Capucine Vandebrouck

 „In 1967, Robert Morris achieves in the Western Washington University an iconic work called Steam Cloud, a simple cloud of smoke emerging from the ground. At the time the American artist designs this work, it is a question of thinking about a work as a random shape, shifting and impermanent. He will talk about anti-form in a text published in 1968, in conflict with the canons of minimalism dominating the American artistic scene. From there you could pull the many strings of a star shaped artistic genealogy, where entropy, chance, fundamental ambiguity, immateriality, disappearances and decoy effects would be mixed together. It is in this frame that the work of Capucine Vandebrouck would be inserted, somewhere between the Dust Breeding of Duchamps and the „scribbles“ of Sol le Witt, between the proponents of arte povera and the Asphalt Rundown of Smithson, between the bitter elegance of Eva Hesse and the visual alchemies of Ann Veronica Janssens or Edith Dekyndt. (…) It is maybe this oscillation between belief and rational explanation of the world, that crosses the work of Capucine Vandebrouck. She doesn´t propose us to believe in what we see, but she doesn´t subscribe to minimalist doxa of the „what you see is what you see“ neither. The artist suggests rather that what can be seen is as much important as what can´t, what we know as intense as what isn´t told.“ Text: Marie Cozette, Rome, January 2017

Capucine Vandebrouck is a sculptor and photographer graduated from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art of Bourges and the Marc Bloch faculty. She lives and works in Strasbourg.
She has taken part in numerous artist residencies and received several awards and research grants. 
Capucine Vandebrouck was awarded the Ouest-Ost residency (partnership with the Institute Francais of Berlin, FEFA, and the Goethe Institute, Berlin (D) in 2017; the studio residence of Lindre-Basse (F) in 2014; the residency of the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg in partnership with the CEAAC and the French Institute, Stuttgart (D) in 2014 and the RAVI, artist residence Vivegnis international, Liège (B) in 2013 a.o. The most recent stipends (2022) were the individual creation grant from the DRAC Alsace (F) and the creation grant from the Région Grand Est (F), which enabled her to obtain a research grant to undertake a 3-month trip to the Yukon Territory (Can). 
Her work has been shown in art museums, institutions and galleries such as Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH); Musée d´Art Moderne et d´Art Contemporain MAMAC, Nice (F); CEAAC, Strasbourg (F); Musée La Grande Place, Saint-Louis-les-Bitches (F); Goethe Institute, Nancy (F); Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen (D); La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (F); Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, F; Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Saint Étienne, F; Galerie Houg, Paris, F; Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D

Capucine Vandebrouck's work has been represented by Berlin gallery Gilla Loercher since 2017.