Exhibitions
Éclipses
Collective exhibition
Curator: Anne Favier
September 25, 2026 - January 3, 2027
As part of the Bicentenary of photography, Drawing Lab, a laboratory for experimentation and the dissemination of contemporary drawing, is putting together a group exhibition highlighting the links between photography and drawing.
While Nicéphore Niépce invented photography in 1826, his contemporary Henry Fox Talbot also believed he had discovered, with photography, a “loyal pencil”, capable of capturing and naturally fixing the writing of light and shadow. He also called photograms “photogenic drawings”, sensitive impressions obtained by direct contact, the very beginnings of photography.
BABEL.B.O
Collective exhibition
may - september 2027
As part of Viva Villa!, BABEL.B.O brings together Marie-Sarah Adenis, Cyrielle Gulacsy and Maguelone Vidal to explore the links between language, sound and image. Inspired by the myth of Babel, the exhibition transforms the diversity of languages into a sensitive and immersive material.
At Drawing Lab, visitors are invited to wander through an enigmatic space where signs, voices and forms intersect, sketching out a “Rosetta stone” of the senses to apprehend the world differently.
A window against time
Group exhibition
Curator: Claire Luna
May 28 - September 6, 2026
The exhibition “Une fenêtre contre le temps” (A Window Against Time), conceived by Claire Luna, is part of an economy of the gaze in which the works stand back from the tumult without ever abstracting themselves from it. Here, drawing unfolds as an expanded condition, a diffuse presence that crosses gestures, spaces and temporalities. Between discretion and intensity, the practices brought together privilege open forms, slow attentions, regimes of appearance that reject the spectacular in favor of more subdued zones of exchange.
Extending the experience of the residency at the Drawing Factory, the exhibition invests the Drawing Hotel as an inhabited space – traversed, shared, sometimes displaced. Here, the works redefine usage, blurring the threshold between intimate and public, and inventing ways of being together that are less a matter of affirmation than of co-presence. Between fleeting gestures and lasting installations, Une fenêtre contre le temps opens up a breathable space, where the gaze learns to stand differently.
With : Amélie Barnathan, Tamaris Borrelly, Marguerite Canguilhem, Dana Cojbuc, Antoine Conde, Camille Demirian, Louise Dumas, Camila Eslava, Baptiste Filippi, Clara-Louise Hoffsaes, Thibaut Huchard, Justine Joly, Boryana Petkova, Merlin Rogeat and Adji Titus.
All Parts Of Us
Susanna Inglada
Curator: Giuliana Benassi
February 13 - May 10, 2026
Susanna Inglada’s exhibition All Parts Of Us is rooted in both the political and the emotional, unfolding a universe where drawings leave the page and invade the space. Fragmented and expressive, the Catalan artist’s work composes a contemporary theatre where each element — body, gaze, gesture — contributes to a collective whole. Inspired by her relationship with theatre, Inglada stages tormented figures, caught between unity and conflict, lucidity and denial, to question our ways of being together. Through drawing, ceramics and animation, she revisits the great pictorial traditions to reveal the tensions of power and gaze, while slipping in a discreet humour, like a remedy for the gravity of reality. All Parts Of Us thus invites the viewer to become an actor, to recompose, in a shared movement, the multiple fragments of our common humanity.
DRAWING PERFORMANCES
Juliette Blightman, Christine Herzer, Diogo Pimentão, Jimmy Robert and Georgia Sagri
Curators: Jean-Max Colard and Alice Pialoux
January 15 - January 31, 2026
Five artists have been invited to the Drawing Lab for a cycle of performances as part of the “Dessins sans limite” exhibition at the Grand Palais: Juliette Blightman, Christine Herzer, Diogo Pimentão, Jimmy Robert and Georgia Sagri.
FREE JAZZ, Henri Matisse and …
Collective exhibition
Claudine Grammont
June 13 - September 30, 2025
Eight artists around Henri Matisse’s “Jazz”: Agnès Thurnauer, Alexandre Benjamin Navet, Claire Trotignon, Etel Adnan, Isabelle Ferreira, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Pierre Charpin, Tania Mouraud.
Haroum
Elika Hedayat
Curator: Valentina Ulisse
October 17, 2025 - January 4, 2026
The exhibition designed for the Drawing Lab is intended as a discovery of this world still under construction. In the artist’s works, Haroum appears as a city-laboratory, in its embryonic state or at the model stage. Inspired by the work of Vinciane Despret and the animal ingenuity observed in therarchitecture, these elevations reveal an art of construction that is no longer solely human, but inter-species.
We Don’t Remember Our Lives Before the Age of Four
Tiffany Bouelle
May 1 - May 25, 2025
“Nous ne gardons aucun souvenir de notre vie avant l’âge de quatre” is a series of drawings that revisits childhood scenes, real or imaginary, that are inevitably erased from our memory. It explores fragments of simple happiness, fleeting and elusive, that we rediscover as adults, as amazed spectators of this fantastic theater where the generation shaping tomorrow’s society blossoms.
Belladonna
Tatiana Wolska
Curator: Marianne Derrien
January 24 — April 20, 2025
Tatiana Wolska’s Belladonna exhibition nestles between the political and the intimate, offering a physical and cognitive experience where drawing merges with sculpture. Witches’ plant, good or magic weed known since ancient times, Belladonna, is both the remedy and the poison reminding us that its use requires subtle handling as well as great knowledge. Through the history of this plant, the exhibition promotes proliferation and dialogue in order to unite the familiar and the strange, lightness and ardor, suggestion and claim.
Ito Meikyū / Wandering Thread
Boris Labbé
Curator: Judith Guez
October 11, 2024 — January 5, 2025
In this exhibition, drawing becomes volume and architecture with the central work Ito Meikyū (a word invented from a collage of two words: ito meaning “thread” and meikyu meaning “labyrinth”). The immersive and interactive work invites the viewer to immerse themselves in a large animated fresco. It presents a heterogeneous collection of drawn, animated and sound scenes, which are taken from the digital material. In a way, she recreates a subjective world (inner and outer world) in the form of a labyrinth composed of fractal architectures, inhabited by plants, objects, animals, men, women, patterns and calligraphy.