Sosthè ne Baran

du jour
Par désir, par hasard
J’aime plus l’été
Bloc-notes
De la tendresse
Antifer
Divinités, fleurs, plis et replis
Repeupler nos mondes

Texts
About

Archive

Pour l’instant
Cinéma
[sic]
Can't
Packt Like Sardines In a Crushd Tin Box
Abyss
Scroll
H+
7/12/80
O.P
Marsyas
Des moitiés
Good Afternoon
Isidro 2
Duo
The juggler
La peinte
Fake
Isidro
Études de paysages
Fata Morgana
Chambre 3
Chaise Kasparov
Trombinoscope
Double 2
X-files
Sunn
Chambre 116
Aura
Rendlesham
Chambre 1
Souffle
Groom lake
Dessous
I want to believe
Le jet
The wardrobe
M1, M2, M3
Astronautes
Sans titre
T-1000
Sans têtes
Sans titre
Boom !
Apolo
Sans titre
Plie
La porte
Sans titre
Toupet
Bathing women
Gisant 1
Gisant 2
Humain d’acier
Miroir
Bételgeuse
Sans titre
3 poissons
Turin
Double
UBU
AA
Madone du grand duc 2
King
Skull 2
Skull
Rip, Thom
Tunnel
Stay
Test 2
Drapé
Test 3
Vitry
Madone
Sky
Mirage
Bob Ross painting
Antifer

Portfolio

Portfolio-En.pdf
Portfolio-Fr.pdf
Catalogue.

Sosthène Baran lives and works in Paris.
sosthenebaran@gmail.com
+33 6 32 07 76 28

Sosthène Baran (b. 1990, Blois) lives and works in Paris, where he is based at POUSH. He graduated in 2020 from the École Supérieure d’Arts & Médias in Caen/Cherbourg.

His work brings together painting, found objects, and sculpture. Using constructed or reclaimed wooden supports, he develops layered compositions where light, texture, and gesture create a quiet, dreamlike space. Drawing on science fiction, the supernatural, and religious imagery, his practice explores the relationships between material, form, and belief.

His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Le Radar Art Center (Bayeux), Galerie Panis (Rouen), Galerie C (Paris), and LE SHED Contemporary Art Center (Normandy), and in group exhibitions including Art Paris, Art Brussels, the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), and FRAC Normandy (Caen). He has completed residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts and Villa Belleville in Paris.

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Minuit et lumière, Le Radar Art Center, Bayeux (Fr).
2024 Du jour, Panis, Rouen (Fr).

Par désir, par hasard, Galerie C, Paris.

2023 Trust no one, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
2022 Antifer, LE SHED Contemporary Art Center, Rouen (Fr).

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Dormir Debout, Frac Normandie, Caen (Fr).

Prix de peinture Novembre à Vitry, Winner, Galerie municipale Jean Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine (Fr).
Les fous de l’avenir, Galerie C, Paris.
Paysages incertains, Galerie C, Paris.
Lutter !, Panis, Rouen (Fr).
Knal Patronen, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris.
Participation in Art Paris with Galerie Panis and Art Brussels with Galerie C.

2024 Hello World, Possibility Something Tomorrow, Paris.

Le Soleil des morts, curated by Margaux Knight and Eladio Aguilera, Cité Falguière, Paris.
Changing Times, Galerie C, Paris.
À fleur de paume, Galerie Dilecta, Paris.
De la tendresse 2, curated by Eliott Paquet, Poush, Aubervilliers (Fr).

2023 J’aime plus l’été, Paris.

Bloc-notes, curated by Tiffany Dornoy and Anna Marckwald, Villa Belleville, Paris (Fr).
De la tendresse, curated by Eliott Paquet, Placement Produit, Aubervilliers (Fr).
Le retour de la narration, curated by Marie Maertens, Accuracy, Paris.

2022 The quick brown fox, Le 4 artist-run space, Rennes (Fr).

LCDLK, Usine Utopik Art Center, Tessy-sur-Vire (Fr).

2021 De Visu, Le Radar Art Center, Bayeux (Fr).

Divinités, fleurs, plis et replis, curated by Sophie Vinet, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon (Fr).

2020 DATA-BAT, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon (Fr).
2019 Prix de peinture Novembre à Vitry, finalist and exhibited, Galerie municipale Jean Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine (Fr).

Grants and Awards

2025 Winner of Prix de peinture Novembre à Vitry, Galerie Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine (Fr).
Finalist of the Carré sur Seine Prize 2024.
2022 Individual Creation Grant, DRAC Normandie (Fr).
2021 Creation Support Fund for Visual Artists, Caen (Fr).
2020 Research and Creation Grant, RN13bis.

Residencies

2023 Soudain l’été prochain, DRAC Normandie.

Villa Belleville, Paris.
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Publications and Texts

2026 Publication in Art Absolument.
2025 Interview for Slash Magazine.

2024 Cette œuvre devant nous, text by Marc Donnadieu for Du jour, Panis, Rouen.
2023 Le retour de la narration, text by Marie Maertens for the eponymous exhibition.
2022 Publication in In-sert magazine No. 1 by RN13bis, with a text by Elena Lespes Muñoz.
Interview for Fomo-vox.com on the occasion of the exhibition Antifer at LE SHED.
2021 Bliss, text by Fiona Vilmer, in the exhibition catalogue Divinités, fleurs, plis et replis, Les Bains-Douches Editions, edited by Sophie Vinet, design by Martha Salimbeni.
2020 RN13bis “État d’urgence”.

Other Activities

2024 Professional meetings with RN13bis in Caen and Carré sur Seine in Boulogne (Fr).
2023 Professional trip to Berlin organized by RN13bis.
SHIFT#3, professional development program for artists in Île-de-France (amac & French Ministry of Culture).
2022 Interview of In-sert magazine No. 1, 2angles Art Center, Flers (Fr).
2021 Professional meetings with RN13bis in Caen and Carré sur Seine in Boulogne (Fr).
Artistic interventions in schools, De Visu program (DRAC Normandie) (Fr).

Collections

Artothèque de Caen (Fr), FRAC Normandie (Fr), City of Vitry sur seine (Fr) and private collections in France and abroad.

Education

2020 DNSEP, Art option, ESAM, Caen (Fr).
2018 DNAP, Art option, ESAM, Caen (Fr).
2017 Diploma in Graphic Design, EPSAA, Ivry-sur-Seine (Fr).
2012 Diploma in Decorative Painting, INFA, Tremblay-en-France (Fr).