Etienne Chambaud

Etienne Chambaud works with a plethora of artistic mediums, shifting between sculpture, photography, sound, installation and collage to better understand the way in which we perceive objects or ideas. Frames and cages frequently surface as elastic aesthetic motifs within his projects. Animals are filmed in captivity, wooden frames dwarf small photographs and atlas’s are cut and collaged, troubling their usual boundaries and placements. Chambuad’s film La Nuit Suave (2014) typifies his interest in epistemology. The piece investigates how specific sites have influenced the modern gaze of nature, dissecting the role of spaces such as natural history museums and zoos. Both places which physically and conceptually contain beings and knowledge. Each body of work is developed over prolonged periods of research, and each installation then takes shape according to the fluctuations within Chambuad’s findings. Inventive and spatially arresting, Chambuad’s installations have an undoubtable Dadaist sentiment, as they force audiences to confront their own associations through bizarre juxtapositions and material experimentations. ...

Esther Schipper founded her first gallery in Cologne in 1989. After German reunification, she opened a satellite space in Berlin in the mid-1990s, ultimately moving its operations there in 1997. The gallery space has since relocated several times within Berlin to accommodate its evolving exhibition program and artists’ needs. In 2015, Esther Schipper acquired Johnen Galerie and integrated its program under the gallery’s name. Esther Schipper opened a company in Korea in 2017, and a public gallery in Seoul in 2022, as well as a gallery location in Paris on Place Vendôme the same year. In 2024, Esther Schipper started an office and a showroom in New York. Throughout its almost 40 year history, the gallery has supported artists who push boundaries and redefine traditional exhibition formats. Building on the early pioneering program, the gallery specializes in fostering institutional support and finding markets for its artists across continents. The gallery’s global growth nurtures cross-cultural dialogue and brings new commitments to local and international artistic communities. Its activities extend beyond exhibitions to include lectures, performances, and events, reinforcing its role as a discursive space for experimentation. Today, Esther Schipper represents a diverse range of international artists, established figures and emerging talents practicing in various media. ...