BIO
Alice Delsenne is a French painter based in Bordeaux, France, whose work navigates the space between presence and absence.
Her practice is shaped by existential reflections on time, the cosmos, and the fragile bond between humans and the living world. Moving between abstraction and figuration, her compositions are reduced to the essential, revealing silent spaces, interiors, openings, imagined landscapes.
Born in 1995 near the forest of Rambouillet, nature remains a quiet but persistent influence in her work. After an education in applied arts and product design in Nantes, she lived in Copenhagen for six years, where she co-founded a design studio. The Scandinavian aesthetic she encountered there: minimal and contemplative, continues to inform her visual language.
Since moving back to France in 2021, Alice has returned fully to her love for painting. Starting with ink, she gradually moved to oil, a medium whose depth and slowness align with her search for atmosphere over representation. Her artworks are never based on direct observation or photography, but rather on inner images composed from memory and sensation.
Layer by layer, her paintings build a quiet intensity. Strong contrasts are softened by subtle transitions, leaving space for uncertainty and interpretation. Figures emerge and dissolve, landscapes shift into reverie. Between darkness and light, her paintings explore a void that serves as both a sanctuary and a realm for discovery. They guide the viewer to explore the depths of his connection with both the natural and artificial worlds around us.
Photo credit @studiobrinth
CV
Solo Show
2025 (upcoming)
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 (Upcoming)
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
2025 (Upcoming)
Visual Sketchbook – Carnet des seuils
A reflective project blending drawing, photography, and notes as a visual companion reflecting on the process behind the creation of the artworks showcased in the exhibition La Dernière vue.
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