Coline Casse

Born in 1985 in Nîmes, France, and a painter since childhood, Coline Casse has followed a dual path between cinema and painting, in a duality characteristic of her work. After a preparatory class in cinema, she entered the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille. There she took two workshops, one in painting and the other in video. She obtained her DNSEP in 2010 with honors, as well as a double degree in cinema from the Sorbonne, and deepened her knowledge of the image by joining the INSAS film school in Brussels, from which she graduated with honors after training in framing and lighting. After several years on film sets, she decided to return to painting for good.

The immobility of her characters paradoxically embodies a form of resistance to contradictory injunctions, both intimate and contemporary. A meditative feeling reveals their essence, frozen in a setting that is both pictorial and cinematographic, ambiguous, whose familiarity always slips through the fingers. Particularly present, they are the medium for the artist’s quest, both dreamlike – dreams being one of the bases of her work – and purely gestural, with a definite love of technique and the sensual material offered by oil paint. In a new-found and necessary silence, her pictorial vision unfolds. She is more than ever attentive to delicately highlighting his contemporaries.

In 2021, Coline Casse was selected for the renowned Shakers-Lieux d’Effervescence residency, resulting in an exhibition at the Fond d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Montluçon. In the same year, she was a finalist for the David Weill Prize, and had several solo exhibitions in Marseille and Chambéry, including Basses Lumières, which received critical acclaim. She currently works in Lille. Galerie Ars Longa exhibited her work in April 2023 for the Magnificences exhibition, and in the same year, the artist was selected for the Résidence du Lieu Multiple in Montpellier. In 2024, Galerie Ars Longa devotes a solo exhibition to her, Jour Nouveau, in which the artist explores an ever more intimate side of her work, between poetry and the pleasure of painting.