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)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2026Artist residency, Six Senses Ibiza, 25 April – 25 September 2026 (opening 16 May)
• 2026Palms, Phoenix, Noran Gallery, Marrakech, 10 April – 15 June 2026
• 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

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.