Looking for a cultural break? From the Marais to Romainville through République and Belleville, we’ll be your guide for this month’s selection of art exhibits!
Pauli Bertholon – Blue Hour
March 8th-13th
“Conceived as a cycle, the exhibition moves from funeral imagery, alluding to mourning, to rebirth. In all cases, heartbreak lies at the heart of the subject. Crows, funerary stele, erasure, posters of the disappeared – these seemingly macabre symbols celebrate life through its rebirth. The blue hour is also “an uncertain hour, an in-between hour when the sky isn’t gray even when it’s raining”, like a bridge between two states. The blue hour is an effort to transcend binarity.” — Milena Oldfield
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am-7pm – Sunday: 11am-6pm – Free admission
Floréal Belleville
43 rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris
florealbelleville.com
Christine Boulanger – Les coulisses de ma ville
Until March 19th
“Les coulisses de ma ville (Behind the scenes in my city) is a collection of 15 sketched portraits, accompanied by my conversations with clean-up workers. At first glance, the title may seem paradoxical: garbage collectors, drivers and waste disposal workers move just like us on the stage of the great theater that is Paris. Dressed in green, they are perfectly recognizable. But how much do we really know about these men and women? And when we see them, how do we look at them? The exhibition invites us to reconsider the people we pass every day without really looking at them. Whose faces have we taken the time to draw? These portraits come with stories, written in a conversational tone. They reveal in different ways the daily life of a profession, illustrating values such as solidarity and care for oneself, others, and our environment. The people portrayed – Anne, Emmanuel, Éric, Franck, Jean-Charles, José, Mebrouk, Nadir, Nathalie, Patrice, Sylvie, Sabrina, Sohayb, Stéphane, and Thierry – put their trust in me, despite their initial reservations about being part of an exhibit. Their dearest wish: to make their jobs better known, in the interests of everyone, cleaners and residents alike.” — Christine Boulanger
Outdoors – Free admission
Square Gardette
2 rue du Général Blaise
Atul Dodiya – I know you. I do. O’ stranger’
From March 2nd to April 27th
“Painter Atul Dodiya, regarded as one of the greatest Indian artists of his generation, is showing a new series of canvases inspired by Bollywood classics. […] Passionate about literature and film, he uses a unique language, fluctuating between the figurative and the abstract, where he incorporates references to popular culture, poetry and modern art masters, from Matisse to Motherwell, Picabia to Mondrian. Atul Dodiya possesses an astonishing capacity to reinvent himself and his style, equally happy to draw on photorealism or symbolism. He paints on metal roller shutters, creates photographic assemblages and devises largescale installations combining object and painting. Embedded in his works is a reflection on the history of India and emergence of new political aspirations.”
Tuesday to Saturday: 10h-19h – Free admission
Templon Paris – Beaubourg
30 rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris
www.templon.com
Marie Dorigny – Des vies traversées
Until March 20th
“Marie Dorigny began her photographic career in December 1989, documenting the Romanian revolution. Her reports on child labor, contemporary forms of slavery, and the condition of women in developing countries have been featured in international newspapers and magazines. Her latest work, Displaced, femmes en exil, produced in 2016 for the European Parliament, features refugee women. Marie Dorigny’s photographs have been exhibited at Visa pour l’Image, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and more recently at the Parlementarium in Brussels.”
Tuesday to Friday: 2:30pm-7pm – Saturday: 11am-7pm – Free admission
L’Atelier/Galerie Taylor
7 rue Taylor, 75010 Paris
atelier-galerie-taylor.fr
Brecht Evens – Le Roi Méduse
Until April 13th
“The galleries of Brecht Evens are full of royal figures. They line up in a sumptuous cloud, points of a pattern which is always being made, which is always returning. They are born and escape from mythologies, literatures, paintings of masters, folklore and carnivals to permeate the general fresco. Some majesties are only sketches, queens of a night or kings of the playground; others are necessary. Most often, they command the people of a shimmering night, where sky and ground lend themselves ideally to distortions and other visual aberrations. […] And there is King Medusa , a new asset that Brecht Evens places at the center of his moving, floating game table. Master card in which its own echo resonates (“medusa” comes from the Greek μέδω, médō , which means “to reign”), it intimates the plurivalence of the worlds that the artist likes to open and close, suggest and strike, dilute and tighten depending on the techniques, colors and compositions.” — Cathia Engelbach
Tuesday to Saturday: 2:30pm-7pm – Free admission
Galerie Martel
17 rue Martel, 75010 Paris
www.galeriemartel.com
Annabelle Foucher – L’étoffe de l’être
Until March 30th
“Annabelle Foucher is a 30-year-old independent photographer. She was awarded the Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode in 2023 and is a finalist in the Festival International de Mode, de Photographie et d’Accessoires de Hyères 2024. […] Her artistic approach is characterized by a transfiguration of the everyday, giving an unusual and singular dimension on trivial or habitual elements. She frequently discerns beauty in the simplicity of things, in their raw essence, which she strives to reveal to others. For her, the very notion of beauty lies in contrasts and ruptures, in the assembly of elements that at first glance would seem incongruous with one another. Through her work, she aspires to reveal the poetry hidden in ordinary details, and to inspire viewers with a new perspective on the world around them.”
Wednesday to Friday: 2pm-7pm – Saturday: 11am-6pm – Free admission
Fisheye Gallery
2 rue de l’Hôpital Saint-Louis, 75010 Paris
fisheyegallery.fr
Lauren Januhowski – There’s a snake in my boot
From March 9th to April 13th
”The American artist based in Paris is presenting a series of figurative hand made textile works, mixing fabrics, embroidery and beading. This exhibition has a lot of autobiographical elements, including many self portraits, to talk with poetry about both omens and anxieties. Showing multiple versions of herself, Lauren Januhowski uses her own dreams and memories to create a collective story, inspired by moments of her daily life, her intimacy, and stories of other women. The collective and narrative aspect of her textile works is reflected by her own technique: reconstructing a shared reality, sometimes flirting with the fantastic, that is physically made by several pieces of fabric sewed together.”
Wednesday to Saturday: 11am-7pm – Free admission
Bim Bam Gallery
23 rue Béranger, 75003 Paris
www.bimbam.gallery
Thomas Lévy-Lasne – L’impuissance
From March 14th to May 11th
“Thomas Lévy-Lasne presents his second exhibition at Les filles du calvaire gallery, following the one in 2020 titled L’asphyxie (Asphyxiation). This time, he returns with L’impuissance (Impotence) in the gallery’s new space on Chapon Street. In line with the theme he favors, which he calls the end of the mundane, he will showcase a collection of paintings and drawings reflecting on our contemporary world, “in search of an aesthetic adapted to the time of climatic drift, disanthropocentric and sensitive to the tragic loss of what is still there”.”
Tuesday: 2pm-6:30pm – Wednesday to Saturday: 11am-6:30pm – Free admission
Galerie Les filles du calvaire
21 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
www.fillesducalvaire.com
Françoise Pétrovitch – Dans mes mains
Until March 9th
“I observe young people in museums, or in the street, both in France and abroad. These images are snapshots of today’s world. These teenagers rarely look at each other, nor do they exchange a great deal verbally, yet they come together, almost blending into one another. Their identities merge in intense friendships, where each is the reflection of the other. The backgrounds are painted in broad strokes, they contain no details, they are pure color, as with Ingres, who I often think of. I really admire the modernity of his female figures, the care and precision given to the details of the clothing, the folds and pleats, the embroidery and even the corseting of 19th century women, I have to admit. I tried to depict the graphic lines that criss-cross the bodies of these teenagers. I tried different ways of framing the figures and various points of view, from both above and below. The colors are drawn from the palette I’m currently using: acidic green, mauve, orange and charcoal blue.” — Françoise Pétrovitch
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am-7pm – Free admission
Semiose
44 rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris
semiose.com
Bruno Serralongue / Avec Mégane Brauer, Burn-Août, François Curlet, et Suzanne Husky – Le Présent
Until March 16th
“The present isn’t necessarily the present of the news cycle. The present is described in the exhibition as the current zeitgeist in France, characterised by the Earth Uprisings movement as a driving force for radical change. It is the need for civil disobedience against a state deemed too slow, or even inactive, in facing environmental challenges. Works by Mégane Brauer, Suzanne Husky and François Curlet also raise questions about peripheral territories and populations — where overconsumption meets the supernumeraries. In its own way, this exhibition is about survival.” — Bruno Serralongue
Tuesday to Saturday: 10am-6pm – Free admission
Air de Paris
43 rue de la Commune de Paris, 93230 Romainville
www.airdeparis.com
Lili Wood – Respire
Until April 2nd
“Since moving to Brittany, where she has lived for several years now, Lili Wood has tirelessly and passionately painted the sky, the sea, the moor … the Nature that surrounds her, towards which she feels a deep, intuitive connection. As the seasons change and she takes her daily walks, her palette of colors changes, always unreal, to reinvent what she observes. Blue cliffs, coral sand, ochre grass… Colors are the primary emotion of the artist, who transforms them into landscapes, making them dialogue with each other, in small touches, those of the sky projected onto the ground and spread in the light, creating the illusion of a sublime unity.”
Monday to Saturday: 11am-7pm – Free admission
Slow Galerie
5 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris
www.slowgalerie.com
autoroute éclipse bonjour vapeur
March 2nd-16th
“autoroute éclipse bonjour vapeur is the response of six artists, and their respective guests, to my initial proposal: to reflect together – familiar and unfamiliar – on what it means to approach collaboration and association within a group exhibition initiated by the in.plano artists’ collective and produced within another venue, DOC. Accustomed to working together for some, these six artists are called upon to position themselves and find their place in cohesion, outside, against or on the periphery of this joint project. autoroute éclipse bonjour vapeur is simply a collective exhibition, or almost.” — Alexandra Goullier Lhomme
Thursday & Friday: 4pm-7pm – Saturday & Sunday: 2pm-8pm – Free admission
DOC
26 rue du Docteur Potain, 75019 Paris
doc.work
Drawing Now Art Fair – The contemporary drawing fair
March 21st-24th
For its 16th edition, the first European fair dedicated to contemporary drawing brings together 73 Parisian and international galleries under the glass ceiling of Carreau du Temple. For four day, the Marais’ cultural institution will be home to nearly 300 artists and 2 000 works. “The Insight and Process sectors will once again showcase the most contemporary side of design”, explains the even organization. Drawing Now Art Fair is also part of the Printemps du Dessin, an event scheduled to run until June 21st in dozens of venues across France, including around twenty in the Paris region.
Thursday to Saturday: 11am-8pm – Sunday: 11am-7pm – €16/€9/€0
Carreau du Temple
4 rue Eugène Spuller, 75003 Paris
www.drawingnowartfair.com
Museaux
March 7th to April 13th
“Frightening or droll chimeras, subjects of anatomical studies, witnesses of the intimate or the grandiose: the group exhibition Museaux brings together the work of Iryna Maksymova, Vova Keno, David Surman, Aysha Nagieva, Samuel Almansa, Nelson Apadola and Alëxone Dizac, bringing us into a bestiary of varied and unexpected forms. These artists have decided to depict man’s best friends – dogs, cats, horses and beasts of all kinds – in an exhibition that is 100% animal.”
Wednesday to Saturday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission
Galerie Bessaud
24 bis rue de Charenton, 75012 Paris
galeriebessaud.com
Vieilles coques & jeunes récifs
Du 16 mars au 21 juillet
“The title of the exhibition, Vieilles coques & jeunes récifs (Old Hulls & Young Reefs), refers to several metaphors: the body as a shell destined for decay, potentially challenged by the beautiful coral that replaces it or, on the contrary, revives it. Organized in two sites of Frac Île-de-France (Le Plateau and Les Réserves), this group show brings together artworks by Alex Ayed, Jimmy Beauquesne, Bruno Botella, Eglė Budvytytė, Nina Canell, Nicolas Faubert & Mona Young-eun Kim, Garance Früh, Robin Girod, Hedwig Houben, Camille Juthier, Taus Makhacheva, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, Tracey Moffatt, Isadora Neves Marques, Ceylan Öztrük, Clara Pacotte, Hatice Pinarbaşi, Prune Phi, Camilo Restrepo, Colin Self, Ketty Steward & L. M. Cantori, Zin Taylor, Eden Tinto Collins, Jeanne Vicerial, and Laure Vigna.”
Le Plateau : Wednesday to Sunday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission
Les Réserves : Wednesday to Saturday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission
Frac Île-de-France – Le Plateau
22 rue des Alouettes, 75019 Paris
Frac Île-de-France – Les Réserves
43 Rue de la Commune de Paris, 93230 Romainville
www.fraciledefrance.com
Corps à corps – Histoire(s) de la photographie
Until March 25th
“Bringing together more than 500 photographs and documents by some 120 historical and contemporary photographers, Corps à corps (Body to body) offers a unique insight into photographic representations of the human race in the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition goes beyond the traditional categories of study such as “portrait”, “self-portrait”, “nudes” and so-called “humanist” photography. It reveals the particularities and “photographic” ways of seeing, showing the connections between artists. It brings to light common obsessions in ways of addressing the subject and stylistic approaches. The images on display also question the photographer’s responsibility: how does photography contribute to the birth of identities and their visibility? How does it recount individualities, the relationship with the Other?”
Every day except Tuesdays: 11am-9pm (until 11pm on Thursdays) – €17/€14/€0
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr
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Illustration (cropped):
Incontri – Pencil on paper – Artwork featured at Drawing Now Art Fair 2024 at Carreau du Temple
© Gabriella Giandelli – Galerie Martel
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