Sui Generis : Pierre Molinier, Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard
at Kunsthalle Giessen, Giessen, DE

April 24 - July 12, 2026

opening Friday April 24, 7pm

curated by Nadia Ismail, Christophe Gaillard and Camille Gouget

'On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Pierre Molinier’s death, Kunsthalle Giessen dedicates an exhibition to the French artist that recontextualizes his provocative erotic photographs and photomontages, as well as their intense engagement with identity, self-staging, and the creation of an ideal self. Featuring photographs, collages, archival material, personal objects, and furniture from his residential studio, the exhibition offers a comprehensive insight into Molinier’s life and work.

Entering into a contemporary dialogue with Molinier’s work are Angélique Aubrit and Ludovic Beillard, who have been working together as an artist duo since 2021. Their practice combines sculpture, installation, video, performance, and drawing to create immersive environments populated by grotesque figures. In these burlesque, often absurd scenarios, theatre, sculpture, and film merge into dense narrative spaces. Self-sewn costumes, wooden sculptures, and recycled furniture form the material basis of their works. Aubrit and Beillard develop hybrid characters inspired by commedia dell’arte, grotesque cinema, and philosophical concepts. These figures reflect social marginality, psychological states, and collective uncertainty.

The often uncanny, wooden-headed figures created by Aubrit and Beillard resonate with Molinier’s obsessive visual world and his idea of the body as a malleable, transformable material. Both positions are united by the impulse to conceive new, hybrid beings beyond stable identities—as an attempt to imagine another species, another self. Since 2024, Aubrit and Beillard have been focusing on the film project une solitude vraiment terrible, in which they imagine the collapse of the capitalist system. In Sui Generis, they present a new chapter of the film in echo with the life and work of Pierre Molinier.'