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Etienne Boulanger (1976 - 2008) was a conceptual artist of French origin. He worked prolifically in France, Germany, China and the USA before his sudden death in New York City at the age of 32.

Early life and education
Etienne Boulanger was born in Longeville-lès-Metz (France) in 1976.

Boulanger graduated in the year 2000 with DNSEP (Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique) from l’Ecole Nationale d’Art de Nancy (France). DSNEP is roughly the equivalent of an American Master's degree in Fine Arts, and is generally awarded after 5 years of study.

Work
Boulanger's travels included stays in Croatia, Romania, Germany, Austria, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and the USA. His body of work is mainly dedicated to illustrating and cataloging the itinerant, urban experience, and challenging notions of space with regards to urban renewal.

Boulanger was a member of the Quebequois artist collective Cedule 40, and taught art at cégep d'Alma in Alma, Quebec (CAN).

One project which specifically challenged the notion of private and public space was 2007-2008s public art piece Single Room Hotel. This project created a temporary living space of one room in the urban center of Berlin, elevated off the ground and hidden on all four sides by billboard advertisements.

In 2014, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, OH, USA curated an exhibit of Boulanger's 2001 project Plug in Berlin. Plug in Berlin was a year-long experiment by Boulanger in which he lived exclusively in public and abandoned spaces around the city of Berlin, sometimes for only one night per space. He photographed himself exhaustively in these spaces, and also recorded the location of each of them, creating a map of his squats around the city .. On display at the Contemporary Arts Center were photographs of Bouanger in these spaces, his notebook catalogs, and a map of the city with each location marked with a pin and tied together with string to make a web of his travels.

2014 (posthumous)

 * Plug in Berlin, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (USA)

2011 (posthumous)

 * infra - muros, centre d'art bastille, Grenoble (FR).

2008

 * Cracked house, space thinks, Berlin Neukölln (Germany), curated by Birgit Schumacher and Uwe Jonas

2007

 * The Single Room Hotel, Skulpturen Park, Berlin (Germany)
 * Contre-formes Ligne A, Interventions on the public sculptures, Orleans (France)
 * Trans-Location, Castel Coucou, Forbach (France)

2006

 * Land Blaster, Port Autonome du Rhin, Strasbourg (France)
 * Keep the Dust, Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz (France)

2005

 * Blind Process, Galerie Interface, Dijon (France)

2004

 * Temporary Archive, rue St Hélène, Strasbourg (France)

2003
Berlin, C.C.A.M., Vandoeuvre (France)
 * Temporary Archive, disused shop Lion frères, C.I.P.A.C., Metz (France)

2002

 * Temporary Archive, UIA World congress of architecture, Berlin (Germany)