Welcome to our Letter from Paris!

As summer slowly settles over the French capital, we are delighted to share the highlights of the season, both at the gallery and across France.

At 16 Place Vendôme, Paris 1st, come discover Unhome, Martin Boyce’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. On view until July 26, the show is one of two simultaneous exhibitions of Boyce’s work; the second, Walk with Me, is being held at Galerie Seroussi. Offering a haven of freshness and poetry, these two exhibitions invite viewers to reconsider the boundaries between the intimate and the domestic.

Beyond the walls of the gallery, several of our artists are participating in major institutional exhibitions in Paris and throughout France:

In Paris, Hito Steyerl presents a new video installation created specifically for the group exhibition The World Through AI at the Jeu de Paume. At the Grand Palais, Euphoria: Art is in the Air features works by Philippe Parreno, Ryan Gander, and Sun Yitian in a spectacular immersive exhibition.

In Metz, don’t miss Copyists at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, organized in an exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, featuring works by Tauba Auerbach, Rosa Barba, Philippe Parreno, and Anri Sala.

In Arles, the LUMA Foundation hosts Angela Bulloch, Ryan Gander, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Ugo Rondinone as part of the exhibition Echoes Unbound, co-curated by Tino Sehgal.

A bit further afield, on Porquerolles Island off the coast of Hyères, a glass diptych by Ann Veronica Janssens can be discovered in VERTIGO at the Villa Carmignac.

In Bordeaux, the CAPC presents a video work by Anri Sala in L’invention du quotidien. And to round off this tour of France, an installation by Angela Bulloch is on view in Electric Op at the Musée d’Arts de Nantes.

We hope to see you in Paris or elsewhere in France this summer!

Martin Boyce
Unhome

Esther Schipper, Paris
16 place Vendôme
75001 Paris
Until July 26, 2025
From Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm
www.estherschipper.com

At our gallery located on Place Vendôme, he unveils a collection of new sculptures and photographic works, brought together in an immersive installation that oscillates between decay and renewal, offering a sensitive meditation on the passage of time.

Martin Boyce has reworked and reformulated objects from the built environment, developing his own pictorial language based on a reading of the formal and conceptual histories of applied and decorative arts, architecture and urban planning. His works simultaneously pay homage and deconstruct or reinterpret these traditions. The use of unlikely elements and materials, freed from their function as demarcation or restraint, creates oddly affecting sculptures.

Martin Boyce
Walk with Me
With Cadavre Exquis, Alexander Calder, John Giorno, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Man Ray, and Andrew Miller
Esther Schipper at Natalie Seroussi's

Galerie Natalie Seroussi
34 rue de Seine
75006 Paris
Until July 26, 2025
www.natalieseroussi.com

Esther Schipper is pleased to present Walk with Me, an exhibition by Scottish artist Martin Boyce, hosted at the gallery space of Natalie Seroussi. This exhibition coincides with Unhome, the artist’s second solo exhibition with Esther Schipper, simultaneously on view at Place Vendôme.

The title Walk with Me references David Lynch’s film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), a landmark work known for its enigmatic atmosphere and refusal of a singular interpretation. Like the filmmaker, Martin Boyce embraces ambiguity, inviting viewers into a theatrical, disorienting, and emotionally charged dialogue with his work. This also echoes the approach of artists from the Surrealist movement, several of whose works will be presented alongside Boyce’s own pieces, selected by the artist from the Natalie Seroussi collection.

The World Through AI
With Hito Steyerl

Jeu de Paume
1 Place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
April 11 – September 21, 2025
www.jeudepaume.org

The exhibition The World Through AI presents a selection of works created between 2016 and today, including several previously unseen pieces, all exploring the experience of the world "according to AI" or "through the lens of AI."

Specifically designed for the spaces of the Jeu de Paume, the exhibition layout reflects the fundamental distinction between analytical AI (which includes systems such as computer vision and facial recognition) and generative AI. "Time capsules", conceived as cabinets of curiosities, connect the present to the past, placing current transformations within a historical perspective.

Euphoria: Art is in the Air
With Philippe Parreno, Ryan Gander et Sun Yitian

Grand Palais
1 Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
June 6 – September 7, 2025
www.grandpalais.fr

As part of Grand Palais d'été program, the exhibition Euphoria, conceived by the Balloon Museum teams and curator Valentino Catricalà, arrives at the Grand Palais. A true immersive phenomenon, the exhibition unveils a multitude of aerial environments imagined by international contemporary artists across 4,000 square meters dedicated to the world of the inflatable.

Copyists
In an exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre
With Tauba Auerbach, Rosa Barba, Philippe Parreno and Anri Sala

Centre Pompidou-Metz
1 Parvis des Droits de l'Homme
57000 Metz
June 14, 2025 – February 2, 2026
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr

In an exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will be presenting an unusual exhibition dedicated to the creativity of copyists. Copying was central to the classical tradition. Copying the works of great artists is a tool for learning about the canons, techniques and stories. Absorbing their expertise and adopting their mastery is a pathway to knowledge and artistic creation, from the most academic to the most contemporary.

A number of artists have received the following invitation from the two curators: ‘Imagine a copy of a work of your choosing from the collections of the Musée du Louvre.’ All eras, from antiquity to the 19th century, mingle in a fluid layout, whose exhibition design refers to classic forms of museum display, revealing how many different periods coexist at the Louvre.

Echoes Unbound (evolving title, formerly "Dance with Daemons")
With Pierre Huyghe, Angela Bulloch, Ryan Gander, Philippe Parreno, Ugo Rondinone and Tino Sehgal

LUMA Arles
35 Av. Victor Hugo
13200 Arles
May 1– November 2, 2025
www.luma.org

Echoes Unbound (evolving title, formerly "Dance with Daemons") is a major experimental exhibition that explores the interconnections between art and reality and the ways in which artists’ works relate to each other. Through immersive installations, as well as paintings, sculptures, photographs, and new technologies, the exhibition brings together a diverse network of more than fifty contemporary artists who have defined the development of current cultural practices.

VERTIGO
With Ann Veronica Janssens

Villa Carmignac
Piste de la Courtade
Porquerolles Island
83400 Hyères
April 26 – November 2, 2025
www.fondationcarmignac.com

VERTIGO echoes the dizzying experience of the Mediterranean sun, the sigh of the mistral, the spray of the sea, the telluric power deep within the earth. It resonates with the vastness of the sky and pelagic depths surrounding the island of Porquerolles, applying a brand-new lens to the connections between the perception of natural phenomena and abstract art post-1950.

L'invention du quotidien
With Anri Sala

CAPC Bordeaux
7 Rue Ferrere
33000 Bordeaux
July 4, 2025 – January 4, 2026
www.capc-bordeaux.fr

The urgent need to confront the ecological, economic, and institutional crises that have reached a peak in recent years has led many artists to feel a pressing imperative to propose alternatives to the exhausting, extractive, and unsustainable systems of life and labor we are often tempted to accept—systems that constrain our imaginations.

The artists featured in the exhibition find new ways of being in the world by exploring the margins and in-between spaces of our daily lives. They engage with everyday objects and tools, which they repurpose and reclaim; with fragile and unstable materials; with precarious situations and evolving places; and with undervalued forms of labor. They make tangible the multiple, unstable, and interwoven worlds that, quietly and collectively, people continue to build with one another.

Electric Op. De l'art optique à l'art numérique
With Angela Bulloch

Musée d'Arts de Nantes
10 rue Georges-Clemenceau
44000 Nantes
April 4 – August 31, 2025
www.muséed'artsdenantes.fr

With a rich collection of modern and contemporary art in which abstraction plays a major role, the Musée d’arts de Nantes and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (USA) present a unique exhibition exploring the historical, theoretical, and formal connections between optical art and video and digital art, from the 1960s to the present day.