Paulinea Brami

About

My painting explores unstable spaces between apparition and disappearance — traversable places where different perceptions, temporalities, and states of transformation coexist. Figures, animals, and forms resembling imaginary writings emerge through fragments, like fleeting presences that resist any fixed definition.

Based in France, between forest and coastline, I draw inspiration from landscapes in continual transformation.  Drawing on mythology, ecology, and ideas of transformation, I create paintings and installations that invite viewers into uncertain spaces, where perception can shift and new relationships between inner and outer worlds may emerge.

Residencies & Grants

2025 — Glacier Research Residency, Iceland Supported by the University of Iceland & the Icelandic Art Center
2025 — ADAGP × Google Grant
2024 — Artistic Research Residency, Fontainebleau, France
2022 — Research Residency, Liège, Belgium
2019 — Kenza Grant, Institut de France

Education

2021 — Master degree, Beaux-Arts de Paris
2019 — Exchange Program, Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavik
2018 — Bachelor, Beaux-Arts de Paris

Selected Exhibitions

2026 — Between the Rooms, duo exhibition with Paul Hinstin, Former Prison of Fontainebleau, France

2025 — Neither Outside, Nor Above, Nor Below, but Deep Within Us, solo exhibition, Centre d'art de La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, France

Blueness / Jöklablámi, group exhibition, Hjalteyri Center for Contemporary Art, Iceland cur. by Þóranna Dögg Björnsdóttir

2024 — Enveloppe, group exhibition, Maison Bleue, Larchant, France

2023 — Sexifiction, Ond Collective, La Tour-Orion, Montreuil, France

2022 — Voyage au café reflets, Espace Cerise, Paris cur. by Marie Brines
A Parallel View Point, Les Moulins, Galleria Continua, France
Movement of Wai, the Seeds of Change, Le Lac, Brussels, Belgium