Martin Coiffier

Martin Coiffier is a French Brussels-based artist whose work explores the porous boundaries between photography, painting and mental landscapes.

After more than fifteen years working in cinema in Spain, he progressively developed a visual language deeply influenced by cinematic atmospheres, light, memory and the construction of images. This background continues to shape his artistic practice, where landscapes become emotional and immersive spaces rather than simple representations of reality.

Working from his own photographic material, Coiffier creates layered compositions in which forests, organic forms and saturated colours gradually dissolve into dreamlike environments. Through superimpositions, painterly interventions and translucent effects, his works blur the boundaries between photography and painting, abstraction and figuration, reality and fiction. The image becomes a space of transformation — both immersive and psychological — where landscapes appear as shifting inner visions suspended between memory, perception and imagination.

His recent series Under the Rainbow, presented by Fragile Concept, was awarded the Artist Prize at Affordable Art Fair Brussels 2023 by VdH.

Alongside his artistic practice, Martin Coiffier is also the founder of Fragile Concept.