Clément Verger
Resident in 2025
Clément Verger studied visual arts and communication at the National Superior School of Arts, Olivier de Serres in Paris and was afterwards admitted for the Leonardo da Vinci European grant. He graduated from the Master in Photographic Studies at the university of Westminster in 2011. He was a laureate of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2018, and received the CNAP creation grant the same year.
He was a member of l’Académie de France in Madrid, Casa de Velazquez 2018-2019 and, in 2021, he was selected for the first project-led PHD for artists created by the Casa de Velazquez.
In June 2024, he boarded the Marius for the Villa Albertine’s Atlantic-Pacific Line residence, for a Pacific crossing from Tahiti, which took him to Tauranga in New Zealand for a stopover.
Started in 2016, Circumnavigations is a three-part project dealing with the influence of Captain Cook’s voyages on the global landscape through the introduction of plants. Each of the three expeditions becomes a case study questioning the transport and implantation of species across the world.
His artistic residency in Wellington marks the final phase of this project.
To learn more about Clément Verger and his work, please visit :
Artist talk at AUT / Yvonne Chan Cahsmore (AUT, Te Ataata), Clément Verger, Yves-Louis Dorsemaine (AF Auckland) and Noémie Clarke
