Antoine LECHARNY*

Antoine Lecharny, born in 1995, is a photographer, painter, and sculptor.

His work, exhibited and awarded in France and abroad (Jury Prize at the Planches Contact Festival, Audience Award at the Boutographies Festival, Paris Match Prize, among others), is held in several public and private collections, including that of Marin Karmitz. Winner of the Audi Talents Award alongside artist Henri Frachon, he presented the sculptural project Disegno Astratto at Palais de Tokyo in 2021, which later resulted in a publication by Tonini Editore. In 2023, SIT DOWN Gallery, which represents him, hosted his first solo photographic exhibition in Paris, entitled Côté fenêtre.

In 2025, he received the Gomma Grant B&W, recognizing his long-term work devoted to the memory of the mass shootings of Jews and Roma populations in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states during the Second World War. This project, entitled Sous terre, was published as a book in 2025 by Éditions d’une rive à l’autre. The same year, Antoine Lecharny was a finalist for the Le BAL / ADAGP Prize with his project Feu Stalinstadt, and was among the three artists supported by Sarah Moon as part of the Grand Prix de l’Académie des beaux-arts.

While in residence at Villa Pérochon, a contemporary photographic art center in Niort, he created Bassine, outardes, grenades in 2026, a series dedicated to the memory of the Sainte-Soline mega-basins, the activist movements that opposed them, and the repression they faced. Over the years, this project has become part of a broader experimental and visual investigation into the traces of violence and ideological conflict embedded in landscapes and in people’s minds.