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Raphaëlle Bertran
b. 1992
About
Raphaëlle Bertran Pinheiro deploys her technique on large formats. Her pictorial universe is rich in references to philosophy (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Maurice Blanchot, Heidegger...), literature (Georges Bataille, Fondane...) and art history. Her compositions appear as a condensed version of human history, a universe where absurdity, terror and the force of life come together as a highly topical reflection of the world, a topicality restored from the material of the past.
Raphaëlle holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Art from Paris IV (2015) and a DNSAP from the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2020). Raphaëlle’s paintings have notably been exhibited at the Grande Halle de la Villette, the Collection Société Générale and at POUSH in an exhibition curated by Chiara Parisi, director of the Centre Pompidou Metz. In 2021, she wins the Alberic Rocheron painting prize. In 2022, she won first prize for painting in the 25th edition of the Prix Antoine Marin, awarded by a jury that included painter David Hockney and gallerist Kamel Mennour, and also won the Prix Carré sur Seine in the same year. The Collection Société Générale also acquired one of her paintings in 2022. In May 2023, she had her first solo exhibition at Galerie Isabelle Gounod, and two of her works joined the Emerige collection. Raphaëlle Bertran is the winner of the Darmo Art Prize 2024 and received her first solo exhibition with Darmo in March 2025.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025
"Stèles & Berceaux", Darmo, Paris, FR
2023
"Cent Soleils," Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris, FR
Group Exhibitions
2025
"Marc Desgrandchamps et ses amis", Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig, DE
"Reimagined Past", Raphaëlle Bertran and Kuldeep Singh, MINT Gallery, Munich, DE
2024
"Darmo Art Prize 2024", Darmo, Paris, FR
"Episode 1," 172 rue de Rivoli, Paris, curated by Carlota de Torregrosa, FR
2023
"20," Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris 75003.
"L'eau et le diamant," Collection Société Générale, Puteaux 92800, curated by Lauranne Germond (Director of COAL), FR
"La Casa," Poush Aubervilliers 93300, curated by Chiara Parisi, Yvannoé Kruger, Carré sur Seine, FR
2022
"ELLE(S)," Galerie LOFT, Paris, FR
"Veines d’Opale," Espace Voltaire, Paris, curated by Paulo Iverno, FR
"100% L'EXPO," Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, curated by Inès Geoffroy, FR
"Pleins Feux," La Chapelle de Clairefontaine, curated by Léa Hodencq, FR
"Duo Show," Galerie LOFT, Paris, FR
"L’Huile sur le Feu," Le Consulat Voltaire, Paris, curated by Anne Bourrassé, FR
"There Will Never Be A Beautiful Suicide," Pal Project, Paris, curated by Andy Rankin, FR
"The Future in a Fossil," Medusa offspace, Brussels, curated by Medusa, BE
2021
"À première vue," Galerie LOFT, Paris, FR
"Une oeuvre chez soi," L’Artothèque de Pantin and the CNAP, FR
2020
"DNSAP - Soleils," École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
2018
"Prize of the Friends of the Beaux-arts," École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
"DNAP - TRAGEDIES / Alcohol, Crashes and Burning Houses," École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
Awards & Residencies
2023
Friends of the Beaux-Arts of Paris Scholarship, Preselected.
2022
First Prize, 25th edition of the Antoine Marin Award.
Société Générale Collection Award (entry into the collection).
Carré sur Seine Award.
2021
Alberic Rocheron Painting Award.
Salomon Foundation Residency Award, Preselected, Villa Belleville, Paris 75020.
The Consulate Voltaire, Paris 75011.
Education
2020
DNSAP, Marc Desgrandchamps Studio, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
2019
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Hamburg.
2018
DNAP, Dominique Gauthier Studio, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
2015
Master 2 in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Sorbonne Paris IV.
2010-2013
Literary preparatory class, Lycée Condorcet, Paris 9th.
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