Born in 1984 in Paris,
Grew up in the north of Bask country
Lives currently in Lisbon
Working in a multidisciplinary approach since 2010, Iโm exploring the relations between mineral, vegetal and animal cultures, questioning my own perception, the interactions and the representations through the use of photography, drawing, painting, objects and a scientific and theorical approach.
Graduated from the รcole nationale supรฉrieure des Arts Dรฉcoratifs in Paris and the fine arts school of Angoulรชme, I’m finishing a Phd in aesthetic and anthropology on human and horse visual relationships (Universitรฉ Paris 8, 2021-2026).
Stays abroad, residency programs, teaching experiences and scientific studies have structured my production and make it in permanent evolution.
In 2025 I have created CAVALINHAS that offers drawing lessons with living horses in Lisbon and Sintra with the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art and Cascais Ambiente.
2021-2026 – Phd Student in Aesthetics, Sciences and Techniques of Arts, Universitรฉ Paris 8.
Darwing/art teacher at Cavalinhas.
2018-2020 – training course of initiation in ethology and animal cognition at Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, Portugal.
2017-2018 – Equestrian art training at Cavalgador.
2010 – Graduated from ENSAD (รcole nationale supรฉrieure des Arts Dรฉcoratifs), Paris
2006 – Graduated from EESI (รcole Europรฉenne Supรฉrieure de l’Image), Angoulรชme
2003 – Prep. class, art school, Bayonne
Exhibitions
- 2022 – Como um Garrano. Photography work on horse observations in Portugal, Feira do Cavalo, Ponte de Lima (Portugal)
- 2017 – Group exhibition Lโalternative Heureuse. Gallerie Nomade, Arles (France).
- 2016 – Personal exhibition Geฬologie Urbaine, at Maison des Arts de Saint-Herblain (France).
- 2015 – Les Dents de la Mer, Petites morsure, visions fragmentaires et seฬdimentaires. Hendaye, Nekatoenea residency.
- – Gardiens du Littoral. Hendaye, Nekatoenea residency (France).
- 2014 – Group exhibition Paysage(s), at the Galerie RDV, Nantes. With Olivier Magnier and Charles Coturel (France).
- 2013 – Group exhibition, Le Clou. Organised by the Society of Friends of the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, at LโAtelier, Nantes (France).
- 2012 – Photography project and exhibition centred on the Chรขteau du Guildo (Cรดtes dโArmor, France) as part of the ยซCinq sites, cinq sensยป initiative.
- – Screening of videos Tempรชte and Tchayoualรฉ at La Garderie, an event in the former Paris leather exchanges
- 2011 – Group exhibition featuring photographers shortlisted for the 2010 Leica Prize, Herford (Germany)
- 2010 – Personal exhibition From here to beyond at Yukiko Kawase gallery, Paris (France).
- – Selected artist for ‘Salon de Montrouge’ (France).
- – Screening of video Tchayoualรฉ, at Cineฬmapeฬros, Espace dโArt Contemporain Les Roches, Le Chambon sur Lignon (France)
Horse studies
Phd student since 2021 at the university of Paris 8, I examine the visual relations between horses and humans in Portugal in an aesthetic, semiotical and anthropological perspective.
My thesis is entitled : Regards croiseฬs humains-eฬquins au Portugal, une ap- proche estheฬtique, seฬmiotique et anthropologique / HumanโEquine Perspectives in Portugal: An Aesthetic, Semiotic and Anthropological Approach.
Between 2018 and 2022 I have followed an equestrian training course and worked on various projects involving horses training in equitation, cognition experiments and education (France : Cavalgador, Portugal : Equus Ourique, Luis Valenรงa, Japan : PRI, Kyoto University).
Artistic publications
– Micro-edition in collaboration with graphic-designer Michael Barret. Nekatoenea Residency program, 2015
– Magazine Regards, photographs Dans le donjon de Maiฬtresse Cindy, Paris, 2011
– Catalogue of the 2010 Leica Prize group exhibition
– Catalogue of the 55th Montrouge Contemporary Art Fair
– Clandestinitรฉ, a magazine produced in partnership with the Centre de formation des journalistes (CFJ) and the รcole nationale des arts dรฉcoratifs (Ensad), photographs featuring an article on Free Fight.
Scientific publications
2026 (ร paraรฎtre)
– RYCKEWAERT, Barbara, 2026. Marques et traces porteฬes, recฬงues et produites par le corps du poney Garrano (Nord du Portugal). Revue Ethnozootechnie nยฐ119, 2026.
– RYCKEWAERT, Barbara, 2026. Depicting equestrian art instruction in the 18th century in Portugal. In : Interspecies interactions in the visual arts. Collaborations, experiments, and oppositions. Presses Universitaires de Louvain
2022
– SCHUBERT, Clara-Lynn, RYCKEWAERT, Barbara, PEREIRA, Carlos, MATSUZAWA, Tetsuro, 2022. Garrano Horses Perceive Letters of the Alphabet on a Touchscreen System : A Pilot Study. Animals. 2022. Vol.12, nยฐ 24. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12243514