b. 1991
Lives and works in Paris, France
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Solo exhibitions

2024 — Carbone, galerie La Ville A des Arts, Paris
2023 — Peinture, cur. Jeanne Gatard & Emmanuelle Sacchet, CHB Paul Brousse, Villejuif
2022 — Valentin Bajolle, Kalt Artspace, Strasbourg
2022 — Peintures + Dessins, galerie La Ville A des Arts, Paris
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Group exhibitions

2025 — (upcoming) m2 d’artistes, cur. Orian Arrachart, 6B, Saint-Denis
2024 — Novembre à Vitry, Galerie municipale Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine
2024 — Échos sauvages, cur. Cassandre Lepicard, Espace Nonono, Montreuil
2024 — Vectrix Dissidentxtes, cur. Fanny Testas, Tour Orion, Montreuil
2024 — 0,64 m2, cur. Orian Arrachart & Noélie Bernard, Espace Nonono, Montreuil
2024 — Festival non-étoile, Tour Orion, Montreuil
2024 — Komet, Tour Orion, Montreuil
2023 — Décembre à Montreuil, Tour Orion, Montreuil
2023 — Art Actuel, National Art Center, Tokyo
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Teaching

2022 — Drawing, Penninghen, Paris
2022 — Drawing, Atelier Hourdé, Paris
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Education

2018 — Master II — Art direction, Penninghen, Paris
2017 — Student exchange, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
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Every year since 1969, the Prix international de peinture Novembre à Vitry has brought together hundreds of candidates and awarded two winners. Open to artists up to the age of 40 who propose a body of work focusing on painting, it provides an opportunity to explore all the possibilities of this medium. Renewed painting, in the image of the influences that run through it.

With Valentin Bajolle, Lou Berthevas, Océane Blaret, Anthony Bodin, Marius Buet, Tom Chatenet, Flore Chemin, Weiwei Chu, Sun Jaegal, Luke James, Louis Lanne, Dino Lettieri, Alice Meteignier, Victor Pueyo, Brieuc Rémy, Pacôme Ricciardi, Marie Rousseau, Robin Suiffet, Salomé Taverne-Antoine and Marina Vandra.

The exhibition Echos sauvages invites us to an intimate exploration of the natural world, an immersion in the invisible and unexplored. Through the eyes of Valentin Bajolle, Antoine Bataille, Jeanne Held, Thomas Julliot-Decker and Cassandre Lepicard, it reveals the hidden aspects of nature – those elements that we don’t immediately perceive, but which reveal their essence when we know how to wait, observe or dig deeper.

This exhibition is an ode to slowness, to waiting, to gradual unveiling. Each piece becomes a gateway to a wild world that, far from being a romantic vision of nature, confronts us with its complexity. Échos sauvages offers a journey into the invisible and the unexpected, an encounter with living things in all their forms, where observation becomes an act of discovery, respect and deep reconnection with the wild.

espace Nonono, Tour Orion
12 – 16 Rue de Vincennes 93100 Montreuil

Group exhibition of non-étoile artists following the curatorial residency of Fanny Testas. With : Orian Arrachart, Valentin Bajolle, Max Blotas, Lisa Bravi & Aurélia Casse, Ferdinand Campos, Anaïs de Courson, Marine Feuillade, Denis Gressent, Nicolas Lallemand, Fanny Papot, Hélène Paris

Tour Orion – 14 rue de Vincennes – 93100 Montreuil
Curation by Fanny Testas
Graphic design by Camille Giunti

Conceived by Noélie Bernard and Orian Arrachart , 0,64 m² is a group exhibition project designed to showcase the visible and invisible links that exist between the practices and thoughts of artists from the non-étoile collective.

50 artists from the collective have been invited to occupy 50 0.64 m² plots at espace nonono. Following the coexistence of their works in a cadastral space, and at the end of a meeting organised during the setting up of the exhibition, each artist is invited to fill in one or more room sheets for the public, highlighting existing and future connections.

Graphic design: Nora Freynet
Photographs: Anne Eppler Anne Eppler

Several members of the collective have come together around the idea of interaction. Each has imagined a work that can be (re)invented by its environment, by other artists or by visitors. From potential alteration to the expectation of activation, the works invite you to move.

List of artists : Orian Arrachart, Valentin Bajolle, Raphaël Bastide, Lana Boulhol, Lisa Bravi, Éléonore Cochener, Azadeh Cohen Mercury, Anaïs de Courson, Simon Déliot, Marine Feuillade, Léa Guillout, Thomas Julliot–Decker, Tessa Kugel, Cassandre Lepicard, Julia Piccolo, Julie Poirée, Marine Prunier, Harold Roger, Soulover, Joseph Tinsley, Hugo Vessiller–Fonfreide, Mélanie Yvon.

Carbon is common to all known forms of life. It is the fourth most abundant element in the universe and the second most abundant in the human body. The landscapes that Valentin Bajolle creates using charcoal (a tool largely made up of carbon) tell the story of this living matter, in motion, in front of which the viewer is a passing witness.

Whatever the scale chosen to measure, nothing that belongs to the physical world is fixed in time or space. Like charcoal, itself the product of a series of transformations, the works capture the fragment of an ongoing metamorphosis. This metamorphosis takes place over an indefinite interval. Are we witnessing the genesis of something? Is there really a beginning and an end? At what point in the cycle are we?

These forms evolve in a space that extends beyond the paper. They show themselves, protrusions whose origin remains invisible to our eyes, epiphenomena of a parallel nature that it is up to us to explore.

Presentation of a painting at the exhibition Décembre à Montreuil 2024.
Tour Orion – 16 Rue de Vincennes 12, 93100 Montreuil
Friday — Sunday : 10:00 – 19:00

Solo exhibition at the Hepato-Biliary Centre of the Paul Brousse Hospital, with the association Le Temps du Regard. With the support of the Ministry of Culture, the City of Villejuif and the Paul-Brousse Hospital. Curators: Jeanne Gatard & Emmanuelle Sacchet

Solo exhibition at Kalt Artspace (Strasbourg) from november 5 to december 10 2022.

Sorry, this entry is only available in French.

Presentation of a painting selected for the Salon d’Automne 2022.
Grande Halle de la Villette — 211 Av. Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris
friday : 10:00 – 20:00 ; saturday : 10:00 – 22:00 ; sunday : 10:00 – 18:00

Valentin Bajolle answers questions from Penninghen School : interview

Solo exhibition at La Ville A des Arts gallery (Paris) from February 14 to 27, 2022. Each work offers an imaginary landscape, a micro-geography governed by physical phenomena in relation to nature: erosion, eruption, fusion, growth.