Caroline Rennequin

Colour, rhythm and presence

Caroline Rennequin, born in 1970, lives and works in Paris.

A graduate of École Estienne (1988), Duperré (1990) and Les Arts Décoratifs (1993), she has pursued in parallel with her artistic practice a career as artistic director and set designer for fashion and luxury houses, creating all the décor for shop windows and stores, sculptures, furniture, paintings and wall drawings.

Alongside this professional work, she develops a personal multidisciplinary practice in which questions of otherness, intimacy and femininity hold a central place, alongside the relationships between craft, popular culture, non-Western art and contemporary art. Her gouaches and abstract compositions are built up in layers, gestures and colours: the floral, vegetal or organic forms become free presences, decorative, sensitive and deeply contemporary.

In 2020 she completed That's All Folks!, a series of 301 gouaches on paper around the universal motif of the flower, a long-form work that condenses her relationship to colour, rhythm and repetition.

Career

• 1992–1998Artistic Director, Isabel Marant
• 1998–2007Artistic Director and art set design, Annick Goutal
• 2006–2016Creativity teacher and international fine-arts competitions, Atelier de Sèvres
• 2007–2024Artistic Director and art set design, Jérôme Dreyfuss (Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Seoul)

Collaborations

• 2026Launch of the Caroline Rennequin & Schumacher collaboration on 10 September in Paris – 9 rue Jacob, 75006

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2026A wild exhibition of wild flowers, POP UP Gallery by Homebody, 2601 E. 3rd Ave, Denver, CO 80206 USA, 22 October – 22 November 2026
• 2026Artist residency, Six Senses Ibiza, 25 April – 25 September 2026 (opening 16 May)
• 2026Palms, Phoenix, Noran Gallery, Marrakech, 10 April – present
• 2025règne(s), Galerie Desprez Bréhéret, Paris
• 2025Palmier, Galería Tambien, Ibiza
• 2025Piz Puls, St. Moritz
• 2023Milky Way's Flowers, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver
• 2022Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris
• 2017The House of Bonnard, Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet
• 2014Cheptel des vanités, Galerie Deyrolle, Paris
• 2012Transformation, Galerie Dupin, Paris

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2026La fine Fleur, Private Choice, Paris
• 2025Constellation of Talents, Private Choice, Paris
• 2025We Don't Hate Flowers, CA Contemporary Gallery, Vienna
• 2025Design Shanghai Fair × Monokeros Gallery
• 2024Étincelles du regard / Rayonnement, Private Choice, Paris
• 2024Collectible Design Fair, New York
• 2024Passé Simple Gallery, Knokke-le-Zoute
• 2019Personal Ethnology, Biennale de Paname, Paris
• 2018Feminine Interior, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• 2016Drawing in all its forms, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
• 2010Circuit Céramique (Vanités), Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Publications

• 2026Palmier Phoenix, Éditions Klincksieck × The Drawer, L.A.C. series
• —JOIE, The Drawer (texts by Yves Michaud and Émilie Oveare-Corthay)
• —Les Pionnières, Éditions El Viso (texts by Yves Michaud, photography by Catherine Panchout) — on the cover

Exhibitions, collections and publications — 2010–2026

• 2026Solo exhibition of paintings and textiles, A wild exhibition of wild flowers, POP UP Gallery by HomebodyDenver, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• 2026Group exhibition of paintings, Gallery Passé Simple, Knokke, Belgium.
• 2026Solo exhibition and artist residency: paintings, creation of a wall fresco and presentation of one-of-a-kind furniture, Spirit of Ecstasy, at the farm of Six Senses Hotel, Ibiza, Spain.
• 2026Solo exhibition of paintings, Palmier, Phoenix, Galerie Noran, Marrakech, Morocco.
• 2026Group exhibition of paintings, La fine fleur, Galerie Private Choice, Paris.
• 2025Solo exhibition of paintings and presentation of one-of-a-kind furniture, Phoenix, Palms, Galeria Tambien, Ibiza, Spain.
• 2025Group exhibition of paintings, Flowers, C.A Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
• 2025Solo exhibition of paintings and creation of a wall fresco, Gallery Passé Simple, Knokke, Belgium.
• 2025Contribution to the book Les nouvelles pionnières, about a new generation of women artists, by Yves Michaud, published by El Viso.
• 2025Works acquired for the Hermès art foundation collection and exhibited at Hermès, Beverly Hills, USA.
• 2024Creation of the monograph JOIE, published by The Drawer.
• 2024Group exhibition of paintings and presentation of one-of-a-kind furniture, Galerie Private Choice, Paris.
• 2024Solo exhibition of paintings and presentation of one-of-a-kind furniture, JOIE, Gallery Passé Simple, Knokke, Belgium.
• 2024Group exhibition of contemporary design, Collectible, New York. Presentation of one-of-a-kind furniture.
• 2024Group exhibition of paintings, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris.
• 2024Entry into the French national collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 2023Solo exhibition of paintings, Galeria Tambien, Ibiza, Spain.
• 2023Solo exhibition of paintings, Ginny Williams Gallery by HomebodyDenver, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• 2023Group exhibition of paintings at the Drawing Now art fair with Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris.
• 2022Solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris.
• 2022Group exhibition of paintings, That’s all folks, Galerie Vallois, Paris.
• 2021Solo exhibition of paintings, Galeria Tambien, Ibiza, Spain.
• 2021Creation of the monograph That’s all Folks, published by The Drawer. Book launch and signing at the Yvon Lambert gallery-bookstore, Paris.
• 2019Group exhibition of paintings, Biennale de Paname, Paris.
• 2019Group exhibition of paintings, Print Fighters, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2018Group exhibition of sculptures, Salon d’esthétique, Palais de Tokyo.
• 2017Solo photography exhibition, La maison de Bonnard, Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet.
• 2016Group exhibition of paintings, Le dessin sous toutes ses formes, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris.
• 2014Solo exhibition of sculptures, Cheptel des vanités, Galerie Deyrolle, rue du Bac, Paris.
• 2010Group exhibition of sculptures, Circuit céramique, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

Presented at Noran Gallery with the exhibition Palms, Phoenix, her painting dialogues with the light of Marrakech, the materials of the gallery and the energy of the place.