Réjean Peytavin

Réjean Peytavin (born in 1986, lives and works in Paris) is a ceramic artist and visual artist whose work explores the vase form as a body in transformation. His hybrid, metamorphic sculptures oscillate between the organic, the symbolic, and the architectural, treating material as a language in constant mutation.

A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD, Paris), he has developed over the years a rigorous body of work at the intersection of ceramics, sculpture, and video. His series, TRADUSLATIONS, VASOMANCIE, and ANASTYLOSE, play on shifts in meaning, exploring the passage between form and word, container and content. The vase becomes a space of hybridization, a figure of alteration and translation.

Winner of the C14 Prize (Jury 2023) and guest of honor at the 2024 Terralha Festival, he has held solo exhibitions at Puls Ceramics (Brussels), Terralha (Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie), Galerie H (Carouge), and La Taille de Mon Âme (Lyon). He regularly participates in major international fairs and biennials such as PAD London, PAD Paris, Art Paris, Galeristes, the Ljubljana BIO Biennial, Meisenthal, and La Chaux-de-Fonds.

Through his research into ancient and contemporary production techniques, Peytavin explores the porosity between craft, technology, and plastic thought. Collaborating with industrial partners such as Geberit and Gasser Ceramic, he places technical experimentation at the core of his artistic process. His residencies at CIAV Meisenthal, CERCCO (HEAD Geneva), and the Bruckner Foundation (Carouge) have deepened his reflection on the memory of materials. His works, exhibited notably at the Latvian National Museum of Art (Riga) and the Musée des Arts Asiatiques (Nice), are now part of several public collections, including the CNAP, MUDAC (Lausanne), Musée La Piscine (Roubaix), the Musée du Verre et du Cristal (Meisenthal), and the Maison du Patrimoine (Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche).