On Tuesday, 23 June 2026, 6 p.m., French artist Charlotte Houette will give a lecture on her artistic practice. Location: Room 103/104, Villa, Campus Design, Neuwerk 7, 06108 Halle (Saale)
Charlotte Houette explores the unstable relationships between surface and depth, image and object, visibility and concealment through painting. Drawing on optical patterns, distorted grids, digital imagery, and the legacy of Op Art, her work challenges perception and the apparent stability of the picture plane. Windows, apertures, and movable structures disrupt the canvas surface, transforming painting into a space of movement, uncertainty, and play.
Alongside her artistic practice, she has developed collective projects focused on research and knowledge-sharing since 2016. She is the co-founder of The Cheapest University, an artist-run alternative school in Paris, and the initiator of EAAPES, a research platform dedicated to feminist science fiction.
The lecture will be held in english.
Charlotte Houette was born 1983 in France. She lives and works between Paris and La Courneuve. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at High Art, South Studio at LUMA Foundation, Treignac Project, and CAC Brétigny. She is the recipient of the 25th Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize and will be a fellow at the Villa Medici – French Academy in Rome for the 2026–2027 residency program.
