Hervé Constant Open Studio June 2025
Part of E8 Art & Craft Trail
Free and all welcome
10 Martello Street E8 3PE
Hervé Constant would like to invite you to an OPEN STUDIO event. There will be encaustic, acrylic, and oil paintings on show and limited artist books available to purchase.
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Hervé Constant is a London-based French artist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco. Hervé’s work is a mixture of different interests, social and
cultural influences. Recent projects involve videos, photos, and sounds and Artist’s Books. His book Killing was part of a show displayed at Kaleid Editions London Plasto-Baader-Books Exhibition of Unique Artists’ Books 2009. His work is in the collection of MONA, Museum of New Art, Detroit USA. A sound recording of his ‘Sound Fetish’ WPS1 was at the Venice Biennale 05 and is now part of the Archive of MOMA New York. His short film Run was selected by the Hayward Gallery London as part of the 60-second Surreal; the projection took place at the National Film Theatre.
Recent projections have taken place at the FEST’AFILM Festival du film Montpellier and ‘Visions in New York City’ Gallery Macy NY and the Barbican Art Centre in London. The Pitzer Art Galleries based in Claremont LA presented ‘WRIT LARGE’, an Installation. His artwork was selected to participate at TAM – Torrance Art Museum Los Angeles, 18 July – September 2020.
He has participated in artists’ residencies in various parts of the world. Two of Hervé’s videos were at Villa Borghese, Pietro Museum Roma in 2014.
In 2015 Hervé participated in the Havana Biennale, the work was on show at the Faculty of Art History at the University of Havana. In October 2021 Hervé had a solo exhibition at ZONE: Pelouse Interdite Milan Italy. The exhibition toured to Studio.ra Rome in November 2021. December 2023 the artist participated in an exhibition curated by Philippa Beale called REGENERATION at the Hansard Studio, London, UK. Hervé Constant recent exhibition called ‘Rêveries’ is at the Musée Arthur Rimbaud in Charleville/Mézières, France till the end of December 2024. In 2021 few of his
paintings were at the Centre Pompidou/Metz, presented by the Artothèque de Nancy, France. Most recently his photographic work was at the Decagon Gallery, in Brooklyn, New York, US.
In November 25 – 30 the artist will participate to a symposium and a film festival ‘Fayum Faces’ in Cairo, Egypt.