Bazévian Delacapucinière

Bazévian Delacapucinière is a France-based artist known for vibrant, emotionally charged figurative works. With Norwegian, Brazilian and Korean roots, Bazévian spent a decade traveling across continents, meeting artists, absorbing cultures, and shaping an intuitive approach to portraiture.

Focusing primarily on the human face, Bazévian explores its role as both a mirror and a mask. “The face is language, an exposed territory where emotions, codes, and expectations collide.” This fascination drives a practice that questions how identity is constructed, perceived, and sometimes constrained by social norms.

Through the deconstruction of consumerist imagery, particularly the flawless ideals of fashion and media, the artist creates figures whose bodies dissolve while faces emerge in bursts of vivid color. These luminous visages become vessels of collective pressures and individual narratives, offering an intimate yet critical perspective on contemporary representation.

Working with oil, oil pastel, and acrylic, Bazévian experiments with techniques involving dilution, layering, and extraction to produce paintings from small formats to monumental canvases. Each work is a deliberate balance between strength and sensitivity, intensity an...

Edinburgh Napier University
Industrial Design

Fine arts Strasbourg University

TV show "Huge Homes" with Hugh Dennis on Channel 4 UK 2024

2019 March SOLO SHOW Artspace Ko Eun Museum of Photography Busan

2018 April/May Insa Plaza Art Gallery, Insadong, Seoul (South Korea)

2018 April/May SOLO SHOW Geoje International Center (South Korea)

2017 August/September/October SOLO SHOW La bouteille à la mer Brest (France)

2017 July/August/September International Carpentras Festival Carpentras (France)

2017 January SOLO SHOW Hotel Radisson Curitiba (Brazil)

2016 March/April SOLO SHOW Grand Playground Les Docks de Marseille (France)

2016 April In flight exhibition TAM Linhas Aéreas "Curitiba-Brasilia"

2016 March Rogue exhibition Museu Oscar Niemeyer Curitiba (Brazil)

2016 Jan/Feb SOLO SHOW Grand Playground Les Docks de Marseille (France)

2015 March/April International Month of the Francophonie with the french singer ZAZ (Brazil)

2014 November - International art Festival les Papillons, Chapelle du Collège, Carpentras (France)

2014 November: Art fair Gallery Art&Miss, Paris (France)

2014 October: Permanent collection Museum Guido Viaro, Curitiba (Brazil)

2014 8-25 October: SOLO SHOW Museum Guido Viaro, Curitiba (Brazil)

2014 June/July/August: International Art festival Carpentras (France)

2014 7m...