artist/ Maigne

France

Born in 1965, Christine Maigne lives and works in Paris (Villejuif). She studied art at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Art & Design department), before earning a Master’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of Paris I – Sorbonne, followed by the Agrégation in Fine Arts. Alongside her artistic practice, Christine Maigne teaches at ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres (Paris), where she trains students in applied arts and artistic research.
Since the 1990s, she has explored organic dynamics—growth, germination, metamorphosis—through a sensitive universe oscillating between nature, materiality, and interiority. Her work takes many different forms: site-specific installations, permanent sculptures, studio series, photographs, and videos. In 1999, during a stay in Montreal, she created one of her first major site-specific installations with Le Potager—a 500 m² urban project.
She has taken part in more than 50 exhibitions, installations, and site-specific projects across Europe and Canada. Among these are In Vitro (Paris, 2014), Rémanence II (Paris), various site-specific projects in Canada, and public-space installations. In 2022, her monograph Rhizome Cupules Éclosion was published, documenting four of her permanent works, accompanied by a text by art historian Paul Ardenne.
Christine Maigne has also created permanent artworks in public spaces through architectural and landscape commissions—combining sculpture, space, and living environments—showing that her practice addresses both the intimate and the collective, the poetic and the urban. Through series such as Implants (2005), Rémanence (2010), and In Vitro (2014), she examines the notions of “environment,” “growth,” and “germ”—as if nature and the organic emerged within a neutral, suspended, sometimes artificial space.
A striking example is the video installation White Pulse (2015–2016): a moving, granular white surface projected in a loop, evoking organic membranes, vital flows, and uncertain metamorphoses—blurring the boundary between the natural, the synthetic, and the imaginary.