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Opening 11 April, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is a celebration of tapestry and its practitioners in the 21st century, offering a consideration of the strategies by which contemporary artists interrogate tactility and image in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context. Featuring works by twenty-seven artists and designers, and organized by guest curator Su Wu, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry – between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation. Across monumental works of great detail, the exhibition expands our experiences of narrative and mythology in weaving, complicates traditional ethnographic associations of textile, and argues for the enduring possibility of image and memory as a physically substantive thing.
Exhibiting artists include: Caroline Achaintre, Hellen Ascoli, Yto Barrada, Diedrick Brackens, Melissa Cody, Negma Coy, Jovencio de la Paz, Josh Faught, Christina Forrer, Sanaa Gateja, Yann Gerstberger, Marie Hazard, Ane Henriksen, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Suzanne Jackson, Sanam Khatabi, Tomasz Kowalski and Alicja Kowalska, ShinJa Lee, Candice Lin, Goshka Macuga, Christy Matson, Mai-Thu Perret, Sarah Rosalena, Analia Saban, Kiki Smith, Mika Tajima, Clarissa Tossin, Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang.
To accompany the exhibition, Los Angeles-based vintage textile library and shop Kneeland Co. will take over and activate the Dallas Contemporary store, featuring specially designed ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and collectibles, for sale exclusively in the shop. All pieces are specially designed for and inspired by You Stretched Diagonally Across It, and will even include works by artists featured in the exhibition.
Art : Concept is pleased to present Pierre-Olivier Arnaud’s fifth solo exhibition, Nouveaux Éléments, which will unfold in two parts: part. 1 (13.02 – 01.03) and part. 11 (15.03 – 05.04).
By inviting us to politicize our gaze and the medium of photography, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud’s work offers a reflection on images and their modes of production, dissemination, and consumption. His images stem from a practice of collecting photographs, particularly of advertising imagery found in magazines or public spaces. As witnesses to a society’s imagination and economy, these images—perhaps more than any others—question our desires and the intentions behind these representations.
For the second part of his exhibition, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud revisits the previous installation and incorporates new images. This new display echoes his concept with a subtle shift, offering a renewed perception of both the works and the exhibition space.
Nouveaux Eléments, part. 11 will also feature projects created in collaboration with Denis Savary (Josy’s Club) and Nick Oberthaler (Sets de table #4 Regular Blind Set (Paris Edit)).
In the Showroom Bar, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud brings together works by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Fiona Mackay, and Lin May Saeed.
Images: Exhibition views « Se faire plaisir », 2025 © La Kunsthalle Mulhouse – Photo : Emilie Vialet
An exhibition designed by two artists and one curator: Mireille Blanc, Marianne Maric and Sandrine Wymann.
Based on the principle that there should be no stricter rules than emotion and curiosity, the trio has created an exhibition in which gesture and shape are used to explore images and practices that evoke pure pleasure. The project is built on dialogue between the artists themselves as well as between materials and techniques, with the idea of distorting the everyday, hybridizing objects, and creating illusions and artifacts in sculpture, photography, paintings, and installations.
Se faire plaisir [Take Pleasure] echoes the sense of pleasure found in sharing and playfulness, a pleasure felt by the body, taken in by the senses, and which speaks to our emotions.
Designed as a meeting ground for shared experiences, Se faire plaisir is a trivium of treble delight, where artists blend their practices under the amused eyes of the exhibition curators, who in turn stage them with caring attention for their visitors.
The exhibition hall, transformed with intimate landscapes and inner spaces, becomes a place of inebriation and alliance where objects and decorations remain strange and elusive, and where pleasures intertwine to multiply and distill intense sensations.
Se faire plaisir is imagined as a challenge for us to slip some generosity into our daily lives.
Artists: We Are The Painters, Caroline Achaintre, Victor Alarçon & Nitsa Meletopoulos, Mireille Blanc, Clément Bouteille, Stéphanie Cherpin, Afra Eisma, Camille Fischer, Marianne Marić, Cassidy Toner.
Opening: Thursday February 13 at 6pm.
The exhibition is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Image: Caroline Achaintre, Toro, 2024. Céramique émaillée / Glazed ceramic. 72 × 22 × 3 cm (28 ⅜ × 8 ⅝ × 1 ⅛ inches). Courtesy the Artist and Art : Concept, Paris. Photo Annabel Elston
Group show with Caroline Achaintre.
Fanciful fringes vie with austere clarity, embroideries on a plane with objects crafted in the round. The variety of textile works is vast, ranging from geometrically ordered weavings in two dimensions to free forms in space. The exhibition shows anonymous pieces side by side with well-known positions such as those of Gunta Stölzl and Elsi Giauque. This results in some surprising adjacencies of comparable perspectives from different periods. What all the works have in common is a powerfully creative hand and, resonating within it, a touch of magic. Quiet statements as well as the occasional activist message enhance the pulling power of these textile creations. Bound together by the softness of their materials and choice of techniques, the exhibits are interwoven in an impressive overall experience.
Art : Concept is pleased to announce the participation of Kate Newby
in the 16th Sharjah Biennial, which will take place from February 6 to June 15, 2025.
Kalba Ice Factory
Kalba, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Image: Kate Newby, Cold Water, 2025 (détail)
Verre, corde (récupérée et neuve), Dimensions variables / Glass, rope (salvaged and new), Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
