Caroline Rennequin (b. 1970). Lives and works in Paris.

 

After graduating from École Estienne in 1988, Duperré in 1990, and finally Les Arts Décoratifs in 1993, Caroline Rennequin now works as a set designer for fashion and luxury brands. She has been the artistic director for the brand Jérôme Dreyfuss since 2007, after working for Isabel Marant and Annick Goutal. She creates all the decor for the designer’s shop windows and stores, including sculptures, furniture, paintings, and wall drawings.

 

Her gouache paintings are characterized by vibrant color blocks, clean contours, and botanical motifs. Her work has been showcased at esteemed venues, including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Jean Fournier Gallery. In 2024, she presented a full suite of painted furniture pieces at Collectible Design New York.

 

Alongside her professional work, she pursues a personal multidisciplinary artistic practice that explores themes of otherness, intimacy, femininity, and the relationships between crafts, popular culture, non-Western art, and contemporary art. Her latest series of 301 gouaches on paper, created in 2020 and titled That’s All Folks!, explores the universal motif of the flower, first exhibited at Galeria Tambien.

 

She has exhibited her work several times, including at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2010 as part of the Circuit Céramique group exhibition, at Deyrolle in Paris in 2014, at the Danysz gallery in 2016 as part of the group exhibition Le Dessin sous toutes ses formes, and at the Biennale de Paname in 2018 and 2019. In 2022, she was invited to present a solo exhibition at the Jean Fournier gallery in Paris.