{"id":23022,"date":"2023-02-02T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/?p=23022"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:16:44","slug":"caroline-achaintre-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/caroline-achaintre-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Achaintre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Caroline Achaintre, Gobbler, 2025, Art Basel Unlimited, 2025. Photo: Andreas Zimmermann. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Art : Concept, and von Bartha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Caroline Achaintre
Solo exhibition SHAPESHIFTER, 2025. Photos exhibition views K\u00fcnstlerhaus Marktoberdorf: Nikolaus Steglich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Seeker, 2024
hand tufted wool
250 \u00d7 167 cm (98 \u215c \u00d7 65 \u00be inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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GUMS, 2024
hand tufted wool
300 \u00d7 150 cm (118 \u215b \u00d7 59 inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ installation view. Caroline Achaintre – Her Hare, 2023. Visual, Carlow\/IRL. Photography by Ros Kavanagh, Courtesy of the artist and VISUAL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ installation view. Caroline Achaintre – Her Hare, 2023. Visual, Carlow\/IRL. Photography by Ros Kavanagh, Courtesy of the artist and VISUAL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view L’Ile int\u00e9rieure, Villa Carmignac, Ile de Porquerolles, 2023. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo : Nicolas Brasseur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view, Earth Spells Witches of the Anthropocene at RAMM, Exeter, 2023.
Caroline Achaintre, Ghost Duck, 2020. Laine tuft\u00e9e \u00e0 la main \/ Hand tufted wool, 240 \u00d7 205 cm (94 \u00bd \u00d7 80 \u00be in)
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view, Caroline Achaintre, Shiftings, 2022, Centre d’art Pasquart, Biel\/CH. Photo Stefan Rohner. Courtesy the artist; Arcade, London; Art: Concept, Paris. Collection Neues Museum-Staatliches Museum f\u00fcr Kunst und Design, N\u00fcrnberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view, Caroline Achaintre, Shiftings, 2022, Centre d’art Pasquart, Biel\/CH. Photo Stefan Rohner. Courtesy the artist and Art: Concept, Paris. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hocus Locus, 2018
hand tufted wool
235 \u00d7 273 cm (92 \u00bd \u00d7 107 \u00bd inches). Collection CAPC Mus\u00e9e d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inhibitor, 2020
hand tufted wool
266 \u00d7 208 cm (104 \u00be \u00d7 81 \u215e inches)
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Birdsssss, 2013. Laine tuft\u00e9e \u00e0 la main \/ Hand tufted wool. 500 \u00d7 390 cm (196 \u215e \u00d7 153 \u00bd inches)
Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Doug Atfield. Collection Frac-Artoth\u00e8que Nouvelle-Aquitaine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cape Count, 2018. Laine tuft\u00e9e \u00e0 la main \/ Hand tufted wool. 290 \u00d7 244 cm (114 \u215b \u00d7 96 \u215b inches).
Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris. Photo Rob Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Derma D<\/em>, 2020, ceramic (porcelain), 13 3\/8 \u00d7 26 3\/4 \u00d7 3 7\/8 in. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Caroline Achaintre, Elm, 2021. C\u00e9ramique\/terre cuite. Ceramic \/ terracota. 63 \u00d7 26 \u00d7 22 cm. Collection Fondation Villa Datris. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Romain Darnaud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Slacks<\/em>, 2020, porcelaine, 35 x 45 x 36 cm. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Caroline Achaintre, Severine, 2018 c\u00e9ramique \/ ceramics. 26,04 \u00d7 40,01 \u00d7 35,88 cm (10 \u00bc \u00d7 15 \u00be \u00d7 14 \u215b in). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Claire Dorn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hyena, 2021. Watercolour and ink on paper, 14 \u00d7 10 in. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Major strike<\/em>, 2021, watercolour and ink on paper, 14 \u00d7 10 in. Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view Caroline Achaintre. Shiftings, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg 2021, Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris, Photo by Wynrich Zlomke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view Caroline Achaintre. Shiftings, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg 2021, Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris, Photo by Wynrich Zlomke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition, Vue Liquide, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, 2020. Photo: Laetizia Debain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition, Vue Liquide, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, 2020. Photo: Laetizia Debain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Permanente, Fondazione Giuliani, May – October 2020. Photo: Giorgio Benni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Permanente, Installation view, Fondazione Giuliani, May – October 2020. Photo: Giorgio Benni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view Caroline Achaintre. “Dauerwelle”, 2019 Foto: kunst-dokumentation.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez; \u00a9 Belvedere, Wien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Ca roline Achaintre, permanente, Capc Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2020. Photo: Arthur P\u00e9quin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view,, Caroline Achaintre, 2016. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
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Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Born in France in 1969, raised in Germany and based in England, Caroline Achaintre attended the Kunsthochschule in Halle, then the Chelsea College of Art and Design, and the Goldsmiths University of London. The artist is nourished by multiple and radically different cultural references that influence her approach. With her sculptures made of wool, ceramic and with her watercolours, the artist appropriates each space to install her hybrid creatures, transforming the exhibition space into a theater where a dialogue between different characters half-fantastic, half-ghostly can take place. Inspired at once by European carnivals, primitivism, German Expressionism and science fiction, Caroline Achaintre\u2019s work on the one hand evokes the possible coexistence of several characters within a same being as well as the tensions generated by duality. No precise indication is given as to how to approach the work of Achaintre. We see in turn a mask, a garment, an animal\u2026 Her works have the particular feature of being difficult to define. At once abstract and figurative, they reveal anthropomorphic forms and indicate a particular interest for animism. The mutation of forms and the plurality of possible interpretations engage the mind and the whim of the viewer. This is the strength of Caroline Achaintre\u2019s work: to question our own capacity to be in the world as individuals defined by complex and multiple identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work is part of numerous public collections among which: CAPC, Bordeaux\/FR; Tate Britain, Londres\/UK; Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected solo exhibitions: K\u00fcnstlerhaus Markoberdorf \/DE (2025), Visual, Carlow\/IR, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz\/DE, Neues Museum, N\u00fcrnberg\/DE (2023); Centre d’art Pasquart\/CH (2022); Kunstmuseum Ravensburg\/DE (2021); CAPC, Bordeaux\/FR (2020), MO.CO., Montpellier\/FR (2019); Belvedere 21, Vienna\/AU (2019); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea\/UK (2018); FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims\/FR (2017); BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead\/UK (2016); Tate Britain, London\/UK (2015); Castello di Rivoli, Turin\/IT (2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the gallery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n