Babette Mangolte

Since relocating to New York from her native France in the early 1970s, Babette Mangolte has forged a singular path across the art and cinema worlds. As a director, cinematographer, and documentarian, Mangolte has amassed an extensive body of work that intersects with the worlds of dance, performance art, and experimental film. In her New York years, Mangolte documented some of the era’s most important performers and artists in both still and moving images. In these works, her collaborative partners include Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, Richard Foreman, and Yvonne Rainer. Her own films range from experimental narratives to artist documentaries, both short and feature length.

Retrospectives of her work have been presented at VOX – Contemporary Image Centre in Montreal and Inhotim in Belo Horizonte. She has had solo exhibitions at P.S.1. in New York, Arsenal in Berlin, Filmmuseum Munich, and Anthology Film Archive in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Tate Liverpool, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof in Hamburg, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Centre Pompidou in Paris, among many others.

Courtesy of Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia