EXHIBITIONS

Paris

Decembre 1st 2023 - February 2024

At the dawn of the '80s, an artistic effervescence erupted on the streets of New York, laying the foundations for an unprecedented adventure. This was the era when graffiti, like multicolored phoenixes, rose from the ashes of everyday life, transforming the city into a living tableau. In the midst of this tumult, a new generation of artists emerged, bold and daring, ready to defy the norms, freeing art from the shackles of convention. In this urban jungle, these kids proved to be the determined pioneers of an artistic revolution. Armed with spray cans and boundless creativity, they defied the established rules, moving from the street to the canvas. The "Unleashed Spray" exhibition embodies this artistic epic. A story, a journey of 45 canvases, revealing the mysteries of a visual protest: post-graffiti. A standard-bearer for artistic insubordination and an open window on a new world, spray became the pen of a rebellious generation, transcending simple acts of rebellion into a language of varied styles: abstract, figurative, lettered. An affirmation of freedom and a bold response to established norms, this exhibition brimming with audacity and insubordination is a reflection of the 80s. The works on display, treasures of a new cultural paradigm, are thus rare pieces in the construction of this new aestheticism where every gesture on canvas becomes an intrigue, every nuance of color a revelation, where each artist becomes an emblematic figure; a star in the firmament of this pictorial epic (thanks to their ability to transform every spray into a heroic act). Impossible to theorize, post-graffiti has its own codes, rules, principles, styles, icons, heroes and tragic destinies. The works featured in "Unleashed Spray" were exhibited in the 80s by museums, major dealers and visionary gallery owners. They had grasped the authentic artistic essence of these teenagers, perceiving them as dissident creators whose impact would transcend eras. They understood the place this movement would occupy in art history, transcending prejudice to establish a new axiom. The recognition of a counter-culture that had become a movement, a movement at the origins of a culture, and a culture that had become history.

Artists : DONDI WHITE • RAMMELLZEE • LEE QUINONES • FUTURA 2000 • LADY PINK • CRASH • AONE • DAZE • QUIK • SEEN • NOC • TOXIC • KOOL KOOR

Paris

October 13th - November 18th 2023

Ghost Galerie is pleased to present the second exhibition in its program dedicated to the emerging art scene: Ghost Project. Reminiscence, running from October 13th to November 18th, will present the work and universe of 5 artists: Hakim Sahiri, Clémence Gbonon, Djabril Boukhenaïssi, Félix Taburet & Hannah Becquante

Paris & Marseillle

June 15th - October 7th 2023

GHOST galerie is pleased to present its new exhibition: Graffiti Dynamics, from June 15 to October 7th, 2023, between Paris and Marseille. An immersion in the New York art scene of the 80s and nowadays !

Paris

September 28th - October 1st 2023

Galerie Dauphine is an association dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art. It is represented by a group of art market and asset management professionals, with the support of Dauphine-PSL executive education program and Christie's auction house. The Invisibles exhibition will run from September 28 to October 1, 2023 at Ghost Galerie, 62 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris. It will feature a group show by 8 artists. Profits from the sale will be donated by Galerie Dauphine to the Art Exprim association, whose commitment is to make contemporary art accessible to all, in order to create together a more united and creative society. The vernissage will take place on September 28 from 6 pm to 9 pm

Paris

April 7th - June 3rd 2023

Ghost Galerie is pleased to present its new exhibition: Epode, from April 7 to May 13, 2023. A new chapter in its history, this event is part of a new exhibition program - Ghost Project - highlighting the emerging contemporary art scene. Opening on April 6 from 5pm in the presence of the artists.

Marseille & Paris

WINTER EXHIBITIONS

Ghost Galerie is pleased to present its new exhibition: A MOVEMENT IN MOTION. For this new winter exhibition, the works will move between Paris and Marseille and vice versa, they will appear or disappear without warning! A double exhibition that allows us to offer you between Paris and Marseille more than fifty works from the 80's to nowadays by several artists, thus unveiling to the eyes of the novice or informed visitor, the very foundation of this artistic movement: movement in movement.

Paris

360°

A 360° discovery of our Parisian gallery! An immersion, the time of this visit, in this culture of the 80s and in this contemporary creation. © 2023. All rights reserved

Paris

2022

The Ghost Galerie is pleased to present its new exhibition: Then and Now, New York Street Style. A "different continuity" of its summer exhibition: New York Street Style, creation of the 80s. An exhibition that allows us to see, on the 3 floors of the gallery, about forty works from the 80's to nowadays, from about twenty artists. An artistic discovery mixing paintings, works on paper and sculptures, gathered around 3 styles: abstract art, figurative and lettering. Not to mention photography and installations!

Marseille

2022

GHOST GALERIE Marseille unveils a new series of exhibitions. A selection of works by New York artists produced in the 80s and 90s. A moving display that allows visitors to live an irreplaceable experience, a sensitive and personal encounter with this contemporary creation, straight out of the imagination of pre-teens & teens. The exhibition the name is the fame of the game allows us to dive back into the foundations of New York graffiti and its mental and artistic constructions once reinvented in the studio.

Paris

July - September 2022

In the 70’s New York, while artists were taking over the city, they formed around a new culture that was their own, with its own codes, language, style, and 'attitude’. From those mixed codes of ‘ghetto children’ of The Bronx or Brooklyn, they mark the beginning of hip-hop culture, urban movement, clandestine and protesting which include DJing, rap, beatbox, breakdance and graffiti. A carefully studied carelessness for language and style opened a new way to design: casual chic. Hip-hop has played a leading role, major in the history and democratization of sneakers, and since 1985, the Jordan Nike has been their star.

Paris

February - May 2022

What happens when artists move from the street to the studio ? Is this work in the studio a continuation of their vandal interventions in the urban space ? How and why were they able to create a real artistic movement born in the street; a movement that from the 80's onwards is found in galleries and in museum institutions ? So many questions that leave one wondering but that can find some answers thanks to the exhibition Studio VS Vandalism, a display of works by about fifteen artists on the 3 floors of the gallery. Works from the 80's to today, with multiple supports and expressions.

Paris

October - January 2022

On the occasion of FIAC 2021, GHOST GALERIE, specialist of Post-graffiti, presents a V2 of its inaugural exhibition ''Our Ghosts''. This event will bring together historical and more recent works by some twenty artists through forty works. Ghosts are everywhere or maybe nowhere. They reflect our fears, our fantasies or perhaps even our imagination. They appear or disappear, just like the works exhibited on the 3 levels of the gallery. Were they present during the first hanging? Not sure. Do they always converse with their same neighbors ? Not obvious. Were the creators of these neighbors already exhibited? To be discovered.

Paris

July - October 2021

Thus are invoked the ghosts that inhabit Ghost Galerie’s primary DNA, the spectres of its passion for the initiators of American Graffiti. The first works on canvases by the major figures of New York Graffiti are the rare historical and physical evidence of the premises of a liberated and conquering expression of popular culture, which grew into a global phenomenon and kept its vital strength to this day. These Post-graffiti works, created by the artists that were most present in the streets and in the subways at the beginning of the 1980’s but were also invited to the most prominent New York galleries at the time (Sidney Janis, Annina Nosei and Tony Shafrazi), reveal how their individual practices evolved in the private atmosphere of the studio.

Marseille

July - August 2021

Marseille, June 28, 2021. The Château de Forbin and the GHOST GALERIE Marseille, two contemporary art venues in Marseille dedicated to graffiti and Post-graffiti of the 80s, will host from July 4 to August 4, 2021 the first double exhibition of New York artist Kool Koor. This event is a first for the Brussels-based artist. Named "Rooks & Robots" in homage to his artist's name, this double exhibition to be discovered soon is a return to the origins of the artist as well as to the universe of his very first works, a very galactic era on the theme of Rooks & Robots.

Marseille

November - December 2020

Marseille, November 5, 2020. The GHOST gallery and the Château de Forbin, two contemporary art venues in Marseille - dedicated to graffiti and Post-graffiti of the 80s - will host from November 5 to December 5, 2020 the first "double" exhibition of the New York artist Chris DAZE Ellis retracing his 40 years of artistic creation. A rich retrospective of more than 60 works that relates the evolution of his work over his entire career.

Marseille

June - July 2019

Admired, respected and considered as a major artist of the movement, AONE has contributed - thanks to his wild, philosophical, mystical & spiritual creations - to the influence of this culture, well beyond the borders of the South Bronx. Born in the ghetto, his apprenticeship was done on the street and in the subway. It is in self-taught that he will conquer the art world. At the end of the 70's, graffiti was then an impetuous geyser that only asked to explode from this underground scene, in which the majority of gallery owners, curators and journalists, seemed to want to confine it. To the rhythm of hip hop and breakdance, there was then a whole generation of artists, spirited teenagers, who wanted to show what their art, not could be, but was. AONE was one of them, spinning his bombs in an energetic and contagious dance.

Marseille

April - May 2019

On April 28, 2019, Ghost will host the opening of Unstallation, a solo exhibition by graffiti/street artist Niels Meulman, better known as Shoe (Amsterdam, 1967). In the 1980s, Shoe was personally introduced to the art movement by New York's finest, such as Dondi White, Rammellzee and Keith Haring. Niels Shoe Meulman is an internationally renowned artist, graphic designer and art director from Amsterdam. Meulman began tagging Shoe in 1979 and became a graffiti legend at the age of 18. Known as "Shoe" Meulman is a visual artist, known for his gestural paintings that reveal vivid traces of graffiti and calligraphy. He revolutionized the art of writing by launching the Calligraffiti movement, asserting that a word is a picture and writing is a painting.

Marseille

April - May 2018

DONDI WHITE - also known as DONDI - is one of the founding "fathers" of the New York graffiti of the 70s and 80s; The King of New York figurative graffiti and lettering; An undisputed king of mythical "wholes cars" - such as the famous Children of the Grave created in 1980. His graphic talent allowed him to evolve his aestheticism - going from subway trains to canvas to become one of the major artists of the 20th century.