DIGITAL ART, CHRONOLOGY

Since the 2000s, Géraldine Postel has been collaborating with an emerging digital art group named “NEEN” and founded by Miltos Manetas and officially presented at the Gagosian Gallery, NYC in 2003.

In 2002, in Paris, within the PURPLE INSTITUTE, she opened “IDEAL OFFICE“, an ideal office designed by artists who reinvent the concept of a bureau.
5 consecutive installations, Devon Dikeou, Dike Blair, Miltos Manetas, Laurent Saksik and Stéphane Magnin.

In 2003, it is the installation of Miltos Manetas that allows to discover the works of internet Rafael Rozendaal , Mai Ueda , Andreas Angelidakis and Angelo Plessas, all members of the NEEN group, in collaboration with SONY PLAYSTATION.

In 2004, Aux Rencontres d’Arles, with the support of ADOBE France, she presents a space designed by Jo Holtzman who creates and arranges a reading room around the art magazine and interior design NEST.

Summer 2016, she organises an exhibition in the 8 windows of the Sofitel Paris Faubourg, where she invites a multitude of artists and fashion designers and objects entitled Winter Tales of Summer Bliss.

An original soundtrack is composed, the exhibition in the 8 showcases tells a story of the contemporaneity as a retable of 8 panels, it is also the first exhibition in Paris that refers to the websites of each participant, for purchases of works and exhibits, via QR Codes affixed like a cartel next to each showcase. It is therefore an open outdoor expo 24h/24.

List of artists and contributors to “Winter Tales of Summer Bliss” 2016:
Laurent Saksik – Damir Doma – Eugene Riconneaus – Hugo Matha – Magazine Near East – Hans Boodt Mannequins Vitrines – Outcasts Incorporated By Nao Okawa, Zingmagazine , A Curatorial Crossing Edition – Ada Yu – Simon De La Porte – Thomasine – Eugène Riconneaus – Stephane Bergne For Designerbox – Mich Dulce – Diane Pernet – Sosangeles – Pete Drungle + Juriji Der Klee.

In 2018, she designed her first Digital Gallery ” DMGPobservatory ” with David Magnin, with whom she shares an ideal and plans an artist residency that will not take place concretely, but which continues to evolve with director Arnaud Pepin-Donat (arnaudpepindonat.com)

Between two periods of confinement, she meets Alexis Dejoux (Digitage) who will give her access to a multitude of AR, VR possibilities that never stop progressing for B2C commerce and the appearance of NFT. They are participating together in the first of the DRP show, (drop culture), at Éphémère Pavilion in Paris.

In 2020 she designed the exhibition “NET PLUS ULTRA” at the Galerie Mannerheim in Paris, bringing together his friends, artists working with digital, among others Wolfgang Staehle, founder of the first online site on contemporary art in 1992.

In 2022, the exhibition “Continuum in Digitage” opens at the Iconoclastes Gallery in Paris, and presents one of the first consecutive 3D photogrammetry and printing devices, making full-length statuettes of visitors and collectors. Among others, the portraits of Florence Muller, Devon Dikeou, Pierre Lautier, and many other visitors who offer a 3D portrait solo or couple.

Géraldine Postel’s projects take on a new form, with “Digital Gardens” in her new space, L’Abri, a place of art and cultural resistance located in Villerville in Normandy, where she decided to set up her quarters and leave Paris for a new way of life. , while making the locals and tourists discover these processes and AR/VR readings still little experienced.

In September 2024 she re-opens with Owr, the Digital Travel at L’Abri, Villerville