Zaven Paré

Zaven Paré is a visual artist whose work is split evenly between experimentation and research. A former student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, he has never stopped inventing new forms and new means of expression. From low tech to high tech, he poetically invents new devices, from Japanese robotics laboratories to the suburbs of Mumbai; from the Mata Atlantica to his studio in Rio de Janeiro. His work is recognized as pioneering in the fields of new media: from machine art to interface creation. He invented the electronic puppet and artifacts that combine his mastery of mechanics, optics, pneumatics and electronics. His works can be found in collections in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, the United States and Russia, as well as in various archives. His devices have been used in the staging of plays by French playwright Valère Novarina (CalArts, Festival Henson, La Mama etc, Festival d’Avignon). He has collaborated with Canadian choreographers (Marie Chouinard, Edouard Lock), for theater and musical theater (Denis Marleau, Mauricio Kagel) and for ballet and opera (Het National Ballet of Amsterdam, Opéra Paris-Bastille). In 2009, he collaborated in the creation of the Robot Actors Project of the roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the University of Osaka. He has been awarded the French American Fund for Performing Arts at the California Institute for the Arts, the Villa Kujoyama, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science as a roboticist. He was awarded the Instituto Sergio Motta Prize in Arts and Technology in Brazil and was recently the guest of honor at the Moscow Puppet Festival. He is the author of the books L’âge d’or de la robotique Japonaise (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016) and more recently, Le spectacle anthropomorphique, entre singes et robots (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2021).

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Exhibitions

Coming soon

+ Zaven Paré. Mix Maker - From 02/04/2025 to 03/29/2025

Past

+ Zaven Paré - November '12
+ Art Karlsruhe 2013 - March '13
+ Mixed Media - July '13
+ Zaven Paré Object Oriented - May '15
+ Galerie Charlot @ Art Paris Art Fair - April '16
+ Art Paris Art Fair 2017 - March '17
+ Zaven Paré EX_MÁQUINA - April '17
+ Dadaclub.online Paris - September '17
+ Opening Galerie Charlot Tel Aviv: The Artside of Algorithms - August '17
+ Galerie Charlot 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition - September '20
+ PROCESS - March '22
+ Devices - July '23
+ Digit-All - October '23
+ My1st collection - December '24

News

+ 03/21/2025 | Zaven Paré illustrates WORLD PUPPETRY DAY 2025
+ 09/08/2024 | Zaven Paré at Klotzshows
+ 02/17/2024 | Living with robots with Zaven Paré
+ 07/05/2023 | How to cohabit with AI? with Zaven Paré
+ 04/09/2022 | Zaven Paré. We are the robots at galerie Klotz
+ 05/19/2021 | Zaven Paré @ SPACES Gallery; Schloss Untergröningen, Germany
+ 09/09/2020 | Galerie Charlot @ Ars Electronica - In Kepler Gardens
+ 02/16/2018 | Seminar with Zaven Paré at INALCO, Paris
+ 02/14/2018 | Zaven Paré for Hermès (Mexico City, Mexique)
+ 01/28/2018 | Zaven Paré at the sale "Design & arts des XXème et XXIème siècles", Poitiers, France
+ 01/26/2018 | Zaven Paré at ENS-Ulm
+ 01/08/2018 | Zaven Paré collaborates with Kaori Ito
+ 06/14/2017 | Zaven Paré for Hermès
+ 05/20/2017 | European Museum Night : Zaven Paré at the Archives Nationales (Paris)
+ 03/08/2017 | Eduardo Kac - Zaven Paré - Thomas Israël @ "Golem ! Avatar d'une légende d'argile", Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris
+ 02/23/2017 | Zaven Paré @ Symposium "Robotique de compagnie au Japon"
+ 01/23/2017 | Zaven Paré @ A Gentil Carioca gallery, Rio de Janeiro
+ 12/14/2016 | Thomas Israël, Jacques Perconte, Mikhail Margolis, Antoine Schmitt & Zaven Paré @ Auction by Christie's & Fondation Meeschaert
+ 12/01/2016 | THEMAA lists five publications Zaven Paré to which has contributed.
+ 09/23/2016 | Zaven Paré : winner of the International Chair of Labex Arts-H2H (Université Paris 8) in 2017
+ 03/31/2016 | Galerie Charlot @ Art Paris Art Fair
+ 01/14/2016 | Zaven Paré - Mécatronic - CDA d'Enghien les Bains

Editions

+ Zaven Paré - Mécatronics
79 pages B/W, ISBN: 978-2-916639-40-6
2016 - Galerie Charlot Èdition
+ Zaven Paré - L'Âge d'or de la robotique japonaise
376 pages, ISBN 978-2-251722-28-3
2016 - Galerie Charlot Èdition