AVM Gallery
Contemporary Art Paris
Céleste Bollack
Collection permanente
Since its founding in 1991, the AVM contemporary art gallery has always supported the work of artists who do not submit to the dictates of trends or the market.
Celeste BOLLACK
"I was born in the 70s, in Paris, at a time when everything was easier, happier, and certainly more unusual. I became a painter because I couldn't find another medium as immediate as painting to illustrate a forgotten world, a lost childhood, a fleeting happiness. Putting color on the walls, painting interiors full of patterns, stripes, polka dots, flowers. Everywhere my mother, the homage of a child accident. Painting to exist, painting to fight, painting not to cry."
Céleste BOLLACK
NBorn in 1971 in Paris, Céleste was influenced by her mother Sofi Bollack-Klarwein, herself a painter. It was therefore in a melting pot of intellectual and pictorial influences that Céleste grew up. Colors, brushstrokes, bohemian life in a pretty Parisian neighborhood, and freedom of expression all fed the heart of Céleste, a little girl who was already an extraordinary girl and who drew full time. She entered the Beaux-Arts in 1994, and her first exhibition took place in 1998 at the L'œil du 8 gallery. Her encounter with the gallery owner Georges Detais was decisive for the rest of her career. Part of the Figuration Narrative movement, she exhibited in the French capital as well as in London, Stockholm, and Zurich, winning the enthusiasm of her first collectors and making people talk about her.
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About Celeste
Céleste Bollack is an artist, a woman, a friend who, in real life as in her dream studio in gestation, is always full of an endearing arrogance, full of this doubt that makes her demanding, possessed by her work. Obsessive, disconcerting in the expression of her feelings, surprising in her outbursts of friendship, sometimes tyrannical, she nevertheless remains an irreplaceable look on the lookout that nourishes her work as a painter. Work that can boast the same qualifiers as those that define her. She is the body and the work, inseparable.
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Creation of a work
Fine Arts
Biography
1971
- Céleste Bollack was born on September 26th in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. From a young age, Céleste was influenced by her mother, the painter Sofi Bollack-Klarwein.
1984
- Birth of Wladimir, Celeste's younger brother.
1985
- Student of Geneviève Micha, visual artist, at the Letellier workshop – Paris 15th.
1991
- Entrance to the Duperré School of Applied Arts – Paris 3rd.
1993
- Textile diploma at the Letellier workshop.
1994
- BTS in “Urban Environment Visual Artist” at the Duperré School of Applied Arts.
- Participation in the creation of licenses and interior design study of the Concorde Paris – New York at Ecart Design under the direction of Andrée Putman.
- Participation in the creation of the exterior signage for the Samaritaine toy store, under the direction of Pierre Paulin.
- Entrance to the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Integration by equivalence in the second year of the painting workshop of Vincent Bioulès and Jean Michel Alberola then of the engraving workshop of M. Tanguy.
1996
- Integration of the Royal College of Art in London (January-March) then of the Staedel Schule in Frankfurt (April-June).
- Participation in Hermann Nitsch's performance in Naples.
1997
- Entrance to the Athens School of Art in Athens (January-March).
1998
- First exhibition of the artist “Celeste Bollack s’expose” at the L’œil du 8 gallery.
Meeting with the Georges Detais gallery. - Graduation diploma from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris
1999
- Trips to Prague, Krakow and Vienna.
2002
- Birth of Apollonia, Celeste's daughter.
2007
- In charge of the illustration course at the Académie Grandes Terres – Paris XIème.
Since 2015
- Lecturer at Paris Ateliers
Exhibitions
2017 | GALERIE SIX ELZEVIR | 20 AU 24 SEPT
Paris
2017 | THE CHAPELLE ST SAUVEUR | 10 SEPT AU 10 OCT
Issy-les-Moulineaux
2016 | SIX ELZEVIR GALLERY
Paris
2016 | KALINKA GALLERY
Inde
2012 | AVM GALLERY
Paris
2012 | BOLLAG GALLERIES AT LIVINGCASE | « BOLLACK CHEZ BOLLAG »
Zurich
2011 | GALERIE L'OEIL DU PRINCE
Paris
2009 | MINSKY GALLERY
Paris
2008 | QUAI EST GALLERY
Paris
2007 | CARMEL GALLERY
Tarbes
2006 | PURÉE JAMBON KIDSTORE | « LA VIE RÊVÉE DE LÉONTINE »
Paris
2005 | BOLLAG GALERIES | « BOLLACK CHEZ BOLLAG »
Zurich
2004 | W. ERIC LANDAU GALLERY
Paris
2002 | BOLLAG GALERIES | « BOLLACK CHEZ BOLLAG »
Zurich
2001 | GALERIE GEORGES DETAIS | « LÉONTINE »
Paris
2000 | GALERIE TADROS | « LÉONTINE EN FUITE »
Paris
1999 | D-SUITE GALLERY
London
1998 | STUDIO ANGEL'S | « HEAVENLY CRÉATURES »
Paris
1998 | L'OEL DE 8 GALLERY
Paris
