Juliette Teste (France, 1986) lives in Paris and works in Le-Pré-Saint-Gervais, where she co-founded the collective studio ARC. Her vase-drawings are the result of a multi-layered collage process – a repertoire of ancient forms layered with a distinctive palette of luminous or powdery enamels, inspired by both ancient frescoes and pop culture.These unique pieces – clay sketches with spirited gestures – form a collection that offers a unique and highly personal interpretation of art history, interwoven with freeform narrative elements.
Image : Tom Modol
̋ Juliette’s work is largely informed by the poetics of archeology, addressing themes of imminent catastrophe, disappearance and the trace that organic forms — flowers, water and other living creatures can leave despite the passing of time.
Working in multiple scales, ranging from miniature figures to larger, trophy-like bodies, colour, texture and volume are addressed as one, allowing for each subject to emerge as live renderings of stories past. ̏ — Francesca Sabatini
Image : Marion Berrin
Press
Teste's work has been featured in AD, D la Repubblica, Galerie Magazine, Milk, Sight Unseen, Vogue, Wallpaper, WWD, and mentioned in ArtForum, Beaux-Arts magazine, Family Style, Harper's Bazaar US, M le Monde, Mastermind magazine, and Town & Country.
Solo exhibitions
2026
Carven collaboration, Carven Champs-Élysées & Antonia Milan
2024
YOU AND I ARE EARTH, Atelier Lardeur, Paris
Group exhibitions
2026
Object’s Library, Officina Allegra, Palermo
2025
Sleeping with Ghosts, Contributions festival, Paris
ARC chez ARP, ARP Auctions, Paris
Légendes botaniques, Alain Cervantès collection, Menthon St Bernard castle
Peculiar manufactures, with Zoé Mohm, Catskill Octagon House, NY
2024
C14, Paris
Déjà Vu, Zodiac pictures gallery, Los Angeles
Treehouse, Lindon Gallery, June, London
Douze, Nuit Blanche, Paris
2023
Itinérance Expressive design, Paris
Objects without thoughts never to heaven go, 491 projects, Paris
100 years, Paris - personal exhibition
Pique-nique dans un million d'années, Gaudel de Stampa gallery, Paris
Absent de Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2022
Distant though near, Rosemarie Auberson, Francis Gallery, Bath
education
Masters degree, IFM, Paris, 2012
Master’s level diploma in Applied Arts (DSAA), Duperré, Paris, 2011
Visual Arts, 1st year — Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg, 2005
Co-founder of ARC, collaborative artists studio, Le Pré St-Gervais, 2019
Image : Chloé Le Drezen