Biography

Born in Honfleur (France) in 1992, Bastien Loukia is a painter, a story writer and an illustrator for graphic novels and documentary film director. Passionate about music, comics, religion and psychology, he is also very interested since his childhood in fantasy and fantastic world.

 In 2009 he decided to dedicate his first graphic novel to Erik Satie, a French musician who was also born in Honfleur, in the 19th century.

 At the age of 20 Bastien Loukia had an exhibition at the Brick Lane Gallery in London. In 2013 his paintings were shawn at the Idea Gallery in Pragua (Czech Republic) and are now at the Arte Gallery (still in Pragua).

In 2014 he organized an exchange between artists of the cities of Honfleur and Pragua.

        In 2016, his talent was recognised with a retrospective exhibition of his works at the Centre Culturel des Dominicaines in Pont-l'Évêque, coinciding with the national release of his first comic book, Erik Satie, cinq nouvelles en forme de poire (Erik Satie, Five Pear-Shaped Short Stories). In 2020, the Alban Minville Cultural Centre (Toulouse) offered him a retrospective combining comics and painting.

On 5 September 2019, he published a comic book adaptation of Crime and Punishment, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky, published by Philippe Rey. The comic book has now been translated into 8 languages. 

In 2021, he illustrated Sur les ailes de l'absinthe, voyage en 24 dimensions (On the Wings of Absinthe, a Journey in 24 Dimensions), written by historian Benoît Noël.

He wrote and directed the documentary films "Montmartre, commune libre" (Montmartre, Free Commune) in 2022 and Le mystère Satie (The Satie Mystery) in 2025, for the centenary of the musician's death