Galerie Jérôme Poggi

From July 3 to September 20, the Palais de Tokyo is hosting a major solo exhibition dedicated to the French-Azéri artist Babi Badalov, in the famous building designed by Oscar Niemeyer for the headquarters of the French Communist Party in 1968. Curated by Guillaume Désanges, assisted by Léna Kemiche, and in partnership with the association “Libres Comme l’Art”, this exhibition will bring together more than 200 works by Babi Badalov.

To kick off its fall 2026 season, the gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by artist Vincent Beaurin, whose radical artistic exploration bridges the worlds of painting and sculpture. Curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, the gallery’s main space will host a previously unseen collection of paintings and sculptures that place the experience of color at the heart of his artistic practice. Through their vibrational qualities and their methods of anchoring, these works establish a reciprocal relationship with the viewer that is at once psychological and physiological, dynamic and contemplative. In the project space, architect Marine Bonnefoy will showcase a selection of furniture designed by Vincent Beaurin. As an extension of his artistic exploration, Vincent Beaurin ventured into the field of applied arts in the 1990s. At that time, he became interested in the ‘language’ that everyday objects can convey. Some pieces from his archives will be on display for the first time. On the occasion of Paris Design Week, this exhibition marks the launch of their collaboration under the name ‘Marine Bonnefoy / Vincent Beaurin – Arts appliqués'.

The first national retrospective by Kapwani Kiwanga, winner of the 2025 Joan Miró Prize, opens on 29 April, supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and CUPRA. Kiwanga creates a compelling internal architecture that explores the materiality, economic exchanges and geological temporalities that shape our relationship with spaces. Conceived specifically for the Fundació Joan Miró, the show fully reflects her explorations on space and control, offering new perspectives for viewing architecture and its power structures from a radically contemporary standpoint.

The exhibition “Rejouer le Réel” (Reenacting Reality), curated by Julia Marchand, invites visitors to explore the artwork as a space for action and staging, where the image constructs its own narrative conditions. Painting, drawing, and tapestry are conceived here as fictional scenes where reality is recomposed and reenacted. Designed to echo the architecture and programming of the Bordeaux Opera, the exhibition brings together ten artists around a reflection on the pictorial space as a narrative site. Featuring Farah Atassi, Sylvain Brugière, Sonia Delaunay, Thomas Demand, Sacha Floch-Poliakoff, Clédia Fourniau, Manon Pellan, Georges Tony Stoll, Ulla von Brandenburg, and Joon Yoo.

Galerie Poggi is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Christian Bonnefoi (b. 1948), titled “Diagram,” featuring a representative selection of works from his major series dating back to the 1970s. The title refers to the diagram initiated by the artist in 1994, both a method and a work, which organizes his practice as a dynamic network of series. A true conceptual matrix, this framework connects the works to one another beyond techniques and periods, beyond formal registers, forming a constellation where each pictorial state carries within it the seeds of its future developments. Through a selection of series such as Babel, P.L., and Dos, the exhibition highlights a body of work centered on the depth and stratification of the pictorial plane. Through the interplay of collage, superimposition, and transparency, Christian Bonnefoi disrupts the relationships between surface and background, front and back, overturning the traditional conventions of painting. “Diagram” thus invites us to view the work as a process in perpetual flux, an open space for experimentation. Alongside Christian Bonnefoi’s exhibition, the gallery presents in its Project Space a video installation by American-Saudi artist Sarah Brahim (b. 1992), titled “ She Said : It’s Always Two Bodies”. The work explores the body and our experience of movement through a lens that is at once scientific and spiritual. The installation unfolds as a subtle synthesis of form and function, in which the artist’s body becomes both instrument and medium, engaging with matter, moving through it, and at times surrendering to it. A soundscape of crackling textures and hushed whispers deepens this immersion, drawing the viewer into the inner strata of the earth itself. What emerges is a dual gesture: on the one hand, a probing into the very flesh of the world; on the other, the lingering trace of that encounter

Galerie Poggi is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Virginie Ittah, in collaboration with Vittoria Matarrese, author of the exhibition text. A member of the artist duo Ittah Yoda from 2016 to 2024, Virginie Ittah now develops an artistic practice in her own name, in which figures, narratives, and materials move closer to the body, intimacy, and lived experience. Titled “Oceanic Feeling”, the exhibition offers an immersive and sensory experience through a new body of paintings and sculptures, in dialogue with two original sound works by pianist and composer Koki Nakano, as well as an olfactory work co-created with perfumer Yann Vasnier especially for the occasion. A group of woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs by Anna-Eva Bergman, produced around the 1960s and 1970s, is presented in parallel. For Bergman, printmaking represents a field of research in its own right, deeply connected to the development of her painting. At the same time, the gallery is presenting a selection of painted masterpieces dating from the turn of the 1970s, in which the theme of the horizon proliferates and becomes one of her major motifs.

When the train station and Hôtel d’Orsay were transformed into a museum in 1986, the building was designed to welcome 1.5 million visitors per year. Today, more than four million people visit annually. To improve the visitor experience and accommodate this growing number, the Musée d’Orsay has begun major renovation work. As this architectural transformation gets underway, the Musée d’Orsay invited artist Larissa Fassler to observe and respond to the process.