Short biography

Christine Enrègle, visual artist, lives and works between Paris and Lisbon.
Doctor in Plastic Arts from the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne since 2008, she is professor of Visual Arts at the School of Applied Arts, Condé-Paris.

Since 2017, she regularly does artistic residencies in France and abroad, in particular in Lisbon where she presents her drawings as part of a solo exhibition and collective exhibitions: at the National Society of Fine Arts, at the National Museum of Natural History and Science, at the Portuguese Center for Screen Printing and at the Santa Maria Maior Gallery. She also participates in solo and collective exhibitions in France, Brazil, China and South Korea.

She is interested in the metamorphosis of plants and, in particular, in the growth of the tree whose organic character she emphasizes: her charcoal drawings on cotton canvas are experienced as the result (the « precipitate ») of a encounter between plant and human. They question the place given to plants in our Western societies and the way we relate with them.
After working in the various gardens of Lisbon from the Ficus macrophylla first encountered in Brazil in 2003, she turned to the figure of the olive tree that crosses centuries, cultures and religions in Europe and the Middle East.

From September 2024 to June 2025, she did an artist residency at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris to draw from three remarkable trees of the Jardin des Plantes: the Cèdre de Jussieu, the Platane planted under Buffon and the Pistachier de Vaillant.
Four of these drawings will be presented from September 2026 in the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, on the occasion of the exhibition Artistes au Muséum scheduled as part of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris.