Layer by layer, Alice Delsenne's paintings build a quiet intensity.
Drawing inspiration from classical and romantic art movements, she works with the themes of destruction and the sublime, as the forces that shaped all existence, now and since billions of years.
In her work, chaos and grace co-exist. They are not opposing forces, but two aspects of one condition: being alive in a world that creates and dissolves itself simultaneously.
The sublime is not in the absence of destruction; it emerges within it and become a way of understanding and offering meaning to our humanity. It opens a space where hope can appear as the form of light.
Her practice unfolds as a meditation on presence itself. Using frames within frames, her multidimensional compositions evoke a tension that mirrors the paradox of our human existance and the mysteries we can never grasp.
BIO
Alice Delsenne is a French painter based in Bordeaux, France.
Born in 1995 near the forest of Rambouillet, she carries a quiet yet enduring connection to nature that continues to surface in her paintings.
At age 15 she started her creative path by attending a school of Applied Arts near Paris, giving her an early understanding of art history and fine-art techniques. She expanded her practice with a bachelor’s degree in product design in Nantes.
Attracted by the Nordic countries, she moved to Copenhagen for six years and co-founded an interior design studio. The Scandinavian aesthetic she encountered there: minimal, calm, and contemplative, still shapes her visual language today.
Since returning to France in 2021, Alice has devoted herself fully to her art practice. Using oil painting as her preferred medium, whose depth and slowness suit her search for atmosphere, light gradients, and emotional charge.
Her practice is also nourished by her long-standing love of museums, where she studies and draws from classical and Romantic paintings. Their tension, drama, and storytelling continue to guide her sensibility, feeding her creation of contemporary paintings that hold both a feeling of intensity and quietude.
Portrait by Jacob Brinth
CV
Solo Shows
2026
Précipice - Solo show (Upcoming)
Neilag Gallery
Bordeaux, France
May
2025
La Dernière Vue – Solo Show
Explores the stage of disappearance through quiet interiors where light and memory blur. What fades may still hold the promise of something to come.
Coutume Gallery
Bordeaux, France
05 Juin - 12 Juillet
Group & Duo Exhibitions
2024
A Distance – Open Atelier
A studio opening presenting recent works-in-progress exploring notions of disappearance and visual silence.
Atelier
Bordeaux, France
21 November - 24 November
2023
In Between – Group exhibition
Galerie Art’Gentiers
Bordeaux, France
18 March – 8 April
Rencontre – Duo show with the multidisciplinary artist Léone Béguin
Curated and exhibited a dialogue-based show.
Private hotel particulier
Bordeaux, France
17 March – 19 February
2022
Open Atelier – part of Escale des Arts organisation
Studio visit and talk about process and creation
Bordeaux, France
10 December
Alice Delsenne × Rebecca Fabulatrice – Duo exhibition
Coutume Gallery
Bordeaux, France
16 September – 29 October
2021
Wabi-Sabi – Wall Installation of ink on paper paintings
PH7 Design Shop
Bordeaux, France
13 December 2021 – 1 February 2022
Selected Projects
2025
Culinary & Spatial Experience – La Dernière vue
Co-curated and co-designed an immersive scenography, and a sensory menu developed with a chef duo studio Magenta. The project extends the exhibition’s atmosphere through space, taste, and narrative in relation to the artworks.
Coutume Gallery
Bordeaux, France
2024
Private Artist Residency
One-month independent residency in a private cabin.
Development of a new series focused on silence, memory, and transitional spaces.
Médoc, Bordeaux
August
Education
2018-2021
Co-Fonder of Nue Studio
Interior design & product design
Copenhagen, Denmark
2013–2016
Bachelor’s Degree in Product Design
EDNA (École de Design Nantes Atlantique)
Nantes, France
2010–2013
Baccalauréat in Applied Arts
St Martin High School
Palaiseau, France
Press
2023
Vivre Bordeaux magazine
Written by Myriam Laselve
August release