Marie Denis

Marie Denis’ work focuses mainly on the object and how it can be reinvented.
Her installations and sculptures are inspired by botany, which the artist reinterprets through different media, creating artworks in which universal and everyday life elements harmoniously coexist

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lyon, Marie Denis won the residency at Villa Medici in Rome in 1999.
A selection of recent solo and group exhibitions includes: Imprese at Alberta Pane Gallery, Venice (2020);  Métamorphoses du quotidien, at the Maison des Arts Plastiques Rosa Bonheur (Chevilly-Larue, 2020); Le Saule qui chante, Parc Vansteenkiste, (Roncq, 2019);

L’Été photographique de Lectoure, Centre d’art et de photographie de Lectoure (2019); Nature des Profondeurs, solo exhibition at Alberta Pane Gallery (Paris, 2018); L’impermanence at the Fernet-Branca Foundation (Alsace, 2018); De fils ou de fibres at CAC de Meymac (2018); Le Désir, Alberta Pane Gallery (Venice, 2017); L’Herbier de Curiosités at the Centre d’Art et de Nature, Chaumont sur Loire (2017);

She also won numerous national and international awards and scholarships, such as the FNAGP (Fondation National des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, 2015) DRAC Ile de France (2011 and 2005) and the above-mentioned artistic residency program at Villa Medici in Rome.