Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro

Paris

Stéphane Verlet Bottéro (b. 1987) is an artist working at the intersection of social practice, installation, education, writing, gardening, and cooking. He is interested in the entanglements of community, materiality, body, and place. Based on site-specific research and durational interventions, his practice seeks to open spaces to unlearn and unsettle ways of inhabiting the world. It involves participative approaches to collectively explore and recompose the emotional, sensorial, and symbolic attachments that connect us to the land we live on. In addition to a master’s degree in environmental science, he holds an MFA from Central Saint Martins (London). His work has been exhibited at has exhibited internationally at biennales, museums, and festivals, including: ZKM, Karlsruhe; Centre Pompidou Metz; 12th Berlin Biennale; 14th Dakar Biennale; RAW Material Company, Dakar; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam; 12th Taipei Biennial; 7th Oslo Triennale; Le Lieu Unique, Nantes; Sheffield DocFest. He collaborates regularly with ZKM and has had institutional collaborations with Taipei Fine Arts Museum, NA Project (Paris), Institut Kunst (Basel), dOCUMENTA (13). In 2018, he co-initiated School of Mutants, a collaborative art and research platform in Dakar.