About Exutoire
Exutoire is a transversal practice that looks to the intersection of architecture, art and activism to explore the power and potentials of architecture beyond architecture alone. Exutoire has an ironic, ultra-referential, queer, cute, joyous and playful approach to things, and uses this to deal with projects that range from architecture, furniture and exhibition design, to drawing and photography, to writing, publishing and printed matters. Exutoire is presently obsessed with physical models, furniture experiments, and the quest for alternative practices of architecture.
Exutoire was created in 2019 by Bùi Quý Sơn (VN) and Paul-Antoine Lucas (FR), based in Oslo (NO). In 2021, we curated with Armelle Breuil an exhibition, a podcast and a publication series titled Safe Space which investigates diversity, representation and equity in architecture. We are currently teaching our Master's Studio course "Designing Collectivity, Designing Politically" at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design with Hanna Birkeland Bergh. We are also guest curators at ROM for kunst og arkitektur for the Queer Cultural Year program 2022–2023.
Exutoire is based in Grünerløkka, Oslo and works on projects across Oslo (NO), Paris (FR) and Hà Nội (VN). Exutoire's portrait courtesy of Solène Moscato, Paris, 2022.
2022–
Guest curators at ROM for kunst og arkitektur for the Queer Cultural Year program 2022–2023
2020/2022–
Assistant professors at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
2020–
Founding members of Safe Space Collective
2019–
Co-founders of Exutoire
Exhibitions, Residencies and Curatorial Projects
2022–2023 (upcoming)
Exhibition and seminar on queering space at ROM for kunst og arkitektur
2022 (upcoming)
Curatorial project "A Queer Practice of Architecture" in development
10/2021
Safe Space Zine Launch at ROM for kunst og arkitektur
09–10/2021
Safe Space Podcast
05–06/2021
Safe Space exhibition/residency in collaboration with ROM for kunst og arkitektur
Publications
2022 (forthcoming)
Nationaltheatret: Out of House. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2022 / Editors and designers
01/2022
“For en mer rettferdig arkitektur” (For a more equitable architecture) in Arkitektnytt / Co-authors with Armelle Breuil
10/2021
“Twelve Tableaux: Tales of a Queer Architecture”, in Safe Space Zine 6: a queer practice of architecture. Oslo: Safe Space Publishing, 2021 / Authors
10/2021
Safe Space Zine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Oslo: Safe Space Publishing, 2021 / Editors and designers
08/2021
In Transit Studio: Oslo Files. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2021 / Co-editors with Håvard Breivik-Khan and Tone Selmer-Olsen; designers
03/2021
Photobook—A cabinet of found objects. Self-published edition of 25 / Author and designer (Bùi Quý Sơn)
12/2020
Arkitektstudenter skriver: Treasures from the AHO library. Oslo: The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2020 / Co-editor (Paul-Antoine Lucas) with Mari Hvattum and Victor Plahte Tschudi; designer
Lectures and Talks
12/2021
"Books, Books, Books" / MA Curatorial Practice / Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
11/2021
“Model, Camera, Picture” / In Transit Studio, Master of Architecture / The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
06/2021
"Queering Space" / In conversation with Frederick Nathanael and Martine Johansen about Et skeivt kultursenter i Oslo / Melahuset
04/2021
“Models, Models, Models” / Master of Architecture / “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest
Grants and Awards
2021
Canadian Centre for Architecture / Finalist of the Emerging Curator Residency Program 2021–2022
2021
Kulturetaten (Agency for Cultural Affairs, City of Oslo) / Etableringsstipend
2021
Kulturrådet (Arts Council Norway) / Gjesteopphold, with ROM for kunst og arkitektur
2021
Kulturrådet (Arts Council Norway) / Tverrfaglige tiltak
2021
Kulturrådet (Arts Council Norway) / Tidsskrift og kritikk ekstraordinær utlysning - kulturelt mangfold
2021
Fritt Ord (The Freedom of Speech Foundation), with ROM for kunst og arkitektur
2021
Balansekunst (The Art of Balance), with ROM for kunst og arkitektur
2017
CHART Art Fair Architecture Competition / Honorable mention
Press
10/2021
Arkitektnytt, "Slipper fanziner"
04/2021
Arkitektnytt, "Et trygt rom"
02/2021
Utrop, "Ny podcast om arkitektur med minoritetsfokus"
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About Exutoire
Exutoire
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Exutoire is a transversal practice that looks to the intersection of architecture, art and activism to explore the power and potentials of architecture beyond architecture alone. Exutoire has an ironic, ultra-referential, queer, cute, joyous and playful approach to things, and uses this to deal with projects that range from architecture, furniture and exhibition design, to drawing and photography, to writing, publishing and printed matters. Exutoire is presently obsessed with physical models, furniture experiments, and the quest for alternative practices of architecture.
Exutoire was created in 2019 by Bùi Quý Sơn (VN) and Paul-Antoine Lucas (FR), based in Oslo (NO). In 2021, we curated with Armelle Breuil an exhibition, a podcast and a publication series titled Safe Space which investigates diversity, representation and equity in architecture. We are currently teaching our Master's Studio course "Designing Collectivity, Designing Politically" at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design with Hanna Birkeland Bergh. We are also guest curators at ROM for kunst og arkitektur for the Queer Cultural Year program 2022–2023.
Exutoire is based in Grünerløkka, Oslo and works on projects across Oslo (NO), Paris (FR) and Hà Nội (VN). Exutoire's portrait courtesy of Solène Moscato, Paris, 2022.
Bùi Quý Sơn
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2019–
Architect and visual artist
2019–2021
Landscape architect at SLA
2017–2019
Architect at Ghilardi+Hellsten
2018
Published in Wallpaper* Graduate Directory
2016–2018
Co-founder and clothing designer at The Pilot Episode
2016–2017
Studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Assistant at the Lighting Laboratories
2015
Graphic designer at Homecore
2014–2015
Object and furniture designer at Saint Laurent
2014
Worked at Ciguë
2011–2014
Studied at ENSA Paris-Malaquais
Paul-Antoine Lucas
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2021–
Member of the program committee at OAF Oslo Arkitektforening
2020–
Assistant professor at AHO Oslo School of Architecture and Design
2016–
Web responsible for OCCAS
2018–2021
Architect at Spacegroup
2021
Editor for the publication Arkitekstudenter skriver
2019
Recipient of the Renzo Piano World Tour Award
2016–2019
Graphic designer and web responsible for the research project PriARc
2015–2018
Studied at AHO Oslo School of Architecture and Design
2017–2018
Worked at Ghilardi+Hellsten
2017
Worked at Bjarke Ingels Group
2014–2015
Worked at Louis Vuitton
2014
Worked at Moreau Kusunoki
2013
Studied at Hong Kong University
2013
Worked at Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
2011–2014
Studied at ENSA Paris-Malaquais
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