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

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

GROUP SHOWS

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)

URBAN ART FESTIVALS

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)