Mimosa Echard

Mimosa Echard graduated in 2010 from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In 2014 she was invited to take part in the Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d’Entreprise Galeries Lafayette art residency programme, and the following year she was nominated for the Prix Meurice contemporary art prize. In 2016 Echard had a solo exhibition at the Cell Project Space gallery in London.

Echard’s work has been shown at the Dortmunder Kunstverein, alongside Michel Blazy, and featured in the Rumeurs et Légendes exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. She was the author of the first artistic creation for the inauguration of MOCO Montpellier Contemporain. With Turpentine, her collective, Echard took part in the Future, Former, Fugitive exhibition, focused on “the French scene”, at the Palais de Tokyo.

Her works are part of the collections of the Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Domaine de Chamarande, regional contemporary art collections of Corsica and Île-de-France, Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Fondation d’Entreprise Galeries Lafayette and the Sadami Art Foundation.

Mimosa Echard’s project was about the naturalist and ethnologist Minakata Kumagusu (1867–1941), fungi and myxomycetes or slime mould: peculiar organisms that occupy a unique place in the life sciences and in ecological, futuristic and post-apocalyptic fantasies. It considered past and current research into fungi and myxomycetes, and investigated interconnections between the human race, nature and the environment.