Bernar Venet Furniture
Bernar Venet creates large-scale site-specific installations, works of avant-garde performance art and other provocative pieces that have earned him a place among France’s most significant Conceptual artists. He is also known for his abstract and figurative drawings, as well as abstract sculptures.
Venet was born in 1941 in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in southern France as Bernard Venet. In 1958, he attended EMAP Villa Thiole in Nice and decided to pursue an artistic career. Venet moved to New York City in 1961 and started to garner recognition for his monochromatic tar paintings and coal sculptures. It was during this period that he dropped the “d” from his first name.
In 1971, Venet took a break from making art and spent some time teaching art theory at the University of Paris. He decided to resume his artistic work in 1976 and showed his work the following year at Kassel, Germany’s “documenta 6,” a contemporary art exhibition that has featured the likes of Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Willem de Kooning and others. Around this time, Venet pivoted to working with wood and created a series of reliefs called “Arcs, Angles and Straight Lines.” The National Endowment of the Arts recognized Venet with a grant in 1979.
The grant kicked off two decades of exhibitions throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and South America. To date, Venet has participated in more than 40 public sculpture exhibitions and created monumental installations in cities around the globe, including Berlin, Denver, Auckland, Geneva, Austin, Tokyo, Vancouver and more.
In 2005, the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur awarded him with the highest order of merit in France. He was also awarded the International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture in 2016. Venet’s works are held in the collections of leading museums around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Centre Pompidou.
Venet lives and works between New York City and Le Muy.
On 1stDibs, find original Bernar Venet paintings, prints, sculptures and more.
Early 2000s French Post-Modern Bernar Venet Furniture
Steel, Stainless Steel
2010s American Bernar Venet Furniture
Brass
20th Century French Art Deco Bernar Venet Furniture
Plaster
Early 20th Century Danish Bernar Venet Furniture
Terracotta
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Bernar Venet Furniture
Cement
Mid-19th Century French Antique Bernar Venet Furniture
Spelter
2010s American Bernar Venet Furniture
Brass
Early 20th Century French Bernar Venet Furniture
Spelter
19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Antique Bernar Venet Furniture
Bronze
2010s American Bernar Venet Furniture
Brass
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Revival Bernar Venet Furniture
Bronze
1820s French Grand Tour Antique Bernar Venet Furniture
Marble, Bronze
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Bernar Venet Furniture
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary French Bernar Venet Furniture
Cut Steel
