Past
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Fatrasie
Victor Garel 27 May - 18 Jul 2026 It’s a full-blown free-for-all among bureaucrats in suits and ties. Dressed in subtle variations of black, their faces tinted blue, they hurl insults at each other over a single lettuce leaf. The lettuce leaf lies in a porcelain plate like a lacquered duck. Eyes without faces watch this Kafkaesque scene... Read more -
L'Alambic cosmique de la métamorphose
Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia 9 Apr - 16 May 2026 LIVING IN THE INVISIBLE For Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, art is developed as a space for attention. A space where matter is never inert, but imbued with memories, forces, and multiple temporalities. Art does not appear as an autonomous object, but as an active relationship with the earth, gestures, bodies, and... Read more -
DE L’EFFACEMENT DE LA FIGURE HUMAINE
Exposition collective / Group Show : Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Eugène Carrière, Raphaël Denis, Alessandro di Lorenzo, Gabriel Leger, Éric Manigaud, Thien-Ngoc Ngo-Rioufol, Bruno Pelassy, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Lawrence Weiner 23 May - 12 Jul 2025 « The erasure of the human figure is addressed in the context of modern and Contemporary art movements, notably in abstraction. Abstract art, from the early 20th century onwards, sought to move away from figurative representation of the human body, in favor of shapes and colors that did not necessarily... Read more -
The AfterImage Pt 1
Hugo Deverchère 13 Apr - 17 May 2025 Lingua cosmica How can we preserve our memories in the face of a horizon that goes beyond our presence on Earth? Like a futuristic archaeology, The AfterImage exhibition probes the persistence and remanence of images. Here, artist Hugo Deverchère pursues his reflections on notions of representation beyond an anthropocentric vision,... Read more
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EFFONDREMENT ET TREMBLEMENTS
Jean-Marc Cerino 23 Feb - 5 Apr 2025 From Trois ruines aux animaux, Guernica, Varsovie et Dresde (2012), to Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin incendié, 1871 (2024) and his recent participation in the “Forme de la ruine” exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2023-2024, the representation of ruin runs through Jean-Marc Cerino’s work. The “ruined“ and... Read more -
LES CHOSES
Christian Gonzenbach 12 Jan - 15 Feb 2025 Christian Gonzenbach creates works that question our relationship between the material world to ordinary objects. For this new exhibition at galerie Sator, he presents several bodies of works. Created through his offbeat gaze, he explores the objects of today as well as those of yesterday, while questioning what makes us... Read more -
SYNTONIE
Caroline le Méhauté 23 Nov - 14 Dec 2024 Metanoïa in the middle, among, with, between, beyond, after 1 At the heart of Caroline Le Méhauté’s practice lies a questioning of how we are in the world, how we situate and position ourselves, how we question our impact on it and, beyond that, how we inscribe in it this... Read more -
FAVOURITE DESCENDING INTERVALS
Corentin Canesson 3 Nov - 20 Dec 2024 Corentin Canesson’s painting is a crowd-puller. The collective nature of his practice has long been underlined by all those who have written about his work: his exhibitions always end up as group shows curated by himself, often accompanied by concerts. In our case, the logic of dialogue arrives, as it... Read more
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TALISMANS D'UN VOYAGE SACRÉ
LEONORA CARRINGTON cur. Fermín Llamazares & Laurent Doucet 23 Oct - 9 Nov 2024 As a result of a meeting between curators Fermín Llamazares, Director of the Consejo Leonora Carrington in Mexico City, Laurent Doucet, poet and President of the association “La Rose Impossible”, which saved André Breton’s house in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (Lot), and Vincent Sator, Director of Galerie Sator, the exhibition presents just over... Read more -
L’ATTENTE ET LA RAISON ARDENTE
Jean-Claude Silbermann 13 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 Jean-Claude Silbermann was born in 1935. At the age of eighteen, after reading Guillaume Apollinaire’s book, Alcool , he made the decision to reject the bright future he was being led towards, and decided to devote his life to poetry. He took part in the Surrealist movement from 1956 to... Read more -
AR(T)CHÉOLOGIE
LÉO FOURDRINIER, ARNAUD KALOS, GABRIEL LEGER, NAZANIN POUYANDEH, TRÚC-ANH, DUNE VARELA 8 Sep - 26 Oct 2024 Archaeology aims to study human past through research, observation and the analysis of material traces and artifacts by following objective criteria. Since the 18th century, excavations at the site of Pompeii and the early days of Romanticism, a dialogue has developed between art and this emerging scientific discipline. In the... Read more -
FORSCHUNGEN
Raphaël Denis 24 May - 20 Jul 2024 Low visibility Organized looting, as an act of violence and dispossession, implies a form of logistical sophistication from which Raphaël Denis’s work reveals the brutality. Paintings redacted, works and images impeded, objects reduced to their transport device or inventory number, dizzying bureaucratic documentations narrating the fate of goods seized by... Read more
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J’ÉTAIS LÀ.
Gabriel Folli 17 - 26 May 2024 Gabriel Folli develops in his work systems of hybridization of processes and images to the point of producing the most composite drawings possible. From Polaroid or digital images transposed into ink drawings, colored pencil or charcoal on a wide range of found and inexpensive materials, to the act of collage,... Read more -
HISTOIRES
Jean-Marc Cerino, Nicolas Daubanes, Christelle Franc, Éric Manigaud - Cur. Fanny Robin, Philippe Roux, Pascal Thevenet 28 Apr - 18 May 2024 The Galerie Sator, the Fondation Bullukian and the magazine De(s)générations are joining forces to tackle a cross-cutting issue: what makes history? There is the history told by the victors. There is the silent history of the vanquished. However, this remains in the « order of discourse »1 . Vincent Sator,... Read more -
PHALÈNE
Djabril Boukhenaïssi 3 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 The moth as a pearl, the moth as a fragile and dense irruption - a dance - of life. Appearance, disappearance, a binary movement, like the flapping of its wings. Like the sack and surf of The Waves. What can we see in this beating ? What do we hear... Read more -
NO PLACE / FENESTRIA
Tamara Arroyo, Hugo Deverchère, Lieven Hendriks, José Luis Landet, Jaime Tarazona / Commissaire d’exposition / curator : Raphaël Denis 14 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 Read more
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RedNow, Me
Pu Yingwei 5 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 Born in China in 1989, Pu Yingwei studied at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (2013) and the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (2018). He lives and works in Beijing. An active member of the new generation of Chinese conceptual art, Pu Yingwei combines and develops the visual and ideological... Read more -
Comme une respiration
Sylvain Ciavaldini 10 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Sylvain Ciavaldini’s precise stroke meticulously sketches reality, using the light and shadows that compose it. Rather than using contours, he employs materials, transparencies and gradations of gray to reveal volumes. The artist then adds disruptive elements that act on the image, revealing details and giving rise to a new reality.... Read more -
Avant que je ferme les yeux…
Danh Vo & Trúc-Anh 25 - 28 May 2023 Read more -
Ceux qui creusent
Éric Manigaud 14 May - 22 Jul 2023 In 1830, Belgium gained independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1865, Leopold II, the new Belgian king, wished to strengthen the young nation both financially and politically. In contrast to large European states — particularly France and England— Belgium did not have colonies to exploit. In Africa, Europeans... Read more
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SEULS SIGNAUX
Gabriel Leger 12 Mar - 6 May 2023 SEULS SIGNAUX [sole signals] questions receivers and receptacles, telecommunication and vibrations , voyages to come, cosmos — and bees’ trajectories. At first sight , Gabriel Leger seems to have distanced himself from the archaeological considerations that he is fond of with new works that all seem to be placed outside... Read more -
RED RENDEZ-VOUS Dialogue autour de l’art de la Nation
Pu Yingwei 21 - 27 Feb 2023 Since 2017, and his stay in France, he has more specifically addressed post-colonial themes. When he returned to Beijing in 2018, he incorporated these elements of political history into contemporary Chinese art. The tools for analyzing Chinese art were then based on a post-Marxist or post-structuralist framework. They must be... Read more -
Les Infinis Invisibles
Trúc-Anh 15 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 Painter, draftsman, performer, poet and sculptor Trúc-Anh was born in Paris in 1983. After having lived in Lausanne, Brussels, Ho Chi Minh City and Los Angeles, he now lives and works in Marseille. For his fifth solo presentation at Galerie Sator, and his first intervention in the Komunuma gallery space... Read more -
AMETAVI
Atisso Goha 1 - 10 Dec 2022 Discovered in Togo during the second edition of the ArtMéssiamé Residency* in November 2021—an initiative itself born in the ATI workshop (dedicated to work with the wood medium) at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, directed by Pascal Aumaître—Atisso Goha is a very young self-taught artist whom I found irresistible... Read more
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KALLISTÉ
Nazanin Pouyandeh 6 Nov 2022 - 7 Jan 2023 Nazanin Pouyandeh’s new exhibition is largely based on a residency that the artist participated in in Corsica (Casell’arte Fabrica Culturale, in the village of Venaco) that had a profound effect on her. Firstly, because of the stunning landscapes in which the models pose. She was literally hypnotised by nature in... Read more -
DEDANS, TOUT SE BOUSCULE COMME DE PETITS MONSTRES QUE LA LUMIERE A RÉVEILLÉS PAR SURPRISE
Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia 11 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Read more -
TEXAS BAR BORDEL
Corentin Canesson + invité.e.s 5 Jun - 23 Jul 2022 ‘ ’Paintings from Texas and Brittany’’ For Pierre Molinier , “our mission on earth is to transform the world into total mayhem.” In February 1956 , the surrealist artist wrote to André Breton to announce the opening of his brothel, the ‘Texas Bar ’. Corentin Canesson ’s new exhibition at... Read more -
D’UN MUSÉE L’AUTRE
Raphaël Denis 10 Apr - 28 May 2022 Raphaël Denis’ exhibition “D’un musée l’autre” [Museum to Museum] focuses on the fate of artworks in museum collections within contexts of profound historical upheaval. The idea of displacement, both geographical and political, is at the centre of this new project. Through migration, concealment and appropriation, the institutional work of art... Read more
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VOLCELEST
Eric Charles-Donatien, Fabien Conti, Andréa De Bortoli, Lélia Demoisy, Victoire Inchauspé, and Marlène Mocquet; Curator: Marianne Dollo 20 Feb - 2 Apr 2022 Does it make sense to dedicate a contemporary art exhibition to the theme of “Hunting and Nature” in our contemporary moment? Indeed, at the core of the subject is a practice decried by a significant part of the public opinion evoking ecological, ethical, moral, sociological, even political reasons. And yet,... Read more -
FRAGMENTS
Jean-Marc Cerino 9 Jan - 12 Feb 2022 Jean-Marc Cerino collects old film photographs. He buys and assembles them. He compiles the basis of his research on the Internet via popular sites that sell all kinds of objects to tell a history of the 20th century through anonymous and modest fragments. Most of the subjects that the artist... Read more -
MISS WITHOUT PAPERS
Evangelia Kranioti 6 Nov - 23 Dec 2021 Evangelia Kranioti travels to Lebanon for the first time in 2015, just after having completed a series of photographs in the Moria refugee camp in Mytilene (island of Lesbos, Greece). In Beirut, her investigation on the fringes of a Mediterranean ravaged by the tragedy of exile leads her to discover... Read more -
ET L’HORIZON S’ENFUIT D’UNE FUITE ÉTERNELLE !…
Sylvain Ciavaldini 12 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 It vibrates. In the light of darkness, it vibrates tirelessly. The horizon. Streak at the end of the world, original line, vibrates to the rhythm of the night. No longer a chain of mountains, a hill or calm sea, it is sound, dance and light; gesture, trace and memory. At... Read more
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DOUBLE SENS
Stéphane Pencréac’h - Nazanin Pouyandeh 26 Jun - 24 Jul 2021 ‘Double Sens’ [‘Double Meaning’] brings together the work of two painters, Nazanin Pouyandeh and Stéphane Pencréac’h. The exhibition juxtaposes their respective visions, each of which is made up of illusions, allusions, and inversions that multiply the possible meanings of their work. The two artists have known each other for many... Read more -
LES OMBRES QUE NOUS SOMMES
Katia Bourdarel 5 - 21 Jun 2021 It is under the sign of night and nature that the new canvases of Katia Bourdarel, presented at the Marais space of the Sator gallery, are placed. Black dominates here: a nocturnal theater of metamorphoses. Vegetal metamorphoses in which fragments of trees and intertwined nudes move, women as nymphs and... Read more -
LA ISLA DE LAS SIETE CIUDADES
Hugo Deverchère 14 Mar - 10 Apr 2021 The “Isla de las Siete Ciudades” is the name of a phantom group of islands that was once believed to be situated off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula between the 15th and the 16th centuries. Over the course of this period, the archipelago changed name, shape, and position, with... Read more -
DEEP TIME
Gabriel Leger 10 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 One after another, the pieces of the game are taken off the board. They will be put back into play, other yet the same, identically but differently. Jean-Daniel Pollet, Méditerranée DEEP TIME offers an encounter with the past: before our eyes, ancient objects, long unused, become animated once again, switch... Read more
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DIX MILLE DEGRÉS SUR LA PLACE DE LA PAIX
Éric Manigaud 12 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 At 8:15 in the morning on 6th August 1945, the atomic bomb dropped by the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress, exploded 580 metres above the city of Hiroshima, home to 350,000 people. The city’s warning sirens had not sounded, and no one had time to take shelter. The explosion produced... Read more -
SECTEUR GÉNÉRAL
Raphaël Denis / Christian Gonzenbach / Evangelia Kranioti / Gabriel Leger / Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia / Nazanin Pouyandeh / Truc-Anh 6 Jun - 18 Jul 2020 On the evening of Saturday 14th March, we learned of the imminent closure of all the spaces of social life in France. On Monday 16th, the confinement of the entire population was officially announced, and went into force the next day. Our galleries closed, the exhibitions continued in darkness and... Read more -
J’AI ÉTÉ CHASSÉE DU PARADIS
Nazanin Pouyandeh 7 Mar - 9 May 2020 One encounters the paintings of Nazanin Pouyandeh in fits and starts; one discovers them in a cascade of observations. Their strokes are realist enough, and despite the proliferation of details, one can easily project oneself into the image – to such an extent, in fact, that a clear and plausible... Read more -
HỨA THÁI TRÚC-ANH
Truc-Anh 18 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 To create his most recent series of drawings, Truc-Anh applied bleach and other oxidizing agents to paper hand-crafted in Nepal using lokta, a plant that grows only at high-altitude. The faces that appear in these drawings are cosmic portraits of beings from Truc-Anh’s familial universe. Placed on lightboxes, the discoloured... Read more
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ENDLESS COLLAPSE IV
Raphaël Denis 12 Jan - 30 May 2020 Endless Collapse IV is the fourth chapter in a cycle of exhibitions by Raphaël Denis that began in 2017 and that has been successively presented in Nice, Berlin and Lille. In this cycle, Denis creates original dialogues between elements of his own making that belong to different series and periods... Read more -
SACRÉ
Matthieu Gafsou 7 Nov 2019 - 11 Jan 2020 Matthieu Gafsou (b. 1981) is a Franco-Swiss artist who lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a graduate of the Philosophy, Literature and Cinema master’s programme at the University of Lausanne and studied photography at the École des arts appliqués de Vevey. Alongside his artistic practice, he teaches at... Read more -
REMPLIR LE VIDE
Christian Gonzenbach 20 Oct - 21 Dec 2019 For our inaugural exhibition, we have given carte blanche to Swiss artist Christian Gonzenbach, who has offered up, in return, nothing less than a firework display: Gonzenbach’s sculptures in ceramic, aluminium and bronze bear the marks of the fires in which they are forged, while the artifice inherent to pyrotechnics,... Read more -
VERSUCHE AUS DER LITERATUR UND MORAL II
Raphaël Denis 12 Sep - 2 Nov 2019 The exhibition Versuche aus der Literatur und Moral II, whose title is borrowed from a work by the poet and philosopher Christian August Clodius published in Leipzig in 1767, is a reworked and expanded version of a project first presented in Germany in autumn 2018. It brings together recent works... Read more
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GS-GP-001
Groupshow cur. Grégoire Prangé 28 Jun - 20 Jul 2019 When Vincent Sator asked me to curate an exhibition based on the gallery’s storage, I was immediately captivated by the project. It meant plunging into the memory of this place, into the history of the exhibitions that have punctuated its daily life, into the construction of its image, and the... Read more -
TOUT EST VRAI
Romain Kronenberg 18 May - 19 Jun 2019 U n matin de printemps, sur la dalle en bas de leur tour où ils s’étaient donné rendez-vous, quatre jeunes personnes, la vingtaine, sont victimes d’une attaque : Pablo Adam est tué sous les yeux de son amie Zoé Jaspers, de Thomas Jaspers, son frère et de Felix Jeanneret, un... Read more -
KLIDJABADJABA
Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia 6 Apr - 11 May 2019 While awaiting the fetish priest who will orchestrate the efficacy of the place – his loincloth lies at the entrance, a promise of his imminent return – Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia amuses himself. At the center of his playground, a re-enchanted exhibition space, he invents a palaver tree for himself. Azé... Read more -
UN BRUIT SOURD PRÉCÈDE LE SILENCE
Sylvain Ciavaldini 14 Feb - 30 Mar 2019 In the great trench of forms lie the ruins to which we still cling, in part. They provide material for abstraction. A construction site of inauthentic elements for the formation of impure crystals. That is where we stand. Paul Klee, Journal [1915], Paris, Grasset, 2004 (1959), p. 329. Rich as... Read more
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HEAVEN & EARTH (YIDDISH COSMOS)
Yevgeniy Fiks 5 Jan - 9 Feb 2019 Multidisciplinary artist Yevgeniy Fiks presents Heaven and Earth (Yiddish Cosmos) , an exhibition that unveils the surprising connections between Eastern European Jewish history, futuristic utopia, and the Soviet space program. Fiks weaves a narrative of Yiddish culture built upon concepts of bold imagination, universality, and scientific progress. By blending historical... Read more -
LE VESTIGE D'UN VOL
Jean-Marc Cerino 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Based on photographs and drawings, mostly by anonymous creators, Jean-Marc Cerino’s paintings on and under glass form what the artist calls a 'shared view of the world.' He attempts to restore the world as seen by this 'common folk,' creating a body of work that is always in the making.... Read more -
J'ENTENDS SOUDAIN DES BATTEMENTS D'AILES
Hayoun Kwon 22 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Has it come from a far-flung land This dull-eyed bird I think it has come Afraid and naked From the depths of my memory Restive As time passes. Feu ! Chatterton – L’oiseau (2018) Hayoun Kwon’s plastic process often begins with an encounter. From this encounter, she is left with... Read more -
LE MIROIR DE L'ANIMAL
Myriam Mechita et Carmelo Zagari, curator : Christine Blanchet 1 - 15 Sep 2018 The exhibition at Galerie Sator brings together for the first time two artists, Myriam Mechita (b. 1974) and Carmelo Zagari (b. 1957). Through their distinct formal languages, both of their bodies of work are populated by animal and human figures that evoke existential dualities such as suffering and hope, life... Read more
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IF ONLY IT WERE TRUE
Pu Yingwei with the collaboration of J:Gallery (Shanghai) 23 Jun - 13 Jul 2018 Galerie Sator is happy to introduce young artist Pu Yingwei with his first exhibition in France “If only it were true”. This project is the first chapter of a new cooperation with J:Gallery. Pu Yingwei’s creation based on his research of literature and archive, he believes that the individual experience... Read more -
OCTOBRE 61
Éric Manigaud 5 May - 16 Jun 2018 Éric Manigaud is known for his drawings created using archival photographs. Working in series, he dedicates his work to historical subjects including the facially disfigured soldiers of the First World War, the bombed-out cities of the Second World War, early 20th century crime scenes, and spirit photography from the 1920s... Read more -
VERTIGO
Gabriel Leger 10 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 How could anyone hide from that which never sets? As if to answer Heraclitus’s sibylline question, Gabriel Leger deploys even vaster enigmas. He makes mirrors reflect. He hollows out the eternity of faces. He makes time flow alongside celestial bodies. He seizes boiling nebulae. He holds vertigo in suspension. He... Read more -
RUINES & PLAISIRS
Nazanin Pouyandeh 12 Jan - 12 Mar 2018 “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” C.G. Jung Nazanin Pouyandeh’s canvases are closed rooms, wide open. They are free spaces, tailored for the blossoming of fantasy. The images moving within them strip away the spoken word, positioning themselves beyond the... Read more
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PILLOW BOOK
Ira Waldron 1 - 23 Dec 2017 Vincent Sator is pleased to present the exhibition Pillow Book by artist Ira Waldron at the gallery from December 1st to 23rd, 2017. The 'Pillow Book' project consists of twenty-eight embroidered pillows, each representing a chapter of a book. The artist borrowed the title from the 10th-century memoirs of Sei... Read more -
EUROPA
Raphaël Denis 13 Oct - 25 Nov 2017 ÉTHOLOGIE, subst. fém. « Étude des mœurs et du comportement individuel et social des animaux domestiques et sauvages1». Après des séries d’œuvres attachées à l’histoire récente et en particulier à celle de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, perçue à travers des documents relatifs aux œuvres d’art alors soumises au pillage, Raphaël... Read more -
L'EXTASE DOIT ÊTRE OUBLIÉE
Evangelia Kranioti 20 May - 24 Jun 2017 For several years now, Evangelia Kranioti has been developing an artistic practice which blends documentary and fiction. “With a deep grounding in anthropology and literature, Kranioti finds the starting points of her works in anonymous stories; her exploration of the intimate has taken her from her native Mediterranean to tropical... Read more -
SOLAR
Bernd Kirschner 15 Apr - 13 May 2017 En collaboration avec la galerie Michael Schultz (Berlin), Vincent Sator est heureux de vous présenter une exposition personnelle de Bernd Kirschner du 15 avril au 13 mai 2017. Lorsque l’on regarde un tableau du peintre allemand Bernd Kirschner, on ressent comme un sentiment d’intimité et de proximité mais également de... Read more
