Nicolas Grospierre

Nicolas Grospierre is a Warsaw-based photographer (mainly of architecture) and an artist working in the expanded field of photography. He studied political science and sociology at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and the London School of Economics before turning to photography. His work as a photographer has focused on one hand on documentary projects, which explore the collective memory and hopes of modernist architecture now that the utopian ideology behind it has faded away. The other side of his work focuses on conceptual photography emphasizing mind games and visual paradoxes while presenting attractive and sensual images and even installations. He was awarded the Golden Lion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 (with Kobas Laksa, curators Grzegorz Piątek and Jarosław Trybuś) for the exhibition Hotel Polonia in the Polish pavilion. His photographic publications include Modern Forms: A Subjective Atlas of 20th Century Architecture (2016) and Modern Spaces: A Subjective Atlas of 20th Century Interiors (2018) both published by Prestel Publishing London.