Françoise PÉTROVITCH
Françoise Pétrovtich was born in 1964 in Chambéry and lives and works in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Normandy.
Since the 1990s, Françoise Pétrovitch has been creating some of the most powerful works on the French art scene. Among the many techniques she practices—ceramics, glass, wash painting, printmaking, and video—drawing holds a special place. In constant dialogue with the artists who preceded her and measuring herself against the essential motifs of “great painting”—Saint Sebastian, still lifes, etc. Pétrovitch reveals an ambiguous, deliberately transgressive world that plays with conventional boundaries and defies interpretation. Intimacy, fragmentation, disappearance, the themes of duality, transition, and cruelty run through her work, which is populated by animals, flowers, and beings, and whose atmosphere, alternately bright and nocturnal, rarely leaves the viewer unscathed.
Monographic exhibitions are regularly devoted to her, in France and abroad, such as the Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc in Landerneau and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 2022, and the Musée de la Vie romantique in Paris in 2023. In 2018, she was the first contemporary artist to have a solo exhibition at the Louvre-Lens. In recent years, Françoise Pétrovitch has been creating monumental wall drawings and very large ensembles, such as for the Children's Gallery at the Centre Pompidou, the West Bund Museum in Shanghai, and the Ballets du Nord. Her works are included in numerous public and private collections, notably the Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), the Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL), the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (US), the Musée Jenisch, Vevey (Switzerland), the museums of modern and contemporary art in Saint-Étienne (France) and Strasbourg (France), the MAC VAL (France), numerous FRACs, as well as the Salomon and Guerlain Foundations and the Emerige Endowment Fund.
She has been collaborating with the MiniMasterpiece gallery since 2014. Three different projects have been created so far: the Janus pendant, the Oiseau ring, and the Éclat de larmes articulated necklace.
