Helene Cohen Solal

Hélène Cohen Solal was born on 23 January 1960 in Paris, France. Between 1987 and 2014, she was an Art teacher in different schools in Paris and started her artistic career.

Her works evoke the catastrophe and destruction of both world wars, the Holocaust and more recently about the violences towards women.

Her techniques include collage, painting and drawings. She uses “poor materials” such as wallpapers, fishing lures, kitchen paper, shoe polish, wax, candles, oil pastel, and re-use previous pieces of other works, tissue, bits of used paper. These elements, "residues of things" that are becoming the “row materials”, thus "the rest" is at the heart of the work of the artist and each time destroying is the prerequisite to build. Collage allows her to work on composition because the pieces are like puzzle elements. Her work sometimes incorporates photographs, prints and drawings, and various materials. In the 2000's, she developed her interests to work on ceramic and sculptures. She also works producing lithographies and artists' notebooks, still expressing memoory of the Shoah.

Hélène Cohen Solal sees the creation as a testimony of thoughts, History, resistance and material development, psychic, reflexive. She gets her ...

2015 - Masters in Contemporary Art History - University Paris 8
1985 - Masters in Urbanism - University Paris 8

2019 - “Cris de Femmes” - Adada, St Denis
2018 - Installations, peintures, sculptures, lithographies, Université de Paris 8
https://www.bu.univ-paris8.fr/actualites/chemin-des-dames
2018 - Exposition personnelle, installations , peintures, sculptures, lithographies, Bibliothèque
de l’Université de Paris 8
2017 - Exposition Collective, UAP, « Corps, accords » Salle de la légion d’honneur, Saint
Denis.
2017 - Exposition Collective, Foire d’art contemporain, Saint Denis.
2017 - http://www.lejsd.com/content/des-banni%C3%A8res-artistiques-chez-argile-et-vin
2016 - Foire d’art contemporain, Saint Denis.
2014 - Exposition collective, lithographies originales avec rehaut d’aquarelle, Clichy
2011 - Atelier des beaux arts de la ville de Paris, lithographies
2010 - Librairie Folies d’encre « Ainsi le flot » lithographies
2009 - Galerie de la CGT « Ailleurs » lithographies
2008 - La Brianza 17° « Les traversées »
2007 - Exposition Collective Festival Cours St Pierre Paris 18° « Conteries »
2006 - Exposition personnelle « Improbables paysages» à Saint Denis (93)
2005 - Exposition/atelier « Navettes-mémoires », Œuvres sociales EDF (C.C.A.S) en
célébration du soixantième anniversaire de la libération des camps de concentration...