Florent Kubler - "Danseuse, libre"

"Dancer, free"
Oil on canvas.
50x40 cm.
Created in 2026, signed on the back.
Reinforced and neat packaging.
Delivered with certificate of authenticity.

Florent Kubler is a contemporary French painter and installation artist whose work and approach are deeply marked by travel and human exploration.

Education and beginnings:

Born in 1988, Florent Kubler has long been passionate about drawing and painting. He entered the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy (the Beaux-Arts), from which he graduated with a design option in 2009. During his studies, he developed a multidisciplinary profile, dabbling in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and inventive object design.

The formative journey:

Refusing to confine himself immediately to a studio, he chose solo travel as a form of alternative and superior education. In January 2012, at the age of 23, he left Place Stanislas in Nancy to undertake a world tour by hitchhiking.
This formative journey extended across several continents. He traversed North America, the Mediterranean, traveled across Europe far and wide, North Africa to the south, then Asia, then Oceania...

Practicing hitchhiking, walking, train travel or even sailing, and with no real financial resources at the start, he used his talent as currency. His drawings, watercolors, and sketches taken on the spot were exchanged for kilometers, meals, or accommodations.
To immerse himself in local realities, he also took on a series of small jobs as opportunities arose. This total immersion gave birth to travel notebooks that are extremely dense, blending sociological sketches and photographs.
These long journeys are intense and sometimes eventful, marked by extreme experiences ranging from meeting fascinating people and cultures to situations of racketeering, imprisonment, or expulsion.

Artistic style and themes:

Back in France, Florent Kubler devoted himself fully to his artistic practice in Nancy. Enriched by his encounters around the world, his art explores the complexities of existence and the essence of humanity.
His paintings and drawings mainly capture scenes of life in motion, aiming to translate social reality and the poetry of everyday life. His work, colorful and expressive, is regularly presented in national and international exhibitions. One can follow his creations and projects on contemporary art platforms such as Artsper and Artmajeur. He is also active on the traditional networks (Instagram, Facebook).

Kubler’s work centers on capturing movement and spontaneity, directly inherited from his years of sketching the world on the fly.

An Expressionist and figurative painting:

His style falls within the new figuration. He focuses on representing the human figure, not in an academic sense, but through dynamic attitudes, postures, and expressions. His subjects often adopt fluid poses, almost dancing.
The artist uses mixed techniques, oil paint, acrylic, pastels, or ink. He favors bold, broad, confident brushstrokes. This visible texture imparts a sense of energy and spontaneity to the canvas, giving the impression that the work was created in the moment's urgency.
His color palette varies, often combining vibrant tones with minimalist backgrounds or more muted palettes (such as variations of blues and browns). He plays strongly with light and shadows to give volume and a three-dimensional dimension to his moving silhouettes.

His works have found places with numerous international collectors and have been published in various journals (CAN, JDB-Bateau Genève, Bedford Street...).
It is the human being and its complexities that animate his images, from scenes of life to explorations of the body and movement.

Influences: Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Schiele, Couture, Lamazou

Exhibitions:
Solange Bertrand Foundation, Nancy 2025
Le Bateau Genève, Geneva 2024
Erotic’Art, Plombières-les-Bains. 2022 and 2023
Le p’tit Baz’art, Nancy 2019 and 2021
Le Hameau des Artistes, Nancy 2020
Maison Du Département, Nancy 2019
Expos Plus belle la vie et Plus belle la mort. Nancy 2019
Espace culturel Le Trait d’Union, Neufchâteau. 2019
Galerie du Bailly, Épinal. 2018
Mai en scène, Gérardmer. 2018
Le Squat. Nancy 2015 and 2016
etc."