Patrick Gourgouillat

My pictorial work follows a narrative and symbolic approach, developed in series with varied aesthetics. I'm drawn to the zones of tension between humanity, animality, and the sacred. My artworks, often inhabited by hybrid figures, embody inner narratives where irony, fragility, absurdity, and poetry intersect.

My trajectory is closely linked to the places I’ve lived: Paris, Prague, and above all, Berlin—a city where I fully committed to artmaking in the late 1990s. The underground and experimental atmosphere of the Berlin scene, particularly around the Tacheles, profoundly shaped my relationship to art: free, fluid, and open to the crossing of disciplines and offbeat imaginaries.

I primarily use mixed media techniques: printed image collages, ink, acrylics, oils, markers, or oil pastels… Each series is a distinct exploration, like a standalone chapter from an ever-evolving imagination.

I like to alternate between registers, blur stylistic boundaries, and shift visual cues in order to create worlds that challenge our beliefs, our relationship to images, and to our surroundings. My visual universe, sometimes seemingly naïve, conceals darker or more meditative layers. I’m not seeking to develop a single artistic signature, but rat...

1982 - École des Beaux-arts – Avignon (Fr)
1991 – Atelier Nicolas Manev – Paris (Fr)
1997/98 – Atelier Gabriele Sagasser – Berlin (De)

Selected solo and group exhibitions

2025: Galerie Rêves d’Ailleurs – Saint-Etienne (France)
2024: Galleri Vagn – Horsens (Denmark)
2023: Galerie Rêves d’Ailleurs – Saint-Étienne (France)
2023: Médiathèque de Villars – Villars (France)
2022: Galerie Bâtiment Art Nouveau – Saint-Etienne (France)
2021: Galerie du caveau des arts – Saint-Galmier (France)
2021: Pimal Matter – Easter Edition – prideART – Berlin (Germany)
2021: Galerie Rêves d’Ailleurs – Saint-Etienne (France)
2020: Galerie Les limbes – Saint-Etienne (France)
2019: Galerie du Fort – Montauban (France)
2019: Les Décades de la peinture – Brioude (France)
2018: Galerie Art’Course – Strasbourg (France)
2013: Salon du végétal – Angers (France)
2010: Hall du Conseil des Prud’hommes – Saint-Etienne (France)