EDUCATION

Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), 2022.

PhD in Philosophy of Architecture, 2006, from the University Paris 10 Nanterre (Faculty of Philosophy).

MArch, 1998, from the Ecole d’Architecture de Lyon.

ENGINEERING DEGREE IN URBAN PLANNING 1995, from the Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat (ENTPE).

PRIZES

Finalist Burwood Art Prize 2026

Centrehouse Art Award 2026, Lane Cove Art Society.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

March 2026: THE ARCHITECTURE OF EXILE, The Corner Gallery, Gadigal Land/Stanmore.

April 2025: Threshold Spaces 2 , Branch3D Gallery, Bidgigal land/Forest Lodge.

April 2025: Threshold Spaces , PROP Gallery Wangal land/Ashfield.

GROUP SHOWS

18 September 2026 : Lane Cove Art Prize

October-November 2025:  Southern Highlands Art Trail, Bowral.

September - October 2025: Tender [curated by Shelley Waters],  Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.                                                                                             

August 2025: Home, Articulate Gallery, Bidgigal land/Sydney.

February 2025: Process(ed), Articulate Gallery, Bidgigal land/Sydney.

December 2024: Christmas Show, Livingston-Rex gallery, Kedumba/Katoomba.

May - Oct. 2008: Artistic garden at the Festival international de jardins de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France (in collaboration with Clara Sigalevitch, designer)

CURATION

31 October – 22 November 2026: The Architecture of Exile, Articulate Project Space, Wangal/Leichhardt.

April 2018: Cut Insight, Sheffer Gallery, Gadigal/Sydney, France, presenting works by Maxime Thieffine, Sarah Tritz, Eric Stephany, Claire-Jeanne Jezequel.

September 2016: Shifting, Drifting, Dribbling, at Sheffer Gallery, Gadigal/Sydney.

June - August 2015 : +/- 4 (Ungefähr Vier) in gallery Lage Egal in Berlin.

6-29 mai 2010: La clarté du labyrinthe at gallery Grands Bains douches de la Plaine in Marseille.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

Kimmel, Laurence. The Architecture of Exile, 2026.

Kimmel, Laurence. Architecture of Threshold Spaces. Londres : Routledge, 2022.

Kimmel, Laurence. L’architecture comme paysage –Álvaro Siza. Paris : Petra, Collection esthétique Appliquée, 2010.