Violaine Dubernard Laurent
Born on May 24,1970 in Saint-Cloud (near Paris, France)

 
EDUCATION AND PRIZES

2010          Art grant by the Conseil Général du Val de Marne (France)
2004/07     Paris Fine Art Studios, painting, Martin Bissière's class
1992/94     Paris Political Institute, bachelor of political science
1992/93     Paris Polytechnic Insitute (ENSTA), master of science and engineering
1991/92     Paris University, bachelor class in Art History and Archeology
until 1986  Paris Museum of Decorative Arts studios (Louvre), painting, Paris


SELECTION OF SOLO SHOWS

2026          Museum and Archives, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Water Reflections, curator Pr Ph.D. Misato IDO, Kyoto
2025          Kyoto Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology, ”A Dialogue between East and West. Water as a Pictorial Pattern”, lecture, invited by Pr Misato IDO, Kyoto
                  Marignana Arte, Ninfae, Venice Gallery Weekend/ Venice Galleries View, Venice
2024          Palazzo Albrizzi Capello, L'oro dell' acqua, during the 60th Biennale ofArt, with ItsLiquid Group,   ACIT/Goethe Institute/ Arnaud Faure Beaulieu, Venice
2023          Galerie Etienne de Causans, L'oro dell' acqua, paintings, Paris
2022          Galerie Etienne de Causans, Gold Blue, Paris
2021          Flers Castle Museum, Normandy (France), The Colors of Water, curator Hélène Tarantola
2020          Artist studio private visits for signing sessions of the monography 2000-2020, Vitry-sur-Seine
2019          OFI Asset Management, art patronage, Paris
2018          Restaurant Maison Blanche, Through the Seasons, Paris
                  Galerie ArtCube, Monuments, Paris - catalog
                  Galerie Anne-Claire Simon, Focus, Paris
2017          Vertheuil Abbey, Water Memories, Médoc (Bordeaux vineyards) - catalogs
2016          Galerie Teodora, renaissance(s), Paris
2015          Galerie Teodora, Floating Paintings, Paris
                  Restaurant Maison Blanche, Paris, 2015
2014          Flers Castle Museum, Normandy (France), Water Threads, trio, curator Hélène Tarantola
                  Galerie ArtCube, Shadows of Forms, Paris - catalog
                  Ursulines Medieval Tower Chapel, The Ways of Water, Autun (Bourgogne, France), invited by   painter Hisao Takahashi
2013          Paris Polytechnic Insitute, Metamorphoses of Fluids, atrium - catalog
2012          Pavillon de l'Eau / Water Pavillion (with Eau de Paris and the City of Paris), Metamorphoses of  Fluids, Paris, catalogs, curator Matthieu Marquaille, 2012-2013
                  Galerie Bagatelle, Water Dialogues, Aix-les-Bains (Alps, France)
                  Galerie Audrey Marty, Metamorphoses, Saint Malo (Britanny, France)
2010          La Petite Galerie, Microcosms-Macrocosms, Paris
                  Galerie Bagatelle, Aix-les-Bains (Alps, France)
2005-07     Avignon University (Provence, France), Saint Martha's Chapel : decoration with mosaics, ceramics,   stained glass
2002          Galerie La Madelaine, Brussels
2001          Commission Européenne, Brussels


ART FAIRS

2021          Luxembourg Art Fair
2019          Art Elysées, Paris
                  Lille Art Up (France)
2018          YIA Art Fair / Paris Contemporary Art Show, Paris
2017          Art Montpellier (France)
2013          Lille Art Fair (France)
                  Spectrum Miami, USA
2010          New York Art Expo, USA
2008          Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
                  Salon d'Automne, Paris
2007          Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
2006          Salon d'Automne, Paris
2004          Salon d'Automne, Paris


SELECTION OF GROUP SHOWS

2026          Il tempo sospeso, ACIT German-Italian Cultural Association /Goethe Institute, Palazzo Albrizzi-  Capello, Venice Carnival
2023          Utopia Now/ Black is Back/ Eau, See Galerie, invited par Arnaud Faure Beaulieu, Paris
2022          Anima Mundi, during the 59th Biennale of Art, with ItsLiquid Group, Palazzo Bembo, Venice
2021          Borders Art Fair/ Venice International Art Fair/ Contemporary Venice, with ItsLiquid Group, Venice
                  UNESCO, Paris
2020          PIASA Auction, charity auction in benefit of Covid healthtakers, Paris
2019          Chez Castel, with Galerie Anne-Claire Simon, Paris
                  Galerie Anne-Claire Simon, Blue, Paris
2018          Galerie Anne-Claire Simon, summer show, Paris
2016          Galerie Teodora, summer show, Paris
2015          Galerie Teodora, summer show, Paris
2013          Science and Industry Museum, Higgs'Boson, Paris
2010          Twins Moers 2010, Ruhr European Capital for Culture, Moers, Germany
2009          Festival de l'Oh!, Maisons-Alfort and the Conseil Général du Val de Marne (France)
2008          O Art Museum, Tokyo
                  Fine Arts Museum, Okinawa
                  Imperial House, Tamozawa
2005          Japanese Embassy, Séoul              
2004          Ono Gallery Ginza, Tokyo
2003          Ward Nasse Gallery, New York
                  Tablet Gallery, Londres
                  Arte Giappone Galeria, Milan
2002          Galerie La Madeleine, Brussels
                  Atelier Visconti, Paris


TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS


Bibliography :

Cités englouties (Submerged Cities) - Texts by Kathrin Machinek, architect-archeologist, PhD / University of Karlsruhe, CNRS, chief of the Department of Architecture at the Center of Alexandrian Studies (ongoing) 

Winter Dream - Foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, trilingual French-English-Japanese, 62 pages, Paris, 2023

Ninfae. T.1 : Nereids & Dryads - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, bilingual French-English, 122 pages, Paris, 2022
Ninfae. T.2 : Oreads - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, bilingual French-English, 128 pages, Paris, 2022
Ninfae. T.3 : Ophelia - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, bilingual French-English, 86 pages, Paris, 2022
Ninfae. T.4 : Naiads - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, bilingual French-English, 158 pages, Paris, 2022 
 
Gold Blue : Shades of Blue, Lumières d'écume (Lights of Foam), L'oro dell' acqua - Texts by Annie Dubernard Laurent, bilingual French-English, 72 pages, Paris
First edition 2022, new edition 2023
Published for the exhibitions at Galerie Etienne de Causans (Paris, 2022 & 2023) and Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello (Venice, 2024)
 
De l’eau et des hommes (Of Water and Men) - Photographs of ephemeral installations in situ in nature, foreword by Hélène Tarantola, bilingual French-English, 124 pages, Paris, 2021 

Acqua alta  - Foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, bilingual French-English, 76 pages, Paris, 2022 

Toiles d’eau. Hommage à Claude Monet (Water Canvases.Homage to Claude Monet) - Foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, bilingual French-English, 68 pages, Paris, 2022 

Violaine Vieillefond. Paintings 2000-2020 - Foreword by Annie Dubernard Laurent, with TIMKAT publications, illustrated monography with a selection of texts, 240 pages, Paris, 2020 

Revelations 2017-2018-2019 - OFI Asset Management - Art Patronage, Paris, 2019 
 
L‘éclat du bleu. Nuance et essence du bleu en littérature, en art et dans la société contemporaine – under the direction of Geneviève Vilnet. Anne-Claire Simon. L'Harmattan Editions, 2019 

Of Flesh and Blood and Hanging Gardens - Catalogues for « Water Memories » exhibition at Vertheuil Abbey (Médoc), bilingual French-English, 18 pages, Paris, 2017
 
In situ. Metamorphoses of Fluids. The Water Pavilion - Photographs of the exhibition at the Water Pavilion, foreword by Bernard Point, September 2012 - January 2013, 24 pages, Paris 
First edition, 2012; Second edition for the 10th Anniversary of the Water Pavilion, 2017 


Texts and catalogs:

Jonathan Molinari, PHD, Professor of Philosophy, Ca' Foscari University
"Through the eyes of Orpheus: on the Nymphs by Violaine Viellefond", text for the exhibition Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice, 2025

Claudia Meschini, journalist:
Con Violaine Vieillefond dentro "L'oro dell'acqua" (With Violaine Vieillefond inside "L'oro dell'acqua"), in IL GAZZETTINO VENEZIA-MESTRE, June 30th, 2024, about the solo exhibition Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello

Laurence de Calan, journalist, artist, writer :
Dance of Fluids  (in COTE OUEST, n°165, p. 34, illustrated, June-July 2023), about the exhibition at See Galerie (Paris), 2023 
 
Annie Dubernard Laurent, Art Historian, PHD/ Comparative Literature, Professor at Paris University : 
Winter Dream, foreword to the catalogue, 2023
L 'Oro dell' Acqua, 2022, text included Gold Blue, catalogue
Lights of Foam, 2022, text included Gold Blue, catalogue
Shades of Blue, 2021, text included Gold Blue, catalogue
Ophelia, the Drowned-Drapery, foreword to Ninfae. T.3 : Ophelia, 2021 
Life and Death in Venice, foreword to the monography and to Acqua alta, 2020 
Windows. A Window open onto the World, text included in the monography, 2020 
Water Canvases. A Homage to Claude Monet, text included in the monography and foreword to Water Canvases, 2020 

Michèle Tardat, former cultural advisor and President of Vertheuil Abbey's Friends Association:
Water Memories, foreword to the exhibition at the Abbey, 2017

Maryse VIOLIN-SAVALLE, writer, art historian, art critic for the National Museum Eugène Delacroix 's Friends Society Publications
Monuments, text for the catalog, about the exhibition ArtCube Gallery (Paris), June 2018
Renaissance(s), text for the exhibition Teodora Gallery (Paris), December 2015
From Dream to Image, March 2014

Bernard POINT, former member of the committee of the Contemporary Art Fair DRAWING NOW, creator and former director of the Gennevilliers School of Fine Arts and its Edouard MANET Gallery
Shadows of Forms, preface to the exhibition ArtCube Gallery (Paris), 2014
Nenufluids, preface to the exhibition at ENSTA ParisTech (Palaiseau), 2013
Metamorphoses of Fluids, foreword to the exhibition at The Water Pavillion, 2012

Molly MINE, AZART Mag, "Violaine Vieillefond, "The live art of metamorphosis" (AZART n° 61, March-April 2013, p. 68 à 76)

Isaac ORTIZAR, art critic, AICA
Memories of Winds and Lights, 2006
The Students'House Chapel, University of Avignon : Themes and symbolics", 2006


Book covers:

Etienne WASMER, Ph.D, professor at New York University Abu Dhabi :
- Labor, Credit, and Goods Market, 2017 (MIT Press), illustration of the book cover
- Principles of micro-economy, 2017 & 2014 (Pearson), illustration of the book cover


Press:

- ARTFORUM, "Venice is for dreamers", Travis Jeppesen around Venice Gallery Weekend 2025, March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- EXIBART, "Apparizioni d’immagini e di ninfe da Marignana Arte a Venezia", March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- ARTSLIFE, 'Venice Gallery Weekend. Ecco tutto il programma della festa dell’arte a Venezia', March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- VENEZIA NEWS : VIOLAINE VIEILLEFOND. NINFAE, March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- VENEZIA NEWS : VENICE GALLERY WEEKEND 2025, March 2025, about the solo show Ninfae, Marignana Arte Gallery, Venice
- IL GAZZETTINO VENEZIA-MESTRE, 30/06/2024, "Con Violaine Vieillefond dentro L'oro dell'acqua ", by Claudia MESCHINI, about the solo exhibition Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello
- ITINERARI DELL'ARTE,"Violaine Vieillefond. L'oro dell'acqua", June 2024
- COTE OUEST, n°167, October-November 2023
- COTE OUEST, "Dance of Fluids", by Laurence de Calan, n°165, June-July 2023, about the exhibition EAU at SEE Galerie
- OUEST FRANCE, "Flers. Les canaux de Venise peints avec liberté", 14/08/2021
- OUEST FRANCE, "Flers. Polngée dans les profondeurs de l'eau. Un hommage à Claude Monet", juillet 2021
- OUEST FRANCE, "Flers. Une vitrine d'art éphémère rue du 6 juin", 01/06/2021
- OUEST FRANCE, "Exposition "les couleurs de l'eau" du 19 mai au 21 novembre au musée du Château de Flers", 20/05/2021
- LE JOURNAL DU MEDOC, "Le manifeste tout en nuances de Violaine Vieillefond", par Michèle MORLAN-TARDAT, exposition à l' Abbaye de Vertheuil, 18/08/2017
- LE JOURNAL DU MEDOC, "Mémoires d'eau", par Dominique BARRET, exposition à lAbbaye de Vertheuil, 14/07/2017
- L'Officiel des galeries et Musées, mars 2016, à propos de l'exposition "renaissance(s)", Galerie TEODORA, Paris
- Revue ART ACTUEL, site internet, Exposition Shadows of forms, Galerie Art Cube, 2014
http://www.artactuel.com/galerie-art/artcube-3577/evenement/violaine-vieillefond-shadows-of-forms-11935.html
- TELESSONE (TV), Emission "On a des choses à vous dire" du 12/02/2014, reportage sur l'exposition "Métamorphoses des fluides" à l'ENSTA ParisTech, présenté par Martine GUEGAN et Patrice ARDITI
- LE REPUBLICAIN, "Les loisirs. Palaiseau. L'ENSTA expose", exposition à l'ENSTA ParisTech, 09/01/2014
- LE PARISIEN, "Vernissage en musique", exposition à l'ENSTA ParisTech, 12/12/2013
- Revue AZART, "Violaine Vieillefond, l'art vivant de la métamorphose", par Molly MINE "(AZART n° 61, mars-avril 2013, p. 68 à 76)
- "A PARIS", le magazine de la Ville de Paris, trimestriel n°45 Hiver 2012-2013 : "Plongez dans l'univers du Pavillon de l'eau"
http://www.nxtbook.fr/newpress/mairie-de-paris/Aparis_45-Hiver_2012_2013/index.php?startid=B8
- LE DAUPHINE: « Aix-les-Bains. Vernissage de l'exposition Dialogues d'Eau », 17/05/2012
- FRANCE 3 Région Nord (TV) : Libraire Chapeau melon et Piles de livres, accrochage d’ouverture, JT du 31/01/2012
- Actualité aixoise, http://stefaninijournal.com/expoviolaine.htm, « Galerie Bagatelle, Art contemporain : Violaine Vieillefond, une jeune peintre à découvrir », novembre 2010
- Revue Portraits d'Artistes/Evasion's: novembre-décembre 2010, n°1, couverture
- Maisons-Alfort Magazine: juillet/août 2009, n° 368, "Du côté des Abstraits" (illustr. de l'exposition au Théâtre Debussy); avril/mai 2008, n° 354, "La peinture abstraite s'invite à la Médiathèque André Malraux"; juin 2008, n° 355, "Initiation à l'art avec l'artiste Violaine Vieillefond pour les plus jeunes"
- LA PROVENCE : « La maison des étudiants ouvriva en septembre », Rémy MARTINO, juin 2007
- LA PROVENCE : « La chapelle ardente rénovée sur le thème de l’oecuménisme », Rémy MARTINO, 10/11/2006