Carole Ebtinger

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Carole Ebtinger (1995, VN/FR) works like a painter, building each work layer by layer without knowing in advance when it will be finished. She uses pure ink, pastel and adds a combination of pure pigment, glue and water directly into the paper. Dry pastel is added to refine the vague, nature-inspired forms. The movements and intensity of these shapes reflect the different periods she navigates in life, where emotional awareness becomes an important influence among various personal and contextual forces.

Some titles refer to conversations with loved ones and other social relationships, while others are drawn from literature that speaks to her during the creation process. The emotional freedom she has experienced in recent years is clearly visible in the increasingly expressive gestures that emerge in her recent work. These recent works reveal a newly found, ecstatic sense of freedom and happiness through captivating colours, movement and layered materiality.

Carole Ebtinger graduated with a Masters in Drawing from La Cambre (Brussels, 2018) and was awarded the Eeckman Art Prize by Art on Paper, Brussels (2021). This year she finished her residency at The Fores Project in London (UK) and has had a solo in London (UK) (South Parade in 2023) and Los Angeles (USA) (Sarah Brook gallery in 2023 and 2025). In the past years she also participated in several group shows at BARBÉ and many other venues. In 2025 she had a solo show at BARBÉ ‘Ma Première Extase Était Bleue’ which was her Belgian gallery solo debut.