Exhibitions

Unglee

Comme un désir d'éternité, le show 1 Dec 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 Paris / Main space Comme un désir d'éternité, le show [Like a desire for eternity, the show] Now that we call exhibition 'shows', it seemed only natural to me to build my exhibition as a show. A show isn't only a series of songs accompanied on a piano, but a performance whose sophisticated arrangement... Read more

MICHEL JOURNIAC

18 Oct - 24 Nov 2018 Paris / Main space A specter has haunted the contemporary art world ever since the death of Michel Journiac in 1995. The artist’s career started sensationally in 1969 with his first performance, the famous Messe pour un Corps (Mass for a Body), in which the former seminarian and theology graduate said a mass in... Read more

De humani corporis fabrica

Tetsumi Kudo & Lubos Plny 8 Sep - 13 Oct 2018 Paris / Front space The Galerie Christophe Gaillard is particularly pleased to present Lubos Plny’s work for the first time. On this occasion, the Czech artist’s eleven artworks will be displayed alongside eleven Tetsumi Kudo sculptures (whose first exhibition at the gallery dates back to 2013). The « De humani corporis fabrica » exhibition... Read more

Julien des Monstiers

Maison, Sarcophage, Allumettes 8 Sep - 13 Oct 2018 Paris / Main space Galerie Christophe Gaillard is proud to announce Julien des Monstiers’ second solo show featuring a brand new body of work as well as a site specific installation. Read more

Ceija Stojka

Et même les mots ne suffisaient pas 26 May - 28 Jul 2018 Paris / Front space « A human being should never stop thinking. It is the only shield against barbarism. Action and words are the two conveyors of freedom. If he stops to think, every human being can act as a barbarian. » Hannah Arendt : The banality of evil. Read more

Rachel de Joode

Instead of Pieces, a Play 17 May - 16 Jun 2018 Paris / Main space Rachel de Joode's work revolves around a tension between the flatness of the pixelated screen and the fleshiness of the porous body. While many of her photographs take on the appearance of human skin or organic matter, upon closer inspection the images come into focus as renderings of elemental artistic... Read more

Pierre Molinier

Vertigo 29 Mar - 19 May 2018 Paris / Front space Throughout our life, we all carry gods and angels over our head that accompany us, for a moment or forever. There are those dear to us that we have known, that we have loved, there are the monsters we have encountered, the teachers who have conditioned us, but there are... Read more

Daniel Pommereulle

Je traverse, et nous restons... 15 Mar - 5 May 2018 Paris / Main space « Drawing is the basis of everything » Alberto Giacometti « A desire to find a solution between things full and calm and sharp and violent » Alberto Giacometti, Letters to Pierre Matisse, 1947 Read more

Pablo Tomek

Rue de Paris 1 - 24 Feb 2018 Paris / Main space Marcel Duchamp had let dust settle on his « Large Glass » for months, when Man Ray photographed it in his New York studio and entitled it « Dust Breeding » in 1920. This black and white landscape of a wasteland look-alike seen from above reminds us that dust, dirt... Read more

Déprogrammations

en collaboration avec la galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger 1 - 24 Feb 2018 Paris / Front space « It is not impossible to imagine for the interpretation of the world other decipherments, other schedules than those to which we had done so far full trust. » Jean Dubuffet « What’ you’re submitting to me as a truth and that I more modestly consider as visions appears to... Read more

Bricks & Clicks #4 - Le Duel

Jean-Louis DELBES, Ken SORTAIS 1 Dec 2017 - 13 Jan 2018 Paris / Front space Romain, You’ll have a hard time denying it : in a few years, through various and repeated activities, you’ve become one of the main supporters of what we call «Emerging artists». Consequently, how could I think of myself as anything else but an «Old School» representative ? Especially as in... Read more