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Karine Rougier

Karine Rougier‘s drawings are home to a curious, disturbing, sexual and sometimes macabre population. Evanescent, lost on the canvas, the characters discreetly pursue their anxious and liberated activities. Everything crosses Karine Rougier’s world: medical imagery, shamanism, Indian gods, Batman, Jerome Bosch…

Her work is inspired by her travels, her walks along the Mediterranean coast, her swims and her desire to believe in the wonderful. She grew up on the Ivorian Coast and was very early fascinated by magic rituals, bewitchment of bodies, wild animals …

Diving into the material, the artist plays with textures, layers, dilutions, creating abstract backgrounds where reality and dreams, fauna and flora, stars and stones levitate, suspended in the heart of time. Line draws each hair, each coat, each detail with a precision that undoubtedly stems from a certain form of obsession. Her work emanates a fragility, but also a magical force, a mysterious energy that reenchants reality.

Surrealist painters were the first to incorporate in their practice the mechanisms resulting from “outsider art”: representation of characters, landscapes-inspired-tales and popular traditions, simple techniques (drawing, painting), poor or found supports, as well as the automatic writing that opens the door of an unconscious more and more denied by the positivist rationalism. Karine Rougier created an expressionist formal vocabulary leading to eroticism, dream, childhood and monstrous.

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Biography

Karine Rougier was born in 1982 in Malta. She lives and works in Marseille.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • 2005 / DNSEP, Ecole d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence

SOLO EXHIBITIONS – SELECTION

  • 2019 / Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon les Bains
  • 2019 / En même temps elle sentit la matière du ciel, Fondation Thalie, Bruxelles, Belgique
  • 2019 / Autour de nous, Studio Fotokino, Marseille
  • 2014 / YIA, Carreau du temple, Paris
  • 2013 / Visite des formes, Lauréate du Projet Art Collector, Patio Opéra, Paris
  • 2013 / Les lointains, Maison du livre de l’image et du son, Villeurbanne
  • 2012 / Un oiseau immobile dans le ciel, Fondation Vacances Bleues, Marseille

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES – SELECTION

  • 2022 / Private Choice, Lignes de vie / Life lines, Paris
  • 2021 / Private Choice, Odyssée / Odyssey, Paris
  • 2020 / Even the rocks reach out to kiss you, Transpalette, centre d’art contemporain à Bourges
  • 2018-2019 / Quel amour?!, commissariat Eric Corne, Musée Berardo, Lisbonne, Portugal
  • 2018 / Quel amour?!,, commissariat Eric Corne, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille
  • 2018 / Loup y es-tu, chateau Maison Lafitte, commissariat Amélie Adamo
  • 2018 / The Snake Show, commissariat Bettina Hutschek, Valetta, Malte
  • 2017 / Un monde in-tranquille, Abbaye St André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac
  • 2017 / Homo Melitensis: An incomplete inventory in 19 chapters, Pavillon Maltais, Biennale de Venise, commissariat Bettina Hutschek et Raphael Vella, Venise
  • 2017 / Peindre, dit-elle, chap 2, commissariat Julie Crenn, Amélie Lavin et Annabelle Ténèze, Musée des Beaux Arts de Dole
  • 2016 / 5×2, Patio Opéra, commissariat Philippe Piguet et Art collector, Paris
  • 2016 / L’espace du dessin, Musée Estrine, Saint Rémy de Provence
  • 2015 / Là où vivent les êtres sauvages, avec Charles Fréger et Muriel Moreau, Fotokino, Marseille
  • 2015 / Art Brussels, Bruxelles
  • 2015 / Drawing Now ! Salon du dessin Contemporain Paris
  • 2012 / Collages, Musée d’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux
  • 2012 / Drawing Now ! Salon du dessin Contemporain » Paris
  • 2011 / Art on Paper, White Hotel, Bruxelles.
  • 2011 / Drawing Now ! Salon du dessin Contemporain, Paris
  • 2010 / Salon du dessin Contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
  • 2010 / Retour de Skopje, Chateau de Servières, Marseille
  • 2009 / Slick 09, Foire d’Art Contemporain, au 104, Paris
  • 2009 / Biennale des jeunes créateurs d’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Carré Saint Anne, Montpellier
  • 2009 / Musée d’Art Contemporain, Skopje, Macédoine
  • 2009 / Salon du dessin Contemporain, Paris

PRIX & RESIDENCES

  • 2022 / Prix Drawing Now
  • 2013 / Lauréate du prix Art Collector
  • 2010 / Lauréate de Mécènes du Sud, aide à l’édition et à la production d’oeuvres
  • 2008 / Résidence l’âge d’Or, Berlin Münzstrasse
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