paulibertholon@gmail.comig : @paulibertholon
Pauli Bertholon (b. 1992, lives and works bewteen Paris & Bagnolet) is a French artist with a background in art history and social sciences researches, who explores the complexities of queer identity at the intersections of time, memory, and self-construction. Using various media and with a particular interest in archives, they employ the concept of lack as a driver of desire, seeking to challenge dominant narratives about gender and sexuality.
Their work has been shown at Pojektraum Dose (Germany, 2025), the pal projects gallery (Paris, 2024, 2022), the Turner House gallery (Wales, 2023), the Confort Moderne (Poitiers, 2022), at Espace Voltaire (Paris, 2022), and at Espace Reuilly (Paris, 2024).
SOLO EXhibition
GROUP Exhibitions
residencies
2025
2024
2025
2024
2023
2022
2019
2025
2021
Deviant Dwelling, LoveLetter, Bagnolet
What’s Made of Ashes Can’t Burn, Projektraum Dose, Hamburg, Germany
Blue Hour, Floréal Belleville, Paris
(upcoming) Liquides Précieux, Le Sample, Bagnolet
Des cabanes contre des fusées, Thundercage, Aubervilliers
Address Unknow, LoveLetter, Bagnolet
La jeunesse a toujours raison même quand elle a tort, Strouk gallery, Paris
Cinéffable, Espace Reuilly, Paris
Liquidation Totale, galerie Pal Projects, Paris
Re-Source, Re-Fest, onlince festival, (NYC-Seoul)
Le rouge et le noir, Villa Cathala - Maison des Arts, Noisy-le-Grand
Trails, Turner House Gallery, Penarth, WalesDécembre à Montreuil, Tour Orion, Montreuil
There will never be a beautiful suicide, galerie Pal Projects, Paris La descente, Confort Moderne, PoitiersPhantasmagoria Pallace, Espace Voltaire, Paris
Parade, Lancement DRAFT001, projection Grand Final, Cirque électrique, Paris
Si la lune a comme un air de fête, Cyberrance, Romainville
République, performance of Arthur Gillet, galerie Rue Française, Paris
Un garage à soi, Garage Mu, Paris
Achterhaus, Hamburg, Germany
Les Laboratoires de la Création, Paris
PRESS2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
Pauli Bertholon chez LoveLetter, Justine Sebbag, The SteidzPauli Bertholon : Les cendres de Weimar - Trouble dans les mémoires queer, Diacritik, Camille Desombre
“On plonge dans l’univers macabre de l’artiste Pauli Bertholon” Le Bonbon
S10, v i d e o S o u n d A r c h i v e
Carte Blanche “Une nuit sur Neptune”
Censored magazine, N°9 “It’s about time”
“$.B.H conjure la tristesse dans un nouveau clip fascinant”
Quentin Grosset, TroisCouleurs
“$.B.H dévoile Tristesse”
TRAX magazine
Carte Blanche “Limbe”
DRAFT001, N°1 “Parade”
“Puisque tout est déjà ici”, text in Camille Soualem’s solo exhibition, La Corvée, Paris
Education
2015-2017Research Master, Arts & Langages, EHESS, Paris