Bio
Salomé Macquet (b. 1993) is a French artist and designer. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris in mid-2016, where she started to draw the concept of time. She now pursues research focused on time and its relationship within physics, political & social sciences through speculative design, graphic design and performance.
In addition to independent research projects, Salomé has been working on commissioned projects for cultural institutions, science & tech companies, architectural firms… Scope includes designing books, websites, identities, typefaces and posters as well as coding websites and algorithms.
Since 2023, she is co-director of the Opus Art faber collection.
In 2019, she has been selected to design the French Hommage to Bauhaus 100 years at the French Embassy in Berlin. Since then, her work is part of the French State Collections.
Awards & grants
2021
Grand Prize Création en cours 2021, Ateliers Médicis, French Ministry of Culture
2016
Industries & cultures Prize, EDMP, Sobonne Universités
2016
Grant from the Bettencourt Schueller’s fundation
2014
Gaston & Denise Dietschy Prize
Solo shows
2025
quantum.ville.charleroi, V2, Le Vecteur, Charleroi [BE]
2019
Gestaltungen — hommage français au Bauhaus, French Embassy, Berlin [DE]
2019
Gestaltungen — hommage français au Bauhaus, Institut français, Düsseldorf [DE]
Group shows (selection)
2022
ER de Weimar, Goethe-Institut, Paris [FR]
2016
Fondation Bettencourt, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris [FR]
2012
Le décoratif et l’Orient, Institut du monde Arabe, Paris [FR]
Residencies
2025
quantum.ville.charleroi, Le Vecteur + CAL Charleroi [BE]
2023
quantum.ville, Ateliers Medicis [FR]
2020
Creation en cours, Ateliers Medicis [FR]
Publications (selection)
2021
Affranchissements, acting for the advancement of Art faber, Lourdes Arizpe, Jérôme Duval Hamel, Salomé Macquet and Lorie-Anne Rainville
2020
Gestlatugen — The Beauty of Usefulness, Jérôme Duval Hamel and Salomé Macquet, Editions du Prix Franco Allemand des industries créatives et culturelles
2019
1919—2019, L'art au risque de l'industrie, hommage français au Bauhaus, Le Signe Editions, Centre national du graphisme
Featured in (selection)
2022
Constellations, Carnet à jouer, Sophie Cure & Aurélien Farina, Éditions B42
2018
Challenges 2018, Artic paper
2018
Chaire Innovation & Savoir-Faire, Presses du reel
Teaching
Salomé teaches at the École de droit et de management de Paris, Université Paris II [FR]. She taught visual communication in the M2 of the École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires (ENSAVT) [FR] from 2017 to 2018 and graphic & editorial design at the Paris College of Arts [FR] from 2018 to 2021.
Workshops
2020
Art faber, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris [FR]
Lectures
2022
Un langage de l'invisible, École Dupéré [FR]
2021
quantum.ville, Paris College of Arts, Paris [FR]
2019
A bauhaus party, Institut français, Düsseldorf [DE]
2019
Time, Hand, Matter, Paris College of Arts, Paris [FR]
Past interns
commissioners (selection)
Art faber
Chambre franco-allemande de commerce et d'industrie
Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Cousin Bizarre
Drawing Society
E72
École des Arts Décos • Paris
Éditions Hermann
Institut français
Jeanne Vicerial
Latitude Marionnette
Le Parisien
Le Signe – Centre national du graphisme
L’aaatelier
Psst Mlle
Quintal
Renan Goupil Holistic Consulting
Renault
Territoires de cirque
Université Paris Panthéon Assas
V2S Architectes
