BRUNO GADENNE
‘Bruno Gadenne (b. 1990) is a globe-trotter, a traveller. He’s driven by a strong desire to experiment and verify the beauty of the world. The one of the primordial landscapes, the jungle, the primary forest and other remote lands. A contemporary romantic attitude through which he collects, in notebooks and in his memory, reminiscences and ‘’dreamings of a solitary wanderer’’ that he brings back to the studio.
These landscapes, which the painter’s body has crossed, are transcribed on the canvas from pictures the artist took himself and then digitally transformed. The image processing creates a subtle distorsion of the light, a strange feeling allied to a still intact wonderment. (Juliette Fontaine, Les assises du Monde)
After studying at Sèvres (FR) and Boston( USA), Bruno Gadenne got his master of fine arts in 2014 at the HEAR, Strasbourg (formerly École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg). The same year, he has his first solo show with the gallery Bertrand Gillig in Strasbourg. Highlighted by the exhibitions of the Prix International de Peinture Novembre à Vitry in 2016 and the Icart Prize 2017, Bruno Gadenne is the 2018 laureate of the Théophile Schuler Prize. In 2019, after being the guest of honor at the Salon des Artistes de Massy, he has his first solo show in the USA, at the agnès b. gallery in New-York City. Self organized backpacking residencies around the world are the basis of his landscape paintings, making small plein air gouache paintings on site, deep in the jungle, and larger oil paintings back in his studio in Paris.
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El Dorado, 2025 -
Iridescence, 2025
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L'Étoile, 2025
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La Boue, 2025
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Le Baron, 2023
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Les Palmes d'Or, 2023
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Therianthropie II, 2022
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L'Aveugle, 2020
BRUNO GADENNE
Born in 1990
CURRICULUM & AWARDS
2026 - Residency Le Collectif BLAST, Angers
2020-25 - 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
SOLO SHOWS (selected)
2026 - Le sommeil des coraux, Le PAD, Angers
2025 - Eldorado, Galerie Prima, Paris
2024 - Saltwater Skies , Dumonteil Gallery, Shanghai (Chine)
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 (Chine)
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
GROUP SHOWS (selected)
2026 - Peinture !, Galerie Robet Dantec, Nantes
2025 - With My Body, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva (Switzerland)
Summer Show, Galerie Robet Dantec, Nantes
Sous la main, le monde, Galerie Robet Dantec, Nantes
Flight , Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget
Géologie, Maison des Arts, Antony
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 (Chine)
Tropical Drawing Festival, La Réunion
Don Papa Art Program, Paris
Les Apparences, A Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde, Perpignan
A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Galerie Dumonteil, Shanghaï (Chine)
SUPERNATURE, Chapelle XIV, Paris
Springtime, Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
Lisières, Poush Manifesto, Paris
2020 - Regards hors-champs et paysages, La Fab, Paris
Moins de trente ans !!, galerie du jour agnès b., Paris
Emergence #2, des mondes perdus, Galerie Robet Dantec, Belfort
Coup de soleil, Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
Exposition OFF, Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
La Hardiesse, la Fab. & La Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris
Libre-échange, Espace Camille Claudel, Amiens
2019 - Carte Blanche to Sous les Pavés, les Arbres, Ferme Mézier, Aubervilliers
Tout doit disparaître, Galerie Provost-Hacker, Lille
2018 - L’évidence de la nuit, La Maladrerie, Aubervilliers
COLLECTIONS
City of Kremlin-Bicêtre
City of Massy
City of Aubervilliers
Collection of Agnès b. , la Fab
Collection of the Greenline Fondation
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Nature Fiction
Bruno GadenneVirginie Bertrand, Vivre Coté Paris, September 3, 2025
