueller Collection, La Biennale Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
- De Nature en Sculpture, Villa Datris, Foundation for Contemporary Sculpture, l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
- Open Museum / Alain Passard, curated by Valentine Meyer, Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille, France
- La plume et le crayon, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens, France
- Monsters, Maison des arts Georges Pompidou, Centre d’art contemporain, Cajarc, France
- À croquer, Le Radar, Espace d’Art Actuel, Bayeux, France
2016
- L’oeil du collectionneur, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
- Dis-moi voir, curated by Catherine Millet, FRAC Nord-Pas De Calais, Dunkerque, France
- Shadoks, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France
- Carambolages, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, com. Jean Hubert Martin, Paris
2015
- Bonjour la France, UNC Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- The Burglar, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
- Tu dois changer ta vie, curator Fabrice Bousteau, Tri postale, Lille, France
- Les moustaches Radar, Dalinian resonances in contemporary art, Le Radar, Bayeux, France
- L’Amour, la Mort, le Diable : une collection particulière, Les Hospices, Limoges, France
- L’arbre, le bois, la forêt, Abbaye Saint André – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
- Chercher le garçon, curated by Frank Lamy, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
- Commitment, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France
- In the shadow of Eros – Love, death, life!Monastère royal de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
2014
- Le Festin II – presentation of a monumental work, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
- As I run and run, Happiness comes closer, Fonds de dotation Emerige, Paris, France
- Crash Test – Crash Test, Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
- Les Esthétiques d’un monde désenchanté, Abbaye Saint André – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
- Taipei Biennale, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Taipei, Taiwan
- Busan Biennale, curated by Olivier Kaeppelin, Busan, South Korea
- Le festin de l’art, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
- POP UP, Astérides, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
- L’art fait ventre, Musée du Montparnasse, Paris, France
- Le Festin de l’Art, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
- Superman, Batman, and Co…Mics!Maison d’ailleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
- Grands papiers II, Frac Picardie, Arsenal de Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons, France
2013
- De leur temps (4) : Regards croisés sur la jeune création, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
- La distance juste, curated by A. de Galbert (as part of the “Nouvelles Vagues” program), Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
- This is not music, curated by R. Leydier, Panorama de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
- Exquisite Corpse, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
- Ici, ailleurs, Marseille – Provence 2013, Panorama de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
- De Gaston Chaissac à Fabrice Hyber, parcours d’un amateur vendéen, Historial de la Vendée, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, France
- BABEL, Botany, Brussels, Belgium
2012
- The Island, Art, Talks & Sensation 2012, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
- Liebe, tod und Teufel, Von der Heydt Museum, Kunsthalle Wuppertal-Barmen, Wuppertal, Germany
- GROMIAM, 20 years of Groland, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France
- Vivement demain, curator: Alexia Fabre, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
- BABEL, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
2011
- Urban Mythologies / Société Générale Collection, MAMAC, Nice, France
- Paris – Delhi – Bombay, curators Sophie Duplaix, Fabrice Bousteau, Centre Pompidou, Paris
- Biennale de Montréal “BNL MTL 2011”, curated by Claude Gosselin, Montreal, Canada
- Tous Cannibales, curated by Jeanette Zwingenberger, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2010
- VaXiNation, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
- Double Bind / Stop trying to understand me, Villa Arson, Nice
- Jouvences, curator Pierre Sterckx, Château d’Ardelay, les Herbiers
- De leur temps(3), Contemporary art and private collections in France ADIAF, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
2009
- The World in the Body Medicine, Life & Art from Wellcome Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
- Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
- Really! Comics and Contemporary Art, curated by Pierre Sterckx and David Rosenberg, La Maison Rouge, Paris
- Félicien Marboeuf (1854-1924) – proposed by Jean-Yves Jouannais, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
- La Force de l’art #2, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
- A collection. Selected works from the collection of Vincent Bazin Espace Vallès, Saint-Martin-d’Hères
2008
- Ready-to-wear, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
- Esculturismo, Seville, Spain
- La jolie fille: Katia Bourdarel / Gilles Barbier, Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse
2007
- Oeuvres encombrantes, curated by J.-M. Colard, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
- Stardust ou la dernière frontière, MAC/VAL, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
- Du machinique et du vivant, La Réserve / Galerie Xippas, Pacy-sur-Eure
- Draw it, ADDC, Périgueux
- Group Show + Project Room #1, Galerie Bonneau Samames, Marseille
- Les trames sombres de Masse, Musée de l’Abbaye de Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne
- De leur temps (2), Art contemporain et collections privées en France, ADIAF, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble,
- Freak Show, curator: P. Doroshenko, Baltic, Gateshead, UK
2006
- Sol Système, curators: J.-M. Colard and P. Joly, La Passerelle, Brest
- La Force de l’Art, curated by A. Tronche, Grand Palais, Paris
- Furnishing Assumptions, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- Hautnah (coll.J + Ch Mairet / ART FRANCE BERLIN), Pferdeställe Postfuhramt, Berlin, Germany
2005
- Gestes,Traces et Autres Signes, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur, Nice
- Nominees for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, ADIAF, Fiac, Paris
- Heroes forever, Centre Pasqu’ Art Kunsthaus, Biel, Switzerland
- Boost in the Shell, Cultural Center, Bruges, Belgium
- Pratiques de la catastrophe: Burlesques contemporains, curated by Christophe Kihm, CNP Jeu de Paume, Paris
- L’idiotie, Experience Pommery #2, curator: Jean-Yves Jouannais, Domaine de Pommery, Reims
- L’oeuvre en programme, curated by Mauriche Fréchuret, Capc de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
2004
- From their time, French private collections, ADIAF, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing
- Is there a curator to save the exhibition?Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
- Grotesque, Burlesque & Parody, Abbaye Saint André, Meymac
- Doubtiful, in the folds of reality, MST Rennes, Rennes
2003
- The American Effect, curator: Larry Rinder, Whitney Museum, New York, United States
- Somewhere Better Than This Place, curated by Thom Collins, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
- Tactics of the Ego, curators: Dr Sabine Maria Schmidt, Cornelia Brüninghaus-Knubel, Whilem-Lembruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
- La Bataille du Réel, (with Alain Bublex, Jean-François Fourtou, Saverio Lucariello), Galerie Synopsis, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Home, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
2002
- The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, United States
- Transformer, curator: Teija Lammi, Pori Art Museum, Finland
- Voilà la France, curator: Andrea Busto, Cesac, Turin, Italy
- Cadavre exquis, Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- Société Perpendiculaire: tapestry, Frac Paca, Marseille
- Biennale of Busan, Curator: Ai-Ryung Kim, South Korea
- Sans consentement, CAN, Centre d’art de Neuchatel, Switzerland
- Stories, Saint-André Abbey, Meymac
- Irony of Fate, Krakow, Poland
- Biennale of Sydney, curated by Richard Grayson, Sydney, Australia
- Self-in Material Conscience, curated by Eric Mangion, Fondazione Sandretto, Turin, Italy
2001
- Metamorphoses and cloning, curated by Sandra Grant Marchand, Musée d’Art contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Gilles Barbier and Alain Bublex, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
- Winter sun / On a horse / A frozen silhouette, Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- Political ecology, curator: Pierre Restany, Whitebox, New York, United States
- Home Sweet Home, curated by Fiona Meadows, I.F.A, Paris
- Stop & Go, F.R.A.C. Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France
- New presentation of the collections (Gilles Barbier, Jim Shaw, Ian Wallace), MAMCO /Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
- Réjouissez-vous, curator: Sylvie Froux, Le Parvis, Ibos
- Odyssée 2001, curator: Thierry Ollat, Ateliers díArtistes de la Ville de Marseille
2000
- Tongue in’cheek, curated by Daniel Abadie, Deste Fondation – Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
- Clone trafficking, Trafficking, Ivry
- What else can we build?curated by Eric Mangion and C Macel, Villa Noailles, Hyères
- Contemporary art at the risk of cloning, Centre IUFM d’Etiolles
- Barbier, Bérard, Lucariello, Ravaud, Galerie de la Friche Belle de mai, Marseille
- Jour de fête, curated by Sophie Duplaix and Catherine Grenier, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- Le Fou dédoublé, curated by Andréi Erofeev, Jean-Yves Jouannais and Dimitri Konstantinidis, touring exhibition: Nizhny Novgorod National Center for Contemporary Art, Russia, Samara Regional Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia, Krasnoyark Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia, Château d’Oiron, France
1999
- dAPERtutto, curated by Harald Szeemann, Venice Biennale, Italy
- Missing link-Menschen-bilder in der Fotografie, curated by Christoph Doswald, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, Switzerland
- Propice, curated by Catherine Francblin, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
- L’Idéal Grotesque, curated by Christian Joschke, Frac Paca, Marseille
- Tendance, Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac
- Sharing the landscape, project with Alain Bublex, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
- EXTRAetORDINAIRE, curated by Christine Macel, Printemps de Cahors
- Hypothèses de collection, Frac Paca, curated by Eric Mangion, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
1998
- On the Edge, New Art from Private Collections in France, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
- International Print show, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- Monday Never, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
- Marseille/Munich, Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich, Germany
- Made to measure, curated by Corinne Diserens, Musée de la Vieille Charité, Marseille
- Onze : “les jambes de Grand-mère”, curated by Jean-Marc Réol, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille
- Le Voyage Immobile, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
1997
- 2000 Minus 3, curated by Werner Fenz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria
- Transit, curated by Christine Macel, Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
- L’autre, curated by Harald Szeemann, 4th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art
- Préhension, based on a proposal by Grégory Lang, Galerie Xippas, Paris
- Saverio Lucariello, Gilles Barbier, Frac Paca, Marseille
1996
- Madame Ma Conscience, Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris
- Radical Images, Austrian Triennial on photography 1996, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria and Kunsthalle Szombathely, Hungary
- From one day to the next, Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux arts de Quimper
- Gilles Barbier, Gerardo Goldwasser, Frac Pays de Loire
- Les plaisirs et les ombres, carte blanche to Raoul Vaneigem, Fondation pour l’architecture, Brussels
1995
- History of Infamy, Venice Biennale, Arsenal Circle, Italy
- Autres Victoires, two-part exhibition curated by Jean-Yves Jouannais, Château de la Louvière, Montluçon
- Orient/Ation, The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World, general curator René Block, 4th International Istanbul Biennial 1995, Turkey
- Sorak International Biennal, curated by French artist Nicolas Bourriaud, South Korea
- Tu parles, j’écoute, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris and Société Jet Lag, Malakoff
- Matthew Antezzo, Gilles Barbier, Alain Bublex, Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris
1994
- Avis de Tempête, Frac Paca, Marseille
- Ateliers 94, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris
- Snark, Cabinet de dessins, Galerie Pierre Nouvion, Monaco
1993
- Germination VII, Budapest Galeria, Hungary; Dom Umenia, Bratislava, Slovakia; Centre d’art contemporain, Grenoble
- Vertigo of knowledge, Museum
Public collection
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
- Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- ARCO Foundation, Madrid, Spain
- Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
- Center National des Arts Plastiques, Paris La Défense, Paris, France
- Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France
- Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
- Collection Municipale d’Art Contemporain de la ville d’Anglet, France
- MAC/VAL, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
- Musée d’Art Contemporain (MAC), Marseilles
- Carré d’Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nîmes
- Musée national de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France
- Frac Corse
- Frac Languedoc-Roussillon
- Frac Nord Pas-de-Calais
- Frac Pays de Loire
- Frac Picardie
- Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
- Frac Rhône-Alpes
- Fonds Communal d’Art Contemporain of the city of Marseille
- Artothèque Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence, Istres
Books and catalogs
(Bold: Monograph)
2024
- Surfer sur la Vague, exhibition catalog, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
- From beneath the Earth to Heaven. exhibition catalog, ed. Huberty & Breyne.
- Désordre, exhibition catalog – Extracts from the Antoine de Galbert Collection, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France
- Effervescence, exhibition catalog, curated by Patricia Laigneau, Château du Rivau, Léméré, France
- The Book of Shipwrecks. Huberty & Breyne ed.
2023
- Hypersensitive, exhibition catalog
2022
- La Forêt Magique, exhibition catalog, ed. De la Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grands Palais, Paris, pp. 88 – 91
2021
- Gilles Barbier, Travailler le dimanche, exhibition catalog, ed. Hangar à Bananes, Nantes
2020
- Gilles Barbier, Machines de Production, exhibition catalog, ed. Musée Soulages, Rodez
2019
- De leur temps (6), Collectionner au XXIe siècle, ed. Silvana Éditoriale, Collection Lambert Musée dʼArt Contemporain, Avignon
- Guillaume Theulière (dir.sc), Par hasard, exhibition catalog, ed. Ville de Marseille and RMN-Grand Palais, Paris, p. 353
- Entretiens, (text) Gilles Barbier, ed. Du Regard, Paris
- Le rêve dʼêtre artiste, exhibition catalog, (texts) Régis Cotentin, Delphine Rousseau, Bruno Girveau, ed. RMN-Grand Palais / Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, pp. 148-151
- La Lune, exhibition catalog, ed. Flammarion, Paris
- LʼArt mange lʼArt – De la table au tableau, exhibition catalog, (text) Muntaner Bernard, ed. Association Regards de Provence, Marseille
- Je mange donc je suis, exhibition catalog, ed. Musée national dʼhistoire naturelle, Paris
2018
- Or, catalog dʼexposition, ed. Hazan, Paris, pp. 262-265
2017
- Wold Wide Wave, exhibition catalog, La Villa Beatrix Enea – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Anglet
- À croquer, exhibition catalog, ed. Le Radar, Bayeux, pp. 20-21
2016
- Carambolages, exhibition catalog, ed. RMN-Grand Palais, Paris, pp. 6-7
2015
- Echo Système, exhibition catalog, (texts) Gaël Charbau, Sébastien Gokalp, ed. Actes Sud, Marseille
- Echo System, exhibition catalog, (texts) Gaël Charbau, Dong Eun Ma, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
- You have to change your Life! ed. Beaux-Arts Magazine, Paris
- Les moustaches Radar, Résonances daliniennes dans l’art contemporain, exhibition catalog, ed. Le Radar, Bayeux, pp. 16-17
- La Grande Accélération, Taipei Biennale, (text) Nicolas Bourriaud, ed. Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, pp. 68-73
- À l’ombre d’Éros – L’amour, la mort, la vie!, exhibition catalog, (texts) Marie Deparis-Yafil, ed. Silvana Editoriale, Milan, p. 14
2014
- Superman, Batman & Co…mics!Maison dʼAilleurs, Yverdon-les-Bains, pp. 16-31
- Gilles Barbier, Festins, (text) Sébastien Gokalp, ed. Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
- The Wall. Works from the Antoine de Galbert collection exhibition catalog, ed. Fage, Lyon
- Le Festin de lʼArt, exhibition catalog, (texts) Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Alain Drouard, François Simon, Guillaume Picon, ed. LIENART, Paris, pp. 102-103
- Faces. Picasso, Magritte, Warhol… exhibition catalog, (texts) Alexis Chiari, Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Christine Poullain and Guillaume Theulière, ed. RMN-Grand Palais, Paris, p. 45, pp.186-188, 190, 197, 205
- As I run and run, happiness comes closer, morceaux choisis dʼune collection vue par Jérôme Sans, ed. Fonds de dotation Emerige pour lʼart contemporain, Paris, pp. 12-13
- José Alaniz, Death, Disability and the Superhero. The Silver Age and Beyond, ed. The University Press Of Mississippi, Mississippi, pp. 3-4, 6, 8, 25
2013
- Vu dʼen bas, (texts) Gilles Barbier, ed. Jannink, Paris
- De Gaston Chaissac à Fabrice Hyber, parcours dʼun amateur vendéen, Historial de la Vendée, Les Ducs sur Boulogne
- La distance juste, exhibition catalog, (text) Albertine de Galbert, ed. Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, (bilingual edition)
2012
- BABEL, exhibition catalog, ed. Invenit & Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille
2011
- Gilles Barbier, LʼEmmentaliste, (text) Jacques Samson, ed. Les Requins Marteaux, Bordeaux
- Paris – Delhi – Bombay…, exhibition catalog, (texts) Sophie Duplaix and Fabrice Bousteau, ed. Center Pompidou, Paris
- Not for Sale, a proposal by Jacqueline Frydman, brochure dʼexhibition, ed. Passage de Retz, Paris State of the Union, exhibition catalog, ed. Conny Becker, Berlin, p. 17, 23, pp. 28-29
2010
- From their time (3), Contemporary art and private collections in France ADIAF, Musée dʼart moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
2009
- Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Art and Love, exhibition catalog, ed. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, p. 234
- Vraoum! Comics and contemporary art (texts) David Rosenberg and Pierre Sterckx, ed. La Maison Rouge, Paris, p. 39, pp. 106-107, p. 122, 157
- La Force de lʼart #2, ed. RMN-Grand Palais, Paris
- Caroline Schuster Cordone, The twilight of the body. Images of feminine old age ed. InFolio, Paris
2008
- Gilles Barbier, un Abézédaire dans le désordre, (text) Pierre Sterckx, éd. du Regard, Paris
- Du machinique et du vivant, ed. Galerie Xippas, Paris, p. 20, 35, pp. 52-53
- Prêt-à-porter, exhibition catalog, ed. Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, pp. 5-6, 12-17
2007
- Collection Art contemporain Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, ed. Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
- De leur temps (2), Art Contemporain et collections privées en France, ed. ADIAF, Paris
- Stardust ou la dernière frontière, ed. MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine
- Gilles Barbier, Prédictions, un catalog dʼexposition fictive, “Le monde en forme de tong”, ed. Trouble, Paris, pp. 32-33
2006
- Gilles Barbier, exhibition catalog (texts) Jean-Pierre Cometti, Christophe Kihm, Jean de Loisy and Eric Mangion, Carré d’Art de Nîmes, France, ed. JRP Ringier, Nîmes
- Jeux et enjeux de la narrativité dans les pratiques contemporaines (arts visuels, cinéma, littérature), (text) Danièle Rivière, ed. Dis Voir, Paris
- Catherine Millet, Contemporary Art. History & Geography ed. Champs Flammarion Paris
- Hautnah (coll. J. +Ch. Mairet / ART FRANCE BERLIN), exhibition catalog, ed. Pferdeställe Postfuhramt, Berlin
2005
- Gilles Barbier, (text) Jean-Yves Jouannais, co-edited by Kunstverein Freiburg and Galerie GP & N Vallois, ed. JRP Ringier, Paris
- Sébastien Pluot, Prêts à prêter, ed. Isthmes / Frac PACA, Marseille
- Catherine Millet, Lʼart contemporain en France, ed. Flammarion, Paris
- De l’idiotie aux burlesques contemporains, catalog of exhibitions at Domaine de Pommery and Jeu de paume, (texts) Régis Durand, Jean-Yves-Jouannais, Christophe Kihm and Paul-François Vranken, Hors-Série Beaux-Arts Magazine, Paris
- LʼŒuvre en Programme, exhibition catalog, (text) Eric Mangion, “Gilles Barbier, des ambuscades dans la planification”, CAPC Bordeaux, ed. Fage, Lyon, pp. 50-55
2004
- 72 projets pour ne plus y penser, project directed by Eric Mangion, (texts) Elie During and Christophe Kihm, ed. Frac PACA, Marseille
- From their time, French private collections, ed. ADIAF, Paris, France
- Issues in Americanisation and Culture, (texts) Jude Davies and George McKay, ed. Neil Campbell, Edinburgh University Press Ltd, (reproduction of LʼHospice on cover), p. 297
- Doubtiful, dans les plis du réel, exhibition catalog, (text) Virginie Jourdain and Lénaïg Monnier,
- Gilles Barbier. Anatomie du Réel, ed. Presses Universitaires, Rennes, pp. 96-99
2003
- The American Effect, exhibition catalog, ed. Whitney Museum, New York Michelle E. Bloom, Waxing Eloquent: Wax, Figures, Literature and Cinema, 1840-2000, ed. University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota
- Transformer, exhibition catalog, (text) Elizabeth Wetterwald, ed. Pori Art Museum, Pori (Finland), pp. 13-18
- Self-in Material Conscience, exhibition catalog, ed. Fondazione Sandretto, Turin
- Somewhere Better Than This Place, exhibition catalog, ed. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
- Tactics of the Ego, exhibition catalog, ed. Whilem-Lembruck Museum, Duisburg
2002
- (The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale of Sydney, catalog, ed. Ewen McDonald, Melbourne, pp. 45-48
- Ironie du Sort / Irony of Fate, exhibition catalog, ed. Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow La collection du Frac des Pays de la Loire, 1993-2002, Carquefou, p. 33, pp. 125-126
2001
- Pique-nique au bord du chemin, exhibition catalog, (texts) Sylvie Coëllier and Matthias Lengner, ed. MAC (Musée d’Art Contemporain), Marseille
- Tongue in’ Cheek, exhibition catalog, (text) Daniel Abadie, ed. Hellenic Association of Art Galleries, Athens
- Métamorphoses et Clonage, exhibition catalog, (text) Jean-Ernest Joos, ed. Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, pp. 26-27, p. 60
- À fleur de peau, le moulage sur nature au XIXème siècle, (text) Christine Macel, “Lʼartiste comme icône”, ed. RMN and Musée dʼOrsay, Paris
2000
- La meute des clones trans-schizophrènes, exhibition catalog, (texts) Gilles Barbier, Thom Collins, Benoit Decron, Christoph Doswald, ed. Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne
- Gilles Barbier, exhibition catalog, (text) Catherine Perret, ed. Saint-Fons
- Hypothèse de collection, exhibition catalog, ed. Frac PACA, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris Barbier, Berard, Lucariello, Ravaud, exhibition catalog, ed. Astérides, Marseille
- Le Fou dédoublé, exhibition catalog, (text) Jean-Yves Jouannais, ed. Château dʼOiron, Oiron (Que saurions-nous construire d’autre?), exhibition catalog, (texts) Christine Macel, Eric Mangion, ed. Villa Noailles, Hyères / Musée Ziem, Martigues
- Jour de Fête, exhibition catalog, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Text by Sophie Duplaix and Catherine Grenier.
- Jacinto Lageira, Center Pompidou, Paintings and Sculptures, ed. Scala, Paris
1999
- Copywork, exhibition catalog (with CD-Rom), ed. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
- Missing Link, exhibition catalog (text) Christoph Doswald, ed. Kunstmuseum, Bern
- dAPERTutto, exhibition catalog, 48th Venice Biennale, ed. Venice Biennale, Venice
1998
- Onze “Les Jambes de Grand-Mère”, exhibition catalog, ed. Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille
- Fait sur mesure, exhibition catalog, ed. Musée de la Vieille Charité, Marseille Monday
- Jamais, exhibition catalog (text) Jean-Pierre Ostende, ed. Kunsthaus, Hamburg, pp. 8-11, 16-19
- On the Edge, New Art from Private Collections in France, exhibition catalog, ed. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, pp.166-167
1997
- Lʼautre, 4th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalog, (text) Chistoph Doswald, ed. RMN-Grand Palais, Paris
- Transit, “60 artistes nés après 60”, exhibition catalog, (text) Caroline Naphegyi, ed. Délégation aux Arts Plastiques and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
1996
- The pink pages Eine kopie der welt von A-Aa, exhibition catalog, (text) Paolo Bianchi, ed. Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz
1995
- Gilles Barbier, exhibition catalog, (text) Jean-Yves Jouannais, ed. Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris
- Infamie, exhibition catalog, History of infamy (Venice Biennale 1995) and Other victories (Château de la Louvière, Montluçon), (text) Jean-Yves Jouannais, ed. Hazan, Paris