Nathanaëlle Herbelin

Nathanaëlle Herbelin (b. 1989, Tel Aviv) is a painter born in Israel to a French father and an Israeli mother who lives and works between Paris and Tel Aviv. She completed a master's degree at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016, with an exchange semester at the Cooper Union in New York. She works in oil on wood or linen.

Her paintings are made from direct observation of the people in her immediate circle — family, friends, neighbors in Paris and in Israel. Her subjects in Tel Aviv have included her Eritrean neighbors and the Bedouin community. The formal tradition she draws on most explicitly is that of the Nabis, and above all Pierre Bonnard: a saturated observation of domestic space in which some forms are fully resolved while others dissolve into light and color.

Her solo exhibitions include multiple presentations at Jousse Entreprise in Paris; Être ici est une splendeur at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (2024); And there is a place you will not be able to return to at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (2025); and Et il est un lieu où tu ne pourras retourner at Jousse Entreprise (2025). She has also shown at the Umm Al Fahem Palestinian Art Center in Israel (2021) and at institutions in China and New York. Her work is held by the Pinault Collection, SMAK, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, and Lafayette Anticipations.