Marc Leschelier

Untitled
2025
Installation/Sculpture: Aluminum, chains, and acrylic paint
Dimensions variable

Marc Leschelier is a French sculptor and architect based in Paris. He designs and self-builds functionless architectures—what he calls pre-architectures—in unmarked spaces, sculpture parks, or any context free from urban regulations. Through these skeletal, empty constructions, Leschelier critiques the decline of freedom in architecture and explores its potential for renewal by rebuilding a language from scratch. This deliberate absence of utility redirects architecture toward a new form of expression: construction as an autonomous vocabulary. His work develops unofficial constructive systems that systematically use industrial materials in vernacular ways, aiming to conceive a fundamentally independent architectural form. A Villa Medici fellow in 2017–2018, Leschelier opened an exhibition in Paris in March 2024 in dialogue with historic works by Jean Prouvé. He has presented his work in both solo and group exhibitions, as well as international fairs such as Design Miami Paris and Art Brussels in 2023, Frieze Los Angeles in 2021, and Salone del Mobile, where he showed his first concrete textile pavilion that same year. His work has also been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Tallinn Art Biennale in 2020. Over the past six years, he has built nine permanent or ephemeral pavilions, including two public works installed in sculpture parks in Belgium and France.