Architecture
Unity
Union
Human Being
Variation
Block
Large-scale sculptures
Forms
Composition
Structure
Biography
Originally from Lille, Delphine Brabant (1964) comes from a family of artists. She began sculpting very early and was a student of Jean-Marc Lange in the 1990’s. She now lives and works in the Parisian region.
Her apprenticeship first revolved around modelling live models. Therefore, still attached to the representation of the human face, Delphine Brabant began researching notions of groups and verticality. She started shaping sculptures with ascending ‘forests of human beings’
Still inspired by verticality and looking for an ascending momentum, the artist slowly moved away from figuration to focus on clean geometrical forms, this time letting the image of an edifice appear. Now guided by the concept of construction, Delphine Brabant creates her sculptures in an architectural way by assembling and imbricating numerous forms with simple lines.
Whilst searching for a harmonious composition in an almost obsessive way, Delphine Brabant was somehow taken by the contradiction of forces. Her sculptures search the alternation between full and empty, strength and fragility as well as precarious stability and rigorous sensitivity.
Delphine Brabant shapes various materials, either noble and sustainable, or raw and diverted. The artist works with bronze, steel, concrete, plaster and clay but also stone and wood.
Though she appreciates the rigour of direct shaping, the surprises that the harshness of the wood reveal, the colour of the plaster and the modelling of the earth, the artist likes above all thematerial itself, and transforming it into geometrical and architectural constructions.
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Solo exhibitions
- 2017 – Solo show, Agence Varenne (Paris, France)
- 2016 – Duo show: Delphine Brabant and Michel Bocart at Lazarew Galerie (Bruxelles, France)
- 2015 – Retrospective exhibition in La Celle-Saint-Cloud City Hall (La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France)
- 2014 – Solo show at the Caroline Tresca Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2014 – Solo show at the Tableau d’Honneur Gallery (Saint-Cloud, France)
- 2013 – Solo show at the Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2012 – Solo show at La Celle-Saint-Cloud City Hall (La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France)
- 2012 – Solo show at the Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2009 – Solo show at the Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2008 – Solo show at the Villa Emile Augier (Croissy-sur-Seine, France)
- 2008 – Solo show at La Celle-Saint-Cloud City Hall (La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France)
- 2006 – Solo show at the Emeraude Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
Group exhibitions
- 2025 – Group Show, Estelle Lebas Gallery, Moderne Art Fair (Paris, France)
- 2022 – Present at Art Up Lille, art fair (Lille, France)
- 2019 – Group show at Maison Archik (Marseille, France)
- 2017 – Le 5ème mur, group show, Galerie Exit Art Contemporain (Paris, France)
- 2016/2017 – Group show: Abstract affinities / I II III – IV V (carte blanche to the architect Alain Demarquette) at Wagner Gallery (Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France)
- 2016 – Galerie Exit Art contemporain (Boulogne, France)
- 2016 – Wagner Gallery, Art Paris Art Fair (Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France)
- 2016 – The Stackers, Concept Store (Paris, France)
- 2015 – Salon Réalités Nouvelle at the Parc Floral de Paris (Paris, France)
- 2015 – Paris Artistes, Hôtel de Ville Paris 9ème (Paris, France)
- 2015 – Group show: “Paragone”, Galerie Exit art contemporain (Boulogne Billancourt, France)
- 2015 – Group show at Le Cadre Gallery (Hong-Kong, China)
- 2014 – Group show at the Wagner Gallery (Le Touquet, France)
- 2014 – Group show at the Ephemeral Artismove Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2015 – Present at Art Up Lille, art fair (Lille, France)
- 2014 – Present at Paris Artistes, art fair (Paris, France)
- 2011 – Group show at the Emeraude Gallery (Bondue, France)
- 2010 – Group show at the Envie d’Art Gallery (Paris, France)
- 2007 – Salon of Fine Arts (Garches, France)
- 2007 – Salon of Arts (Saint Cloud, France)
- 2007 – Salon of Le Chesnay “young talents” (Le Chesnay, France)
Awards & Residencies
- 2014 – 1st prize of sculpture (Salon of Fine Arts; Garches, France)
- 2005 – 1st prize of sculpture for “Wall” (Salon of Fine Arts; Garches, France)
Commissions
- 2025 – Inauguration of the sculpture Unité II commissioned by VINCI Immobilier, Les Jardins de la Victoire (Orly, France)
Articles
Introducing Delphine Brabant
Delphine Brabant's work is a sort of quest. The type that is born out of a confrontation of opposing forces: Shadow and light, positive and negative...
