Cyprien Gaillard, born in 1980 in Paris, he lives and works in Berlin and New York. Among his personal exhibitions: Rubble and Revelation, at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (2012); The Crystal World at PS1 in New York (2013); Where Nature Runs Riot, the Sprüth Magers Gallery in Berlin, where Nightlife had its premiere in the installation version (2015), and the recent, Cyprien Gaillard: Nightlife at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen in Düsseldorf. Among his group shows: Manifesta 10, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2014), La Biennale de Lyon (2015), The Infinite Mix: Sound and Image in Contemporary Video, Hayward Gallery, London (2016). Won several awards, including in 2010 the Marcel Duchamp Prize, the National Gallery Prize for Young Art in Berlin in 2011 and in 2016 the Art Prize Arken, Ishøj.