Rachel Labastie

EXHIBITIONS

May 15 – June 30, 2025 – “Territories of Breath” at Le Transfo, Paris, France – Curated by Marc Donnadieu

May 16 – November 4, 2025 – “Engaged”, Villa Datris Foundation, France

May 23 – September 21, 2025 – “Collector”, Botanical Garden, Bordeaux, France

June 15 – September 5, 2025 – “Care and Healing”, Vaska Emanuilova Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria – Curated by Galina Dimitrova

September 4 – October 26, 2025 – “Loom of the Land”, Botanique Greenhouses, Brussels, Belgium

EVENTS

September 3, 2025: Performance – Invisible Foundations – on the forecourt of Botanique, Brussels, Belgium

Sculptor and performer Rachel Labastie (born in 1978) works in ceramics, weaving, and many unusual materials such as raw clay, wicker and ashes. Her art is both deeply rooted in the material and conceptually rich. Through her artistic practice, she pursues the search for a profound truth about humanity, sometimes buried under the weight of history, and often under the artificiality of our lives. Through a wide variety of universes and materials, Rachel Labastie invites us to immerse ourselves into what binds humanity and connects us over time to our history and nature.

Rachel had an important solo exhibition at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in 2021-2022. Her work has been exhibited at Maison rouge, at the FRACs Auvergne, Hauts de France and Nouvelle Aquitaine (MECA), at the Le Magasin de Grenoble Art Center, Huarte art center in Spain, at the TMAG in Hobart in Tasmania, at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, at the Kéramis Museum in La louvière (BE), at the ICEC in Istanbul, at the Château des Adhémar and the Château du Rivau, at the Espace Doual’art in Cameroon, at the Museum of Decorative Arts in the city in Paris, at the Bernard Magrez Foundation, at the Transpalette art center, or more recently at the Parvis de Tarbes art center, La Banque Béthune and les Hortillonnages in Amiens.