Lounis Baouche

Born 1994, lives and works in Bgayet, Algeria.

Through allegorical characters and an aesthetic influenced by comic books and cartoons, his work questions human social relationships and the power dynamics intertwined with them. For his first personal exhibition in France, he reappropriates the cowboy figure and the myths conveyed by the western genra. He delves into how we envision distant lands, foreign territories, and the utopian fantasies that stem from them.

Lounis Baouche graduated from the Azazga School of Fine Arts in 2018. He had his first solo exhibition at exo exo, Paris in 2023. His work has been featured in collective exhibitions at FRAC Bretagne (2025) ; exo exo, Paris (2025 & 2023) and at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble (2023). He was an artist in residency at gallery Selma Feriani, Tunis (2025) ; at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2023) and at Triangles Astérides, Marseille (2022). He participated in Liste Art Fair, Basel (2022), Abu Dhabi Art (2022), and Paris Internationale, Paris (2021). He was also the recipient of the Jury’s Favorite Young Painter Award at the Société Générale Algeria Awards in 2017. In 2023, his work joins the public collection of FRAC Bretagne.