Mathieu Tremblin

Mathieu Trembin (°1980) is a French visual artist, curator, researcher, and associate professor based in Strasbourg, France, whose work extends throughout Europe and beyond.

Tremblin’s art practice is tied to the use and wear of urban space: through documentation, action, and storytelling, he makes the public dimension of the city legible and tangible, while encouraging its appropriation. He approaches attitudes and traces as subtle signals of urban life, whose micro-history is to be written in order to weave an understanding of the urban phenomenon on other scales.

The process of qualifying and symbolizing these forms of urbanity activates an imagination in which the commons of urban margins are brought back to the center of attention. This approach takes the form of playful urban interventions, editorial experiments, curation, and residency programs.

His research focuses on support and narrative approaches for urban intervention practices; on methods of sensible diagnostics; on the permeabilities between analog and digital in the fields of publishing and the urban environment; on protocols and processes of collaboration and co‑creation; and on the connections between creativity, microhistory, and social struggles. Notable initiatives in this vein include Éditions Carton-pâte, Paper Tigers Collection, Office de la créativité, Post-Posters, Fonds documentaire de l'Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur, and Die Gesellschaft der Stadtwanderer.