Gaëlle Chotard

Born January 18, 1973 in Montpellier, France

Lives and works in Nogent sur Marne

Galerie Papillon

The exhibition at Drawing Lab enabled me to deepen, explore and broaden my drawing practice, which over time has become central to my research. Being generously welcomed in this sumptuous space in the center of Paris, and having it available to me like a large blank page, was a unique moment. The exchanges and singular glances were intense. I’ll always remember the many exceptional moments I had with the Drawing Lab team, the Drawing Hotel, curator Valentine Meyer and many others.

A 1998 graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Gaëlle Chotard has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Musée de Vence, the Carré d’art in Nîmes,
Domaine Pommery in Reims, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, and the Villa Bernasconi, Grand Lancy/Geneva. She has produced site-specific works for the Château de Rambouillet and for the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris as part of the Dans la ligne de mire exhibition. In 2016, she invested the Espal in Le Mans, in 2017 the Villa Tamaris with Interstices and the Chapelle du Généteil with Percée (Le Carré, Scène nationale-Centre d’art contemporain in Château-Gontier), which published Gaëlle Chotard, Dessins 2007- 2017 on a proposal by Bertrand Godot. In 2018, she was selected in duo with curator Valentine Meyer to make a proposal to Drawing Lab, and Galerie Papillon presents La part de l’ombre, her 4th solo exhibition at the gallery. Gaëlle Chotard’s works can be found in the collections of FRAC Haute-Normandie and FNAC, among others.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2018 – La part de l’ombre, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France

2018 – What runs through me, Drawing Lab, Paris, France

2017 – Percées, Le Carré, Scène nationale et Centre d’art contemporain, Château-Gontier, France

2017 – Interstices, Villa Tamaris art center, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France

2016 – Gaëlle Chotard, drawings, sculptures and prints, Les Quinconces L’Espal, Le Mans, France 2015

2016 – Gaëlle Chotard, Galerie Quai4, Liège, Belgium

2014 – Fixing vertigo II, Moments artistiques Christian Aubert, Paris, France

2014 – Fixing vertigo, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 – 4 solos 1 expo, Gaëlle Chotard, Celine Cleron, Esa Sahal, Didier Trenet, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France

2019 – Drawing as a force of appearance, Musée de Vence, Vence

2018 – De fils ou de fibres, Abbaye Saint-André – Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac

2018 – Tension, Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy/Geneva, Switzerland

2018 – Formes d’histoires, Les Tanneries contemporary art center, Amilly

2017 – Open Museum, carte blanche to Alain Passard, Palais des beaux-Arts de Lille, France

2016 – Nouvelles Vagues, A printed art commission, Carré d’art de Nîmes, France

2016 – Pommery Experience #13, Gigantesque, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

2015 – Être étonné, c’est du bonheur, Chapelle de la Visitation- espace d’art contemporain, Thonon-les- Bains, France

2013 – Dans la ligne de mire, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France

2013 – Dans la lenteur avant toute chose…, Espace ABCD, Montreuil, France

2012 – Because the map is more important than the territory, Immanence, Paris / Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny, Switzerland

2012 – Quand les nymphes parlent des nymphes, que disent-elles? (question posed by Paul-Armand Gette), Arboretum lieu d’art contemporain, Argenton-sur-Creuse, France

2012 – Collection Philippe Piguet, collection d’aujourd’hui, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Saint Restitut, France