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In 2026, Art : Concept launches Ménage à Trois, a new exhibition cycle dedicated to presenting, for the first time in France, the work of artists in collaboration with the galleries that represent them.

To inaugurate this new cycle, Art : Concept is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Jan Eustachy Wolski, in collaboration with Neue Alte Brücke. Titled after the Polish amalgam Powłoka, the exhibition takes its name from a term that does not fully yield itself to translation. Its semantic field spans notions of membrane, paint covering, film, and any surface that shelters from view, filters perception, or selectively reveals. 

Unlike in prior works, the series veers from abstraction to figuration in a way that it grants near-equal weight. At times, solitary figures are paired with disorienting, chromatic fields; elsewhere, cityscapes get corrupted into congested, loose paint patches. While hinting at a post-industrialized world, the narrative aspects of the works engineer a decisive incompleteness as the figuration does not give way to resolved narratives, adumbrating the works with sustained ambiguity. 

Wolski’s handling of texture with protruding paint, heavy impasto, and sweeping gestural strokes heightens the immediacy of the physical presence of paint. Anchored in bold colors, his painterly strategies relate an intentional tendency to sink the viewer into these worlds. Through a calculated interplay of fogged narratives, scrutiny of texture, and the unresolved duality of abstraction and figuration, Wolski foregrounds the skin of the painting as a physical and symbolic membrane through which the image and its meaning hesitate. 

Wolski’s practice rests on a form of dystopian worldbuilding, marked by ambiguous representations that navigate early twentieth-century expression, superfuture aesthetics, and the legacy of abstract art, where narrative coalesces with painterly components in densely textured surfaces.

Jan Eustachy Wolski (b. 1997, Cracow, PL) lives and works in Cracow. He studied at the university of Applied arts in Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Recent solo exhibitions were presented at Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, and Piktogram, Warsaw. He has exhibited his works in group exhibitions at Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Modern Art, Paris, Piktogram, Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, among other spaces. 

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Ten years after the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery, Jean-Michel Sanejouand: Real Spaces, Imaginary Spaces brings together two major bodies of his work, Calligraphies d’humeur [1968-1978] and Espaces-Peintures [1978-1986]. Some of the works shown on this occasion were presented at the artist’s retrospective exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lyon in 1986 and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1995. These two events provided decisive institutional recognition for a career governed by an internal logic in which each series paves the way for the next and allows it to be reborn in a new form.

While highlighting the seminal role of this period [1968-1986], the exhibition at Art: Concept also sheds light on the transitions, ruptures, and continuities that mark Jean-Michel Sanejouand’s thinking and practice. Sanejouand has constantly reinvented the terms of his relationship with space (real or imaginary), questioning its definition as well as its “organization” through various media. His “spatial techniques,” in which painting occupies the foreground, function as revelations of places whose boundaries we sometimes struggle to perceive, engaging not only our consciousness but our entire bodies.

To read (in French): Interview of Pierre Restany & Jean-Michel Sanejouand, 1986

Art: Concept is pleased to present Nina Childress’s second solo exhibition.

Passionate about cinema and its icons, the artist has created a series of paintings entitled Casting. Continuing her technical research, Nina Childress uses iridescent pigments and chameleon pigments to create scenes and portraits in motion that question the nature of the gaze and the position of the viewer. The viewer becomes an actor in their perception of the image, with colours subtly varying as they move in front of the canvas. Cinematic framing, off-screen effects and striking expressions evoke the world of the big screen.

On the occasion of the exhibition, we will screen the video portrait of Nina Childress directed by Olivier Garouste, made possible with support from the ADAGP Fund.