Hélène Planquelle

“Art is the way in which the unconscious becomes visible. The artist, by allowing the unconscious to manifest in his work, helps us recognize aspects of ourselves that are unknown. Each artistic image is a key to open a door to deeper dimensions of our psyche, dimensions often ignored, and to archetypal forces that influence our lives unconsciously.”

C.J. Jung, The Secret of the Golden Flower

The work of Hélène Planquelle is rooted in the exploration of her own unconscious material, thus exploring the realm of the shadow, within ourselves and acted out in the world, and giving birth to symbolic archetypal images that speak to the collective unconscious.

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As a self-taught painter, Hélène Planquelle owes her intellectual curiosity and thirst for new knowledge to her humanity studies. Initially passionate about literature and philosophy, over time she turned to increasingly diverse fields of knowledge to nourish the subject matter of her works. At once deeply conceptual and powerfully figurative, her work is rooted in a rich soil of scholarly references, in fields ranging from Jungian psychoanalysis and philosophy to ethics and social sciences, attachment theories, evolutionary psychology and the study of religious texts and myt...

Self-taught painter & muralist
Master's degrees in humanities

Solo show
2025 UNIVERS (duo show), Elian Lacroix Art Lab (Lyon, FR)
2024 (META)MORPHE (duo show), Peep Art Gallery (Brussels, BE)
2022 MONSTERS OF LOVE, Atelier Nanoh (Paris, FR)
2021 Atelier Desnouettes (Paris, FR)
2019 ORIGINAL VIOLENCE, We Art From Paris (Paris, FR)
2018 GALERIE JOAN FONT (Paris, FR)

Group shows
2025 CHENUS-LONGHI FAMILY, Chenus-Longhi (Paris, FR)
BLINDNESS, Espaço Exibicionista (Lisbon, PT)
DES CORPS À L'OEUVRE, Maison Visinand (Montreux, SW)
2024 TOUT VA BIEN, Chenus-Longhi (Paris, FR)
LES JEUX ARTISTIQUES, Macha Galerie (St-Maur-des-Fossés, FR)
ORIGINES, Ellia Art Gallery (Paris, FR)
ESPACE ARTISTES FEMMES (Lausanne, SW)
2023 DESTINS CROISÉS, Galerie Cécile Dufay (Paris, FR)
PORSCHE LEGACY, Galerie Sakura (Paris, FR)
Inauguration of Fundazione Psichefuturoinnovazione (Bergamo, Italy)
VENUS'S MIRRORS, Primo PIano Gallery, lecce (IT)
2022 LUCID DREAMS, Association Flaw, La Caserne de Paris (Paris, Fr),
2021 ARTISTS' SPOTLIGHT, Arch Enemy Arts Gallery (Philadelphia, EU),
2020 Destructuralisme Figuratif, Parc floral de Vincennes (Paris, FR)
2019 GRATEFUL PARK, Pilotenkueche international re...