Guided Tour: Emmanuelle Castellan – Sleeping Stories

Description

The Langmatt Museum presents the first institutional solo exhibition of the French artist Emmanuelle Castellan (*1976 in Aurillac, FR), who lives in Berlin, in Switzerland. For more than 25 years, she has worked in the field of painting and drawing, often with site-specific, painterly installations. After professorships in Toulouse (2012 to 2019) and Strasbourg (2019 to 2026), Emmanuelle Castellan was appointed in autumn 2026 as a professor of painting and drawing at the renowned Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. It is one of the most important art academies in Germany. In her solo exhibition, she shows around 25 paintings and eight small sculptural models. In this way, the exhibition provides an exemplary insight into her work of recent years. The exhibition takes place on the upper floor of the Langmatt, complemented by five paintings in the historic rooms on the ground floor in dialogue with works from the collection, e.g., by Camille Corot and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Here it becomes apparent how subtly the delicate painting of Emmanuelle Castellan reflects the enchanted atmosphere of the Langmatt and leads to new perceptions of the historic ensemble. Her painting balances dreamily between figuration and abstraction. People, faces, interiors, or vases appear sketchy, fragile, and permeable – like in a dream world, far from the noise and rushing speed of our present. Her works radiate a remarkable, sometimes liberating, sometimes oppressive silence and loneliness. With Daniela Minneboo, assistant curator.

Highlights

• First solo exhibition of Emmanuelle Castellan in Switzerland
• Around 25 paintings and eight sculptural models
• Dialogue with historic works by Corot and Renoir

General Information

The guided tour through the exhibition of Emmanuelle Castellan at the Langmatt Museum offers insight into the artist's works, which balance between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition shows her paintings and installations that reflect the atmosphere of the historic ensemble.

Location

Römerstrasse 30, 5400 Baden, Switzerland

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