Karine Hoffman

Karine Hoffman, is a Franco-Polish artist graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and resident at Villa Velazquez from 2002 to 2004. Inspired by 20th-century German painters, her artistic achievements make subtle references to Eastern literature and fantasy cinema.

Her work is nourished by the traces of ghost memory and her works are built through references to forgotten places such as Lodz in Vilnius. Karine Hoffman’s painting plunges us into oblivion, foreign and dreamlike places. An admirer of Goya, she draws on the forgotten history of the countries of the East and instills a sensitivity through her yellow and black colors, and her application of a mixture of brown and blue. The artist frees herself from the pictorial opposition of the modern and the classical to consider the emergence of a collective memory of the past.

The artist’s works are in the public collections of the Fondation Salomon, the Embassy of France in Madrid or in the Fonds de la Casa de Velasquez where she resided for two years. She exhibits in public institutions such as the Irkutsk Center Museum in Moscow, for the exhibition “New Romantics” or the Sichuan Art Museum in China for “100 painters, 100 paintings”. In 2023, the artist is exhibited at MO.CO in Montpellier on the occasion of the exhibition “Immortelle” presenting the emblematic artists of the French figurative scene born born in the 1970s and 1980s. More recently, in 2024, she saw her work presented at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art in Riyadh for the exhibition “In the Night”. The same year, the artist also participated in the exhibition “French contemporary painting” at the Belgrade City Museum in Serbia. This year, the artist rejoins the MO.CO collections with her artwork After Lunch.