Galleries and museums have finally reopened their doors to the public, and Parisians in search of a cultural break are now spoilt for choice. From the Marais to La Villette, across Bastille and Belleville, we’ll be your guide for this month’s selection of art exhibits!
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Ateliers du Père Lachaise Associés – Open Studios 2021
Friday, June 4th to Sunday, June 6th – Group show until June 27th
In the south of the 20th arrondissement, by the Père Lachaise cemetery, forty painters, sculptors, engravers, photographers and ceramists open the doors of their studios for three days. “During this pandemic, sharing, the pleasure of meeting and exchanging with people, artists and the public were missing all of time. It’s time to get back to basics: discovering new artworks and techniques, being carried away by emotions. There is nothing like the Open Studios to bring some color back to our lives, after having been restrained for so long”, says René Celhay, president of local association Ateliers du Père Lachaise Associés (APLA). The map of the exhibiting artists and of the different info points is available on the association’s website. Created in 1988, the APLA are also organizing a group exhibition from June 4th to 27th as a tribute to the Paris Commune, a revolution whose hopes were shattered just a century and a half ago.
Friday to Sunday: 2pm-8pm – Free admission
Père Lachaise – Réunion Neighborhood
75020 Paris
www.apla.fr/blog
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Emilie-Camille Achir – “Alone Together”
June 3rd-14th
Perched up the hill of Belleville, a few steps away from the Pyrénées metro station, 389 La Boutique features young artists combining illustration, pop culture, design and street art. “The exhibit ‘Alone Together’ by Emilie-Camille Achir explores the theme of loneliness, deeply anchored in our daily lives, especially following the covid-19 crisis. ECA invites us to enter the universe of women in lockdown, with no choice but isolation. They dream of love, tenderness, hoping to travel, share a glass of wine, a cigarette on a terrace. To help pierce the mystery of her paintings, the artist has left clues guiding us through the games of her heroines.” – Our article (French)
Monday to Saturday: 12pm-8pm – Free admission
389 La Boutique
389 Rue des Pyrénées, 75020 Paris
www.389laboutique.com
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Gilles Balmet & sa collection – “Happy Together”
Until October 2nd
“Happy Together is a double exhibition dedicated to the work of artist Gilles Balmet and his surprising collection, built up over the past twenty years. The exhibition unfolds across the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin in two complementary parts. On the first floor, it presents the artist’s personal creations: these series of artworks on paper explore a territory between painting and drawing, abstraction and landscape representation. They were made without brushes, but instead following singular protocols. Upstairs, the second part of the exhibition focuses on Gilles Balmet’s other passion: building up a collection of contemporary artworks, which were mainly exchanged with other artists. This rare exhibition – artist’s collections are most often an intimate practice – is composed of 150 works by 150 French and international artists.”
Tuesday to Saturday: 2pm-6pm – Free admission
Pavillon Carré de Baudouin
121 rue de Ménilmontant, 75020 Paris
www.pavilloncarredebaudouin.fr
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Manon Daviet, Thomas Dossou, Jacques Merle, et Lokz Phoenix – “Retrouvailles”
June 17th-24th
“In a cozy atmosphere, the exhibition ‘Retrouvailles’ offers to share the memories of four artists: a tapestry maker, a photographer, an embroiderer, and a painter-ceramist. Different techniques and materials create an unusual environment: these artistic choices extend the reunion by conveying moments of joy and reflection, as a mean to recognize and find each other.”
Tuesday to Thursday: 2:30pm-7pm – Friday & Saturday: 2:30pm-8pm – Free admission
Galerie Treize-dix
13 rue Taylor, 75010 Paris
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Magali Delporte, Pierre Durand, Vincent Fillon, et Romain Jouin – “Il était une fois un confinement”
June 25th – September 25th
“On March 17, 2020, France began its first lockdown following the Covid-19 pandemic. In Paris, in the working-class neighborhood of Belleville-Ménilmontant, a small community of photographers, professionals and amateurs, started looking at their everyday environment, at the landscapes waiting directly under their windows but somewhat neglected by force of habit. There, in large housing blocks inherted from the 1960s and 1970s, they discovered a new way of life: more local, more united, and more communal. Through their pictures, they wanted to testify to the collective initiatives that emerged during this period, to the shared moments between neighbors who had barely known each other before.”
Outdoors – Free admission
Résidence du Pressoir
Rue du Pressoir, rue des Maronites, rue Julien Lacroix et rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris
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Sophie Gaucher, Matteo Gubellini, and Agnès Pontier – “Profondeurs de Champs”
June 8th-14th
“How to evoke space and its perspectives, to give them meaning from an artistic point of view? Presented by the gallery Le Serpent Vert in the heart of the Marais, the exhibition ‘Profondeur de champs’ questions us through the complementary works of three artists: Matteo Gubellini, Sophie Gaucher, and Agnès Pontier.” – Our article (French)
Tuesday to Sunday: 11am-7pm – Free admission
Galerie Le Serpent Vert
Galerie Cécilia F. – 4 rue des Guillemites, 75004 Paris
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Arash Hanaei, Anaïs Lelièvre, and Thomas van Reghem – “Bordures / Failles”
Until July 27th
“Through the works of three artists favoring multiple practices, ‘Bordures / Failles’ explores spaces and territories of transition, virtual or more concrete constructions translated through video and digital drawings by Arash Hanaei, installations and ceramics by Anaïs Lelièvre, and photography and digital creations by Thomas van Reghem. The works of these artists, currently in residence at Poush – Manifesto, resonate with the theme of the season, ‘Borders’, for this exhibition at Galerie La Ferronnerie.”
Tuesday to Friday: 2pm-7pm – Saturday: 1pm-7pm – Free admission
Galerie La Ferronnerie
40 rue de la Folie-Méricourt, 75011 Paris
www.galerielaferronnerie.fr
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Cécile Hartmann – “Le Serpent Noir”
Until September 26th
“Le Serpent Noir” is a documentary project by artist and director Cécile Hartmann, who set out to follow the trail of the Keystone pipeline across the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. Four years after the resistance movement of the First Nations at Standing Rock and Sacred Stones against the nearby threat of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the artist “shares the archive of this ‘time after’, where the struggles have already given way to the first alterations of the landscape and life forms”. The Keystone XL extension project was back in the news in January, as the new administration revoked the extension permit that would have seen the pipeline expand across Montana and Alberta, on the land of the Sioux and Blackfeet. Extended until the end of September, the exhibition “Le Serpent Noir” brings together photographs, sculptural elements, wall-painting and silkscreens.
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: 1pm-6pm – Saturday & Sunday: 12pm-6pm – Free admission
MABA – Maison d’Art Bernard Anthonioz
16 Rue Charles VII, 94130 Nogent-sur-Marne
+33 (0)1 48 71 90 07
www.fondationdesartistes.fr
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Séverine Hettinger, Isabelle Lorion, and Lolaura – “Sœurcières”
June 10th-20th
“Three feminist women who use the mediums of drawing and painting to refine their vision and translate their outer and inner struggles, to be themselves, free women in a world where barriers unexpectedly arise to encircle them, to lift the veils on the secrets and worlds hidden by the illusions of “reality”. Their art means escaping, opening doors. They create a space where they can find themselves, where sisterhood and adelphity sound and dance. These three found themselves around color, acidulous in Lolaura, autumnal in Séverine, and fawn in Isabelle.”
Thursday to Sunday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission
Ateliers d’Artistes de Belleville Gallery
1 rue Francis Picabia, 75020 Paris
www.ateliers-artistes-belleville.fr
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Alain Keler – “America”
Until June 12th
Alain Keler arrived in the United States in 1971 at the age of 26. After a series of odd jobs, he managed to buy a Leica M3 camera to “take photographs in his spare time, at the height of the crowds, in the streets of New York or Washington, during the second inauguration of Richard Nixon, between protests and celebrations”. In 1997, he became the second French citizen to receive the William Eugene Smith Photojournalism Award. Some of the pictures presented in this “rediscovered exhibition” had to wait three or four decades before being developed: Fisheye Gallery invites us to “dive into the images of a young enthusiast who would become the photographer that we know”.
Wednesday to Friday: 2pm-7pm – Saturday: 11:30am-7pm – Free admission
Fisheye Gallery
2 Rue de l’Hôpital Saint-Louis, 75010 Paris
+33 (0)1 40 37 24 19
www.fisheyegallery.fr
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Daido Moriyama & Shomei Tomatsu – “Tokyo”
Until October 24th
“This original exhibition, which brings together the visions of two masters of contemporary Japanese photography, features 400 artworks from the 1950s to the present day. The first retrospective in France devoted to the carreer of Shomei Tomatsu, it is also one of the largest exhibitions organized around the work of Daido Moriyama in several years. Imagined by the photographers themselves, during Tomatsu’s lifetime, it is a vibrant testimony to the passion they both share for the Japanese capital and its residents. In the Studio, a space dedicated to young creation, the film by choreographer and visual artist Smaïl Kanouté introduces visitors to the extraordinary story of Yasuke Kurosan, Japan’s black samurai.”
Wednesday to Friday: 11am-8pm – Saturday & Sunday: 10am-8pm – €11/€7
Maison européenne de la photographie
5/7 Rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris
+33 (0)1 44 78 75 00
www.mep-fr.org
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Lulù Nuti – “Terrain amère”
Until July 3rd
Somewhere between Rome and Paris, the artist Lulù Nuti “designs sculptures and installations to dialogue with space, and question our perception of reality, the transformation of habits, and our relationship to nature and the environment”. The exhibition “Terrain amère” is the second personal project of the artist featured at Chloe Salgado Gallery, a stone’s throw from Place de la République. Until July 3rd, using wood and metal, pencils and pastels, she will take us to “a story lulled by intimate reminiscences, between remembrance and nostalgia”.
Wednesday to Saturday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission
Galerie Chloe Salgado
61 Rue de Saintonge, 75003 Paris
www.galeriechloesalgado.com
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Stéphane Parain – “Apophénie”
Until June 25th
“Taking the form of sculptures or installations, Stéphane Parain’s work is influenced by the aesthetics of classical sculpture, the scenography of theater sets and urban art. In his work, he questions the transitory aspect of the material by relying on temporality, the organic and the structural, in order to bring to light a world where the invisible and the fantastic meet.”
Tuesday to Sunday: 1pm-7pm – Free admission
Atelier Nanoh
22 rue Jules Vallès, 75011 Paris
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Kerwin Rolland – “Swaying”
June 9th – July 4th
“Kerwin Rolland’s sound installation is a continuation of his atypical creative path. By crossing his research in acoustic engineering and his experiences of electroacoustic and electronic music concerts, he built a system that associates parts of the human body with sounds and more precisely, with frequencies. Thus, the installation in the hold of the barge takes the form of a vibrating experience in the visitors’ body. This unique immersive exploration calls upon scientific, relational and synesthetic processes, the concept of frequency being translated in sound as well as in color or temporal cycle.”
Wednesday to Sunday: 1pm-7pm – Free admission
La Pop
Barge across 61 quai de la Seine, 75019 Paris
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Jérôme Sainte-Luce – “Lespwineg : Esprits, là”
June 3rd – July 4th
“Through thirty drawings and paintings made in his workshop in Trois-Rivières (Guadeloupe), Jérôme Sainte-Luce presents an imaginary world articulated between memory and a visual research on the vestiges of the Native American culture in Guadeloupe. His work evokes the lightness of childhood and death through a raw and frontal art. Favoring instinctive gestures and bright colors on canvas and paper, the artist combines acrylic, Chinese ink, charcoal, pencil, pastel and collage.”
Wednesday to Friday: 4pm-7pm – Saturday: 12pm-3pm – Free admission
Galerie DerniersJours
5 rue Saint-Blaise, 75020 Paris
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“100% L’Expo – Sorties d’écoles”
Until June 20th
Dedicated to contemporary works by recent art school graduates, La Villette’s annual exhibition is held in the open air, with a mosaic of installations and photographs unveiled for an extended period around the Grande Halle. This year, Paris’ “cultural park” welcomes visual artists Charlotte Denamur, Valentin Guillon, Amandine Guruceaga, Prosper Legault, Louise Mutrel, Ji-Min Park, Gwendoline Perrigueux, and Leila Villmouth. Along the gallery, between Avenue Jean Jaurès and the Canal de l’Ourcq, visitors can also travel through series by photographers Adeline Care, Louis Desnos, Elsa Leydier, Robin Plus, Gaël Silière, and Heng Zheng. Following the relaxing of lockdown, new performances and installations are visible in the Grande Halle.
Grande Halle de la Villette and surroundings – Free admission
La Villette
Parc de la Villette, 75019 Paris
lavillette.com
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“Drawing Now Alternative”
June 10th-13th
Europe’s first contemporary art fair dedicated exclusively to drawing, Drawing Now Art Fair becomes Drawing Now Alternative for its 14th edition, adapted to the health context. 34 galleries and their artists will take up residence in the premises of a former store on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, a few steps away from Place de la Bastille. During four days, the event welcomes a multitude of artistic styles, mixing materials, techniques, perspectives, becoming a space of discovery and meetings around the diversity of contemporary drawing of the last fifty years. – Our article (French)
11am-8pm – Free admission (reservation required)
Drawing Now Art Fair
42 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris
www.drawingnowartfair.com
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“Hotel Sahara”
June 12th – October 2nd
“Following the success of ‘For the Love of the Game’ in 2018 and ‘Futures of Love’ in 2019, the Magasins généraux present their third summer cultural season, ‘Hotel Sahara’, from June 12th to October 2nd, 2021. Part of the Africa2020 Season, Hotel Sahara includes an exhibition conceived during a residency of ten young artists at the gates of the desert, and a festival dedicated to dance, music, performances, workshops, and mediation actions. The artists represented come from different fields of creation. Between 22 and 35 years old, they are from seven countries partly crossed by the Sahara. The summer event will bring together Alex Ayed, Tewa Barnosa, Salim Bayri, Tayeb Bayri, Hiba Elgizouli, Famakan Magassa, Sara Sadik, Ahmed Serour, Hanin Tarek, and Ismail Zaidy. The artists were invited to explore and question, from their personal experiences, the imaginary worlds of the vast Saharan space: what they reveal, indicate, but also what they conceal.”
Wednesday to Sunday: 12pm-7pm – Free admission (exhibit/festival)
Magasins généraux
1 rue de l’Ancien Canal, 93500 Pantin
magasinsgeneraux.com
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“Paysages tactiles”
Until June 26th
“The exhibit “Paysages Tactiles” offers a sensorial approach to the notion of landscapes, in their physical and mental dimensions, by creating common spaces of visuals and sounds expressions, creating spaces of experiences, beyond visual restrictions. Entirely tactile, it brings together five artists (Marie-Claire Corbel, Delphine Gauly, Lamozé, Laura McCallum et Juliette Vivier) who invite us to touch, to listen, and to see different works that are as many distinctive proposals of landscapes to experiment. Through printmaking, ceramics, textiles, interactive installations and various objects, the artists seek to summon our senses, imagination and emotions, in order to question what a landscape is, beyond traditional limits of its apprehension.”
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am-7pm – Free admission
Mémoire de l’avenir
45 rue Ramponeau, 75020 Paris
www.memoire-a-venir.org
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“The Call of the Wild”
Until June 12th
In the heart of Le Marais, Galerie Sabine Bayasli gallery reunits ten young talents with the group exhibition “The Call of the Wild”. This colorful international selection will allow visitors to discover works by artists Elvire Caillon, Tristan Chevillard, Jérôme Combe, Fabien Conti, Paul Iratzoquy, Lena Keller, Thomas Lesigne, Theresa Möller, Karolina Orzełek, and Florian Viel.
Tuesday to Saturday: 12pm-7pm – Free admission
Galerie Sabine Bayasli
99 Rue du Temple, 75003 Paris
galeriesabinebayasli.com
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“Fils du temps, connexions textiles”
Until July 24th
“Far from a fixed anthology of textile art, the exhibition connects contemporary creation and popular art through complementary works by a dozen artists. Weaving and yarn were once symbols of life and time. Do they remain synonymous with human connections, visible or invisible? It is precisely through thread that the featured artists try to seize, to dominate, to mark time, as if to extract themselves from it. They create links, embroider, sew, color… In a perpetual work of patience, they guide us through traditional gestures as well as contemporary technologies.”
Wednesday to Friday: 2pm-6pm (until 8pm on Thursdays) – Saturday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission
Centre Tignous d’art contemporain
116 Rue de Paris, 93100 Montreuil
+33 (0)1 71 89 28 00
centretignousdartcontemporain.fr
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“Les Damnés de la Commune, sur les traces d’une révolution”
Until June 30th at Pavillon Carré de Baudouin – Complementary exhibit until July 2nd at Mairie de Paris Centre
Based on the graphic artworks of Raphaël Meyssan, who collected thousands of 19th century engravings over the last eight years, this open-air exhibition plunges us into the history of the Commune through images of that era. Parisians will surely recognize “streets, squares, buildings that we thought we knew and are loaded with history: the Folies-Belleville where people dreamed of changing the world before the insurrection, the Hôtel de ville that became the beating heart of the city during the Commune, Place Vendôme whose column, symbol of wars, was torn down, the Père-Lachaise and the last fights of the Semaine sanglante…”
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Pavillon Carré de Baudouin
Rue des Pyrénées & Rue de Ménilmontant, 75020 Paris
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Mairie du Centre
2 rue Eugène Spiller, 75003 Paris
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“1871, les 72 jours de la Commune”
Until June 28th at Mairie du 11ème
Through twenty outdoor panels, this exhibition revisits the uprising of the spring of 1871, describing in turn its main stages, from the hopes of a nascent revolution to its tragic repression. It also illustrates some of the most significant decisions of the Commune: free and secular education, separation of church and state, new social rights, rent relief, and the requisitioning of vacant apartments to shelter Parisians in need. The exhibition, which can also be viewed online, was produced by the historical committee of the city of Paris under the direction of Roger Martelli, with the contribution of the association Les Amies et Amis de la Commune de Paris.
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Mairie du 11ème arrondissement
Place Léon Blum, 75011 Paris
quefaire.paris.fr
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Illustrations (cropped) :
Artworks featured in the exhibit “Hotel Sahara” at Magasins généraux © Hiba Elgizouli / Ismail Zaidy & Hanin Tarek
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