LAURINE MALENGREAU France

Biography
LAURINE MALENGREAU
Laurine Malengreau transforms fibre into atmosphere, creating textile works in which breath, vibration, and chromatic presence unfold with rare tactile intensity

Based in Aubusson, a historic center of tapestry, Malengreau draws on a rich textile heritage without yielding to nostalgia. Working with Nuno Silk — where wool and silk are fused through heat, friction, and layering — she replaces weaving with gesture, proximity, and touch.

Composed on the floor, often at an architectural scale, her works unfold like textile paintings: immersive, atmospheric, and difficult to fix in words. They do not describe so much as they emanate, turning material into vibration, breath, and chromatic presence.

What makes her practice so compelling is the tension it sustains between softness and intensity, fragility and resistance. Her work belongs to a lineage of gestural and material abstraction, yet remains distinctly her own.

Installed in the former Fougerolles textile manufactory, her studio embodies this dialogue between memory and renewal. In a world saturated with speed and image, Malengreau’s work offers something rarer: an art to be felt as much as seen.

Works
  • Laurine Malengreau, Afflux d'Aubes
    Laurine Malengreau
    Afflux d'Aubes
  • Laurine Malengreau, Aliya
    Laurine Malengreau
    Aliya
    163 x 163 x 3 cm
  • Laurine Malengreau, Augura
    Laurine Malengreau
    Augura
    150 x 120 cm
  • Laurine Malengreau, D'effusion
    Laurine Malengreau
    D'effusion
    140 x 210 cm
  • Laurine Malengreau, Héméra
    Laurine Malengreau
    Héméra
    120 x 150 cm
  • Laurine Malengreau, Le cercle de feu
    Laurine Malengreau
    Le cercle de feu
    220 x 220 cm
  • Laurine Malengreau, Les nébuleuses
    Laurine Malengreau
    Les nébuleuses
    117 x 160 cm
  • Laurine Malengreau, Les Nébuleuses
    Laurine Malengreau
    Les Nébuleuses
    78 x 62 x 3 cm
  • Laurine Malengreau, Renaissance
    Laurine Malengreau
    Renaissance
  • Laurine Malengreau, Wind
    Laurine Malengreau
    Wind
    162 x 130 x 3 cm
Overview
LAURINE MALENGREAU
“The work of colour is, for me, an inner vibration.” 
Laurine Malengreau transforms Nuno Silk into immersive textile surfaces that move between painting, tapestry, and atmosphere. Rooted in Aubusson’s textile heritage yet resolutely contemporary, her practice fuses wool and silk through layering, heat, and friction, allowing material, gesture, and vibration to become one. 
Exhibitions
Bibliography
LAURINE MALENGREAU

2020 — Receives the Prix Artisan Innovateur for being the only studio producing large-scale works in Nuno Silk.

2025 — Galerie Sept presents Anima Fibra, introducing her work into the gallery’s program and affirming textile as a vital language in contemporary abstraction.