NoArt is a French artist born in 1965. First, he spent the first part of his artistic career recreating and revisiting impossible worlds, linked to the teeming imaginaries of Jules Vernes or J. M. Barrie, in a Steam Punk aesthetic, close to the urban scene and other subcultures, while making gaps in all the other directions offered to his imagination.
From this period, NoArt keeps the taste of fun and the re-enchantment of an imperfect world.
For the past 10 years, the luminokinetic universe has burst into the artist’s practice, which he falsely transposes into the field of design, sometimes with a kitsch aesthetic, to better divert the codes of contemporary society.
Mischievousness is there and the return to the games of form and language are the weapons of a Peter Pan who has become an adult but who, as a slightly mad inventor, still has a disillusioned look at our daily lives: everything is turned upside down to create a laugh of resistance.
Bling, rhinestones and sequins that seem to reflect money and power are in the spotlight, NoArt creates nose-feet. Thus, from its safes (luminous mirrors reflecting infinite wealth), armoured rickshaws (symbol of the point of tension between the poor and the wealthy), Offshore Machines (washing machines for laundering money), through ATMs, to the real scale vault, NoArt sets out the excesses of obsession and thirst for money. Indeed, as a mirror, it mocks but nevertheless proposes another way, always anchored in science fiction: vortexes that are like real doors to elsewhere or Organic modules where the machine seems to become alive and the light, a flow of a soothing and comforting energy. Always in play of appearances and deceiving the eye, magic works and puts us in front of a choice: connivance and impertinence or a beautiful escape.
SHOWS & FAIRS
Solo Shows
2025 – “All that glitters is not gold” – Solo-show – Villa del Arte – Barcelone (ES)
2024 – “Meet the Artist” – Solo-show – Galerie Bartoux Art & Design – Paris 8 (FR)
2023 – “Carry-On” – Solo-show – Galerie Bartoux Honfleur (FR)
2022 – “Casino” – Solo-show – Galerie Bartoux Matignon – Paris 8 (FR)
2012 – “Infinitus” – Solo-show – Galerie WO Fine Art – Miami (US)
2011 – “Vending Machines” – Solo-show – Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris 6 (FR)
2010 – “L’explosition” – Solo-show – Galerie(s) Artima – Paris 4 et 3 (FR)
2010 – “ACMÉ” – Solo-show (edition of a catalogue) – Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris 6 (FR)
2008 – “Sous pression” – Solo-show – Galerie(s) Artima – Paris 4 et 3 (FR)
2007 – “Mise(s) en boîte(s)” off-site exhibition – Art Center “La Lune en parachute“- Épinal (FR)
2006 – “En Seine” – Solo-show – Galerie Eric de Montbel – Paris 6 (FR)
1998 – “Aventures Spaciales” – Duo Exhibition with Jérôme Mesnager – Galerie Transversale – Paris 3 (FR)
1997 – “Machines” – Duo Exhibition with Jérôme Mesnager – Galerie Kahn – Strasbourg (FR)
Art Fairs
2017 – “Art Bocaraton” – Miami (US)
2017 – “Art Palm Beach” – Miami (US)
2017 – 2016 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 – “Art Miami” (US)
2017 – 2016 – 2015 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 – “Art Wynwood” – Miami (US)
2016 – “Art Southampton” – Southampton (UK)
2016 – “Kunstrai Amsterdam” – Amsterdam (NL)
2016 – “Art New York” – New York (US)
2016 – “PAD” – Paris (FR)
2016 – 2011 – “Scope Miami Beach” – Miami (US)
2016 – 2015 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 – 2011 – 2010 – “Art Paris Art Fair”- Paris (FR)
2016 – “Art Stage Singapore” – Singapore (SG)
2016 – 2015 “Masters Luxury” – Amsterdam (NL)
2016 – 2015 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 – “London Art Fair”- Londres (UK)
2015 – “Art Taipei” – Taipei (TW)
2015 – 2014 – “Context Art Miami” – Miami (US)
2015 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 – 2011 – 2010 – 2009 – “Art Élysées” – Paris (FR)
2014 – “Art Up” – Lille (FR)
2014 – “AAF Brussels” (BE)
2104 – “Art Palm Beach” – Miami (US)
2014 – “India Art Fair” – New Delhi (IN)
2014 – 2013 – 2008 – “St’Art”- Strasbourg (FR)
2013 – “Pulse Miami” – Miami (US)
2013 – “Battersea Evolution” – Londres (UK)
2013 – “Huston Fine Art Fair” – Huston (US)
2013 – “AAF Hampstead” – Londres (UK)
2013 – “Pulse New York” – New York (US)
2013 – “Art 13” – Londres (UK)
2010 – “Lille Art Fair” – Lille (FR)
2008 – “Art London” – Londres (UK)
2007 – “Artenim” – Nimes (FR)
Group Shows
2022 – Opening Galerie Bartoux – Saint Tropez (FR)
2018 – Opening Galerie Bartoux Matignon – Paris 8 (FR)
2018 – 2025 – Permanent exhibition Galerie Bartoux worldwide
2015 – 2018 – Permanent exhibition Opera Gallery worldwide
2016 – “Shades Of Blue” – Opera Gallery – Monaco (MC)
2015 – “Noart + Bae Joon Sung” – Opera Gallery – Hong Kong (CN)
2015 – “Cutting Edge – Technology meets Art” – Opera Gallery – Singapore (SG)
2014 – “Séquences – Lumières et Cinétiques” – Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris 6 (FR)
2013 – “Lights !” – WO Fine Art – Miami (US)
2013 – “Lights !” – Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris 6 (FR)
2012 – “Oh… my gode !” – Galerie Hubert Konrad – Paris 8 (FR)
2010 – “Love Or Sex” – Galerie Brugier Rigail – Paris 4 (FR)
2009 – “Gaude Mihi”- Galerie Pascal Vanoecke – Paris 3 (FR)
2008 – “400 ml” – (edition of a book) – Maison des metallos – Paris 11 (FR)
2008 – “Noart + Yves Pagart” – Galerie Projection – Bruxelles (BE)
2008 – 2007 – Permanent exhibition – Galerie Artdeshom – Bordeaux (FR)
2007 – “Move Your Art”- Installation-performance – Espace des Blancs-Manteaux – Paris 4 (FR)
2006 – “Légendes Urbaines” – (edition of a book) – Galerie G – Paris 16 (FR)
2006 – “Aux Arts Citoyens” – Installation-performance – Espace des Blancs-Manteaux – Paris 4 (FR)
2005 – “Dites 33” – La Condition Publique – Roubaix (FR)
2005 – “Deck‘On” – Travelling exhibition – Montpellier, Paris, Alpe d’Huez, Bienne…(FR – CH)
2005 – “Section Urbaine” – Installation (edition of a book) – Espace des Blancs-Manteaux – Paris 4 (FR)
2005 – Creation of the association “Art dans la Ville” with Speedy Graphito
2004 – 2005 – “La métamorphose des matériaux” – Espace des Blancs-Manteaux – Paris 4 (FR)
1999 – “Paris Contemporâneo” – Art Center of Lisbonne (ES)
Art galleries
Galeries Bartoux worldwide (FR – US – UK – IT – MC)
The Vault – Brussel (BE)
Villa del Arte – Barcelone (ES) – Amsterdam (NL) – Bodrum (TR)
The Core fine Art – Los Angeles (US)
The Gallery – Doha (Q)
Cafmeyer gallery – Knokke (BE)
Seven to Height gallery – Hambourg (DE)
Institutions
2024 – Mandarin Oriental – Bankers Bar Art installation – Barcelone (ES)
2016 – Chanel private Art Collection – Paris (FR)
2014 – Galila Barzilaï-Hollander private Art collection – Bruxelles (BE)
2013 – Peggy Cooper Kafritz private Art collection- Washington D.C (US)
2012 – Public commission – Paris 13 city hall – Light-Art sculptures – Main staircase (FR)
2008 – Public commission – Paris 4 city hall – Design of the mayor’s office (FR)
2008 – Château Giscours private Art Collection – Bordeaux (FR)
2007 – Retrospective exhibition – Art Center “La Lune en parachute“- Épinal (FR)
Artist residence
2009 – 2004 – « Artist In Residence » – The Dune – Pondichery (IN)
