Valentin RangeR

3D Immersive Digital World -MetaHospital(2022)
-Chem’s Back Trauma(2022)
-Genesexus : The Blood Community(2021)
-Eromorphosis : Flowers in Bloom(2021)
-What is the dream of people who can not reach into the sky?(2020)
-Upcoming Videos





2D Works (Drawings/Paintings) -Painted enhanced print series “Orgiax Spring” 2023
-Paintings and collages 2022–2025
-Drawings incorporated into my 3D films and paper notes 2018-2025
-Colour pencil drawings 2018-2025
-Drawing Exhibitions Collection Agnès B - La Fab 2022





Sculpture World -Ex-votos installation FRAC Île-de-France 2020 et Galerie Allen 2025
-Heart World Giant Heart dolls Maison Guerlain 2025
- Digital to Object (3D printed) Youki Heart dolls Utopie Prize 2025
-Digital to Object (3D Printed) Orgiax Chart Art Fair Copenhagen 2025
-Digital to Object (3D resin Printed) Daggers of Love 2024
-All My Heart’s for You 2020
-Ceramic installation and forged pieces Autophagia 2020


 
FRENCH ART PRIZES


PRIX UTOPIE (LGBTQIA+ French Prize) 2025


PRIX DU JURY FONDATION EMERIGE 2022


PRIX DE LA FONDATION AGNES B.  2022


Selected for the First Reiffer Art Initiative Prize 2022

Selected for the Dauphine Art Prize
2022



















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VALENTIN RANGER  
Artist – Lives and works in Paris - valentin.ranger@hotmail.fr  
+33 6 87 21 27 64

EDUCATION : 
-ENSBA, Paris (2018–2023) – Graduated with honours (Félicitations du Jury), Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts (Agnès B, 2021)
 -Royal College of Art, London (2023) – Double Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practice (Social and Political Practices of Art)
- Training in Theatre and Fashion Design (2011–2022) – Theatre history, writing, stage direction, sewing at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture (IFM)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS : 
Hearts’ Choir | Public Service Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (Nov. 2024)
Infected/Disfigured | Galerie Spiaggia Libera, Paris (Jan. 2024)
Degree Show | Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023)
Autophagia | ENSBA, Paris (2021)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
-En plein cœur | Maison Guerlain  (Oct. 2025) – Art Basel Program, Cur. Benoît Paume, Hervé Mickaeloff & Élise Roche
- La sculpture dans tous ses états | Gaya Scienza, Centre d’Art Nice – Cur. Alain Berland
- Prix Utopie | Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (Sep. 2025) – Cur. Myriama Idir & Agathe Pinet
- CHART Art Fair, Copenhagen with Public Service Gallery (Aug. 2025) – CHART Cinema & Talk with TF Chan
- Millénaire de Caen | FRAC Normandie, Artothèque de Caen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Normandie
-100% La Villette | La Villette, Paris (Apr. 2025) – Cur. Inès Geoffroy
-A Surrealist Library | Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025) – Cur. Emmanuel Tibloux
- Portraits of Recovery | Manchester Art Gallery (Nov. 2024) – Cur. Harold Offeh & Dominic Pillai
- Des lignes de désir | Musée des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Feb. 2024) – Cur. Émilie Villez
- Loop Barcelona | Spiaggia Libera Gallery, Paris (Nov. 2023)
-The Body’s Language | La Fab., Paris (Oct. 2023 – Jul. 2024) – Cur. Agnès B
- Another Land | Pillar, Brussels (Oct.–Dec. 2023) – Cur. Carlotta Torre & Paola Siri Renard
- Sample, Bagnolet (Sep. 2023) – Cur. Jeanne Turpault
- Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts | ENSBA, Paris (Jun. 2023)
- Cicatrices | Galerie Mor Charpentier, Paris (May 2023)
- Tendresse | Galerie Sultana, Arles (Apr. 2023)
- Tate Cap | Tate Modern, London (Apr. 2023)
- Premiers Vertiges | Galerie Ketabi Bourdet, Paris (Mar. 2023) – Cur. Élise Delroche
- Rituals | Centre Pompidou, Paris (Jan. 2023)
- Cosmogonias | Centre d’Art de Vitry-sur-Seine (Jun. 2022) – Cur. Mathilda Portoghese
- Duo Show with Claire Nicolet | La Fab., Paris (Jun. 2022)
- Art Basel Miami | SuperZoom Gallery, Paris (Feb. 2022)
- Fantasmagorie | SuperZoom Gallery, Paris (Jun. 2021) – Cur. Joséphine Dupuy-Chavanat
- CRUSH | Beaux-Arts de Paris – Cur. Céline Poulin & Jean de Loisy
- Love My Way | Villa Noailles, Toulon (Apr.–Oct. 2020)
- Cabaret du Néant | FRAC Île-de-France, Château de Rentilly (Feb. 2020) – Cur. Céline Poulin & Jean de Loisy
- In Beirut | La Maréchalerie, Versailles (Jul. 2019) – Cur. Emmanuel Saulnier

RESIDENCIES:  
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea (2025–2026)
Open A.I Sora (2024)
Therapia Art Residency, Greece (2025)
Millennial Academy, Caen (2024–2025)
Villa Noailles, Toulon (2020)

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS : 
Utopie Prize (2025) 
Agnès B Prize (2021) 
Emerige Special Jury Prize (2022) 
selected to Reiffer Art Initiative Prize ( 2022) 
selected to Prix Dauphine (2022) 
Amis des Beaux-Arts Grant (2023) 
Collectif Rond-Point Théâtre Prize (2017)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS : 
2025: CPrint “10 Best Shows of the Year 2024”; Cover, Elephant Magazine (2025)  
2024: Fish Eye Magazine (France), The Collector (Italy), Libération, The Art Newspaper, Les Inrockuptibles, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Le Quotidien de l’Art  
2022: Numéro Art (“Young French Scene”)
Online press: Fish Eye Immersive, The Art Newspaper, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Numéro Art, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Art Press, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Challenges, Vogue France, W Magazine

CONFERENCES / TALKS / WORKSHOP : 
“Le Surréalisme aujourd’hui” – with Emmanuelle Tibloux, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (2025)
 “Intimacy, Queer Spaces” – Manchester Art Gallery, Portraits of Recovery (2025)
 “Intimité, Sexualité et Politique” – La Fab., Agnès B / Act Up (2022)
“Du Dessin à l’IA” – Palais de Tokyo (2025)
 “Ex Votos” – Centre Pompidou (2023)














GOING TO THE METAHOSPITAL

Going to the Metahospital
2022 3D film, color, sound
19 min 09 sec


Meta Hospital is a virtual immune system, a recycling station for emotional and biological waste, sorting our world between reality and the virtual. Identity-less characters emerge and mutate under the caring gaze of avatar-doctors.
Freely inspired by Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Research (destroyed in 1933) and philosopher Thomas Pradeu’s immunological research (CNRS), the work proposes a sensitive journey where regeneration and metamorphosis unfold through bodily fluids, microbiota, and marginalized beings, creating new solidarities.
Combining drawings, 3D modeling, still and animated images, Valentin Ranger constructs a fertile and welcoming world—an ecosystem of alternative balances that redirects the chaos of reality.



TRAUMA

Chem’s Back Trauma
2022 3D film, color, silent
03 min 15 sec


Chem’s Back Trauma transposes my universe into the institutionalized space of the hospital, reflecting on how medical frameworks regulate and support bodies in states of fragility. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s Les Anormaux, the video unfolds through slides, juxtaposing fragmented bodies with moments of care and comfort. Echoing the simultaneously communal and isolating nature of queer «Chem’s parties,» the work confronts the rigidity of medical normativity with fleeting yet vital utopias of sexual freedom. The Orgiax appear here as witnesses to this duality, embodying a reality where vulnerability becomes a source of resilience, affection, and solidarity within the body’s liminal spaces.








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GENESEXUS

Prélude à Genesexus : La communauté du sang Chant XY.1 – La Déconfiguration de Vesale Vitruvio
2021 Film 3D, couleur, son
20 min 03 sec

Prelude to Genesexus: The Blood Community continues the exploration of the contemporary body, this time from a physiological perspective. Facing upheavals in our environment, the film investigates the reciprocal mutations between the human body and the world surrounding it.
The video opens with a flayed, levitating Vitruvian Man, gateway to a teeming universe where spatial exploration and immersion into our own entrails intertwine. Through a succession of scenes punctuated by psychedelic interludes, the work blurs scales and boundaries between microcosm and macrocosm. Hybrid creatures, anthropomorphic forms, and transparent plays create a surrealist narrative, constantly oscillating between chaos and meticulous precision.





EROMORPHOSIS

Eromorphosis, Lovers in Bloom
2020 3D film, color, sound,
20 min 08 sec

Eromorphosis: Lovers in Bloom is a luminous ode to the birth of a new ecosystem, where human and plant bodies merge to create a new interspecies avatar: the Orgiax. In the selected excerpt, these hybrid beings come into existence and speak their first words to the viewer: «We are made for love.» Designed for tenderness and connection, these bodies reflect on transformation and communion between species and environments. This film celebrates softness and metamorphosis in a poetic universe of 3D entities, otherness, and magnificent monsters. It is accompanied by a therapeutic soundscape—composed of slow frequencies for the viewer—where nature, bodies, and imagination intertwine.






WHAT IS THE DREAM?

What is the dream of people who can not reach into the sky?
2020 3D film, color, sound
30 min 10 sec



In this first 3D film, What is the dream of people who can not reach into the sky? Invites viewers to enter a body to witness the spread of a virus—HIV—and the mutations it induces in living matter. The artist’s voice guides this exploration, contrasting two possible outcomes following the infection: the old world—dark, a territory of exclusion and isolation—and a luminous path opened by pharmaceutical innovations, embodying hope and integration. This microscopic journey questions concepts of biological identity, rejection, and social reinvention through virtual avatars.
The video is frequently accompanied by aluminum ex-votos, inspired by anatomical forms—cells, bacteria, or viruses—that constitute our bodies.





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3D movies :

2022 - The Metahospital Project : Going to the Metahospital
2022 - The Metahospital Project : Chem’s back trauma
2021 - Prelude to Genexus : The Deconfiguration of Vesale Vitruvio
2021 - Eromorphosis : Lovers in Bloom
2020 - What is the dream of People that can not reach into the sky?

(upcoming movies)
“The MetaMending Mod : Tender Immunological System”
2023 - Revenge of the Blood : Carmen
2023 - The Royal Institute of Aestetic
2024 - A Cyborg body to love
2024 - The Museum of Immunology
2025 - Oh Baby, it’s a Heart World