Born in Sarrebourg, France, in 1948.

Lives and works in Aix en Provence (France)

After working as an architect, he starts studying the History of Art, Philosophy and

Sociology at Faculté de Lettres of Aix en Provence University. Then, he studied

Ethnology at Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme.

His first exhibition as a plastician artist took place in 1998.

He uses various technics: charcoal, pastel, video, digitalized pictures.

At first his works are figurative then, expressing himself by means of the contemporary

art he follows a line influenced by his study of philosophy.

Main exhibitions:

2000 Marseilles Vieille Charité Museum (exhibition of a poll based on visitors’ interviews)

2001 Nice Contemporary Art Museum (exhibition of polls based on visitors’ interviews)

2002 Marseilles Minoterie theatre ‘‘Everything must go’’ (exhibition of drawings and digitalized pictures)

2002 Aix en Provence Exhibition in Institut d’Administration des Entreprises of Aix

Marseilles University (digitalized pictures)

2005 Aix en Provence Fontaine d’Argent gallery ‘‘Point of View’’ (digitalized pictures)

2005 HIERHOLZER becomes a registered trade mark

2004 – 2005 London, England, Tate Modern and Tate Britain

2005 Basel (Switzerland) Kunsthalle

2005 Luzern (Switzerland) Kunstmuseum

2006 London, England, National Portrait Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery

2006 Miami, Fla; USA, Bass Museum and Frost Art Museum

2006 Washington, USA, National Gallery of Art

(Polls by mail to the curators and their assistants)

2006 London, England, Tate Britain (Poll by mail to the institution’s executives)

2007 Paris, France, Pompidou Center (Poll by mail to the institution’s executives)

2007 London, England, publication in the review Feedback # 4 of an article on his

work on the polls with the questionnaire titled ‘‘The determining factors of

the purchase of a work of art’’ to be filled in by the readers of the review

and to create works of art.

2008 Publication in the French review Artpress (n° 351, December) of a

questionnaire for the preview of the exhibition ‘‘Still Life’’, to be filled in

by the readers of the review and to create works of art.

2009 Cairo, Egypt, at the very foot of the pyramids. Polls of the Guizah plateau

visitors to create works of art by means of the questionnaire

‘‘The determining factors of the purchase of a work of art’’

Jean-Marc Hierholzer

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