GALERIE JOCELYN WOLFF

Paris| France
Director | Inés Huergo

Based in Paris, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff has been promoting a rigorous vision of contemporary art for more than twenty years, supporting emerging artists while fostering the recognition of historical figures. The gallery maintains and strengthens an artistic program committed to research and aesthetic innovation, encouraging the circulation of both artworks and ideas.

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CURATORIAL VISION

Galerie Jocelyn Wolff presents works on paper by Miriam Cahn spanning different moments of her practice. Several relate to her sustained investigation into the representation of war, violence, and experiences that resist conventional depiction. An early drawing from 1989 belongs to a period in which Cahn works primarily in black and white, using charcoal on fragile paper and bringing the movement of her entire body into the act of drawing. More recent works introduce color while continuing her engagement with portraiture, bodily vulnerability, disability, aging, conflict, and mortality. Across the presentation, drawing operates simultaneously as image, physical action, and a means of confronting difficult social and political realities.

BIO

Miriam Cahn (b. 1949, Basel, Switzerland) Born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1949. Lives and works in Stampa, Bergell (Canton of Graubünden), Switzerland. Miriam Cahn’s artistic practice, primarily centered on figurative painting, explores social issues related to her rejection of all forms of oppression, as well as her response to contemporary political concerns, including gender-based violence, migration crises, and armed conflicts. In dialogue with the European feminist movements of the 1970s, the body continues to occupy a central place in her work, both as a subject and as an artistic medium. Miriam Cahn has had numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including at Kunstmuseum Bern (2019), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2019), Museo Reina Sofía (2019), Haus der Kunst (2019), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2019–2020), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2020–2021), Sifang Art Museum (2020), The Power Plant (2021), Fondazione ICA Milano (2022), Palais de Tokyo (2023), Stedelijk Museum (2024), and MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (2025).

Booth walkthrough with the artist
Diego Bianchi

In Spanish, without translation.
Open to the public.

January 5, 2026
6:10 PM
Pavilion VIK

CURATORIAL VISION

For ESTE ARTE 2026, 12th edition, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff presents Diego Bianchi’s project “New Cement Bodies”, conceived especially for the public of ESTE ARTE and Uruguay. Bianchi expands his long-standing investigation into the human figure by producing a new series of cement sculptures designed for José Ignacio’s unique indoor–outdoor setting. Twisted, crouched, yet precise, his figures can inhabit both natural terrain—sand, soil, grass—and domestic or social spaces such as living rooms and terraces. This dual placement underscores the hybrid nature of the series, where objects drawn from everyday urban detritus are reimagined in durable materials that connect with the coastal landscape. By situating sculpture between excess and order, fragility and endurance, the project speaks directly to the dynamics of contemporary life in dialogue with Uruguay’s environment.

BIO

Diego Bianchi (Argentine, b. 1969) lives and works in Buenos Aires. His multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, video, photography, and performance, often using discarded objects—chairs, shoes, pipes, electronic devices—or casts of body parts. Bianchi’s work interrogates aesthetic conventions and sociopolitical conditions, channeling the chaotic remnants of consumerism and the impact of neoliberal economies. His exhibitions include Syntactic Tactic (CA2M, Madrid, 2022), the Performance Biennial (MNBA, Buenos Aires, 2021), Sauvetage Sauvage (Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville, 2020), Liverpool Biennial (2020), and BIENALSUR (2019). He received the Premio Azcuy (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2019).