Flyer for my Paris exhibition
How did I manage to get an exhibition in Paris, I hear you ask…
The power of connection
The power of keeping in touch with people that you appreciate can be so strong! I’d been in contact with Pierre-Yves on and off after business school. We both studied finance, accounting and controlling… and are both using these skills in our day job, but we‘ve both (re)connected with our creativity a few years ago! Over the years, we stayed in touch via the professional network LinkedIn, wishing each other’s birthdays, sending a little hello here and there.
SOLD! #121 – Méandres de l’âme
January 2018
Acrylic paint on canvas (50cm x 50cm)
With a little help…
And then, this year, we spoke on the phone after exchanging a few lines following my birthday at the end of April. A week later, we had agreed on the terms of my first solo exhibition in Paris. Three weeks later, eight of my paintings were hanging in Pierre-Yves’ boutique, at the heart of Saint-Germain des Prés, 11 rue des Saints-Pères in the 6th arrondissement. Station Jagvi is the concept store for the menswear brand Jagvi with minimalistic, refined and contemporary clothes designed by my friend Pierre-Yves and his Swedish co-founder. The shop is a former gallery in the “rues des galeries” as the rue des Saints-Pères is known, with beautiful red velvet walls which let my paintings reveal themselves beautifully.
Paris exhibition Summer 2019
The vernissage was a lovely occasion to meet new people, art lovers and creatives, to reconnect with old friends and to see my family too! If you’re in Paris, please go and see the exhibition as it’s on until the end of September. And the good news: I’ve already sold a couple of my paintings :))
11 rue des Saints Pères in Paris, and a blown up cut out of one of my paintings on the shopfront