Anna Solal
Anna Solal was born in Dreux in 1988. She lives and works in Paris. She belongs to a new generation of artists distinguished by a predilection for the "handmade", for the non-hierarchical cross-fertilization of processes borrowed from art and craft. Her assemblages are made from discarded objects gleaned from her wanderings. They are recomposed into aerial motifs, like birds or kites. Brutally figurative, this pop iconography, anxious and moving, highlights the isolation of the individual and a form of abstraction in which he or she navigates. Anna Solal has exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the CAC Passerelle in Brest, the Musée des abattoirs in Toulouse, and Interstate Projects (New York). IN 2022-2023, she is a resident at the Villa Medici.
Her recent solo exhibitions include: Faux semblants, La Traversière, Marseille (2025), Mille Projectiles, Frac Montpellier, Montpelier (2024); Le bréviaire, Mamoth, London (2023); Frémissement, Château d'Oiron, Oiron (2022); On observation, duo solo with Jochen Lempert, Kunstverein Reutlingen (2022); Adresse aux gémonies, Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich (2022). Le jardin, la zone, Edouard-Manet, Gennevilliers (2020); Le jardin , CAC Passerelle , Brest (2019); La salle de bain, FUTURA, Prague (2019); Gaga drawings, Et al. at NADA Miami, Miami (2018); La Convalescence, New Galerie, Paris (2018); The Harpist Rover, Interstate Projects, NY (2017).
Recent group exhibitions include: Beaux Arts x Mondes Nouveaux, Paris (2023); Mystérieux Sentiments, FRAC MECA, Bordeaux (2023); Raccrocher les wagon, Galerie Edouard Manet, Edouard Manet (2022); Wet resistance, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmunder (2022); Nuit Blanche, Villa Médicis, Rome (2022); Portrait de femmes, Musée Albert Marzelles, Marmande (2021); Because the night, New Galerie, Paris (2021); I feel boîte, Loggia, Vienne (2021); Prix Mezzanine Sud, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse (2021); (Non)Depleted, Design Biennal Online (2020); The Transparent Man, New scenario (2020); OUTSIDE WITHIN curated Gergana Todorova, ppcontemporary, Frankfurt-on-Main (2020); YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS, High art , Paris (2020); Jacques de Bascher, Treize , Paris (2020); Fun House curated by Cristina Ricupero, Parc saint léger, Pougues-les-Eaux (2020); Une table pour 50, Galerie pcp, Paris (2020); Material Art Fair, FUTURE gallery, Mexico (2020); Octopus, Ginny Frederick, London (2020); THE 4 GATE CONNECTION, Tatjana Pieters, Gent (2020).