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Olaf Holzapfel — The river that connects the banks — Vernacular genealogies
Ends in 15 days: October 18 → December 21
_We are always interwoven in a balanced life with our environment, because we live in a fluid world._
— Olaf Holzapfel
Xippas is pleased to present, for the first time in Paris, a personal exhibition by Olaf Holzapfel. Entitled, The river that connects the banks — Vernacular genealogies, the exhibition reveals h…
Collage, installation, sculpture
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José Gamarra — Le Théâtre de la jungle
Past: September 7 → October 17
*Anthological exhibition, works from 1969 to 2024
Curated by Manuel Neves*
_We must return to the forest which is the source of our words, the reliquary of the signs and forms that haunt us. Not knowing if it threatens us or is favorable to us._
Edouard Glissant
In José Gamarra’s painting _El progreso de una…
Drawing, painting
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John Phillip Abbott — The Great Escape
Past: April 27 → June 15
Xippas Paris is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of American painter John Phillip Abbott. Entitled “The Great Escape”, the exhibition takes over the gallery space from floor to ceiling. Visitors are invited to contemplate and decipher the works, standing or lying down.
“A nation of restless people, …
Painting
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Valérie Jouve — Du temps, un souffle
Past: March 2 → April 20
Xippas gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Valérie Jouve in its Parisian space. Entitled “Time, a breath”, the exhibition brings together a selection of recent works created over the past year. In black and white, captured with a large-format camera, these photographs revisit themes dear to the…
Photography
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A line is not a border — Group show
Past: January 13 → February 24
In his essay on the history of lines [1], anthropologist Tim Ingold groups lines into two categories: threads and traces. He also maintains that modernity has emphasized the straight line to the detriment of gesture. However, when our attention shifts to the period that f…
Installation, painting, photography...
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Santídio Pereira — Un horizon végétal
Past: October 18 → December 22, 2023
The true homeland of man is childhood.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Galerie Xippas is pleased to present, for the first time in its Parisian space, an exhibition by Brazilian artist Santídio Pereira. The show will bring together a selection of recent works, including monumental woodcuts, wooden objects and watercolors on …
Drawing, print, lithography / engraving...
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Marina Faust — In the effort to keep day and night together
Past: September 9 → October 14, 2023
*Opening on Saturday September 9th, from 3 to 8pm*
The Xippas gallery is pleased to present, for the first time in its Parisian space, a solo show of the Austrian artist Marina Faust. The exhibition will bring together, on the two floors of the gallery, the series of portraits _Faces_, as well as her _Rolling Stool…
Collage, installation, photography
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Bertille Bak — Mineur Mineur (2023) Lancement et projection
Past: Saturday, September 2, 2023
We are pleased to invite you to a launch of “Mineur Mineur” (2023), a special limited edition by Bertille Bak.
On this occasion, her film “Mineur Mineur” (2022) will be screened at the gallery.
This special limited edition by Bertille Bak is issued from her project “Mineur Mineur” (2022), which has received widesp…
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Slick & Rough
Past: June 24 → July 29, 2023
Putting aside abstraction, with a geometrical tendency, if we had to identify some common denominators among the works presented here, it would undoubtedly be the economy of means used by the artists and their intention to integrate notions of materiality — including the supports — into a visual and semantic language.…
Painting
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Karishma D’Souza — Anna Bella Geiger
Past: May 4 → June 17, 2023
Our latest exhibition opens a space for dialogue between two artists: Anna Bella Geiger and Karishma D’Souza. Although they belong to different generations, not to say different geographies, their poetic systems overlap in many ways.
They do, for example, share a common obsession with territories and maps, whether…
Collage, drawing, mixed media
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Raha Raissnia & James Siena
Past: March 11 → April 29, 2023
Xippas Paris is happy to open a dialogue between two artists from overseas — Raha Raissnia and James Siena, who have never met before, even though their ‘encounter’ seems nothing but logical. Both share a common passion for the labyrinthine and the crypto-poetic.
Architecture, drawing, painting...
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Yves Bélorgey — Cités-jardins
Past: January 7 → March 4, 2023
We are happy to announce Yves Bélorgey’s latest solo exhibition presenting his pigment paintings for the first time in Paris. Entitled “Cités-Jardins” [Garden City Estate], it embarks on an “investigation” into an architectural utopia that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, but which today has been abandoned. This ide…
Architecture, painting
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Chechu Álava — L’âme et la vie
Past: October 29 → December 17, 2022
We are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of the painter Chechu Álava in our Parisian gallery, which will feature a dozen of her most recent and previously unseen paintings. Entitled L’Âme et la Vie (The Soul and Life), after Carl Gustav Jung’s book, the exhibition will explore the dynamic frontier betwee…
Painting
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Philippe Ramette
Past: October 15 → December 3, 2022
Xippas gallery is delighted to present Philippe Ramette’s sixth solo exhibition in its Parisian space.
In the same vein as his previous works, exhibited in the public space, Philippe Ramette summons his now familiar silhouette in the form of eleven new sculptures and a photograph.
A figure in bronze, a medium i…
Photography, sculpture
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Mathieu Cherkit — Time’s Up?
Past: September 3 → October 8, 2022
Xippas is pleased to present Mathieu Cherkit’s first exhibition in its Parisian gallery. Entitled “Time’s Up?”, the exhibition will feature fifteen new paintings, addressing the notion of time while underlying the artist’s interest in interior spaces and nature.
"The longer you play this game called life, the more …
Painting
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Pablo Reinoso
Past: May 19 → July 23, 2022
We are pleased to announce Pablo Reinoso’s first solo exhibition at Xippas Paris, in parallel with the “Débordements” exhibition presented at the Domaine national de Chambord (May 1st — September 4th). The artist has taken over the two floors of the gallery to transform them into a place of experimentation, where the …
Sculpture
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Rolf Julius / Kevin Rouillard
Past: March 26 → May 12, 2022
Exhibition Rolf Julius / Kevin Rouillard combines the work of two artists who have never met, but whose practices could share a reflection on landscape and sound.
Indeed, Rolf Julius (1939 — 2011), German artist known for his sound sculptures, has often integrated situations, especially those he encountered in natu…
Installation, sound - music, mixed media
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Stephan Goldrajch — Bayeux
Past: January 22 → March 12, 2022
On the occasion of his solo show Bayeux, Stephan Goldrajch will present a performance _Les Juges_ at Xippas Paris on Saturday February 12, at 2 pm.
This performance will be followed by another representation of _Les Juges_ in the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris on the same day, Saturday February 12, at 3.30 pm, …
Mixed media
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Stephan Goldrajch — Les Juges
Past: Saturday, February 12, 2022 2 PM → 2:45 PM
_LES JUGES_ — PERFORMANCE
with Betty Mansion, Véronique Lemonnier & Jonathan Lautenberg
Three judges enter at the same pace. The judges are glued to each other, they turn in circles and deliberate. They still do not know what to decide. At last, they announce, as if they were one…”
Long before it became fash…
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Peter Halley — Recent Paintings
Past: October 16, 2021 → January 15, 2022
Xippas is happy to announce Peter Halley’s third personal exhibition in our Parisian space. The show presents his most recent “constructor” paintings for the first time in France. This new body of work transcends the conventionality of a square or a rectangular shape and reorganizes the real each time in a different p…
Painting
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Dean Monogenis — Continuous Coast
Past: November 6, 2021 → January 15, 2022
Xippas is happy to present _Continuous Coast_, a second personal show of Dean Monogenis in our Paris gallery. The exhibition will show the artist’s most recent paintings produced during the immobilizing times of Covid.
To contradict both physical and mental isolation, Dean Monogenis’ new body of work questions th…
Painting
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Marco Maggi — La Révolte du Détail
Past: September 4 → October 30, 2021
Xippas Paris is pleased to announce the third personal exhibition by Marco Maggi: La Révolte du Détail (“The Revolt of the Detail”). The exhibition will present 12 newly produced works including two floor installations.
Drawing, installation
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30 ans déjà! #3 — 30th Anniversary Group Show
Past: September 4 → October 9, 2021
Xippas is pleased to present the third part of the exhibition cycle dedicated to the celebration of the gallery’s 30th anniversary.
Drawing, painting, photography...
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Rita Fischer — Extatique
Past: June 19 → July 31, 2021
Xippas is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by the Uruguayan artist Rita Fischer in its Parisian space. Entitled _Extatique_, the exhibition will include a previously unseen set of paintings created by the artist during the recent isolation period spent in the Uruguayan countryside.
Drawing, painting
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30 ans déjà! #2
Past: June 19 → July 31, 2021
Xippas is pleased to present the second part of the exhibition cycle dedicated to the celebration of the gallery’s 30th anniversary. On this occasion, Xippas Paris proposes a dialogue between the works by eleven artists: Darren Almond, Bertille Bak, Yves Bélorgey, Dominique Blais, Waltercio Caldas, Karishma D’Souza, H…
Drawing, painting, photography...
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Thomas Liu Le Lann — 17
Past: March 13 → June 12, 2021
For his first exhibition at Xippas Paris, Thomas Liu Le Lann presents a new set of sculptures and paintings that cover a wide spectrum of techniques.
Installation, mixed media
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30 ans déjà ! #1 — Xippas fête ses trente ans
Past: January 16 → April 3, 2021
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Xippas is pleased to present a cycle of exhibitions honoring its artists and its thirty-years history. The first of these exhibitions will feature works by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Peter Halley, Valérie Jouve, Vera Lutter, Marco Maggi, Vik Muniz, Matthew Porter, Philippe Ramette, Bettina Rheims, Pablo Reinoso, Lucas Samaras, James Siena and Takis.
Installation, painting, photography...
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December Discovery Christmas
Past: December 4 → 23, 2020
Galerie Xippas is happy to celebrate the re-opening of the gallery to the public and to welcome you back before the winter break.
New media, mixed media
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Alain Biltereyst — Goings-on
Past: September 5 → October 29, 2020
Xippas Paris open the season with “Goings-on”, Alain Biltereyst’s first solo exhibition, which will include small and medium-sized works as well as two mural paintings designed for the occasion.
Painting
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Karishma D’Souza — Invocation
Past: February 22 → July 5, 2020
Karishma D’Souza makes detailed and meticulous artworks, which are carefully composed, trying to reflect the whole in a part and to fit the universe on a sheet of paper or a canvas. The paintings are inhabited with personal memories, transformed into signs and symbols, “layering objects with meaning”.
Drawing, painting
Xippas Gallery
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Paris Gallery Weekend — 2020
Past: July 2 → 5, 2020
Paris Gallery Weekend are pleased to announce the participation of 57 Parisian modern and contemporary art galleries for its next edition that will take place from July 2 — 5, 2020.
Event
Film, installation, painting...
Multiple venues
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John Phillip Abbott — New day
Past: January 11 → February 15, 2020
John Phillip Abbott’s creative process starts with a memory, crystallized in words. After the lexical content is determined and stabilized, comes the act of painting, which consists of spelling out words or short sentences, through a peculiar calligraphic vocabulary composed of geometric shapes.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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James Siena — Cascade Effect
Past: October 12 → December 21, 2019
James Siena is a seminal artist on the New York art scene. His work, by turns lithographs, engravings, drawings and paintings, involves complex geometrical abstractions established on the basis of a set of rules or “visual algorithms”.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Joel Sternfeld — American Prospects Now
Past: October 12 → December 21, 2019
In the late seventies, aware of the environmental and social changes sweeping through America, Joel Sternfeld set out on road trip in a Volkswagen camper van, with the intention of depicting a country poised between bright hopes and dark possibilities. 40 years later, the questions raised by these pictures appear more urgent than ever.
Photography
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Yvan Salomone — Au-dessous du barrage
Past: September 7 → October 6, 2019
Xippas Paris announce Au-dessous du barrage, the 4th personal exhibition by Yvan Salomone. The exhibition features an ensemble of recent watercolours, together with a selection of painted photographs rarely shown in the past. These small-format pictures remind us of the importance of photography as a starting point in the artist’s work.
Architecture, drawing, painting...
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Baronian Xippas Brussels — dialogues #1
Past: June 8 → July 27, 2019
Alain Biltereyst, Gilbert & George, Peter Halley, Olaf Holzapfel, Chris Johanson, Vera Lutter, Joseph Marioni, Dean Monogenis, Vik Muniz, Tony Oursler, Eric Poitevin, Charles Sandison, James Siena, Takis, Achraf Touloub, Janaina Tschäpe, Leen Voet, Dan Walsh, Gilberto Zorio, Yves Zurstrassen.
dialogues #1 Baronian …
Drawing, painting, photography...
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céleste boursier-mougenot — un cabinet de curiosité
Past: April 20 → May 25, 2019
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has taken over the underground space of the Xippas gallery and transformed it into a dark cave or a phantom night club. The “solidvideo” works on display were inspired by the urban mythology of Instrumental TransCommunication, a paranormal practice who try to connect our physical world with the spirit world.
Installation, painting, video
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Echoing Trees
Past: March 16 → May 25, 2019
Echoing Trees, la nouvelle exposition collective présentée par Xippas Paris, commence au moment où le vivant cherche à se libérer du sommeil hivernal et propose de s’interroger sur le rythme cyclique de l’existence, avec ses périodes de croissance et de déclin, de joie et de tristesse, d’abondance et d’austérité.
Painting, photography, sculpture
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Paris Gallery Weekend — Édition 2019
Past: May 17 → 19, 2019
Over the course of its 5 previous editions, Paris Gallery Weekend marked itself as the Springtime “rendez-vous” for Paris and its art scene. The 6th edition of Paris Gallery Weekend will take place from Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May 2019 and 48 galleries have already confirmed their participation so far (see list below).
Event
Architecture, ceramic, collage...
Multiple venues
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Michael Scott — Circle Paintings
Past: December 15, 2018 → February 16, 2019
With Circle Paintings, Michael Scott’s first personal exhibition with Xippas Paris, the artist revisits and gives a new direction to his first works made in the 1980s — paintings of near-identical concentric circles.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Yves Zurstrassen — Something Else
Past: October 27 → December 8, 2018
Although Yves Zurstrassen’s painting, forever in motion, has evolved throughout the years, there is something that remains intact: the desire to combine the expressive painterly gesture, which is intuitive and free, with calculated, precise, mathematical forms.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Vik Muniz — Handmade
Past: September 8 → October 20, 2018
Playing with the dichotomous relation between the object and its representation, Vik Muniz works transcend the bi-dimensionality of photographic image in order to reconnect with its materiality. Combining photography, painting and collage, these complex compositions are developed step by step and evoke a process of creation.
Collage, painting, photography...
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Peter Halley — Au-dessous / Au-dessus
Past: June 9 → July 28, 2018
Peter Halley’s practice of geometric abstraction is, indeed, inseparable from his take on the city of New York, where he grew up. In 1991, he described it as a “huge, very abstract, very overscale undifferentiated grid”, thereby casting the city as a matrix upon which to base his work.
Architecture, installation, painting
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Matthew Porter — The links are joined and form a ring
Past: April 14 → May 26, 2018
Montages, overlays, multiple exposures: Matthew Porter uses experiments from old and new technologies to explore possibilities in image construction and manipulation. In his first solo exhibition in France, at the Xippas Gallery in Paris, the New York artist presents a series inspired by the vocabulary of the avant-garde.
Photography
Xippas Gallery
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Dominique Blais — La fin du contretemps
Past: February 10 → April 7, 2018
The artworks by Dominique Blais, always technological in the sense introduced by Umberto Eco, can be situated in between two paradoxically linked (and, as usual, historically associated to one another) polarities — magic and science. They explore potentialities of sensible entities, such as sound, light and movement and search conceptual and poetic cores inside these phenomena.
Installation, sculpture, sound - music...
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Waltercio Caldas
Past: December 2, 2017 → February 3, 2018
Waltercio Caldas, a major figure on Brazil’s contemporary art scene, started his artistic practice in the 1960s, a period marked by the Neo-Concrete movement. For five decades now, the process of perception and the relations between the gaze and reflection have been at the heart of his work.
Installation, sculpture
Xippas Gallery
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Bettina Rheims — Naked War
Past: October 21 → November 25, 2017
The Xippas gallery presents Bettina Rheims’ latest photographic project, “Naked War”. Carried out in 2017 in collaboration with the writer and novelist Serge Bramly, it is the result of the meeting between the photographer and the Femen activists.
Photography
Xippas Gallery
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Takis — Black and white. The Fourth dimension.
Past: September 9 → October 19, 2017
Takis, a major figure in the post-war European artistic scene, explores invisible forces and the omnipresence of energy in all things. Having settled in Paris in 1954, he rubbed shoulders with his contemporaries Klein, Spoerri, Tinguely… and aroused a certain fascination amongst the writers of the Beat Generation.
Sculpture
Xippas Gallery
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Un Dimanche à la Galerie #3 — Ouverture exceptionnelle de 100 galeries d’art
Past: Sunday, September 24, 2017
Proposant un large panorama de la création, de l’art ancien jusqu’à l’art contemporain, le grand public est invité à appréhender une centaine d’expositions libre d’accès reflétant les nombreux courants artistiques et esthétiques issus de la scène artistique française et internationale représentés par les galeries parisiennes.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
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Karishma D’Souza — Ancestors
Past: May 20 → July 29, 2017
In his book, The Flesh of Words[1], Jacques Rancière examines the intimate relation binding poetry with politics and defends the hypothesis that poetry, in its lyric or even subjective form, either voluntarily or unconsciously articulates political ideas, summarizing them into visual and metaphoric concepts and harmon…
Painting
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Pablo Siquier — Bruit
Past: March 25 → May 13, 2017
One of the most well-known artists in Argentina and abroad, Pablo Siquier has played an active role in the art scene since the 1980s. Quickly separating himself from the Latin American avant-garde, his artworks are inspired by constructivism and concrete art and explore the potential of abstract painting.
Installation, painting
Xippas Gallery
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Pattern recognition
Past: January 28 → March 18, 2017
*With Peter Halley, Herbert Hamak, Valérie Jouve, Marco Maggi, Dean Monogenis, Raha Raissnia, Lucas Samaras, Michael Scott, Takis, Dan Walsh*
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Parkaboy, one of the characters in William Gibson’s cult book, ironically said, "Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition[1]. Pattern Recognition means to identify st…
Architecture, painting, photography...
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Joël Stein et le GRAV
Past: November 26, 2016 → January 21, 2017
Visual and participatory strategies of GRAV ranged from programmed structures to objects that can be manipulated and transformed, from soliciting spectators to fun, recreational establishments. They were explored by Joël Stein along with François Morellet, Jean-Pierre Yvaral, Julio Le Parc, Francisco Sobrino and Horacio Garcia-Rossi.
Painting, sculpture
Xippas Gallery
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Philippe Ramette — Exposition personnelle
Past: October 20 → November 19, 2016
Explorer of physical and especially mental limitations, inventor of a fantastical and often absurd universe, Philippe Ramette treats his work as “sculpture of reflections” (his term). With a humor that is almost self-derogatory, he sets a scene of audacity and inhibition, daydreaming and fear, illusion and heroisms. P…
Installation, sculpture
Xippas Gallery
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Yvan Salomone — L’achose
Past: September 10 → October 15, 2016
The Xippas Gallery is happy to present Yvan Salomone’s third solo exhibition. The exhibition features an ensemble of thirty-five watercolors made during the last three years.
Drawing
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Farah Atassi — Exposition personnelle
Past: June 11 → July 30, 2016
The Xippas Gallery is pleased to present Farah Atassi’s third solo exhibition. The exhibition is made up of two new families of artworks that simultaneously continue her previous work and foretell new artistic endeavors.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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La Belle Caporal
Past: May 7 → June 4, 2016
The Xippas Gallery presents the exhibition “La Belle Caporal”. Born out of the collaboration of two Swiss artists Luc Aubort and Didier Rittener, this group project was contrived as a dialogue between artworks, materials, and references.
Drawing, painting, sculpture
Xippas Gallery
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Marta Riniker-Radich & Mathis Gasser
Past: March 12 → April 30, 2016
The Xippas Gallery is happy to present an exhibition of the two swiss artists — Marta Riniker-Radich and Mathis Gasser. The exhibition is curated by Manuella Denogent.
Drawing
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Denis Savary
Past: January 23 → March 5, 2016
The Xippas Gallery is pleased to present the third solo show for Denis Savary, a key figure in the Swiss art scene. Meanwhile, from January 22nd to April 3rd 2016 the Swiss Cultural Center dedicates an exhibition, entitled _Jour Blanc_, to the artist.
Drawing, installation, sculpture
Xippas Gallery
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Dan Walsh
Past: November 21, 2015 → January 16, 2016
Since the early 1990s, Dan Walsh has developed painted artworks that etch the fragility of movement in a modernist and geometric vein. His compositions are free hand paintings that transgress the objective purity of minimalism.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Janaina Tschäpe — Until I come
Past: October 22 → November 18, 2015
The Xippas Gallery is pleased to present the third solo show of Janaina Tschäpe, the German — Brazilian artist living in New York.
Drawing, painting, video
Xippas Gallery
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Marco Maggi — Déplier
Past: September 5 → October 17, 2015
Continuing in the same vein as his exhibition Global Myopia at the Uruguay Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, Marco Maggi’s project obliterates the distance between spectator and artwork and creates a new visual experience. The microscopic drawings, undetectable at a distance, become visible as the spectator approaches the work.
Installation, mixed media
Xippas Gallery
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Un dimanche à la galerie
Past: Sunday, September 27, 2015 12 PM → 6 PM
Rendez-vous immanquable, l’événement « Un dimanche à la galerie » est une belle occasion de découvrir la diversité des expositions proposées par plus de 100 galeries d’art à Paris, exceptionnellement ouvertes un dimanche pour accueillir le public. Retrouvez notre sélection d’expositions à ne pas manquer.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
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Vik Muniz
Past: June 6 → July 31, 2015
The Xippas Gallery presents three recent series by Vik Muniz. A magician of images, the artist uses unlikely materials — copper wire, chocolate, caviar, ketchup, dust, toys, diamonds, and trash — to construct images that are part of our collective visual memory.
Photography
Xippas Gallery
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Farah Atassi
Past: September 7 → October 26, 2013
For her second solo exhibition at the Xippas Gallery, Farah Atassi displays a group of never before seen canvases that she produced in New York while at the ISCP residency. In these works, she confronts modernism with a rival aesthetic: German Expressionism and folkloric ornament.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Peter Halley
Past: June 8 → July 27, 2013
This American artist Peter Halley, one of the most emblematic of his generation, is recognized in the history of contemporary painting as the legitimate heir of American abstraction. His iconography endows abstract forms with the same value as diagrams and in turn references everything from architecture to societal organizations.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Dean Monogenis — View Break
Past: June 8 → July 27, 2013
The exhibition title View Break is taken from a specific real estate term that designates the cut off point where the landscape view is not obstructed by buildings. Monogenis’s paintings reveal architectures, most often modernist but sometimes contemporary, in natural environments free of human beings.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Valérie Jouve — Un Etat
Past: January 12 → February 23, 2013
The photographic work of Valérie Jouve has developed around two entities: Humans and landscapes, and more generally the city and its outskirts. Each image is constructed around the notion of an encounter between bodies, whether they are individuals, architectures, or landscape components.
Film, photography, sound - music
Xippas Gallery
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André Butzer
Past: November 3 → December 22, 2012
André Butzer développe son œuvre exclusivement autour du médium de la peinture et de son histoire. De l’histoire de l’art à l’histoire des états, de Munch au National Socialisme, et de Siemens à Walt Disney, les références de Butzer à l’histoire américaine et allemande, à la politique contemporaine, à la hiérarchie économique et sociale sont innombrables.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Past: September 8 → October 20, 2012
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s work explores the potential musicality of a place, its location, and objects (which are often ordinary), in order to create situations where the motion and sound propel the spectator’s mind into a mesmerizing fascination for the surroundings.
Installation, sculpture, sound - music...
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Vik Muniz — Pictures of Magazine 2
Past: June 9 → July 28, 2012
For his exhibition at the Xippas Gallery in Paris, Vik Muniz presents an ensemble of nine works that came out of his last project entitled Pictures of Magazine 2 (2011-2012). Here, paper retains all its material brilliance and thereby generates an awareness of our rapid consumer culture of images and the images’ eventual disintegration.
Photography
Xippas Gallery
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Janaina Tschäpe
Past: November 5, 2011 → January 21, 2012
Galerie Xippas announces its second solo exhibition by German-born, New Yorkbased, Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe. Tschäpe’s explosive new series of drawings continues her ongoing investigation of gestural expression and its ability to describe metaphysically charged spaces that go above and beyond our material understanding of the natural world.
Drawing
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There are two faces to every coins, and two sides to your faces
Past: September 10 → October 29, 2011
La galerie Xippas inaugure la saison 2011-2012 avec « There are two sides to every coin, and two sides to your face », la première exposition de son nouveau directeur Carlos Cardenas. Les artistes exposés proviennent d’origines géographiques variées et représentent un champ de pratiques esthétiques large : peinture, sculpture, installation, film…
Installation, painting, sculpture
Xippas Gallery
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Denis Savary — Brûlis
Past: May 21 → July 30, 2011
Jeune artiste incontournable de la scène artistique suisse, Denis Savary a récemment montré son travail au Centre Pasquart de Bienne, à La Villa Bernasconi de Genève et à la Ferme du Buisson. Abordant l’espace dans son intégralité, et mêlant les registres plastiques et théoriques, il construit peu à peu une atmosphère qui transforme l’espace et immerge le spectateur.
Video
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Farah Atassi
Past: January 29 → March 12, 2011
Farah Atassi is one of the most famous artists of a very young generation of French painters. Having graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in 2005, she has shown her work at the Ferme du Buisson, the last salon de Montrouge, and in the exhibition entitled “Dynasty” at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Palais de Tokyo.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
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Dan Walsh
Past: May 29 → July 31, 2010
Dan Walsh élabore une œuvre peinte qui inscrit la fragilité du geste dans une veine minimale et géométrique. Ses peintures apparaissent à la fois comme autant de structurations projetées de l’espace, par des lignes, carrés concentriques, et des tentatives sans cesse mises en jeu d’occuper la surface dans l’incertitude de la main levée…
Painting
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Yves Belorgey
Past: February 17 → March 25, 2010
For over fifteen years, Yves Bélorgey’s representations of urban landscapes have cast a critical eye on the edifices and modern architecture of the 1960s, representing them with a brutal frontality and exposing the social organization that conditions the urban system of the “banlieue,” the notorious Parisian suburbs.
Painting
Xippas Gallery
03 Le Marais
03 Le Marais
Saint-Sébastien – Froissart
Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday, 11 AM – 1 PM / 2 PM – 7 PM
Saturday, 10 AM – 7 PM