Noémie Goudal: Inhale Exhale
Deutsche Bank Lounge, Frieze London and Frieze Masters, UK
Deutsche Bank is proud to present French visual artist Noémie Goudal (b. 1984) in the Deutsche Bank Lounge at both Frieze London and Frieze Masters. This presentation follows Goudal’s Marcel Duchamp Prize exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 2024 and coincides with her London solo exhibition at Edel Assanti (on view through 19 December 2025).
Spanning film, sculpture, photography and performance, Goudal’s practice is grounded in rigorous research at the intersection of ecology and Earth sciences. Her presentation in the lounge provides a window into the artist’s photographic and sculptural practice from 2013 to the present, featuring works that have not been shown in the UK before.
Deutsche Bank acquired Goudal’s work for the Deutsche Bank Collection in 2022, where it is shown in the bank’s London headquarters, 21 Moorfields. The Deutsche Bank Collection is one of the world’s foremost corporate contemporary art collections, and Deutsche Bank’s 22-year partnership with Frieze is part of a longstanding commitment to art and culture, connecting creative communities around the world.
Deutsche Bank’s Global Head of Art & Culture, Britta Färber said: “Noémie Goudal’s presentation in the lounge offers a window into her photographic, video, and sculptural work from 2013 to the present, alongside a rare insight into the deep research that drives her practice. At Frieze, we are proud to spotlight her distinctive talent and technique—her artistic vision resonates strongly with the values of the Deutsche Bank Collection.”
Goudal’s practice revolves around the construction of ambitious, illusionistic interventions in the landscape. Inhale Exhale highlights her long-standing artistic dialogue with the field of paleoclimatology, examining vastness of geological time and the inherent instability of our planet’s surface.
Visitors to the Frieze London Deutsche Bank Lounge will enter by navigating a long corridor lined with steel, onto which Goudal has transferred elaborate sequences of small, printed images, drawn from cross-disciplinary sources. Exhibited publicly here for the first time, these intimate research boards originate from Goudal’s studio, where they serve as fluid mind-maps supporting her creative practice.
In the centre of the main lounge, Goudal’s Terrella comprises a freestanding structure housing an installation of 15 clay and porcelain sculptures. Created during Goudal’s residency at Manufacture de Sèvres in France and in collaboration with the science historian Gabriel Gohau, the title of the installation is derived from the Latin term for a small model of the Earth. Each sculpture visualises a different cosmological hypothesis relating to the Earth’s formation, from antiquity to present day. The individual sculptures are named after the scientist or philosopher who proposed the theory, such as the Italian monk of the Middle Ages Restoro d’Arezzo, who believed that the formation of mountains could be explained by the pull of stars on the earth’s surface.
Throughout the artist’s works, the various challenges in representation serve an inquisitive role in that they expose the space of perception. At the core of Goudal’s practice is a deconstructivist approach to photography. Using trompe-l'œil effects and constructed environments, Goudal challenges the medium’s traditional role as a marker of truth, positioning the natural world as a site of perspectival fiction, continual transformation and flux.
