AGATHE TOMAN is a French, Austrian & Czech artist, painter, drawer, photographer, poetry writer, & PSYCHOANALYSIS in transactionnal analysis STUDENT born in 1989. Agathe is living between Hossegor and Paris.

My work delves into the profound interconnections between the psyche and the body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I investigate their modes of functioning within their environment, the networks they establish, and the vibrations—both perceptible and ineffable—that emerge from these interactions.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature and our alliances.
My artworks tend to reflect an emotional depth and a certain tension, engaging the spectator in a profound and introspective reflection.
You have to listen carefully - discover futures, identities, and feelings that have no names or natures preceding them, looking within your own consciousness.
I embed these ideas in the very materiality of my works which are resolutely abstracts, monochromes, and shaded - where obscurity coexists with clarity, blue sparkles while merging with black, or shines on its own.
We are spectators enjoying the absence/presence of light.
A meticulous acquaintance exists between my hands, the pigments, charcoals, pencils and paints applied on papers or canvas. My technique of execution never repeats itself. The result always emerges spontaneously.
I work on stabilising the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse myself through each particle, for the formulation of memories.
There, lingers an irreverent feeling of  suspense. Something unexpected. This indescribable feeling - a ‘L’appel du vide’
The emergence of a very unique print, I consider my artworks as self-portraits, portraits of parts of me.
I say that my creations are «materialisations of psychic states », human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to merge.
The value of my artwork is not aesthetic, it resides within the particular vibrations it creates within those who see it.
Now we can consider the reunion of these two sentiments (the spectator and mine) - of which there won’t ever be two distinct individualities ever again. The process itself is alive. I consider my creations as working entities, creating unique routes between us, towards all of us as human beings. As the spectator becomes engaged in the creation of the artwork, it expands.

Securing a progression towards a new vision of being; into this world, unto ourselves and unto others.
If the spectator lets oneself engage in this process, there are psychic resonances coinciding and tuning up into a perfect symphony. A dialogue begins.
A metamorphosis of one’s soul. An uncatchable reflection. It is a poetic experience. An intense and powerful presence. A rigorous experience.
I want my work to refine human spirits, to sharpen souls where emotions find echoes, and words are drawn to resonate.
Become an echo room. My artwork leverages this chamber inside ourselves as a result of this encounter.

«Psychic suffering is linked to everything which could escape from the process of subjective symbolisation. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or linger on hold to its psychical inscription. The human being doesn’t suffer only because of events, or because of particular thoughts, but because some process inside of ourselves hasn’t found a mirror, an echo, a receptacle and thus can remain wandering.»
René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and general clinical psychopathology , page 146.

Biography :

After studying at the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and spending several years as a designer within renowned French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the compelling need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.

Now residing in the Landes for the past thirteen years, Agathe establishes herself as an emerging figure in the contemporary art scene, admired both nationally and internationally.
Listed at Sotheby's since 2021, her works have been auctioned on three occasions, attesting to her rapid ascent and recognition within prestigious art circles. Her remarkable contributions to various exhibitions, notably Art Paris, have garnered immense success, consolidating her presence in numerous private collections worldwide.
Agathe's palette favors deep shades of black and blue, a subtle chromatic movement. Her paintings employ pure pigments, inks, oil paints, and acrylics of stunning intensity, which endeavor to reconnect with hidden elements, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas wields power, echoing her own experiences.
Her drawings, rendered with a Bic pen, possess a disconcerting force of attraction. Agathe's photographs, with their kaleidoscopic abstractions, dazzle us with tranquil sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that existed at our beginning. Her hundreds of poems imbue her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. Her first collection, titled "You Will Have to Learn to Smile Again," is set to be released in the winter of 2025.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis within the framework of transactional analysis, a pursuit she has undertaken for four years in Paris. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate profound psychological dimensions into her art, which becomes imbued with new layers of depth.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. She focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health, the environment, and education. These areas of reflection are not merely present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity and personality.
Her work has been recognized and celebrated in several esteemed publications, including Forbes, L'Oeil, and Elle, highlighting her notable impact in the field of contemporary art.
Agathe Toman continues to captivate and inspire a global audience, offering through her works a window into the complexity of human experience, as she perceives and transforms it into art.


“The universe according to Agathe Toman is a complex canvas moving so each invisible thread participates in its coherence thus guaranteeing an infinite multiplicity. Each thread allows when we touch it, to see and feel a particular harmony which is unknown, inimitable, unique. Creation is vibrating through an arpeggio of her expression; an encounter, a dream, a fleeting thought, an invented color, the skin that we barely touch, that we scrub, that we scratch, our skin, or the other’s, makes it echo and create symphonies that are perpetually new. You have to listen carefully. Discover futures, identities, and feelings that have no names or natures preceding them. Let yourself go. Become an echo room. Fight against the door that could shut before the intangible. Embrace, come out, welcome these emotions which are modulated from the brightest to the darkest. It is a discipline. A priesthood that the artist endorses. She listens to herself. She listens.A striped black, a white delight, are the notes that are specific to each person, to each thing, to each moment. That is what allows a big, thick, whole, rich and eternal truth. Her work is a synthesis of the inaudible to the invisible and from the invisible to the impalpable.” From ‘The Invisibles – One Sacred’ 2019. Original text in french written by Marie Arquié.