ABOUT ME
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. ”
-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
"We have art in order not to die of the truth",
-Nietzsche, The Will to Power
The work of Hélène Planquelle explores the shadow part of ourselves and our relationship with others as well as the way our inner struggles get reflected into the world’s.
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 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, mirrors and optics, and the sensory aura of works whose physical experience cannot be replaced.
An admirer of great figurative artists such as Salvador Dali and Ernest Pignon Ernest, 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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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)
2017
COLLECTIF ZAMAKEN (Paris, FR)
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GROUP SHOWS
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2024
LES JEUX ARTISTIQUES, Macha Galerie (St-Maur-des-Fossés, FR)
ORIGINES, Ellia Art Gallery (Paris, FR)
2023
DESTINS CROISÉS, Galerie Cécile Dufay (Paris, FR)
PORSCHE LEGACY, Galerie Sakura (Paris, FR)
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 (Philadelphie, 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)
FEMININ/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
GARGAR, Penelles, Catalonia, may 2023
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RESIDENCIES
59RIVOLI (Paris, FR), Nov 2019-janv 2020
PILOTENKUECHE INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM (Leipzig, GE), July-Sept. 2019
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