Plakat Ausstellung 'L'humour au sérieux', Cartoonmuseum Basel.

Catherine Meurisse (1980) is one of today’s most famous female French comics artists. She is the author of several graphic novels and comics reportages, drew caricatures and illustrated children’s books.

Catherine Meurisse became the first cartoonist and caricaturist to be made a member of France’s Académie des Beaux-Arts.

The retrospective is the first in the German-speaking world to show original drawings from all works by this multi-award-winning artist.

She also publishes in newspapers and magazines. She became the first female cartoonist to work at Charlie Hebdo, narrowly escaping the 2015 attack.

She has released two graphic novels with autobiographical elements: La Légèreté (The Lightness) and Les Grands Espaces (The Great Outdoors).

In 2014, the comedy “Moderne Olympia” (Olympia in Love)was published, linking paintings and objects from the collection of Musée d’Orsay with a story from the world of painting, dance and early film. In 2019, Catherine Meurisse managed to represent Alexandre Dumas’s memories of Eugène Delacroix in her publication Delacroix.

As the result of two stays in Kyoto, she produced “La jeune femme et la mer” (The Young Woman and the Sea), in which she addresses her perception of the Japanese landscape, nature and way of life.