Cécile Duchêne Malissin

French artist, born in Paris (France), she currently lives and works in Montargis, near Paris.

Both realistic and dreamlike, Cécile Duchêne Malissin’s painting implies some introspection. Characters or animals are shown in abstract settings or lush vegetation. Her works exude a powerful attraction and conveys reverie. They are bushy, free, imaginative compositions and a poetic and singular universe.

Her portraits express a meditative abandonment and the richness of an inner life. Childhood, is also tackled and evokes the loss of innocence as well as facing the brutality of the world. The viewer is caught by the serious and mysterious gaze of her characters: who observes who, in this disturbing face-to-face?

Relations to nature, to oneself and to others are questioned here. Working on paper or canvas, mixing different techniques (acrylic paint, oil pastels, graphite lead, collage and sometimes sewing...), the works thus created carry in them both a delicacy but also a certain strangeness. The relationship to the body and its fragility are evoked by transparencies which is conferred by a subtle game of collages mixed with acrylic. Memory, forgetfulness, transience of existence are suggested.

• Graduated from Superior School Arts Appliqués O. de Serres (Paris, FRANCE) - Plasticien
• Graduated from Facultly of Arts (Strasbourg, FRANCE)

Selected solo exhibitions
• 2025 Decorde Gallery, Stasbourg
• 2022 L'entrée des Artistes Gallery, Paris, France
• 2021 Feral Gallery - Art et vin, Bordeaux, France
Au-delà des Apparences Gallery, Annecy, France
• 2018 Courant d'Art Gallery - Mulhouse, France
Council of Europe - Strasbourg, France

Selected group exhibitions
• 2026 Decorde Gallery, Strasbourg, France
• 2025 ART Cy - Art Conference and Exhibition, Limassol, Chypre
Le Cube Vernet Gallery, Avignon
Contemporary Art Fair St'Art, Parc des Expositions, Strasbourg
• 2024 Contemporary Art Fair St'Art, Parc des Expositions, Strasbourg
Riana Raouna Gallery - Faces & Figures, Nicosie, Chypre
Decorde Gallery - DIASPORE, Strasbourg, France
Decorde Gallery - BLUE, Strasbourg, France
• 2023 Courant d'Art Gallery, Mulhouse, France
Contemporary Art Fair St'Art, Strasbourg, France
Decorde Gallery - Summer Group Show, Strasbourg, France
• 2022 Hors Champs Gallery, Paris, France
Au-delà des Apparences Gallery, Annecy, France
Contemporary Art Fair St'Art, Parc des expositions, Strasbourg,
Contemporary Art Fair Art Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Decorde Gallery, Strasbou...