Emmanuelle Castellan

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Emmanuelle Castellan (*1976 in Aurillac) has been working in the field of painting and drawing for more than 25 years, often with site-specific, painterly installations. After holding a professorship in painting at the Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse from 2012 to 2019, Emmanuelle Castellan has been teaching as a professor of painting and drawing at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg since 2019. Her painting balances somnambulistically between figuration and abstraction. People, faces, interiors and vases appear sketchy, fragile and permeable - as if in a dream world, far removed from our everyday reality. Her works radiate a remarkable, sometimes liberating, sometimes oppressive stillness and loneliness. As if behind veils, they elude the volume and frenzied speed of our present. The artist has already been represented in two group exhibitions at Museum Langmatt: «Langmatt, Licht, Libellen - Impressionismus gestern und heute» (2016) und «Liebe Grüsse» (2022). In her solo exhibition, she will mainly be showing new works created especially for the Langmatt. The exhibition will be accompanied by an overview publication with texts by Clara Pacquet, art critic and lecturer, and Markus Stegmann, curator of the exhibition, as well as an interview with Emmanuelle Castellan.