OX’Art. Margaux Laneyrie

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Born in 1993 in Roanne, Margaux Laneyrie is a hybrid artist — painter, pastellist and plastic–choreographic performer. At the age of four, she entered movement through classical dance and modern jazz. Under the guidance of Christel Bayon Maisonneuve, she learned to inhabit space long before she would claim it with her brushes. At twelve, another revelation emerged: painting. Visual arts then expanded her sensitive vocabulary. She began her artistic training under the benevolent eye of Jean-Pierre Pyat, painter and teacher, who would become one of her first guides in the visual world.

In parallel, Margaux explored other bodily languages. Hip-hop and breakdance, which she discovered with Reda Bendjilali, invited her to deconstruct movement in order to reinvent it. She later turned to contemporary dance, evolving as a self-taught artist. From these explorations emerged a singular vision: the desire to merge dance and painting into one unified creative act. By high school, she had already set her own path, freely producing performances that combined danced gestures and pictorial creation, whether in the studio or in public space.

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Margaux Laneyrie pursues an eclectic and demanding academic path: a bachelor’s degree in visual arts and art history at the Université Jean Monnet, followed by a professional degree in multimedia communication and commerce in Vichy, and finally a master’s degree in artistic creation (performing arts) at the Université Grenoble-Alpes. These years of study were marked by active participation in artistic events, collective installations and conceptual performances, always driven by a desire to intertwine disciplines.

Over time, Margaux refined a singular approach she calls “body-brush”. Her research is rooted in the fusion of danced movement and pictorial expression. Through plastic–choreographic performances, she transfers onto the canvas the physical and emotional traces of her body in action. The works emerging from this process capture momentum, fall, suspension of gesture. She then applies pastel to highlight floating, fading or erupting forms — representations of bodies in levitation or explosion. Each composition becomes a fragment of reality, a state of body both psychic and physical, translated into a unique visual language.

Now based in Grenoble, Margaux Laneyrie exhibits her work in numerous galleries while performing live pieces in which painting takes shape directly on stage. In 2016, she presented La Dualité de l’Homme with Angela Kontis, a striking piece questioning gender and identity. In 2017, her work Fœtus Solaire earned her the Jury’s Favourite Award at the “Printemps des Poètes” competition at Université Grenoble-Alpes. In 2021, she unveiled a new choreographic creation, Les Baskets Rouges, which was met with great success.

Margaux’s art has also crossed borders. In March 2021, two of her works travelled to the MADS Gallery in Milan: the painting First Space Flight and a video of the live performance Sur la vague d’une basket. In April, she won 1st Prize at the international Abstract Art 2021 competition in Spain with Galaxy EXIT. The end of the year was marked by a six-month collective exhibition at MONAT Gallery in Madrid. Her work captivates through its ability to merge bodily intensity, poetic abstraction and graphic power.

Margaux Laneyrie embodies a generation of multidisciplinary artists rooted in bodily expressiveness, resonant gesture and creative freedom. She transforms the canvas into a living space — a stage where every mark tells a movement, a state, a breath.