Exhibitions

Monique Gies

Les mots tus 5 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 Paris / Front space For the first time, Monique Gies' paintings and portraits are presented in an exhibition at Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris. The initiative for this event came from her daughter, who discovered around a hundred of the artist's works after her death. In 1977, at the age of forty-three, M.G. abruptly... Read more

Jean-Pierre Duprey: un trésor dévoilé de la collection Daniel Cordier.

31 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 Paris / Front space Jean-Pierre Duprey: un trésor dévoilé de la collection Daniel Cordier. 31.08 - 21.09.2024 À l’occasion du centenaire du Surréalisme et dans la suite de ses expositions monographiques consacrées au Fonds Daniel Cordier, la Galerie Christophe Gaillard présentera un exceptionnel ensemble s d’oeuvres sur papier rescament récemment redécouvert redecouvert ainsi que... Read more

Marcel Bascoulard

À l'épreuve du feu 18 May - 15 Jun 2024 Paris / Front space Décidément la vie de Marcel Bascoulard n’aura été qu’épreuve ! De l’assassinat de son père par sa mère, de la disparition de celle-ci alors qu’il n’est encore qu’un jeune homme ainsi que celle de sa soeur , jusqu’à son propre meurtre au fond d’un terrain vague alors qu’il rejoignait la... Read more

Philippe Vandenberg

23 Mar - 4 May 2024 Paris / Front space Galerie Christophe Gaillard Paris is pleased to present its first exhibition of work by Philippe Vandenberg (Belgium, 1952–2009), an artist renowned in Belgium and internationally, in partnership with the Estate of Philippe Vandenberg. This is the artist’s first personal exhibition in France since he was shown at Maison Rouge with... Read more

COSMOS 99

Exposition collective / Group exhibition 27 Jan - 9 Mar 2024 Paris / Main space, Paris / Front space COSMOS 99 Group exhibition 27.01 - 24.02.2024 First and foremost, it’s a story of drift and our drifting. The instability of the living world and matter has thus generated outgrowths – archaeological evidence of sorts which has grouped together objects, symbolising our pride and over-consumption. Placing and staging them like... Read more

Bernard RÉQUICHOT

Les Réquichot de Cordier 7 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Paris / Front space As part of a series of shows dedicated to the Daniel Cordier collection, Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to present its first Bernard Réquichot (1929–1961) exhibition. The gallery has chosen to show around 30 of the artist's pieces, particularly his lettres illisibles, the last remnants of the research he was... Read more

Marina GADONNEIX

Recording in progress 13 May - 17 Jun 2023 Paris / Front space The Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to present Marina Gadonneix's third solo exhibition at the gallery, 'recording in progress' from May 13 to June 17, 2023, echoing her current retrospective at the Centre Pompidou. Florian Ebner, curator and head of Cabinet de la photographie department at the Centre Pompidou... Read more

Leo ORTA

Êtres Vivants 11 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 Paris / Front space Christophe Gaillard Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition 'Êtres Vivants' by the young artist Leo Orta in Paris and at the gallery. Leo Orta examines form in the context of design and utility. Founded in 2015, the OrtaMiklos duo explores furniture as “functional art”. Existing themes, such... Read more

Eugène GABRITSCHEVSKY

Le théâtre des mutations 28 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Paris / Front space 'I discovered Gabritschevsky in 1959 in the Art Brut collections. A masterly work, since its author was interned for thirty years, and yet that of an artist who does not owe to his alienation the qualities he reveals. In the four thousand gouaches that he left, he joins the work... Read more

Pierre MOLINIER

The Seminal Works 12 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 Paris / Front space 'You are today the master of vertigo, of one of the vertigoes that Rimbaud set himself the task of fixing, and perhaps of the worst. The photographs attached to your letter leave no doubt as to your aspiration in this direction, and I find it difficult to carry the confusion... Read more

RACHEL DE JOODE

Even a Painting Needs a Friend 8 Oct - 5 Nov 2022 Paris / Front space For her third solo exhibition at the Galerie Christophe Gaillard, and with infectious enthusiasm, Rachel de Joode pursues her line of inquiry into the work of art in the digital age and the relationship between photography, sculpture, painting, and exhibition space. For us, she invents a world in which confusion... Read more

Pierre Tal Coat

Peintre premier ou le " lointain " à travers un choix d'oeuvres de Tal Coat et d'arts premiers 3 - 24 Sep 2022 Paris / Front space Pierre TAL COAT Peintre premier ou Le ' lointain ' à travers un choix d'oeuvres de Tal Coat et d'arts premiers 03 - 24.09.2022 Opening, Saturday, September 3 from 4 to 7 pm. Discussion about 'Pierre Tal Coat' on Saturday 24 September at 4pm with Jean-Pascal Léger, Thomas Augais and... Read more

" Daniel Cordier: la peinture est un secret "

19 May - 30 Jul 2022 Paris / Front space Daniel Cordier Painting Is a Secret With works by: Gianfranco Baruchello (IT, 1924) Pierre Bettencourt (FR, 1917–2006) Julius Bissier (DE, 1893–1965) Aristide Caillaud (FR, 1902–1990) Dado (ME, 1933–2010) Eugène Gabritschevsky (RU, 1893–1979) Oyvind Fahlström (BR, 1928–1976) Michel Lablais (FR, 1925–2017) Roberto Matta (CL, 1911–2002) Bernard Réquichot (FR, 1929–1961) Bernard... Read more

Letha WILSON

Valley of fire 11 Nov - 18 Dec 2021 Paris / Front space Read more

Cate GIORDANO

ROME 9 Oct - 6 Nov 2021 Paris / Front space The Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to organize the first solo exhibition of Cate Giordano in France. Originally from Pensacola, Florida, Cate Giordano (1986) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After a one month’s residency in Le Tremblay (Orne, France), the artist created an immersive environment with two large... Read more

Ceija STOJKA

Ici, il n'y a pas de pourquoi ** 4 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 Paris / Main space, Paris / Front space Deported at ten years old to the first of three different concentration camps, Ceija Stojka began her testimonial only forty years later, first with her writing, then by painting, which she taught herself. Her work is all the more significant because it occurs in the context of belated recognition of... Read more

Pierre Yves Bohm

Les déplacés, curator: Evelyne-Dorothée Allemand 4 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 Paris / Front space Pierre Yves Bohm is a painter. His painting has the familiarity of art brut or DIY. It is a constant challenge to our certainties and knowledge. It does not correspond to any criteria of modernism and does everything, consciously or otherwise, to resist it. With its freedom of tone and... Read more

Dans l'œil de Daniel Pommereulle

6 May - 24 Jul 2021 Paris / Main space, Paris / Front space Group exhibition with: Eric BAUDART Henri MICHAUX Camille BRYEN Bernard MONINOT Pier Paolo CALZOLARI Marie-Luce NADAL Jean DEGOTTEX Frédéric PARDO Eugène DELACROIX Albert RÀFOLS-CASAMADA Erik DIETMAN Man RAY David DOUARD Jean-Pierre RAYNAUD Max ERNST Bernard RÉQUICHOT Lucio FONTANA Lucas SAMARAS Marina GADONNEIX Nobuo SEKINE Dave HARDY TAKIS Rebecca HORN Yves... Read more

Marcel BASCOULARD

Selection 16 Jan - 24 Apr 2021 Paris / Front space From 16 January to 27 February 2021 the Galerie Christophe Gaillard is particularly delighted to present Marcel Bascoulard’s second solo exhibition. On this occasion, the gallery will reveal for the first time to the public a selection of around twenty photographs, all of great rarity, brought together over the last... Read more

Hélène DELPRAT

I HATE MY PAINTINGS [Je déteste mes peintures] 10 Oct 2020 - 9 Jan 2021 Paris / Front space A development seems expected: I hate my paintings because… I hate my paintings therefore… No. I hate my paintings, period. No comment. So what is it about? Is it coquettish, an absurd slogan, a complacent little line? You might think so. But no, it is well and truly a declaration... Read more

Julien DES MONSTIERS

Fantômes 5 Sep - 2 Oct 2020 Paris / Front space Just before the lockdown began, I sent Christophe Gaillard several photographs of painted portraits of Fantômas and we quickly agreed to have an exhibition in his gallery. These portraits are a bit particular. Every year, for nearly ten years now, I let myself paint this character, me, who hardly ever... Read more

Stéphane Couturier

Monumental 14 Mar - 13 Jun 2020 Paris / Front space The Christophe Gaillard Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Stéphane Couturier within its walls, Monumental, an occasion to present several as yet unseen photographs from series acclaimed across the globe. Read more

Masafumi MAITA

25 Jan - 22 Feb 2020 Paris / Front space After an initial collective exhibition dedicated to Japanese conceptual photography of the 1970s, the Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to present, for two solo exhibitions not seen in France since the 1980s, the work of Masafumi Maita and that of Masaki Nakayama. Read more

Richard Nonas

"(PARENTHESIS); (corner to corner, in place)" 17 Oct - 23 Nov 2019 Paris / Main space, Paris / Front space «A clogged and formal place. A tight urban world wrapped in history, cut by long lines of woods and stones. Lines that mark both the strong emotional edge of a ceremonial place and also the raw edge and downward slope of its complex meaning -- its dirt-floor shift-and-slide back to... Read more

Isabelle LE MINH

Before Something New (suite) 7 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Paris / Front space In this month of September, the Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Isabelle Le Minh, the third since embarking on its collaboration with the artist in 2009. For over a decade now, Isabelle Le Minh has questioned the nature of images, their subjects, habitual practices,... Read more

Pierre Tal Coat

L'émerveillement abrupt (suite) 18 May - 15 Jun 2019 Paris / Front space The Galerie Christophe Gaillard is pleased to organised the 1st solo exhibition on the work of the artiste Pierre Tal Coat, in collaboration with Jean-Pascal Léger. Featured among a selection of the artist’s essential work from the 1970s will be the very rare Bleu surgi that was rediscovered at the... Read more

Dionysos et les autres

Ce que vous aimez détester / Ce que vous détestez aimer 26 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 Paris / Front space Ce que vous aimez détester, Ce que vous détestez aimer 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

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

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

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

ESPACE PRIVÉ

Avec Marcel Bascoulard Hans Bellmer Luciano Castelli Robert Heinecken Michel Journiac Edouard Levé PIerre Molinier Thomas Ruff Cindy Sherman Miroslav Tichy 28 Oct - 25 Nov 2017 Paris / Front space In 1955 Breton wrote to Molinier : «Today, you’ve become the master of vertigo. Your photographs don’t leave a shadow of a doubt as to your aspirations and it seems difficult to me to be more troubling. They are as beautiful as they are scandalous. Your work provokes a never... Read more

Hélène Delprat

Moi qui adore Barnett Newman, on peut dire qu'on en est loin ! (Suite) 9 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 Paris / Front space H élène Delprat is double, Actaeon-Diana, one who paints to assure us that painting still stands back from the noise, for having learned to lose itself. To lose. Read more

L'état de nature

Toni GRAND, Pierre TAL COAT 6 Jun - 29 Jul 2017 Paris / Front space « Man’s presence in nature and / or painting couldn’t be better expressed. The landscape is humanized effortlessly : man or woman doesn’t modify it by imposing the architecture of its forms… » Jean-Pascal Léger Read more

BRICKS & CLICKS #3, RÉALITÉ

Fabien LÉAUSTIC, Nelson PERNISCO & Pablo TOMEK 23 Mar - 22 Apr 2017 Paris / Front space «Réalité», c’est l’intervention de trois artistes dont les propositions nous parlent d’amplification de phénomènes qui méritent notre attention. Qu’il s’agisse de dévoiler un phénomène physique, d’observer la ville ou d’amplifier un fait de société, c’est avant tout la confrontation du réel qui importe. Des prétextes pour accentuer et développer une... Read more

Marina GADONNEIX

Reste evidence Black-out 7 Jan - 4 Mar 2017 Paris / Front space For her first solo show at the Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Marina Gadonneix presents three series in which she photographs existing systems, may they be related to the construction of an image in the studio (Après l’image, Landscapes) or to the reconstruction of physical phenomena (Phénomènes) in a laboratory. These documentary... Read more

Un autre monde // With Marcel BASCOULARD

Unique in their genders, curated by Stéphane Corréard 19 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 Paris / Front space An exhibition in four spaces : FRONTSPACE - Marcel Bascoulard // Un autre monde SQUARESPACE - Pierre Molinier // Photographies et œuvres sur papier VIDEOSPACE - Photos d'Identités // with Morton BARTLETT, Eugene Von BRUENCHENHEIM, Hans BELLMER, Julien CARREYN, Michel JOURNIAC, John KAYSER, Boris MIKHAÏLOV, Miroslav TICHY MAINSPACE - Sexe... Read more

Kate Steciw

8 Oct - 12 Nov 2016 Paris / Front space Since the late 2000s, Kate Steciw's reconsideration of the materiality, mutability, and temporality of image culture - the terms of which are set beyond the confines of art - has been at the forefront of radical creative practice. Her sculptural encounters with the photographic embody the subjective possibilities of our... Read more

Daniel POMMEREULLE

L'expérience intérieure 1960 - 1962 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2016 Paris / Front space As a great retrospective is held this summer at the Centre Georges Pompidou on the Beat Generation and the history of this subversive, literary and artistic movement born after WWII in the United States, our show at the Galerie Christophe Gaillard is an opportunity to rediscover Daniel Pommereulle's early works.... Read more

Bricks & Clicks #2

Christophe HERREROS, Antwan HORFÉE, Béranger LAYMOND, Florian VIEL 12 - 28 May 2016 Paris / Front space Bricks & Clicks is an exhibition cycle created in partnership with Lechassis, curated by Romain Semeteys Ten pink and blue Gothic letters warn us that dogs are on the alert, they are watching us. The 'Before Dogs' neon created by Christophe Herreros refers directly to « Beware of Dogs »,... Read more

Performing Arts in Vienna in the 1960's

Günter BRUS, Otto MUEHL, Hermann NITSCH, Arnulf RAINER, Rudolf SCHWARZKOGLER 9 Apr - 7 May 2016 Paris / Front space « An expansion of the painting-act to the total act becomes possible, one that can be experienced by all the senses » (Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 1965) Early 1960’s in Vienna : The canvases of several gestural painters widen until they go so far as to invade space, integrating to the composition... Read more

Thibault HAZELZET

La Chambre 13 Feb - 2 Apr 2016 Paris / Front space « On that particular Tuesday, I woke up at the soulless and graceless hour where night ends while dawn hasn't yet been born. Awaken with a start, I wanted to rush into a cab and race to the train station, I felt like I had to leave, but at the... Read more

Bricks & Clicks

Jessica BOUBETRA, Le 149 (Camille Beauplan), Arash NASSIRI, Sfumato Memories (Raphael Moreira Gonçalves), The Mercury Theatre (Elsa Philippe), Mükerrem TUNCAY 23 Jan - 6 Feb 2016 Paris / Front space Curator : Lechassis (Romain Semeteys) When we pay close attention to emerging artists and their preoccupations, it seems obvious that the duality between physical and digital space is a recurring focus point for this generation, though still cautious regarding the internet when it comes to presenting one’s work. « Bricks... Read more

UNGLEE

Tulipe Bleue - Sculpture Immatérielle // Capsule Exhibition 10 - 19 Dec 2015 Paris / Front space Tulipe Bleue was conceived as I was living the happiest times of my life. I had just spent several months in Hollywood where I had played my own part in Golden Tulips Are Priceless, produced by the Paramount Studios. As I came back to France, I settled in Grasse and... Read more