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Artist
Claire Chesnier
Claire Chesnier
Artist
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Claire Chesnier
Artist
Born in 1986, in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Lives and works in Paris, France.
Claire Chesnier first encountered art through music and writing, which she practiced very early on. She devotes nearly twenty years to classical and contemporary dance, which she sees as a way to be at one with the music. Painting, which she has practiced since the beginning, is the decisive encounter experienced as an extension of the writing gesture and the incarnation of an extended dance gesture. Her commitment to painting is turned towards a physical and poetic relationship with the world, of apprehension of touch, and of the sensitive entanglement of things, of life. For her, "painting is a story of touch, of how to touch and be touched. She arrives where words fail by tactility and rhythm".
Public collections (selection)
Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris,
France
CNAP, Paris, France
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Musée Paul Dini, Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
agnès b. - La Fab’, Paris, France
Fondation François Schneider, Fondation de France,
Wattwiller, France
MACVAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Banque de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Yishu 8 Maison des Arts, Beijing, China
Art Collector, Paris, France
CCNOA Collective Collection, Belgium
Bibliography (selection)
2025 - Claire Chesnier, monograph, text : Maylis de
Kerangal, Pierre Wat, Molly Warnock, Claire Chesnier, Ed.
JBE Books, Paris, France
2023 - Claire Chesnier - Les Jours, Semaine 03.23, dir.
Philippe Piguet, chapelle de la Visitation, Thonon-les-
Bains, France
2020 - Claire Chesnier, Le ciel aussi est un fracas,
text : Karim Ghaddab, Ed. Galerie ETC, Paris, France
Major personal exhibitions
2026
Japan
The wind left in my hand, Ceysson & Bénétière, Tokyo,
2025
Une éclaircie à la verticale, curated by Isabelle Reiher,
Marine Rochard, CCC OD, Tours, France
2024
Un rose, une rosée, un couchant, text : Maylis de
Kerangal, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
2023
Les Jours, curated by Philippe Piguet, Chapelle de la
Visitation, Centre d’Art de Thonon-les-Bains, France
2021
Par espacements et par apparitions, text : Pierre Wat,
l’Ahah, Paris, France
2020
Le ciel aussi est un fracas, curated by Karim Ghaddab,
Galerie ETC, Paris, France
2019
L’Art dans les chapelles, curated by Eric Suchère,
Chapelle Trinité Castennec Bieuzy, France
2018
Fragments d’une déposition, Espace Commines, Paris,
France
2016
Résonances, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France
2014
L’aire des aurores, commissariat : Léa Bismuth, le Patio,
Paris, France
2013
Résonance, Yishu 8 Maison des Arts, Beijing, China
Major collective exhibitions
2025-2026
Dans le flou, une autre vision de l'art de 1945 à nos jours,
curated by Claire Bernardi, Emilia Philippot Musée de
l’Orangerie, Paris, France, travelling exhibition :
CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain, and CaixaForum, Barcelone,
Spain
2024
Le jour des peintres, curated by Thomas Gausserand &
Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Les Lois de l’imaginaire, curated by Laure Forlay, Musée
d’Art et d’Archéologie - FRAC Auvergne, Aurillac, France
2023
Le Toucher du monde, curated by Sylvie Carlier, Laure
Forlay, Jean-Charles Vergne, Musée Paul Dini,
Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
Beautés, curated by Jean-Charles Vergne, FRAC
Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Dialogue avec les Collections du Musée Guimet, curated
by Sophie Makariou & Henry-Claude Cousseau, Musée
Guimet, Paris, France
2020
Regards hors champ et paysages, curated by Jean de
Loisy, Collection agnès b., La Fab’, Paris, France
