Caroline Le Méhauté

Caroline Le Méhauté lives and works in Brussels. She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille, and develops a practice that spans sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, and collective protocols.

Her work explores living materials, processes of transformation, and sensitive relationships between humans and non-humans, with a particular focus on ecological and social issues.

She is the recipient of the Art Collector Prize (2020), the Carré sur Seine Prize (2021), the Marie-Louise Jacques mention for contemporary sculpture (2022), and the Transformative Territories mention from the COAL Prize (2024), and exhibits regularly in Belgium, France, and internationally.

Her work has been presented in venues such as La Médiatine (Brussels), The Elemental (Palm Springs), the Nirox Foundation (South Africa), Block T (Dublin), Postfuhramt West (Berlin), Spazio Testoni (Bologna), and the National Museum of Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou), as well as during Marseille-Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture. Her works are included in numerous public and private collections, such as the Marseille Municipal Contemporary Art Fund, the Léo Lagrange Artothèque (Paris), and the Musée des Abattoirs (Toulouse), and have also been the subject of public commissions, including Les murmures du temps (artistic direction Maison Gutenberg, Communauté de communes du Pays de l’Arbresle, Rhône Department) and the Collège Olympe de Gouges (Marseille).

Four monographs have been published on her work: Activité des obliques, Art [ ] Collector editions (2020); Horizons, Usine Utopik (2016); Le calcul des Moments, Centre Culturel Wolubilis (2014); Créer en creux, Muntaner editions (2013).

Through the Tellus Project, she engages in active reflection on the restoration of degraded soils, combining artistic, ecological, and scientific approaches and involving citizens in workshops and collective protocols.

How to situate oneself? How to connect? How to inhabit the world differently?

These questions run through her entire practice, where the artistic gesture unfolds as both an intimate exploration and an address to the collective.