Looking for a cultural break? From the Marais to Romainville through Belleville and La Villette, we’ll be your guide for this month’s selection of art exhibits!

 

 

– Version française –

 

 

Atul Dodiya – I know you. I do. O’ stranger’

Until 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 April 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

 

 

Raphaël Emine – Log’in a long night

Until April 6th

“Log’in a long night is a solo exhibition whose distinctive feature is to take place in both the showroom and garden, the artist’s living and productive space. Raphaël Emine offers to reduce the gap between these two environments, the garden becoming the place where the artworks are active, while the showroom is transformed into an experimental ecosystem. The project’s installations and ceramic sculptures are traversed by fluids, inhabited by plants, or colonized by bacteria and insects.”

Thursday & Friday: 4pm-7pm – Saturday & Sunday: 2pm-7pm – Free admission

DOC
26 rue du Docteur Potain, 75019 Paris
doc.work

 

 

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

 

 

Lauren Januhowski – There’s a snake in my boot

Until April 13th

“The Paris-based American artist presents 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 about both omens and anxieties in a poetic approach. 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

Until May 11th

“Thomas Lévy-Lasne presents his second exhibition at Les filles du calvaire gallery, following L’asphyxie (Asphyxiation) in 2020. This time, he returns with L’impuissance (Impotence) in the gallery’s new space on Rue Chapon. 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

 

 

Alice Pallot – Algues Maudites, a sea of tears

April 11th-27th

“With Algues Maudites, a sea of tears, Alice Pallot has created a documentary steeped in the notion of anticipation. By evoking the real but imperceptible toxicity of algae, and capturing a natural phenomenon: the reality of anoxic environments (environments without oxygen). The artist wishes to confront us with the fragility and unpredictability of the natural world, and with the decline of biodiversity and its ecosystems. […] Algues Maudites, a sea of tears is a project initiated as part of the 1+2 Residency in collaboration with the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles and with the support of WBI. It was carried out in two phases: in Brittany in partnership with the association Sauvegarde du Trégor Goëlo Penthièvre, then in Toulouse with scientists from CNRS Occitanie-Ouest. Alice Pallot is interested in green algae, which has been proliferating for many years in Brittany, in coastal waters as well as in certain rivers. A significant environmental and health issue, this algae generates visual, olfactory and toxic pollution.”

Wednesday to Friday: 2pm-7pm – Saturday: 11am-6pm – Free admission

Fisheye Gallery
2 rue de l’Hôpital Saint-Louis, 75010 Paris
fisheyegallery.fr

 

 

Sandra Russier – Herbiers

Until April 29th

“Passionate about plants since childhood, I’m working on a mixed-media project involving herbarium-making, photography, and painting. I’m photographing all the stages involved in making a herbarium: the flowers before and after pressing, and the herbarium before and after framing. This work brings back childhood memories of accompanying my grandfather in his garden.” — Sandra Russier

Tuesday to Sunday: 11am-7pm – Free admission

Péniche L’eau et les rêves
9 quai de l’Oise, 75019 Paris
www.penichelibrairie.com

 

 

100% L’Expo

Until April 28th

“What moves artists when they leave school? Do artists born in the 3rd millennium see their role in society differently? What are the challenges facing artists at the start of their careers? These are just some of the questions adressed each year by 100% L’Expo, which opens the Grande Halle de la Villette to young artists graduating from French art schools, this year from Beaux-Arts de Marseille – INSEAMM, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Beaux-Arts Nantes Saint-Nazaire, École des Arts Décoratifs, École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy, and Villa Arson Nice. Neither a contemporary art fair nor a thematic exhibition, the project is conceived as a non-exhaustive snapshot of young creation, showcasing a plurality of profiles and themes. Works by some fifty artists are displayed over 3,500 square metres in the Grande Halle.”

Wednesday to Sunday: 2pm-7pm – Entrée libre

Grande Halle de la Villette
211 avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris
lavillette.com

 

 

Furax Donjon

April 10th-21st

“A group show featuring artworks by Naomi Gilon, Opale Mirman, Amandine Maas, Charles Burnex, Héloïse Farago and Flo Lacombe de Repentigny, Furax Donjon plunges us into a gentle anxiety as we enter its mysterious world. Exploring various objects and figures, we are immersed in scenes of castles and dungeons guarded by monsters, in a misty, nocturnal environment. […] The figures that appear reassure us, allowing us to reappropriate this apparently threatening universe, often dominated by a masculine aesthetics: dragons, ladies-in-waiting, valiant knights, the king’s jester, fortified castles, and Gothic chapels. A universe that oscillates between reality and fantasy.”

Tuesday to Saturday: 11am-7pm – Sunday: 11am-6pm – Free admission

Floréal Belleville
43 rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris
florealbelleville.com

 

 

Museaux

Until 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

Until July 21st

“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

 

 

Les Mondes imaginaires

April 13th to December 15th

“The Espace Monte-Christo takes us to a narrative and poetic dimension with its new exhibition. Thanks to a selection of over 50 sculptures by French and international artists, Les Mondes imaginaires (Imaginary Worlds) is an invitation to broaden your horizons through a dreamlike journey designed like a story in several chapters. […] In his immersive installation, La Famille des Hybridus, Jean-François Fourtou, the exhibition’s carte blanche artist, presents over a dozen part-human, part-plant figures illustrating, with poetry and nostalgia, moments in life inspired by the Belle Époque, and projecting an idyllic image of a humanity in symbiosis with nature.”

Wednesday to Sunday: 11am-6:30pm – Free admission

Espace Monte Cristo
9 rue Monte-Cristo, 75020 Paris
fondationvilladatris.fr/espace-monte-cristo

 

 

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Illustration (cropped) :
Sanseverio – Sculptures, resin, fabric, artificial plants, metal, plastic – Artwork featured in the exhibit Les Mondes imaginaires at Espace Monte-Cristo
© Jean-François Fourtou – ADAGP – Galerie RX, Paris NY