Galerie LJ

As officially opens today July 26, we are proud to reveal third and last original artwork created for as part of a campaign celebrating Paris, its small businesses and the , curated by and designed as an open-air exhibition throughout the city.
Let the Games begin!

[SIBYLANT SISTERS] The next main character from the Sibylant Sisters by is:
🔵 Terra, the big sister.
Terra is 11 years old and lives with her little sister Caelum and their mother the Wee Witch Katarina in the Grey House.
So often the caretaker of the family, Terra has been raised to never call for help. And yet in her heart, she knows that sometimes the true act of care is one that defies those who raised you.
Together with Caelum they will survive their mother’s terrifying psychotic breakdown, escaping from the Well of Toads. Recovering from their ordeal the sisters will make a pact to practice their own restorative kind of magic.

This is second original artwork created for as part of a campaign celebrating Paris during the curated by for and designed as an open-air exhibition.
6 artists in total, including Swoon, were invited to draw their vision of Paris and pay tribute to the small businesses that contribute to the city’s diversity.
On view thru July 17 to September 8th everywhere in Paris, in the train stations, in the subway, the airports…

[SIBYLANT SISTERS] We continue the presentation of the Sibylant Sisters, 's newly expanded creative practice, with:
🔵 Caelum, the little sister
Caelum lives in the Grey House with her mother, the Wee Witch Katarina, and her big sister Elly. A regular little girl, as far as anyone can tell.
But living in a grey aired house with only a scrappy Witch and two other creepy residents (whom will be introduced later), and the disgusting Toad Well in the back yard, is a frightening life for ordinary little girls. The two sisters experienced uncertainty and trauma that children shouldn’t have to go through. Yet in that way of children, the power of play and magic is still their first language, no matter what life throws them. The sisters stir in a cauldron little things that have given them strenght: their potion conjures the next tool to lead them on their journeys.
Caelum will get in the muck and beat back a toxic Toad Well invasion, with just an old, unglamorous plunger, to protect her sister, her mother and her home.

We are excited to reveal 1 out of 3 original artworks created by for campaign for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Also featuring original designs by this project is curated by for
Launching next week and on view this summer in the city of Paris during the Olympic and Paralympics Games until September.

"In the Land of the Sibylants" will open September 6th in our new gallery space in Paris XIII !

🎥 Swoon’s latest and ongoing project "The Sibylant Sisters" started as a fairy tale and evolved as a script and a movie, mixing autobiography and fiction, inspired by Swoon and her sister’s childhood in a dysfunctional family, in the form of a fantasy, yet cathartic, narrative.
In the next posts we’ll introduce you to the characters of the movie, the main one being:
🔵 The Wee Witch Katarina (📷)
She is the mother of the Sibylant sisters. Katarina and her girls live in the Grey House, a house filled with grey fog, with grey walls, and a grey roof.
Katarina is ill, very ill. And every day she seems to get sicker and weaker and thinner, as she keeps drinking a disgusting brew from the Well of Toads right there in the back yard of the house…

Nouveau chapitre pour la galerie, qui quitte le Marais après 17 années pour s'installer dans le 13e arrondissement cet été !
On se retrouve au 📍32 boulevard du Général Jean Simon au pied de ce beau building tout vert, pour notre 🎉grand opening le 🗓vendredi 6 septembre 2024 avec un nouveau solo show de Swoon Studio (dont la grande "Thalassa" est en ce moment immanquable au Petit Palais !).

⏳ We’re moving! Retrouvez-nous à partir de cet été au 32 bd Jean Simon, Paris XIII
🗓️ Grand opening vendredi 6 septembre 🎉 à l’occasion du vernissage de "In the Land of the Sibylants"
Merci

WE ARE HERE in Paris is now 🎊open and on view thru November 17, 2024. Free admission. Open from Tuesday to Sunday.
Curated by Mehdi Ben Cheikh () & Annick Lemoine (Director of ), with the support of
Including the participation of Shepard Fairey, Invader, D*Face, Seth, Cleon Peterson, Hush, Vhils, Inti, Add Fuel, Conor Harrington, and 💙 Swoon.
📷 "Thalassa", Original blockprint on mylar, handpainted, 380 x 330cm (private collection).

New projects with coming this Fall✨

We are thrilled to announce the participation of in the major exhibition "We Are Here" in Paris 🗓️ from June 12 to November 17, 2024.
Curated by Mehdi Ben Cheikh () & Annick Lemoine (Director of ), with the support of
Including the participation of Shepard Fairey, Invader, D*Face, Seth, Cleon Peterson, Hush, Vhils, Inti, Add Fuel, Conor Harrington, and Swoon.

[MEDIA] figure dans le nouveau numéro de qui s’intéresse aux artistes de Toulon/Hyères, à l’occasion du Festival Design Parade
Merci .bertrand13 💙

[ON VIEW] Plus que 15 jours pour visiter notre toute dernière exposition dans notre espace de la rue Commines, Paris 3e, avant la relocalisation de la galerie dans le 13e arrondissement !
📷 "Portrait Bleu", 2024, 150x120cm, oil on canvas

Looking forward to our first collaboration this Fall 🍁 with in October, then in our new gallery space in December!
✨ Rusudan Khizanishvili (b. 1979) is a visual artist based in Tbilissi, Georgia 🇬🇪. She represented Georgia in 2015 at the 56th Venice along with 6 other fellow artists.
🔮 Drawing inspiration from Georgian culture and Western painting, she creates mystical and colorful paintings exploring cultural memory, feminism and transhumanism, through characters adorned with symbolic costumes. Themes of protection and transformation are central to her work.
📷 "The Fortune Teller", 2024, 130x100cm, oil on canvas

[ON VIEW] New paintings by French painter in our current exhibition at the gallery on view thru June 15, 2024.
📷 "Le Parking", 2024, 91 x 70cm, Oil on canvas

[ON VIEW] Les ponts de mai sont terminés! Notre exposition actuelle réouvre aux horaires habituels et dure jusqu’au 15 juin.
📷 "Chaussures Personnelles 01", 2024, Oil on Canvas, 45x35cm

"Scène de Nuit", 2024, oil on canvas, 130x97cm
This "Night Scenery" opens up a new path for Julien Primard’s practice, who uses clair obscur/chiaroscuro to sublimate seemingly insignificant urban furniture.
On view in our current show thru June 15, 2024.

[ON VIEW] and 2-person show is now open and on view thru June 15,
2024.

+ 2-person show is now open and on view thru June 15, 2024.

[VERNISSAGE] Ce samedi 27 avril, vernissage du 2-person show de et dont les sculptures en marbre et les peintures proposent un dialogue introspectif sur notre rapport au temps.
🥂 Vernissage de 16h à 20h, en présence des artistes.
📷 "Portrait Bleu", 2024, 150x120cm, oil on canvas
"Hipster Aurelius", 2023, 65x48x32cm, marble

[VERNISSAGE] Join us this Saturday, April 27, to celebrate the opening of and 2-person show.
🥂 Vernissage de 16h à 20h ce samedi 27 avril en présence des artistes.
📷 Léo Caillard, "Hispter David", 2023, ht. 120cm, marbre polychrome

[VERNISSAGE] Join us this Saturday, April 27, to celebrate the opening of and 2-person show.
🥂 Vernissage de 16h à 20h ce samedi 27 avril en présence des artistes.
📷 Julien Primard, "Le Parking", 2024, 92x69cm, oil on canvas

[UPCOMING] New paintings by in our upcoming 2-person show: Léo Caillard + Julien Primard, from April 27 to June 15, 2024.
📷 "Chaussures personnelles 02",
2024, 45x35cm, oil on canvas

[LAST DAYS] One more week to visit "Enter the Dragon"! 🐲 On view thru Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

Plus que 10 jours pour découvrir "Saturation", la 1ere exposition monographique institutionnelle de à
A voir jusqu’au 18 avril 2024.

[SAVE THE DATE] is coming back to the gallery with new paintings in a 2-person show with from April 27 to June 15, 2024.

🕊️ Hommage à notre cher ami Thierry Froger❣️, à qui nous avons dû dire au revoir trop tôt et trop soudainement.
Collectionneur toute sa vie et jusqu’à la fin — qu’il ne pensait pas aussi proche, il fut le tout premier à faire confiance à la Galerie LJ en 2007 avec notre exposition inaugurale de il y a 17 ans quasi jour pour jour. Son soutien indéfectible se transforma rapidement en une amitié indéfectible qui va terriblement nous manquer.
Que le monde entier sache que notre Thierry était une belle âme, un combattant de la vie, un infatiguable râleur, un curieux sans frontière, un oeil aiguisé, un ami fidèle pour toutes les personnes qui ont eu la chance de le connaître.
Pour toujours dans notre coeur et nos souvenirs. ❤️

will open "Saturation", their first institutional exhibition, at the municipal Galerie Robespierre in the city of Grande-Synthe near Dunkerque, next Friday, March 22.
Public opening with the artists : March 22, 18h
Talk with the artists : March 23, 14h30
"Saturation" will be on view from March 23 to April 18,
2024.
More info and opening hours:
📷 In conjunction with the show, they created a permanent mural painting in the city of Grande-Synthe that can be seen on rue des Peupliers.

[ON VIEW] "Enter the Dragon" is now open and on view thru April 17, 2024. This new solo exhibition comprises 7 outstanding drawings in ink on paper with the Dragon as main subject.
📷 "The Overladen Dragon", 2024, 112 x 77,5cm, Ink on Paper
☝🏻 Originally a Hindi deity, the Fudō Myōō aka Acala, is the Blue God depicted here as a Dragon Slayer, and embodies the wrath of Buddha in several different shapes here summed up by Mu Pan in his drawing. In Japanese Buddhism, the Fudō Myōō is the ultimate protector and his purpose is to change anger into salvation. He is the most popular depiction in Yakuza tattoo culture.
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"Enter The Dragon" opens this Saturday with 7 new works in ink on paper 🐲🐸
📷 Details of "The Hidden Dragon", 2024, Ink on Paper, 76.2 x 56.5cm