French visual artist born in 1972, Olivier Ratsi explores the concepts of objective reality, time, space, and matter as abstract forms of information. Grounded in the experience of reality and its representations, as well as the perception of space, his works provoke viewers to reconsider their own understanding of reality.

As part of his work process, Olivier Ratsi creates systems that deconstruct our spatio-temporal reference points, often using the technique of anamorphosis, developed during his research. Making a break with objective reality, Olivier Ratsi’s works are not specifically aimed to unleash emotions or to perturb the senses, but rather to work as a catalyst for different points of view and cultural and psychological references. As such, the viewer is not deprived of his own subjective capacity to reconstruct/reconstitute reality. Instead, he is invited to make up his own mind and to experience the works through his own personal reactions.

 Olivier Ratsi is known as one of the co-founders and former member of the artist collective AntiVJ. Now working as a solo artist, he has had solo and group exhibitions around the world, including at Denise René Gallery and Charlot Gallery, Paris, FR; Atsuko gallery, Tokyo, JP; Puerta Roja, Hong Kong, HK; and Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, US. His works have been exhibited in museums including OCT Museum, Shanghai, CN; K11 Art Village, Wuhan, CN; D-Museum, Seoul, KR; and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung,TW. His works have been presented at numerous festivals and events including Elektra, Mutek and International Digital Arts Biennial, Montreal, CA; Biennale Némo, Mirage and Bains Numériques, FR.

Olivier lives and works in Paris, France.

SOLO SHOWS

2024 “The Fall of Icarus”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”Echolyse”, Galerie de Rohan, Landerneau, France
2023 ”La Chute”, Pont des Arts, Cesson-Sévigné, France
2021 ”Heureux soient les fêlés, car ils laisseront passer la lumière...” , La Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France
2020 Vanishing Points”, Marseille, France
2018 ”Point(s) de Vues(s)”, Dostyk Plaza, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2016 ”Pêle-Mêle”, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, United States of America
2016 ”Plane”, Galerie Plateforme, Paris, France
2015 ”D'Echolyse à Perspicere”, Biennale Internationale des Arts Numériques
Mémo, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
2015 ”Anarchitecture Tokyo”, Atsukobarouh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012 ”Parcourir les Puzzles”, Anarchitecture Evry, Evry, France
2011 ”Anarchitec3”, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
2011 ”Deconstruction”, Galerie du Théâtre de l’Agora, Scène Nationale d’Evry, Evry, France
2011 ”Anarchitecture-sur-Seine”, 16 Galerie, Marseille, France
2007 ”X vs Y ”,Galerie Ars Longa, Paris, France

GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)

2023 ”Superluminal”, Light Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary 
2023 ”Coding images: The path of digital waving”, Lilanz Art Museum, Jinjiang, PRC
2023 ”La dialectique de l'ombre”, Galerie Bigaignon, Paris, France
2023 ”Fiat Lux”, Centre Tignous, Montreuil, France
2022 ”Féeries d'hiver”, Bourse du Travail, Valence, France
2022 ”On the Edge of Senses”, Chengdu Times Art Museum, Chengdu, PRC
2022 ”Cinétique ! La Sculpture en mouvement”, Fondation Villa Datris,  Espace Monte Cristo, Paris, France
2022 ”Chroniques”, Biennale, Friche La Belle de mai, Marseille, France 
2022 ”Fascination light - (De)construction - light & space”, Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany
2022 ”On the Edge of Senses”, Times Art Museum Beijing, Beijing, PRC
2022 ”Art et Programmation”, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris, France
2021 ”Lumière, Espace, Temps”, Le Grenier à sel,Avignon, France
2021 ”Small is beautiful !”, Galerie Denise René,Paris, France
2020 ”Human Learning”, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
2020 ”Espace et tension”, Galerie Denise Réné, Paris, France
2019 ”Fiction and Fabrication”, MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), Lisbon, Portugal
2018 ”Paysage.Fiction”, Tetris, Le Havre, France
2018 ”Movement”, A joint exhibition with Galerie Denise René / Puerta Roja Gallery / Hong Kong
2017 ”he Clock of the Time Traveler”, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, South Korea
2017 ”Anamorphose”, Le Puzzle, Thionville, France
2016 ”Lumière et Mouvement”, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
2015 ”Vers une architecture de lumière”, La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France
2015 ”Cinétique Numérique Aujourd’hui”, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
2014 ”Wonder of Fantasy”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2013 ”Night Time – DREAMREAL”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, PRC
2013 ”D-Light”, Accenture Bercy, Paris, France
2013 ”Vision [trans]formées”, Galerie SHAG, Boulogne, France
2009 ”Futur en Seine”, Fonderie de l'Image, Bagnolet, France
2009 “L’architecture d’aujourd’hui” event. Grand Palais. Paris, France
2006 ”Fragment Urbain”, Mediaruimte, Brussels, Belgium

FESTIVAL / INSTALLATION / VIDEO PERFORMANCE / MAPPING

2023 Light is life. Festa delle luci A2A, Convento San Francesco, Bergamo, Italy
2023 Vilnius light festival / Vilnius, Lituany
2022 Amsterdam Light festival, Festival, Jules Schelvis bridge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021  ]Interstice[ Festival, Hôtel de Ville, Caen, France
Fête des Lumière, Lyon, France
2020 Canal Convergence Festival, Scottsdale, United States of America
2020 Bristol Light Festival, Millennium Square, Bristol, United Kingdom
2019 Constellations Festival, Maison de la Région, Metz, France
2019 New Media Castle, Electric Castle Festival, Bànffy Castle, Bontida, Romania
2019 Inasound, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France
2018 Microwave International New Media Art Festival, Exhibition Hall, Central, Hong kong, PRC
2018 ]Interstice[ rencontre des inclassables, Ecole Supérieure d'Arts & Medias de Caen-Cherbourg, Caen, France 
2017 LEV Festival, Collegiate of San Juan Bautista, Gijon, Spain
2016 Festival Internacional de Mapping (FIMA), Morelia, Mexico
2016 Vision'R lab, June 24 to 26, 2016, Jardin d'Alice / Montreuil, France
2015 Sonica, Glasgow, UK
Signal Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Festival International de Carthage, Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
2014 Nuit Blanche Off, Ivry, France 
2014 Nuit Noire, Paris, France 
2014 Mapping Festival, Geneva, Switzerland