The practice of Marie Denis focuses first and foremost on an object and how it may potentially be reinvented. Marie Denis' work is also concerned with botanical principles. Her installations and sculptures are designed from raw materials and other objects diverted from their typical anchors in culture.
She likes to circumvent the rules to realize her work, which is often sculptural: a vegetable path that "kaleidoscopes" the idea of nature, its beauty and fragility.
After studying at Lyon ENBA, Marie Denis completed a residency at Villa Medici in Rome in 1999.
A selection of her group and solo shows includes: Effervescences au Château du Rivau, Château du Rivau, Lémeré, France (2024); Et nous passons avec lui, Circuit des 24h, Le Mans, France (2024); Renée ou la nature des choses, Maison de Chateaubriand, Châtenay-Malabry, France (2023-2024); French Touch site-specific installation, Domaine de Chamarande, Essonne, France (2023); Métaphores sportives, de l'art et du sport !, curated by Caroline Bissière and Jean-Paul Blanchet, Musée Labenche, Chapelle Saint-Libéral, Brive, France (2022); Les Extatiques - promenade artistique, curated by David Moinard, Les Extatiques 2022, Paris (2022); De Rerum Natura, curated by Mara Sartore, Venice Meeting Point, Navy Officer's Club, Venice (2022); De l’arbre au labyrinthe, curated by Véronique Gay Rosier, Médiathèque de Tarentaize, Saint Étienne, France (2022); Le temps du végétal, curated by Pauline Lisowski, Botanic Garden of Nancy, France (2021); Alma Herbarium, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris (2021); Les Ombres, Le Ravitaillement, lieu d’art et de pratiques rurales, Gavray-sur-Sienne, France (2021); A Bartleby, Alberta Pane Gallery, Venice (2021); Métamorphoses du Quotidien, curated by Pauline Lisowski, Maison des Arts Plastiques Rosa Bonheur, Chevilly-Larue, France (2020); Le goût de l’Art - l’art du goût, Château du Rivau, Lémeré, France (2020); Traces du végétal, Maison des arts, Antony, France (2020); Imprese, curated by Martina Cavallarin, Alberta Pane Gallery, Venice (2020); Le Saule qui Chante, Parc Vansteenkiste, Roncq, France (2019); L’Été Photographique de Lectoure, Centre d’Art et de Photographie de Lectoure, France (2019); Nature des Profondeurs, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris (2018); L’Impermanence, Fernet-Branca Foundation, Alsace, France (2018); De Fils ou de Fibres, Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, France (2018); Le Désir, Alberta Pane Gallery, Venice (2017); L'Herbier de Curiosités, Centre d'Art et de Nature, Chaumont sur Loire, France (2017); Comme une Fleur, Centre Culturel Aragon, Oyonnax, France (2017); Dans le Royaume de l'Eau, la Brodeuse d'Eau, Bodenburg, Germany (2017); L'Herbier Noir, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris (2016), among others.
Moreover, she won national and international prizes and scholarships, such as FNAGP (2015), DRAC Île-de-France (2011 and 2005) and the above-mentioned residency program at Villa Medici, in Rome.
