Ariane Toussaint (b. 1996, France) is an artist living and working in The Hague (Netherlands). Her artworks range from textiles and installations to books and research projects, exploring narratives surrounding domestic labour, femininity and craftsmanship. She approaches these themes not as nostalgic motifs, but as contemporary social and political conditions.

Patchwork, screen printing and handicraft techniques form an essential part of her practice, not only as material processes, but also as metaphors for repairing and bringing stories together.

With a feminist approach, Toussaint focuses on textile crafts, the tactility of care and the relationship between intimacy, warmth and the political significance of domestic space. Inspired by local textile traditions, she develops site-specific installations in which fabric, colour and light play a central role. Curtains feature regularly in her work, as they embody the tension between concealing and revealing.

At a time when technology and constant visibility are putting pressure on the private sphere, Toussaint explores how intimacy can be both made visible and protected. Although her work draws connections between femininity and domestic crafts, she rejects the idea that care and intimacy are exclusively female themes; instead, these are fundamental human experiences that are collectively shared.

She received her degree in BA Photography at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in 2020, and has a background in Textile Design from the Central Saint Martins in London. Her work has been shown in various spaces in The Netherlands and abroad, such as Centre National Edition Art Image in Paris, Art Au Centre in Liège and 38CC in Delft. She has received support from the Mondriaan Fonds and been a resident in Bucharest AiR and Budapest Gallery. She also co-initiates the annual open studios program Bermuda Open in The Hague, was an assistant curator at the artist initiative The Balcony and is the founder of Rida. Permanent and temporary large-scale textile commissions include Nest and Paleis van Justitie in The Hague.