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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 imaging, shamanism, Indian gods, Batman and Jérome Bosch...

Her work is inspired by her travels, underwater excursions in the Mediterranean and her desire to believe in the marvellous. Growing up in Côte d'Ivoire, she was fascinated from an early age by magical rituals, the bewitchment of bodies and wild animals...

Plunging into matter, the artist plays with textures, strata and dilutions, creating abstract backgrounds where reality and dreams, fauna and flora, stars and stones levitate, suspended in the heart of time. The black line draws each hair, each coat, each detail with a precision that no doubt stems from a certain form of obsession. Her work emanates a fragility, but also a magical force, a mysterious energy that reenchants reality.

The Surrealists were the first to incorporate into their official practice the mechanisms of so-called "art brut": depictions of characters and landscapes inspired by folk tales and traditions, simple techniques (drawing, painting), poor or found supports, and automatic writing opening the door to an unconscious increasingly denied by positivist rationalism. Over the years, Karine Rougier has created a formal expressionist vocabulary that gives pride of place to eroticism, dreams, childhood and the monstrous.

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Biography

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

TRAINING

  • 2005 / DNSEP, Aix-en-Provence School of Art

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS - SELECTION

  • 2019 / Chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon les Bains
  • 2019 / At the same time she felt the matter of the sky, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2019 / Around us, Studio Fotokino, Marseille
  • 2014 / YIA, Carreau du temple, Paris
  • 2013 / Visite des formes, Winner of the Art Collector Project, 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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS - 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, center d'art contemporain à Bourges
  • 2018-2019 / What love, curated by Eric Corne, Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2018 / Quel amour, curated by Eric Corne, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille
  • 2018 / Loup y es-tu, chateau Maison Lafitte, curator Amélie Adamo
  • 2018 / The Snake Show, curated by Bettina Hutschek, Valetta, Malta
  • 2017 / Un monde in-tranquille, Abbaye St André, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac
  • 2017 / Homo Melitensis: An incomplete inventory in 19 chapters, Maltese Pavilion, Venice Biennale, curators Bettina Hutschek and Raphael Vella, Venice
  • 2017 / Peindre, dit-elle, chap 2, curators Julie Crenn, Amélie Lavin and Annabelle Ténèze, Musée des Beaux Arts de Dole
  • 2016 / 5×2, Patio Opéra, curated by Philippe Piguet and Art collector, Paris
  • 2016 / L'espace du dessin, Musée Estrine, Saint Rémy de Provence
  • 2015 / Là où vivent les êtres sauvages, with Charles Fréger and Muriel Moreau, Fotokino, Marseille
  • 2015 / Art Brussels, Brussels
  • 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, Brussels.
  • 2011 / Drawing Now ! Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris
  • 2010 / Salon du dessin Contemporain, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
  • 2010 / Return from Skopje, Chateau de Servières, Marseille
  • 2009 / Slick 09, Contemporary Art Fair, at 104, Paris
  • 2009 / Biennale of young designers from Europe and the Mediterranean, Carré Saint Anne, Montpellier
  • 2009 / Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
  • 2009 / Salon du dessin Contemporain, Paris

AWARDS & RESIDENCES

  • 2022 / Drawing Now Prize
  • 2013 / Winner of the Art Collector prize
  • 2010 / Winner of the Mécènes du Sud award for publishing and production assistance
  • 2008 / Golden Age Residence, Berlin Münzstrasse
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