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BIOGRAPHY

Bruno Gadenne (b. 1990 in Cavaillon) is an artist who lives and works in Paris. After studying in Sèvres (FR) and Boston (USA), he graduated in 2014 from HEAR (formerly École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg).

The artist had his first solo exhibition in Strasbourg in 2014 with the Bertrand Gilig Gallery. Highlighted by the November International Painting Prize in Vitry in 2016 and the Icart Prize in 2017, Bruno Gadenne is the 2018 winner of the Théophile Schuler Prize. In 2019, he was the guest of honour at the Salon des Artistes of Massy.

More recently, his work has been the solo subject of exhibitions at DUMONTEIL Gallery, Shanghai, China (2024 and 2022); Le Feuvre & Roze, Paris (2023); Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille, France (2021); agnès b. Gallery, New York, USA (2019).
Bruno Gadenne is a globetrotter, a traveller. He is driven by the strong desire to experience and verify the beauty of the world. The beauty of primordial landscapes, of the jungle, of the primary forest and of other distant lands. A contemporary romantic attitude in which he accumulates, in sketchbooks and in his memory, reminiscences and the "reveries of a solitary walker" that he brings back to the studio. These landscapes, through which the painter's body has passed, are transcribed onto the canvas from photographs taken by himself and reworked on the computer. The treatment of the images creates a subtle distortion of the light, a strangeness combined with a wonder that remains intact.
JULIETTE FONTAINE
Extract from Les assises du Monde, 2018

CURRICULUM VITAE

1990 born in Cavaillon, France
Live and work in Paris 
CURRICULUM & AWARDS 

2020-24 Resident artist at Poush, Clichy then Aubervilliers
2022 Residency Thérapeia, Paxos (Greece)
2019 Guest of Honor, Salon des Artistes de Massy, Espace Liberté, Massy 2018 Schuler Prize, winner, SAAMS, Strasbourg
2016-19 Painting teacher, Centre d’Arts Plastiques d’Aubervilliers
2015 Scholarship Expérience de Jeunesse for the project: Melukis Indonesia, Strasbourg – Indonesia
2014 DNSEP (Matser) Art, Painting (studio of Daniel Schlier), HEAR, Strasbourg
2011 DNAP (license) Art, jury’s honors, HEAR, Strasbourg
2011 Intrernational Exchange at the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts (USA)
2008 Mise À Niveau en Arts Appliqués (preparatory art school) lycée J.P. Vernant, Sèvres
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Saltwater Skies , Dumonteil Gallery, Shanghai (China)

2023
L’or et la nuit, Galerie Le Feuvre & Roze, Paris

2022
Mirages, duo show with Diane Benoît du Rey, Galerie Le Feuvre & Roze
Tropical Insomnia, Galerie Dumonteil, Shanghaï (China)

2021
Retour d’expédition, Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille

2019
La nuit ne dormait pas, Galerie Bertrand Gillig, Strasbourg
Eulogy for a hornbill, Galerie-boutique agnès b, NYC (USA)
S’enforester, Galerie du Jour agnès b, Paris

2018
Les assises du monde, Galerie Andersen & Associés, Luxembourg, (Luxembourg)
Le grand réveil, Galerie B. Gillig, Strasbourg

2016
Le poids des roches, Cabinet LLC, Strasbourg
La rivière la nuit, Galerie B. Gillig, Strasbourg

2014
la Galerie B. Gillig présente Bruno Gadenne, Barclays bank, Strasbourg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Summer Show, Galerie Le Feuvre & Roze, Paris
La peinture contemporaine figurative dans la collection d’agnès b. , La Fab., Paris
No futur, comme disaient les punks, Les Jardiniers, Montrouge
Group Show, Galerie Aura, Paris

2023
Call of the Wild, Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris
Origines, COAL x 1.618, Careau du Temple, Paris
De leur temps, ADIAF, FRAC Grand Large, Dunkerque
Forêt, vert fragile, Greenline Foundation, Marseille

2022
Ecran total, Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
Group show, Galerie Le Feuvre & Roze, Paris
Panel Blue, Galerie Dumonteil, Paris
This Land is your Land, Château de Goutelas, Marcoux

2021
L’enfer, Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris Winter Group Show, Galerie Dumonteil, Shanghai (China)
Tropical Drawing Festival, La Réunion Don Papa Art Program, Paris
Les Apparences, A Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde, Perpignan
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Galerie DUMONTEIL, Shanghai, China

2020
Boldness (La Hardiesse), The Fab. & The Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris
Less than thirty years (Moins de trente ans), Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris
Off! , Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
Sunburn (Coup de soleil), Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
Free-exchange (Libre-échange), Camille Claudel Space, Amiens

2019
Gallerists (Galeristes), Galerie Provost-Hacker, Carreau du Temple, Paris
Everything must disappear (Tout doit disparaître), Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille

2018
FIAC, stand of the EDVO
St’Art association, SAAMS stand, Strasbourg
Evidence of the night (L’évidence de la nuit), La Maladrerie, Aubervilliers

2017
Well sent (Bien envoyé), Common Place (Lieu Commun), Metz
Icart Prize 2017: The paradigm of contemporary Nature, Galerie Artasia, Paris
Affordable Art Fair, Bruxelles
Oceans , launch of Cercle Magazine, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg Painting (Peindre), La Plomberie, Épinal

2016
International Painting Prize of November in Vitry (Novembre à Vitry), Vitry-sur-Seine
Take Off, Luxembourg Art Week, with Galerie Bertrand Gillig, Luxembourg
St’Art 2016, with galerie B. Gillig, Contemporary art fair, Strasbourg Panic (Panique), L’Amour, Bagnolet

2015
Contemporary Landscape (Paysage Contemporain), Galerie B. Gillig, Strasbourg

2014
Regionale 15, La Chaufferie, Strasbourg
ST-ART, with galerie B. Gillig, Strasbourg
Identity, École des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Paintings under Glass (Peintures sous verre), Cultural Center, Drusenheim
Diploma exhibition , HEAR, Strasbourg
Open Workshops, Particle Accelerator, Strasbourg

2013
Preview 4, HEAR, Strasbourg
Inventory, HEAR, Strasbourg
Inauguration of the Cultural Center, Drussenheim

2012
Preview 3, HEAR, Strasbourg

2009
Art’Zoo / Ach So , Strasbourg Zoological Museum, Museums Night
PUBLICATIONS

2018
Les Assises du Monde , catalog of the solo exhibition at Galerie Andersen & Associés, Luxembourg. Prefaced by Juliette Fontaine

2014
Namo # 0 , collective publication, Paris

2012
Amazone , publication of a painting

2009
La Madeleine fanzine, Collective publication; text, animation and engraving
 COLLECTIONS 

Collecction of the city of Massy
Collection of the city of Aubervilliers
Collection of agnès b. , la Fab
Collection of the Greenline Fondation

EXHIBITIONS

2024.07.06 – 2024.09.14
DUMONTEIL Shanghai
Bldg 105, 199 Hengshan Road 200031 Shanghai China
2022.07.26 – 2022.08.23
DUMONTEIL Shanghai
2022.02.19 – 2022.03.19
8 rue d'Aboukir 75002 Paris, France
2022.02.19 – 2022.03.19
8 rue d'Aboukir 75002 Paris, France
2021.07.11 – 2021.09.11
DUMONTEIL Shanghai
2021.11.23 – 2022.01.10
Shanghai, China

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