Karine Bonneval
born in 1970 at La Rochelle, lives in Center of France since 2010

Karine Bonneval's transdisciplinary practice proposes alternative ecologies for breathing, moving and listening with the plant world. By summoning popular and scientific culture in her pieces, she invites humans to "phytomorphism", to live for a moment a shared time with plants, in dialogue with the air, the ground, gravity. Her work on plants leads her to build rhyzomatic projects that involve people from different worlds, botanists, gardeners, cooks and inhabitants of the places where she is invited to design her projects.

In collaboration with teams of scientists in plant ecophysiology and pedology, her projects look for ways to interact differently with the rest of the living world: Institut Diversité, Ecologie et Evolution du Vivant and NeuroPsi, University of Paris-Saclay / INRAe PIAF, Clermont Ferrand / LASIRE, University of Lille / LadHyX, CNRS-École Polytechnique / Rillig Lab, Freïe Universität Berlin / Soil and crops science section, Cornell University, USA.
After graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts d'Angoulème and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, K. Bonneval has exhibited in France (Nuit Blanche / Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire / Micro-Onde / la Maréchalerie / la Graineterie / le Transpalette ...), Germany (Bourse Perspektive / Botanical museum Berlin), Latvia (Un/Green Exhibition), Denmark (AroS contemporary art museum, Haarus), USA (Cornell experimental gallery), Argentina (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires), Sri Lanka (Cinnamon Colomboscope).
With scientist Eric Badel (INRAE PIAF) and Studio Décalé, she won the Carasso Foundation grant "Composing knowledge" in 2019. She is a laureate of the Grantham Foundation residency in Québec in 2023, of the villa Saïgon in 2025.

Karine Bonneval
Lives and works in Cher / Born in  La Rochelle 1970

Since 2012
Solo or duo shows
2025
Le chuchotement des écosystèmes, with Tondeur, la science de l’art La crypte d’Orsay
Hoa Tay IDECAF, Ho Chi Minh city
2km4_fo a joyful ecology, avec Anaïs Tondeur, En commun(s) biennal SIANA Lumen, Paris-Saclay university
C’est avant tout une lente fabrique de bois, with Guillaume Hutzler, SIANA UL, Evry-Paris-Saclay university
2024
Vertimus, SIANA Césaria Evora gallery, Evry
La carte n’est pas le territoire, with Mériol Lehmann, curator Josiane Poirier Grantham foundation, Drummondville, Québec
Se planter, récolter le soleil et cultiver la pluie, commissariat SIANA Chamarande domain
2023
Berkanan Philosopher’s gallery, Carla Bayle
Do trees dream of CO2? Performance with Per Hüttner               Bioart Society, Helsinki / Korpöstrom ; Kuntsi modern Artmuseum, Vaasa, Finland / Teatermaskinen, Sweden
2022
Langue des Bois, with Shoï, Mondes multiples Antre Peaux, Bourges
2021
Déséquilibres, La science de l'art, with Julie C.Fortier Commanderie, Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Ecouter la terre Commanderie, Saint Quentin en Yvelines
2020
Le bruissement des solides, with Chloé Silbano A 2 pas du Sacre, Reims
Concordanse sauvage, with Sarah Battaglia Art Center Arteppes, Annecy
2019
Vertimus Experimental gallery, Cornell University, USA
Manger la terre, culinary performance Maison du conte, Chevilly Larue
Manger la terre, culinary performance Cahors-Juin-Jardins
Se planter, with Emilie Pouzet, Karen Houle, curator Studio décalé Malakoff city party
2018
Sometimes I hear the plants whisper Berlin’s botanic museum
L’âme des écorces, curator Dominique Truco Louise Michel gallery, Poitiers
Comme un frisson assoupi, with Julie C. Fortier Micro-onde, Vélizy Villacoublay
2017
Les explorateurs Patrimonial library, Cahors-Juin-Jardins
Botaniques Berry Grand Sud
2016
Admirables Chaumont sur Loire domain
Chansons de gestes, with Charlotte Poulsen International ceramic center, la Borne
2015
Dendromité, curator Gunther Ludwig Art and Design school, Orléans
La cueillette, culinary performance with Carole Bélénus La Graineterie, Houilles
2012
Explorateurs Alliance Française, Buenos Aires, Argentine
Moteurs ! La borne du POCTB, La Châtre
Je cherche des parfums nouveaux, des fleurs plus larges, des plaisirs inéprouvés La Maréchalerie, Versailles
Hybrides véhicules Martine et Thibault de la Châtre gallery , Paris

collective shows
2025
RIXC Festival Kim? Contemporary art center, Riga , Latvia
Jardiner Sciences and industry city, Paris
Etre à la nature Art and sciences chair,  Paris-Saclay university
Aramu /ikiamia La Maison Composer, Saints-en-Puisaye
EcoArt: between human and non-human agencies Museum of non conformist art, Saint Petersbourg, Russia
Le four, Bruit contemporain La Morinerie, Tours
2024
2km4_for a joyful ecology, curator SIANA Paris-Saclay university
Portés par le vent, saison d’art 2024 Chaumont sur Loire domain
2023
Penser comme une montagne, curator Sophie Auger-Grappin Goutelas castle
Useful fictions, symbiose, with Guillaume Hutzler et SIANA Cardin space, Paris
OMME 4, curator  Apte Chapelle Saint Jacques, Clohars-Carnoët
2022
10 th edition Champ d'expression, curator  la Fourmie-e Bonen
Plantasia, projection Millenium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Allons voir ! Curator Sophie Auger Grappin Moulin riche, Concressault
Urbanité verte, curator  Julie Sicault Maillé CAC Tignous, Montreuil sous Bois
Au jardin, curator  la Labomedia Printemps de Bourges
Regarder les plantes pousser, with Patricia Cartereau TALM, Anger
Faire œuvre en cuisine MAP Rosa Bonheur, Chevilly Larue
2021
Quand, soudainement, pluralities University Espace Voltaire, Paris
Grounding, Ars Electronica Soil museum, Saint Petersbourg, Russia
Cinémathèque temporaire, Collectif Jeune Cinéma Mains d’oeuvres, Saint Ouen
Le temps du végétal, curator Pauline Lizowski Nancy botanical garden
Se planter et écouter la terre, Europe garden and  ArTeppes Annecy Paysages
Terre dièse La Briqueterie, Saint Brieuc
Un printemps dans les marais, Maison de la Culture Bourges Bourges’ swamps
2020
Nuit Blanche, curator Mains d’Oeuvres et Yes We camp Vive les Groues, Nanterre
Dendromité, Collectif jeune Cinéma Jeu de Paume, Paris
2019
10 years of  La Borne POCTB gallery , Orléans
OU\ /ERT, curator Jens Hauser with Aniara Rodado Transpalette, Bourges
Basculement des mondes, curators Pauline Lisowski with Fabienne Leloup MAP Rosa Bonheur, Chevilly Larue
Some of us, curators Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize with Marianne Derrien Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Allemagne
Un/Green Exhibition, curators Jens Hauser, Rasa ŠMITE, Raitis ŠMITS Latvian National Museum, Riga
Dé-jardiner, co-curation, fond Perspektive Gr_und gallery, Berlin
Drawing Storage assonances, curator Giovanna Sarti Alliance française, Bologne, Italie
2018
Annexes et digressions 2, with Dominique de Beir and Samuel Etienne Réjane Louin, gallery Locquirec
Se mettre au vert, curator Clotilde Boitel MAL, Laon
Utopia Botanica, curators Pauline Lizowski, Soriana Stagnitta Laure Roynette gallery, Paris
Call of the wild, Collectif Jeune Cinéma Grand Action, Paris
Paysage recomposé, curator Virginie Prokopowitz Pont –Loup priory, Moret sur Loing
2017
Saccahromania, art season Chaumont sur Loire domain
Open studios GlogauAir, Berlin
The fact finder The fact finder, project space, Berlin
Cinnamon Colomboscope, with Kotte Alliance Française Rail museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Dialogue(s) avec un brin d’herbe, curators Aude Cartier and Natacha Seignolles Malakoff art center
Umarmen, Ressources Festival Cahors-juin-jardins
Festival Curiositas, diagonale Paris-Saclay Val Feuri castle, Gyff sur Yvette
La vie de château Rivau castle, Léméré
2016
J’ai rêvé le goût de la brique pilée, curators Natsuko Uchino and Sophie Auger La Box, ENSA Bourges
Desseins de mode, Jardins synthétiques Musée Saint Raymond, Toulouse
La puissance de l’empathie Kunstenfestival, Watou, Belgique
Fantômes et apparitions Rivau castle, Lémeré
Microscopie du Banc, curators Sophie Auger-Grappin and Aline Gheysens Micro Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay /La Graineterie, Houilles
2015
Dendromité, la Mire GlogauAir, Berlin
Jardiniers célestes, jardiniers terrestres, curator Dominique Truco Biennale d’art contemporain de Melle
Triennale de Vendôme, curators Nadège Piton and Damien Sausset Manège Rochambeau, Vendôme
Chimères Rivau, castle Léméré
Jardin d’hiver, with Marie Denis and Frédérique Lucien La Graineterie, Houilles
2014
Totalement désARçonnés : l’habit de château, curator Aurélie Wacquant Maisons-Laffitte castle
Le secret Rivau, castle  Léméré
A posteriori La Maréchalerie, Versailles
2013
Four hands culinary design, Carole Belenus’ proposals MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine
Passe-moi le sel ! 15th contemporary walk Fontenay le Comte
Je sème à tout vent, David Rosenberg’ proposals Martine et Thibault de la Châtre gallery, Paris
Des Fleurs Sinon Rien ! David Rosenberg’ proposals Odile Ouizemangallery , Paris
Si l’art de la parure m’était conté Rivau castle, Léméré
2012
Post ecologia, FASE Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
La maladie de Flaubert, commissariat FRAC Haute-Normandie Flaubert museum Rouen

Workshops
2025
Hoa tay, a flower’s portrait IDECAF, Ho Chi Minh ville, Vietnam
2km4_for a joyful ecology, curator SIANA Paris-Saclay university
2024
Out of Balance, curators Art laboratory Berlin, alliance française, Goethe Institut Gharem studio, Riyadh, Saoudi Arabia
Incumbo, with Mehdi Harzallaoui / été culturel Pesselières
Portraits of soils, with Quentin Aurat, soils ands sounds exploration Agricultural high school, Amboise
Breathing with trees, with Claire Damesin, écophysiologist /Listen to the soil and to plant
yourself, with Céline Basset, soil microbiote/Constellations, barks and micro-organisms Chamarande domain
2023
Vegetatio, with C.Damesin ecophysiologist, K.Houle philosopher, REBBEL Paris-Saclay university
Sound walks Tuileries garden, Paris
Phytomorphisme, Useful fictions 3, with Guillaume Hutzler, SIANA, art and sciences chair Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau
2022
Sound walks National Museum of natural History, Paris
Banquet de pollen, BTS paysagism Campus du végétal, Brives-Voutezac
Le carnaval des plantes sauvages horticulture high school, Blois
2021
L'art e(s)t le vivant, PREAC CIAP Vassivières
Roots and Seeds XXI - Cartography of a Garden, curator Annick Bureau Maison Malina, Boulogne
Vertimus, DRAC Centre Val de Loire and Chaumont sur Loire domain horticulture high school Tours
Mycorhize, DRAC Centre and Chaumont sur Loire domain, la Maréchalerie horticulture high school Blois /Debussy high school, St Germain en Laye
2019
50 shades of soil Cornell University, USA
Nos ADN, Science festival Hors-cadre, Auxerre
Remarquons les arbres secondary school Bois d’Arcy and château de Versailles
Au jardin, TREAC, with Baptiste Brevart and Caroline Rosse secondary school  Victor Hugo, Bourges
2018
PRIST Programm ESÄ Tourcoing
Nos ADN, et Portraits botaniques de Bellejouanne Louise Michel gallery, Poitiers
Listen to the barks, Community coalescence Botanical garden, Berlin
2017
Portraits botaniques, greenlab Cahors Juin Jardins Causses regional parc / Berry grand Sud
2016
L’arbre retrouvé ESAD Orléans
2015
Chambres d’intimité, with Manola Antonioli, ENSA and PESM Dijon Maison de la Rhénanie Palatinat, Dijon
2013
Semaine folle, vegetal design group ESAD Reims
2012
Bento, new Thétys’ caves, primary school   Maréchalerie et le château de Versailles

Residencies, grants
depuis 2023 : 2km4, Transect arts et sciences, commissariat SIANA, DRAC île de France Paris-Saclay university
2025
Minoterie 21, weaving Peillac
Villa Saïgon, Institut Français Ho Chi Minh ville, Vietnam
La Maison Composer, residency  with a mushrooms gardener Saints en Puysaye
2024
Une lente fabrique de bois, with Guillaume Hutzler, bioinformacian IBGBI, Evry-Paris-saclay university
Polluen, LASIRE with Nicolas Visez, aerobiologist Lille university
2023
Fondation Grantham, creation and research residency Saint Edmond de Grantham, Québec
Do trees dream of CO2? Research residency with Per Hüttner Earthbound, Bogens, Denmark
2022
Aide à la création, with Shoï, projet Langue des bois DRAC andRégion Centre-Val de Loire
Pollenkin with Jean-Marc Chomaz, artist and physician LadHyX, école polytechnique, Palaiseau
Regarder les plantes pousser, residency with Patricia Cartereau CHU, Anger
Ursulab, art and sciences laboratory, with Shoï Antre peaux, Bourges
2021
Se Planter ArTeppes, Annecy
Helge Ax:son Johnsons grant, with Per Hüttner Sweden
2020
Production residency mille et un plateaux Antre peaux, Bourges
Residency Hors cadre and DRAC Bourgogne Vauban, restauration high school,  Auxerre
Art and sciences residency with Earthwise ARoS, Aahrus, Denmark
2019
Ecology and society grant, le Studio décalé and INRAe PIAF, Eric Badel Fondation Carasso, France
Gr_und residency, bureau des arts plastiques Fond Perspektiv, Berlin
Art and sciences residency with Earthwise Bogens, Denmark
Residency at Soil and crops department, with Johannes Lehmann Cornell University, USA
2018
Art and sciences residency Botanical garden Berlin
2017
Art and sciences residency Rillig lab with  Matthias Rillig, Berlin La Diagonale Paris-Saclay / DRAC Centre-Val de Loire
2015
La Mire residency, a roof above your head GlogauAir, Berlin
Diagonale Paris/Saclay and Région Centre-Val de Loire grant Paris-Saclay university
la Borne residency with Charlotte Poulsen, céramiste La Borne
2012
Grant DRAC Centre-Val de Loire

lectures, juries
2025
Plant intellingence, RIXc festival Art academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
CNAP, linternational residencies Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Art et Botanique, lectures LUGA, Luxembourg
Dendromité Art and sciences chair, Paris-Saclay university
Conversations sous l’arbre, odeurs de nature Chaumont sur Loire domain
2024
Se planter Fine arts school, Sousse, Tunisia
Les approches sensibles dans l’enseignement agricole, INRAe – Carasso Bergerie nationale, Rambouillet
2023
ARC anthropocène ENSA Dijon
Jury DNA ESA Dunkerque
Futurs possibles Goutelas castle
2022­­­
Jury DNSEP EESAB Rennes
CTHS symposium, Périphéries, with Sergio Dalla Bernardina EHESS Aubervilliers
Trans-generative-2030 ICS Nancy
2021
L’art e(s)t le vivant, symposium with Gilles Clément, Dénètem Touam Bona,
Patrick Nadeau and Se planter, withEric Badel, INRAe PIAF Clermont Ferrand Limoges / CIAP
Earthbound symposium, Weaving with The more-than-Human Aarhus, Danemark
Jury DNSEP design des communs ESAD Orléans
2020
Vertimus, with Sergio Della Bernardina, EHESS, Paris
Natur nach Humboldt, avec Matthias Rillig Botanical garden Berlin
2019
Sound of soil et Vertimus, sustainability / art departments Cornell University, USA
Dendromité, with Claire Damesin Sciences, Festival, Auxerre
Se planter, Malt Air, Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft, Denmark
Se planter, public keynote, RIXC Art Science Festival Latvian National Museum, Riga
"Art et céramique" day EESAB-Qimper
Plant, with Danielle Sands, Paco Calvo, Thomas Greaves Forum for Philosophy, Londres
2018
Séminaire art et botanique Lille 3 university
How to regain empathy towards the non-humans?With K. Grotz, M. Rillig, S. Rybak Botanical museum, Berlin
Green SLSA Université Copenhague, Danemark
Regards croisés, with Fanny Rybak, Julie C. Fortier, Olivier R. P. David l’Onde, Vélizy Villacoublay
Jury DNAP ESADHAR Campus de Rouen
2017
Laser, Leonardo Olats, with Claire Damesin Bureaux Agnès B, Paris
2016
Polycultures céramiques, with S. Auger, D.Pontoreau, C. Poulsen, Contemporary ceramic center, la Borne
Jury DNAP ESAÏ Tourcoing
Dendromacy Rillig lab, freie Universität, Berlin
2014
Chimères 82, weed Hisotry of migrations museum Paris
2013
Expert Prix Liliane Bettencourt, Paris
Jury DNAP ENSA, Grenoble
2012
Autour du paysage comme variation, with Gilles Clément and Karen Houle ENSA-Versailles

Teaching
Se planter, Master AEP, Paris Saclay university since 2020
La plante compagne, workshop, Lille 3 university , from 2011 to 2014 and 2020 to2024
Tenues d’explorateurs, soft materials workshop,  Beauvaisis art school, 2014

Art and sciences articles
- Prendre le bouleau du bon côté, Pour la science, Loïc Mangin, April 2024
- Technologies of Care, From Sensing Technologies to an Aesthetics of Attention in a More-than-Human World, Yvonne Volkart, ed Diaphanes, November 2023
- Quantitatitve Plant Biology, Cambridge University Press, translators to weave  with the non- humans, mai 2022
- Fiction-science, revue de recherche et bricolage sicence-art #0, ESAHaR, 2022
- Observatoire de l’art contemporain, autoportraits d’artistes, à l’invitation de Pauline Lisowsky, 2021
- La langue des bois, l'appropriation de la nature entre remords et mauvaise foi / Publications scientifiques MNHN, Natures en sociétés ; S.Dalla Bernardina, 2021
- Ten Simple Rules for Hosting Artists in a Scientific Lab / PLOS Computational Biology, January 2021; M.C. Rillig, K. Bonneval, C.de Lutz, J. Lehmann, I.Mansour, R. Rapp, S. Spa?al,  V.Meyer
- The artist who co-authored a paper and expanded my professional network / Nature, carrer column, fFbruary 2020 ; Matthias C. Rillig, Karine Bonneval.
- Forest biodiversity, soil functions and human behaviour-catastrophe and future /Journal of mountain science, 2020 ; directed by Zanella Augusto.
- Vertimus/ Occulto 7, Art-I-Ficial, October 2020 ; Eric Badel, Karine Bonneval.
- La croissance artistique et l'énergie des végétaux ; Les carnets du paysage n°36, énergie, October 2019 ; Pauline Lizowsky.
- Sounds of soil; a new world of interactions under our feet / MDPI, Soil system, September 2019 ; Matthias C. Rillig, Karine Bonneval, Johannes Lehmann.
- Il y a l'air et le sol / Air Fictions, Particules en suspension, Editions de l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Dunkerque-Tourcoing, March 2019

Galeries- collections
Represented by Martine et Thibault de la Châtre gallery, Paris, from 2002 to 2015 (closing date)
Fond Art Contemporain Départemental Essonne / FRAC Haute-Normandie / Château du Rivau / Collection Guerlain

Education
DNSEP object group, Art decorative school Strasbourg, 1994
DNAT with congratulations, National fine art school Angoulême, 1991