JOHAN VAN MULLEM

 

Untitled 6, 2022, Acrylic, grass, clay, and mixed media on canvas, 160 x 130 cm © Olivier de Sagazan

OLIVIER DE SAGAZAN

“For those unfamiliar with Olivier de Sagazan’s work, it can appear rather morbid and provocative at first glance. He sees his creations as a way to shake up our conscience and to underline the exceptional character of life.

For our first collaboration with the artist in 2016, we hosted his performance “Transfiguration” as a preamble to his exhibition. It consisted of a one man show, in which a man in a suit arrived on stage and gradually entered into a form of trance to disfigure himself, sometimes vociferating, and used clay and paint to cover his face and body.

This confrontation produced a certain effect on the public. After the performance, I still remember seeing some quasi-bloodless faces amongst our guests. A friend that I met in the crowd also seemed a bit shaken. He was not yet a collector of Sagazan’s works (he would become one later on!), and his stance was rather reserved, not really knowing the nature of the feelings that ran through him. He really had to take the time to digest it, he told me…

As for me, at times I could not escape a sort of amazement from this character, the artist who had suddenly become unknown to me, transforming himself before our eyes. I had a confused feeling, without knowing precisely that something primordial had been elevated from this experience.

And yet, this was not unknown territory. During the preparation of the exhibition, we visited his “workshop-capharnaüm” in Saint Nazaire and discovered a plethora of creations which evoked a strange universe to me. Sculptures, paintings of bodies, and creatures shaped from the earth—a form of reinvented bestiary—were all over the studio…

The first feeling that came to me when my gaze landed on these disemboweled, bruised, flayed bodies, inevitably referred to a mortiferous feeling. Although, something else came to the fore almost immediately: a more poetic reading. Yes, they were damaged bodies, but they were also faces devoid of pain or sadness. His creatures seemed to freeze for eternity. Sagazan’s world was not so disturbing, and the slightly macabre impression from before was largely overcome.

As his next exhibition, Etre Chair, will confirm, after uprooting there is rooting, or at least an attempt to do so. The artist proposes a dialogue between his sculptures and a series of landscapes undertaken during Covid, a time when he felt the need to connect with nature even more strongly. The majority of his landscapes exclude the bodies that he used to include. With the notable exception, however, of a painting representing an undergrowth in which we see, connected, by the roots, a buried body that emerges on the surface.”

– by Bruno Blosse, artistic director of Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris

 

Born in 1959 at Brazzaville in Congo, Olivier de Sagazan lives and works in Saint-Nazaire.

Trained as a biologist, he is interested in the living and, through his pieces, seeks to establish a sort of genealogy of the sensibility. He aims to better understand how, at some point, inert material structured by cells engenders life and sensitivity.

For about 25 years, Olivier de Sagazan’s work has principally revolved around the human body. In parallel with his creations – paintings, sculptures, installations – de Sagazan produces performances, popularly seen by the entire world, during which he utilizes his own body as a mold, with clay and paint as his mediums. Converting his face and body, he manoeuvers through choreographed gestures, alloting for radical metamorphoses.

The artist predominantly uses clay and plants that he gathers and kneads in order to create lifelike material. From these elements, a polymorphic world appears composed of different characters like a bestiary where humans intertwine with animals.

EXHIBITIONS (extracts)

2025

• «Toujours, jamais !» – exhibition, Loo & Lou Gallery, Paris (France)
  «Transfiguration» – performance, Azayah production, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  «De la Sainte-Face à la tête-viande» – exposition & «Transfiguration» – performance, CNN, Namur (Belgium)

2024

• Salon Tout Art – exhibition, Paris (France)
  «La Messe de l’âne» – performance, Ljubljana Puppet Theater, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  «Bosh and Beyond» – exhibition, Kühlhaus, Berlin (Germany)
  «Nos cœurs en terre» – performance with David Wahl, DansFabrick, Brest (France)
  «Il nous est arrivé quelque chose» – performance, La Tangram Scène nationale, Évreux (France)

2023

• «Transfiguration», performance and exhibition, Théâtre de Namur, Namur (Belgium)
  Painting and sculpture exhibition, Galerie Marie Vitoux, Paris (France)
  Workshop, Movement research Project, Sithonie (Greece)
  «Hybridation» – performance, Teatro Calderon, Valladolid (Spain)
  Participation to the film «Orenda» by Pirjo Honkasalo, Tallin (Estonia)

2022

• «Hands do not touch your precious Me» – performance, Cultuur centrum, Hasselt (Belgium) & Brengenz (Autriche) & Naples (Italia) & Luxembourg & Amsterdam (Holland)
• «La Messe de l’Âne» -performance, Espace Georges Sadoul, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (France)
• «Être Chair» – exhibition, Loo & Lou Gallery, Paris (France)

2021

• 06/11/20 at 26/01/2021 Exhibition Centre cultural LES BERNARDES (Girona, Spain)
• 16/01/21 Hands do not touch our precious Me (show with Wim Vandekeybus) Livestream KVS Brussel
• 21/01/2021 Livestream Mime London Festival
• 11-12-13/06 “La Messe de l’Âne” Festival Brigittines Brussel
• 25-26/06 “Transfiguration” FRAC Besançon France
• 4-11/ 07/21 Vive le Sujet Festival Avignon avec David Wahl
• 15-21 Hands do not touch our precious Me KVS Brussel
• 27/07/21 “La Messe de l’Âne”  Biennale Dance in Venice
• 2-3/09/21 Hybridation Unidram festival Postdam Germany
• 5/09/21 Transfiguration Lviv festival Ukraine
• 09/09/21 Hands do not touch our precious Me Rovereto Italy
• 20-21/09/21 “La Messe de l’Âne” Festival mondial des théâtres de marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières
• 25-26/09/21 performance Transfiguration 7th International Festival of Puppet Theater WEITBLICK
• 03/10/21 Hands do not touch our precious Me Ieper Belgium
• 08/10/21 Hands do not touch our precious Me. Ferrara Italy
• 12-13/10 Hands do not touch our precious Me Leuven

2020

• 22-23/01 “Hybridation” Théatre Lliure Barcelone
• 05/02 “Transfiguration” Festival Imaginale Mannheim Germany
• 04/03 “Ainsi sois Moi” (Première) DansFabrik Brest
• 14/03 – “Transfiguration” Weekend Singulier Le lieu Unique, Nantes, France cancelled
• 23-28 /03 Workshop Estonia cancelled
• 11/04 “Transfiguration” FestivalTrente/Trente Sainte France cancelled
• 11-12-13/06 “Ainsi sois Moi” Festival Brigittines Brussel cancelled
• 19/06 “Transfiguration” Figura Theater Festival Baden Swiss cancelled
• 21/06 “Transfiguration” festival Puppen Magdebourg Germany cancelled
• 25,26/06 “Transfiguration” FRAC Besançon France cancelled
• 4-11/ 07 Vive le Sujet Festival Avignon avec David Wahl cancelled
• 05/09 Performance  festival “Kit Gavatovycha“ Lviv Ukraine. cancelled
• 1/10 to 15/11 exhibition Galerie Vitoux Paris
• 10/10 Transfiguration . FIMP’20 Porto
• 30 /10/ 2020, Première : Hands do not touch your precious Me. Teatro Comunale di Ferrara Italy. cancelled
• 5/11 Transfiguration UNIDRAM International Theatre Festival Potsdam cancelled
• 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 / 11 , Hands do not touch your precious Me KVS, Brussels Belgium cancelled
• 15/11. Transfiguration. Le lieu Unique, Nantes, France

2019

• 10-11/01 – Performance, London Mime International Festival, Londres
• 24-25/01 – Workshop, Festival 30/30, Bordeaux, Franc
• 26/01 – Performance Hybridation, Festival 30/30, Bordeaux, France
• 8/03 – Workshop, L’Artère, Lévis, Quebec
• 18/04 – 15/07 – Exhibition, Centre Bellegarde, Toulouse, France
• 18/04 – Performance, Chapelle des Carmélites, Toulouse, France
• 04/05 – Performance, La Fira de Titelles, Lleida, Spain
• 18/05– Performance, Amen&Beyond, Gand, Belgium
• 30-31/05 – Performance, International Puppet Theatre Festival, Erlangen, Germany
• 14/06 -Performance, A Part Festival, Katowice, Poland
• 30/06 Hybridation Full spin Festival Essen Germany
• 24/07 Performance, MIT Ribadavia, Spain
• 27-31/07 – Workshop, Jardin Parallèle, Reims, France
• 01-10/08 – Résidence Corps-Textes, Jardin Parallèle, Reims, France
• 18-20/08 – Performance, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Groningen, NL
• 28/08 Nominated to the Biennale de Venise with ” O” Director Qiu Yang
• 30-31/08 – Performance, Festival International Les Brigittines, Brussel, Belgium
• 9-15/09 – Résidence Corps-Textes, Théâtre MacOrlan, Brest, France
• 17-29/09 – Résidence Corps-Textes, le PALC, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
• 07/10 – Performance, Dance House Lemesos, Cyprus
• 04/11 to 09/01 2020 – Museum of Art in Figueres – Catalonia Exhibition Video « Hybridation »
• 07/11 – Spectacle “Ainsi sois Moi“C, Scène Nationale – Le Théatre, Saint-Nazaire, France
• 17/12, 18/12, 7 pm. Performance “Transfiguration” Serendipity Art Festival Goa INDE

2018

• 27/03 – Performance, Weekend Singulier, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France  
• 14/04 – Performance Transfiguration, Festival Rencontre entre les Mondes, Chabeuil, France  
• 12/05 – Exhibition, Gallery Contemporary Cluster, Rome, Italy
• 19/05 – Performance Transfiguration, Contemporary Cluster, Rome, Italy
• 02/06 – Performance, Puppet Festival – Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
• 27-28/06 – Masterclass, International Forest Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 29/06 – Performance Hybridation and Transfiguration, Theatre of Lazarists Monastery – Forest Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece 
• 09/10 – 11/07 – Masterclass, L’embobineuse, Marseille, France
• 13-14/07 – Performance, Kalamata Dance Festival, Greece
• 01/08 – 12/08 – Actor and performer in a VR movie realised by Qiu Yang, China
• 26/08-02/09 – Residence Corps-Textes, Scène Nationale – Le Théatre, Saint-Nazaire, France
• 07/09 – Performance, Gesture 01″ at the Old Baths, London
• 15/09 – Performance, CERCO, Saragosse, Spain
• 06/10 – Performance Transfiguration, Théâtre Mac Orlan – Festival La Becquée, Brest, France
• 06/11 – 22/12 – Exhibition, Loo and Lou Gallery, Paris, France
• 14-18/11 – Golden Horse festival, VR Film with Qiu Yang, Taipei, Taiwan

2017

• 7/01 – 7/02 – Exhibition, Chapelle Ste Anne, Tours, France   
• 15-17/01 – Performance, Petit Faucheux, Tours, France
• 3/02 – Performance, Festival Allotropique, ESBA, Tours, France
• 7/03 – 14/05 – Exhibition, Ugly as art, Moa,  Seoul, Korea
• 21/04 – Exhibition Etres Chairs, Chapelle des Franciscains, Saint-Nazaire, France
• 28/04 – Performance, Orbis Pictus, Reims, France
• 13/05 – Colloque “Généalogie de la sensibilité” and Performance, Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
• 13/05 – Orlan et Olivier de Sagazan, BP17 Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 10/06 – 9/09 – Exhibition, “La imaginacion del desastre”,  Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 14/06 – Performance, Théâtre de Jérusalem, Israël
• Sept – Fashion Week, Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh offer an exclusive visual insight into Pugh’s S/S 18, London
• 4-15/09 – Actor in the movie “The Mute”, Director Bartosz Konopka, Poland
• 24-28/09 – Performance, Festival Sudaka, Quieto, Ecuador 
• 9/11 – 31/12 – Exhibition, Musée d’art de Kauno, M.Žilinsko galerijoje nuo lapkričio, Lithuania
• 16/11 – 22/12 – Exhibition, Galery Vitoux, Paris, France 

2016

• 2-3/02 – Performance, Musée de la Croix Rouge, Geneva, Switzerland
• 20-25/02 – Masterclass, University of the Art London, Polverigi, Italy
• 26-28/05 – Performance, Chuncheon International Mime Festival, Korea
• 15/06 – Performance, Théâtre Déjazet, avec la Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris, France.
• 17/06 – 30/07 – Exhibition, Loo et Lou Gallery, Paris, France
• 22-26/06 – Masterclass et Performance, Central St Martin, London 
• July – Collaboration as actor in Channel Zero, Winnipeg, Canada
• 16/07 – 16/09 – Exhibition SNACK, Power Station Of Art,  Shanghai, China
• 17/07 – Performance and Masterclass, Power Station Of Art, Shanghai, China
• 12/09 – Performance Transfiguration, Biennale d’art performatif, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
• 16/09 – Performance Transfiguration, Festival Phenomena, Montreal, Canada
• 26, 27, 28/09 – Immersive Room with FKA Twigs, London
• 12/11 – Performance, Biennale, Shanghai
• 18/11 – Performance, Submerge Festival, Bristol, England
• 25/11 – Performance, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany  

Flo Arnold, Installation, papier hydrofuge sur laiton gainé, led, 600 x 340 cm, 2018 © Flo Arnold

FLO ARNOLD

Flo Arnold was born in France and grew up in Casablanca, Morocco. She currently lives and works between Morocco and France. She has had many solo shows in France and abroad, notably at the Marrakesh Biennial in Morocco in 2014 and in 2016, and at the Loo & Lou Gallery in Paris, France in 2018. She also presented with the Loo & Lou Foundation in 2018 the monumental installation Le secret des signes during “Nuit Blanche” at the Church of Saint Paul in Paris, France. Additionally, Arnold participated in several group shows, including ones at the Foundation Pierre Berger and the Institut du Monde Arabe in 2013, at the Musée de la Palmeraie in Marrakesh, Morocco, in 2014, and at the Institut Bernard Magrez, in Bordeaux, France, in 2017, among others.

The crossing of cultures is a key element in her work and has been forged by her many trips through Africa, Europe, and the United States. Her installations display an existential nomadism with artistic gestures that are born from her journeys. In 2016, she participated in the Biennale de Marrakech, where she exhibited her waterproof paper on coated brass installations for the first time at the Musée de la Palmeraie. 

Her creations are often backlit and sometimes supplemented with sound. She uses Japanese white paper to suggest ephemerality and fragility, but also a kind of evanescence emphasized by the appearance of levitation. Arnold’s sculptures indeed appear to be floating, and create a space for contemplation and spirituality. 

“My life is the story of earth and encounters, my identity ‘citizen of the world’. My childhood influenced my artistic research, always in motion, changing countries, houses, cultures. I’ve learned a lot from the people around me.”

In the Loo & Lou Atelier, she installed a piece in situ entitled Vertige du Monde. A germination of organic, backlit paper devoured the space as if it were overgrown vegetation, that was accompanied by a soundtrack. The interior space disappeared under a spotless “waterfall.” With this piece, she emphasized that in order to forget the dizziness of the world around us, we must live in a sphere without borders nor limitations in the search for our inner peace.
More recently, his installation “le sens des mondes” was presented in 2023 at the “Constellations” international festival in Metz.

Collections/Prizes:

Fondation TGCC / Room Mate Collection / First Prize – JustMad2019 / Arts Garden, City of Marrakesh/ Mamda Foundation, Rabat / Saadi Palace, Marrakesh / BMCE BANK, Marocco / Société Générale, Morocco / CNIA Insurance / San Francisco Food Bank / The Royal Palace, Morocco / Palmeraie Museum, Marrakesh

EXHIBITIONS

2023
Mon Maroc “Je croyais rêver”, E. Delacroix, Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris, France
Constellations, Art & Jardins, Portes des Allemands, Metz, France
Fondation TGCC, Casablanca, Morocco
Abla Ababou Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
2022
Abcynth Gallery, Lille, France
Palm beach Modern + Contemporain, Bogena Gallery, Miami, United States of America
International Paper Art Biennial, Haacht, Belgium
Art Fair, Aquilaluna Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021
Château de Montaigu, 6 weekends d’Art Contemporain, Nancy, France
Bogena Gallery, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Thema Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Aquilaluna Gallery, Dalhem, Belgium
Christine Colon Gallery, Liège, Belgium
Abla Ababou Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
2020
ARTPARIS Bogena Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Art Fair JustMad, Loo&Lou Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Les Nébuleuses, Mairie de Guyancourt, France
2019
La Transparence des Choses, Le Prieuré de Pont Loup, Moret sur Loing, France
ARTPARIS, Grand Palais, Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris, France
La bel FRICHE Gallery, Nogent-le-Rotrou, France
Art Fair JustMad, Loo&Lou Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2018
Galerie Noir sur Blanc, Marrakech, Morocco
Nuit Blanche, Fondation Loo&Lou/Mairie de Paris, Paris, France
Loo&Lou Gallery, L’Atelier, Paris, France
Le Clos des Cimaises, St Georges du Bois, France
Abla Ababou Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
Organic, Aquilaluna Gallery, Knokke le Zoute, Belgium
2017
Exhibition, 6.4 Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco.
Macparis, group exhibition, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France
Un pas de côté, group exhibition, Église des Célestins, Avignon, France.
Never Give Up, group exhibition, Institut Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France.
Effleurage, group exhibition, space Souffle, Casablanca, Morocco.
2016
Les instants vidéo. État d’urgence poétique, Friche la belle de mai, Marseille, France.
No boundaries, 29 Gallery, Évian, France.
Biennale de Marrakech, Musée de la Palmeraie, Marrakech, Morocco.
Guest of honor, group exhibition, Fauv’Art, Ferney Voltaire, France.
Group exhibition, Arielle d’Hauterives Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium.
2015
Songe de matières, exposition de sculptures, Espace Expressions CDG Gallery, Rabat, Morocco. 
2014
Biennale de Marrakech, Yahin & Boaz Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco.
Insoumission, Musée de la Palmeraie, 2ème forum international des droits de l’homme, Marrakech, Morocco.
Pop Up, Vogelsang Gallery, New York, United-States of America.
2013
Exhibition, Saint James Gallery, Bordeaux, France.
SYRIART, Fondation Pierre Berger, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France.
2012
Noir sur Blanc Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco.
2011
Loft Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
Biennale de Marrakech, Marie Vitoux Gallery, Paris, France
2010
Biennale de Marrakech, Loft Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
2009
Exhibition, Loft Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.

FLO ARNOLD

Vertige du Monde
Exhibition from 26.04.18 to 09.06.18
VIDEO : Footage of exhibition, Vertige du Monde

Collision, huile sur toile, 146 x 114 cm, 2018, © Christophe Miralles

Christophe Miralles

Christophe Miralles is a Franco-Spanish artist who lives and works between Burgundy and Casablanca. He has received many prizes such as the Azart Prize in 2005. His work has been the subject of numerous monographic exhibitions in France and abroad, integrating various collections.

From his roots in Morocco, one can note the influences that resonate between the two shores of the Mediterranean, which never cease to collide with one another. Undoubtedly, Spanish painting from the Golden Age has sealed his relationship with light.

Human figures suspended in the air haunt his canvases, inducing feelings of worry mixed with a certain nostalgia. The combination of simplified forms and subtle nuances in colors allows him to give a timeless aspect to his paintings, where the material is the main subject.

Miralles creates oil and lacquer paintings on paper and canvas. He brought together a series of paintings for an exhibition at Loo & Lou gallery entitled Territoire Unique in April 2018. His work is based on themes of humanity, travel, and tolerance. Colors burn through his canvases, engorging them in flames, with the ashes slowly falling on his large, black papers. He is a painter anchored in contemporary society, a territory that he hopes is unique for each person.

Prix:

Grand prix Claire Combes, Fondation Taylor / Grand prix Azart / Prix Charles Oulmont – Mention du jury

EXHIBITIONS

2023
Mon Maroc “Je croyais rêver”, E. Delacroix, Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris, France
Ories Gallery, Lyon, France
Point Rouge Gallery, Saint Rémy de Provence, France
2022
Art Fair JUSTMAD Madrid avec Loo&Lou Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2021
Aquilaluna Gallery, Dalhem, Belgium
Crid’Art Gallery, Metz, France
2020
Marie Vitoux Gallery, Paris, France
2019
Noir sur Blanc Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
Le Prieuré de Pont Loup, Moret sur Loing, France
Art Fair JUSTMAD Madrid avec Loo&Lou Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2018
Thema Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Danielle Bourdette Gallery, Honfleur, France
Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris, France
Le Clos des Cimaises Gallery, St Georges du Bois, France
Crid’Art Gallery, Metz, France
2017
Effleurage, Espace souffle, Casablanca, Morocco.
Group exhibition, Thema Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
2016
Exhibition, Marie Vitoux Gallery, Paris, France.
Exhibition, Bresson Gallery, Béziers, France.
Exhibition, Collection (1.0), Charnay, France.
Biennale de Marrakech, BAB, Marrakech, Morocco.
Prix Tony Tollet, group exhibition, Ecully, France.
Biennale de Cachan, Cachan, France.
Group exhibition, Contemporary art center, Serviès en Val, France.
Group exhibition, Dar El Kitab Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
Group exhibition, Soart Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
2015
Exhibition, Melting Art Gallery, Lille, France.
Art up, contemporary art  fair , Lille, France.
Group exhibition, Chantal Mélanson Gallery, Annecy, France.
Group exhibition, Dar El Kitab Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
Group exhibition, Egregore Gallery, Marmande, France.
BAB draw, Gueliz, Marrakech, Morocco.
Group exhibition, Crid’Art Gallery, Metz, France.
2014
Exhibition, Marie Vitoux Gallery, Paris, France.
Exhibition, Christine Colon Gallery, Liège, Belgium.
Exhibition with Flo Arnold, space Chapelle Saint Avoye, La Clayette, France.
Biennale de Marrakech, Yakin&Boaz Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco.
Insoumission, Musée de la Palmeraie, Marrakech, Marco.
Group exhibition, Danielle Bourdette Gallery, Honfleur, France.
Group exhibition, Martine Ehmer Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Group exhibition, Dar El Kitab Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
Biennale de Marrakech with the Yakin&Boaz Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco.
Genèse, group exhibition, Fondation Taylor, Association Rémanence, Paris, France.
2013
Les Arts en balade, guest of honor, Chapelle de l’Hôpital, Clermont Ferrand, France.
Exhibition, St James, Bordeaux Gallery, France.
Palindrome, exhibition with Florence Arnold, Yakin&Boaz Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco.
2012
Exhibition, Marie Vitoux Gallery, Paris, France.
Exhibition, Didier Bresson Gallery, Béziers, France.
Exhibition, Danielle Bourdette Gallery, Honfleur, France.
Exhibition, Le Soleil sur la plage Gallery, Lyon, France.
Exhibition, Le Clos des Cimaises Gallery, St Georges du Bois, France.

Lydie Arickx

Lydie Arickx is a painter and a sculptor who was born in 1954 in France from Flemish parents.

After graduating in 1978 from the École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques de Paris (ESAG), she had her first solo exhibition of pastels and oil paintings in 1979 at Jean Briance Gallery. Since the beginning of the 1980s, she has participated in international events such as Art Basel, FIAC, and Art Paris. In 1988, she presented her work in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States with a group exhibition at Amaury Taittinger in New York in which her work was presented alongside pieces by Francis Bacon. In 1991, she moved to Landes and worked on large forms and pursued the creation of monumental sculptures. In 1999, for the 800th anniversary of the Jurade of Saint Émilion, Arickx presented a double personal exhibition in the cloister of the Monolithic Church. Arickx regularly organizes cultural events in theaters, such as the Art Sénat 2001, which meshes contemporary art and live performance, while also hosting creative workshops for schools and businesses.

Arickx’s pieces have been incorporated into major international public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Pompidou Center, Palais de Tokyo, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, as well as in public spaces such as the Paul-Brousse Hospital, the Intercommunal Hospital Center of Créteil, the IUFM of Mont-de-Marsan, the MACS Saint-Vincent-de-Tyronne, and a fresco for the commemoration of the centenary of the arenas of Dax in 2013. Arickx’s studio is a source for experimentation, where she likes to share with all audiences. 

In 2014, she published her first book, Nous vivons, with Diabase editions. In May 2015, Arickx filled the city of Roubaix with four large exhibitions that paid homage to her family roots, one of which was at the Piscine, a museum for art and industry, with a monumental fresco that measured up to 200 meters long. The following year, filled with experience from Roubaix, Arickx was invited by the Center of National Monuments to create two monumental performances with one exhibition in the room for the Gens d’armes at the Conciergerie in Paris and one installation at the Expiatory Chapel. In 2017, for her first collaboration with Loo & Lou, she exposed her work during the exhibition “Gravité,” which took over the gallery’s three spaces. In 2018, she participated the exhibition, Tant qu’il y aura des Ogres, which included more than 500 works around the theme of the fairytale. Later, in 2019, she exhibited work alongside Niki de Saint Phalle and other female artists for  « Créatrices – L’émancipation par l’art », which was held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Rennes.

Her exhibition Arborescences was on view at the National Domain of Chambord, another architectural and historical gem, in 2021. Arickx used different themed rooms to transform the architecture of this historic monument with a transfigured vision of living beings. For more information, please click here.