The sound of Ruidosa
2025 | Do Right Hall, Marfa
Following the installation created at the Ruidosa Church, a selection of works from this artist’s residency was featured in an exhibition at Do Right Hall, in Marfa.
This presentation brought together several fragments of the project The Sound of Ruidosa: fabrics painted during the residency in Ruidosa, preparatory drawings, as well as elements documenting the different phases of creation in the West Texas desert. The exhibition was a way to extend the installation experience by offering another perspective on Romain Froquet’s work, between archive of gesture, memory of place, and transformation of the artwork in situ.
Connections
2025 | Hangar 107, Rouen
Connections was born in the Chihuahuan Desert, in West Texas — a vast and arid territory, crossed by winds, silences, and stories. Romain Froquet spent time there regularly, roaming the landscapes, listening to their rhythms and echoes. This process of immersion gave rise to an ephemeral land art piece, traced directly onto the ground of a dry riverbed. This inaugural gesture, simple and fragile, opened a new artistic path — a dialogue between man and territory, between the visible and what passes through us without always being spoken.
Sailing Home
2024 | Zhoushan Art Museum, Chine
A contemporary and interactive artwork inspired by the ocean
On the map of China, Zhoushan is an archipelago, an island, and a city located south of Shanghai. The city has just over one million inhabitants who can now enjoy a brand-new museum: the Zhoushan Art Museum. The cultural institution is kicking off its program with the exhibition Sailing Home. Sixteen contemporary artists from China and abroad present work inspired by what shapes Zhoushan’s identity: a culture, an economic activity, and a natural environment strongly influenced by the ocean.
Terra Incognita
2024 | Colector Gallery, Monterrey
The desert, a source of inspiration for a series of contemporary artworks
It was in the Texan part of the Chihuahuan Desert that Romain Froquet found inspiration for his exhibition Terra Incognita. Immersed in this arid zone, his thoughts turned to the fragility of this natural environment—a feeling he wished to translate into his new artistic creations.
Capitale(s)
2022 I Hôtel de ville de Paris
Immersive Installation: “Gesture”
At the end of a journey rich in artworks, I invite you to experience the very heart of my lines. In this room, you may meditate, wander, observe, follow the movement of the line, walk on the canvas, perhaps even lie down on it, share this moment with someone, run, jump, and bring the work to life.
Photos Jules Hidrot
Flux, liens et mouvements
2022 | La Lune en Parachute, Épinal
Imbued with symbolic strength, figurative or spatial, the line structures the universe. We trace imaginary lines in the sky between the stars, giving birth to constellations. The line is also a path, a trajectory, a union or a rupture. Straight, dotted, or infinite, it is the curve that Romain Froquet favors.
Rupture
2021 I L'essentiel, Paris
An Experimental Artwork in an Ephemeral Art Exhibition
A former Parisian post office and sorting center was converted, for the summer of 2021, into an ephemeral art space. Its 2,000 square meters were made available to 43 contemporary artists before renovation. This collective artistic project was named “L’Essentiel” (“The Essential”). It echoed the relegation of culture to a non-essential domain as decided by the authorities during the pandemic. Within this vast building, a generously sized space was entrusted to Romain Froquet.
Imaginaires de murs
2020 I L'Atelier d'Estienne, Pont-Scorff
As part of the theme on urban art, street art, and graffiti, Christian Mahé invites Elise Herszkowicz, director of Art Azoi, who offers contemporary urban artists the opportunity to share their vision of a contextual, bold, and inventive art. These artists, from diverse backgrounds and with singular forms of expression, will bring their artistic practices into dialogue with the landscapes and terrain of Pont-Scorff.
Film Thomas Granovsky
Lignées
2020 I Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Paris
Lignées features immersive installations where the raw and processed urban materials are combined with plant and mineral elements. Visitors are invited to explore an aesthetic where familiar and unexpected forms and materials coexist. At the invitation of the City Hall of Paris’s 20th arrondissement and Art Azoï, Romain Froquet presents Lignées, an exhibition in which he explores his vision of diverse flows and exchanges through sculptural and pictorial representations.
Même à sec la rivière garde son nom
2019 I Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris
Romain Froquet explores memory, history, and the human being, and he demonstrates this through his solo exhibition “Même à sec, la rivière garde son nom” (Even When Dry, the River Keeps Its Name), from October 10 to November 2, 2019, at the Galerie Joël Knafo. The canvas serves as the medium for a spontaneous gesture. “Même à sec, la rivière garde son nom” is the name of a wax fabric. These carefully conceived, woven materials are named in the same way as works of art. The repetition of patterns defines them. Always graphic and very often symbolic, wax fabric is more than just a decorative material.
Film Jules Hidrot
Nature of magnetism
2018 I Askeri Gallery, Moscou
Moscow Second round at the Askeri Gallery
After the Atôme exhibition in 2016, the collaboration continues between Romain Froquet and Polina Askeri, who runs a contemporary art gallery in Moscow. The urban artist presents a series of paintings brought together under the name “Nature of Magnetism”. The Russian audience, already familiar with his work, could notice a difference in style at this new exhibition. It has clearly evolved over the past two years. The colors are now softer and conform to the black lines in a vaporous way.
Above the line
2018 I Galerie Joël Knafo, Paris
Romain Froquet’s first solo exhibition at the Joël Knafo Art gallery, “Above the Line” explores the limits of balance through an interweaving of lines and curved movements. Drawing inspiration from a variety of influences, including the works of Hans Hartung, Romain Froquet presents a collection of pieces where “personal achievement” could be the key word. The artist experiences each creation as a performance, a concentrated burst of energy, of life.
Films Thomas Granovsky
Légendes urbaines
2018 I Base sous-marine de Bordeaux
As part of the 3rd Street Art Season organized by the City of Bordeaux, the Bordeaux Submarine Base is hosting, from June 21 to September 16, 2018, the Légendes urbaines (Urban Legends) exhibition.
On this occasion, the curatorship was entrusted to Nicolas Laugero Lasserre, director of ICART and founding president of Artistik Rezo, and Pierre Lecaroz, founding president of the Pôle Magnetic association in Bordeaux. This exhibition is an invitation to discover a multifaceted urban universe from the 1980s to the present day.
Film Jules Hidrot
Erase & Restart
2016 I Centre ArtAsia, Paris
Highway interchanges at the base of an abstract artistic experimentation
The Erase & Restart exhibition represented a major creative turning point for Romain Froquet. He was at the Artasia gallery, located in a beautiful stone building behind the Châtelet theatre in Paris. The space featured large walls and high ceilings, an ideal setting to display large-scale works. Romain Froquet had found his place for an experimental abstract art project that had been in his mind for several years. Large installations inspired by highway interchanges were thus unveiled to the public.
