Exhibitions

Wang Keping

Sculptures sculptées 9 Nov - 29 Dec 2018 Bourg-Tibourg - Paris Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present, for the first time in Paris, the work of Chinese artist, Wang Keping, who has lived and worked outside Paris for the past thirty years. This exhibition takes place one year after Simplicité - Nature - Sensualité, which was shown at the... Read more

Nú Barreto

Africa: Renversante, renversée 8 Nov - 29 Dec 2018 Cloître Saint-Merri I & II - Paris Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Africa: Renversante, Renversée, Nú Barreto’s first solo show at the gallery. Born in 1966 in São Domingos, Guinea-Bissau, Nú Barreto is a major figure of the contemporary African scene. He incorporates the different periods of the African continent’s highly emotional history in... Read more

Valérie Belin

China Girls 15 Sep - 22 Dec 2018 Charles Decoster - Brussels Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present China Girls, French artist Valérie Belin's third solo exhibition. In the line of Super Models (2015), All Star (2016), and Painted Ladies (2017), this new series of photographs, realized in 2018, depicts young women posing 'like actresses incarnating imaginary characters.' The title... Read more

Rina Barnerjee

Native Naked... 8 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Cloître Saint-Merri I & II - Paris Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Native Naked: Unworldly to others, the sweetness of her steel arrival, as bride to others coined worldly, no longer beast, now coiled in father-kinship’s sweep, her tendrils like tribes, her toe nails like seed dug deep in dry earth, leaking bloodlines, back... Read more

Robert Gutierrez

Beneath, Between, Behind 8 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Cloître Saint-Merri I & II - Paris Galerie Nathalie Obadia is pleased to present Beneath, Between, Behind, Filipino artist Robert Gutierrez's first solo exhibition in France. On this occasion, the artist invites us to discover his singular universe, situated between abstraction and figuration, mixed with Filipino cultural heritage and other artistic influences (High), and informed by elements... Read more

Edi Hila

Open Museum 6 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Charles Decoster - Brussels Galerie Nathalie Obadia is honored to present Albanian painter Edi Hila's first exhibition in Belgium. Long silenced by the secrecy imposed by his country's dictatorship, the artist, born in Shkodër in 1944, is now unanimously considered to be the most important Albanian painter of his generation, and, beyond that, as... Read more

Joris Van de Morteel

This incomplete mythical world whose perfection lay outside it 18 Apr - 9 Jun 2018 Charles Decoster - Brussels Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to announce the fourth solo show of Joris Van de Moortel. The title, This incomplete mythical world whose perfection lay outside it, is borrowed to The Society of Spectacle, published in 1967 by Guy Debord, a reference book in contemporary thinking which had a... Read more

Agnès Varda

UNE CABANE DE CINEMA : La serre du Bonheur 14 Apr - 9 Jun 2018 Bourg-Tibourg - Paris Galerie Nathalie Obadia is delighted to present A CINEMA SHACK : The greenhouse of Happiness, Agnès Varda's third solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist has built a greenhouse with partitions and glass walls made of the (real) 35mm film reels from a print of LE BONHEUR (Happiness), the movie... Read more

Jérôme Zonder

Des Homo Sapiens 6 Apr - 27 May 2018 Cloître Saint-Merri I & II - Paris Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Des Homo Sapiens (Some Home Sapiens), Jérôme Zonder’s first exhibition at the Paris gallery. Following a fruitful collaboration with the Brussels gallery in 2016, Des Homo Sapiens signals Jérôme Zonder’s entrance into Galerie Nathalie Obadia’s program, via an immersive exhibition, which is... Read more

Wang Keping

Simplicité - Nature - Sensualité 26 Jan - 31 Mar 2018 Charles Decoster - Brussels Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Simplicité-Nature-Sensualité, Wang Keping's first solo in Belgium. An exclusive event since the artist, born in Beijing in 1949, is one of the founding fathers of Chinese contemporary art and recognized as such in his own homeland despite his political exile in 1984.... Read more

Eugène Leroy & Sarkis

Intérieurs - curated by Sarkis 12 Jan - 17 Mar 2018 Cloître Saint-Merri I & II - Paris Galerie Nathalie Obadia is very pleased to present Intérieurs, Sarkis’s third solo show in Paris following Il Grido held in our Brussels gallery in 2016. This time, Sarkis invites Eugène Leroy (1910- 2000) in an exhibition he entirely curated to confront his own creations with the master’s work he considers... Read more

Corentin Canesson

BOTTOM 12 Jan - 24 Feb 2018 Cloître Saint-Merri I & II - Paris Galerie Nathalie Obadia is delighted to give carte blanche to the young French artist Corentin Canesson in the Espace II of the Cloître Saint-Merri gallery. This exhibition is part of our ongoing approach started in 2011 to give exposure to emerging artists' project in this showroom, next to the main... Read more