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ABOUT ME

Art is the way in which the unconscious becomes visible. The artist, by allowing the unconscious to manifest in his work, helps us recognize aspects of ourselves that are unknown. Each artistic image is a key to open a door to deeper dimensions of our psyche, dimensions often ignored, and to archetypal forces that influence our lives unconsciously.”

 

C.J. Jung, The Secret of the Golden Flower

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The work of Hélène Planquelle is rooted in the exploration of her own unconscious material, thus exploring the realm of the shadow, within ourselves and acted out in the world, and giving birth to symbolic archetypal images that speak to the collective unconscious.

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As a self-taught painter, Hélène Planquelle owes her intellectual curiosity and thirst for new knowledge to her humanity studies. Initially passionate about literature and philosophy, over time she turned to increasingly diverse fields of knowledge to nourish the subject matter of her works. At once deeply conceptual and powerfully figurative, her work is rooted in a rich soil of scholarly references, in fields ranging from Jungian psychoanalysis and philosophy to ethics and social sciences, attachment theories, evolutionary psychology and the study of religious texts and myths.

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From a plastic standpoint, Hélène Planquelle conducts research into the depth of the image, the interplay of reflections, interlay, and the sensory aura of works whose physical experience cannot be replaced.

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Her works interweave the spiritual and the carnal, the sacred and the profane, the human and the animal. Hélène Planquelle's work also draws on mankind's ancestral fascination with storytelling, and maintains a strong intertextuality thanks to the many quotations from which the titles of her different series are derived, a veritable treasure hunt for anyone wishing to put together the thousand and one pieces of the puzzle of her vision of the world.

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SOLO SHOWS

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2025   UNIVERS (duo show), Elian Lacroix Art Lab (Lyon, FR)

2024  (META)MORPHE (duo show), Peep Art Gallery (Brussels, BE)

2022   MONSTERS OF LOVE, Atelier Nanoh (Paris, FR)

2021    Atelier Desnouettes (Paris, FR)

2019   ORIGINAL VIOLENCE, We Art From Paris (Paris, FR)

2018   GALERIE JOAN FONT (Paris, FR)

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GROUP SHOWS

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2025   CHENUS-LONGHI FAMILY, Chenus-Longhi (Paris, FR)

            BLINDNESS, Espaço Exibicionista (Lisbon, PT)

            DES CORPS À L'OEUVRE, Maison Visinand (Montreux, SW)

2024   TOUT VA BIEN, Chenus-Longhi (Paris, FR)

             LES JEUX ARTISTIQUES, Macha Galerie (St-Maur-des-Fossés, FR)

            ORIGINES, Ellia Art Gallery (Paris, FR)

            ESPACE ARTISTES FEMMES (Lausanne, SW) 

2023   DESTINS CROISÉS, Galerie Cécile Dufay (Paris, FR)

            PORSCHE LEGACY, Galerie Sakura (Paris, FR)

            Inauguration of Fundazione Psichefuturoinnovazione (Bergamo, Italy)

            VENUS'S MIRRORS, Primo PIano Gallery, lecce (IT)

2022   LUCID DREAMS, Association Flaw, La Caserne de Paris (Paris, Fr),

2021   ARTISTS' SPOTLIGHT, Arch Enemy Arts Gallery (Philadelphia, EU),

2020  Destructuralisme Figuratif, Parc floral de Vincennes (Paris, FR)

2019   GRATEFUL PARK, Pilotenkueche international residency program (Leipzig, GE)

            HUNGRY DUNGEON FRIENDS, Kunstkraftwerk (Leipzig, GE)

            FÉMININ/MASCULIN, L'ART SE JOUE DU GENRE, Le Studio Gallery, (Paris, FR)
            LA CARESSE ET LE MEURTRE HÉSITENT ENTRE LEURS MAINS, La Condamine (Paris, FR) (curator & artist)
2018    RAPPORTS, Les Rituelles (Paris, FR)
            1480KM, Galerie La Lalande (Paris, FR)
            DE L’ORDRE DE L’INTIME, Galerie La Lalande (PARIS, FR)
2017    ROPES U, Eurydice Gallery (New York, EU)

 

ART FAIRS


2023   FIGURATION CRITIQUE, Bastille Design Center (Paris, FR)
            ART CITÉ, City Hall of Fontenay-sous-bois (Fontenay-sous-bois, FR)
            SOLID'ART, Carreau Du temple (Paris, FR)
            THE OTHER ART FAIR, Barker hangar (Los Angeles, US)

2022   SUPERFINE ART FAIR, the reef (Los Angeles, US) 
            SOLID'ART, Carreau du temple (Paris, FR) 
            ART SHOPPING, Carrousel du louvre (Paris, FR) 
2020  PARATISSIMA ART FAIR (Bologne, IT)
2019   SEATTLE EROTIC ART FESTIVAL, Seattle Center Exhibition Hall (Seattle, US)
            YIA ART FAIR #02 (Paris,FR)

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URBAN ART FESTIVALS 

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2025   LE MUR DU MARAIS (Paris, FR)

            GRAFFITEA (Cheste, ES)

            BOULOGNE-SUR-MER STREET ART FESTIVAL (Boulogne-sur-Mer, FR)​

2024   LES SENTIERS DES ARTS (ST CAPRAIS-DE-BLAYE, FR)

            GRANITI MURALES (Graniti, IT)

            STRAMURALES (Stornara, IT)

2023   GARGAR (Penelles, ES) 

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