YANN LACROIX I SHANGHAI CULTURAL SPACE

A LANDSCAPE BEYOND

EXHIBITION | 31 OCTOBER – 6 DECEMBER 2026

ICICLE Cultural Space Shanghai presents A Landscape Beyond, the first solo exhibition in China by French artist Yann Lacroix, curated by Myriam Kryger. Exploring landscape as both a physical and imagined space, the exhibition brings together paintings that question our relationship with nature, memory and the passage of time. Drawing on travel memories, collected images and the history of painting, Yann Lacroix creates dreamlike landscapes where lush vegetation intertwines with deserted architecture. Gardens, ruins and distant horizons emerge within compositions suspended between reality and imagination. Beneath their apparent serenity, these landscapes reveal a subtle tension between the beauty of nature and the traces of human intervention. Through successive layers, transparencies and erasures, the artist constructs paintings in which different images and temporalities coexist. His meticulous approach to oil painting allows forms to emerge and disappear, evoking the gradual transformation of places and the persistence of memory. Between abundance and desolation, his works invite the viewer to explore worlds that feel both familiar and inaccessible.

“Between abundance and desolation, splendour and decay, between the cold beauty of stone structures and the organic proliferation of living forms, Yann Lacroix’s paintings exert a strange fascination.” Myriam Kryger, Exhibition Curator

ICICLE CULTURAL SPACE | SHANGHAI
ICCF GARDEN, 2, HENGSHAN ROAD - XUHUI DISTRICT, SHANGHAI

YANN LACROIX

Born in 1986 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, Yann Lacroix lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the École supérieure d’art de Clermont Métropole in 2010 and continued his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Porto, Portugal. His artistic practice has been enriched by numerous international residencies, including at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid (2018–2019).

His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire (2025), the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, the Fondation Bullukian in Lyon and the Musée de la Faïence et des Beaux-Arts in Nevers (2024). He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Collection Lambert in Avignon.

Awarded the Bullukian–Fontevraud Residency Prize in 2023, Yann Lacroix is regularly featured at international art fairs including Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Dubai. He is represented by Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou in Paris and Selma Feriani Gallery in Tunis and London.

Untitled, 2026, Oil on canvas, 150 x 130 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou

Discovery, 2023, Oil on canvas, 200 x 172 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou

Untitled, 2024, Oil on canvas, 33 x 41 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou

Pacifiction, 2026, Oil on canvas, 130 x 150 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou

Canada, 2025, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou

Canada, 2025, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou

SHANGHAI CULTURAL SPACE

The ICICLE Space, located in ICCF Garden, aims to foster encounters between artists and cultural practitioners from East and West, in the pursuit of a global community of art and culture.

2026 CULTURAL SEASON