Working in the murky zone between conscious and unconscious, dream and reality, the artist Joachim Koester explores vast fields of knowledge, ranging from Haitian ritual to esoteric séances, and including yoga, Peyote and other hallucinatory experiences. As a result, he creates works that blur the line separating the documentary and the fictional, asking the audience to reconstitute mental journeys on which they undoubtedly would never embarked.

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

After “Crêpe Suzette” in Bristol in 2012, it’s time for “Orange Juice” at the Palais de Toyko in 2013. The exhibition is not about food but rather presents the sculptural experiments of Dewar & Gicquel adapted to stop motion film. The artistic duo – proponents of a “hand-made” approach to their practice which includes wood and stone-carving, ceramics and weaving – have been experimenting with a new medium and giving life to strange sculptures in which pairs of clay legs dancing improbable minuets can be spied amid formless forests and mountains that rise up and collapse. 

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

For his first solo exhibition in Paris, François Curlet, an expert at détournement, reveals a distanced worldview that challenges the clichés of the day. Advertising slogans, human interest stories, or everyday objects give way to a subtle poetry, both existential and demotic.

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

Under the presiding spirit of the eccentric and fascinating figure of Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), Palais de Tokyo is staging an ambitious exhibition mapping the influence of that dazzling genius on the artists of today.

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

The 39th edition of FIAC will take place from the 18 to the 21st October 2012 at the Grand Palais, in the Jardin des Tuileries and in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Thanks to its qualitative ambition which is reaffirmed year on year and a developed synergy with the most important Parisian institutions, FIAC is positioned as one of the unmissable events of the artworld calendar.  

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Victoire Birembaux / victoire@claudinecolin.com

As a foretaste of the infernal machine theatre that Markus Schinwald is devising for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux CAPC in the summer 2013, Palais de Tokyo has invited the Austrian artist and Alexis Vaillant - in charge of programming at the CAPC and curator of the exhibition, to present the lodestone of this automated adventure, the pinnacle of the Bordeaux museum’s 40th anniversary program.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

Helen Marten, Winner of the 2011 Prix Lafayette, is an emerging artist on the British art scene. She practices “activist tourism” within different forms, exploring the “collusion” of surfaces, signs and materials. At Palais de Tokyo, Helen Marten constructs a scenario, which mixes different conversations about fashion, the natural world, glamour, and the city.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

For his first major solo exhibition within a French institution, Neil Beloufa, a young French artist of Algerian descent who has attracted a lot of attention on the international scene, following his participation in “La Triennale: Intense Proximity” in Paris and shows at Balice Hertling & Lewis in New York and François Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles in 2012. Beloufa offers an inventory of his own output, questioning the role of the artist, but also the purpose of images, figures and myths in a mediatized world.

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

For his first major exhibition, Damir Očko invites visitors to discover a universe that is both melancholic and poetic at Palais de Tokyo. Through a constellation of works, he clears a path along the meanders of language, opening on to the byways of text and image, poetry and video, drawing and musical score, as part of ‘‘Croatie, la voici".

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Constance Gounod / constance@claudinecolin.com

Mathilde Beaujard / mathilde@claudinecolin.com

Eloïse Daniels / eloise@claudinecolin.com