Curio MANIERA, Cour & Uppercut

We are pleased to announce CURIO, an upcoming group exhibition presented by MANIERA, Cour and Uppercut on view in Paris from June 27 to 29, 2025, with a private preview on June 26, 2025.
 
The exhibition will take place in a derelict Parisian Haussmann apartment — formerly a clothing workshop, now empty but full of character, with visible marks and patina from years of use.
 
In our age of oversaturation and undervaluation, curiosity is a scarce resource. What justification can we unearth to serve the impulse to collect, preserve, display, and care for the things around us? What’s the best antidote to a crisis of fungibility? Curio – from the Latin curiosus, meaning ‘careful’ or ‘inquisitive’ – assembles objects that respond to a straightforward yet fluid set of criteria: oddity, rarity, beauty.
 
Emerging from the conceptual echo of the Wunderkammer and Kunstkabinett, the exhibition advances a curatorial ethos of willful eclecticism and idiosyncratic devotion – timely implements against the slog of overproduction that surrounds and drowns us.
 
Words by Ezra Babski
 
 
Works by
 
MANIERA
Thorben Gröbel
Lukas Gschwandtner
Jonathan Muecke
Richard Venlet
 
Cour
Richard Artschwager
Charlotte Bombel
Elias Van Orshaegen
Antoine Van de Woude
 
Uppercut
Andre Jacob
Alexander Kirkeby
Grace Prince
 
 
Location
5, rue Rougemont, 75009 Paris – 3rd Floor
 
Preview
June 26, 2025
By invitation
 
Public Days
June 27 – 29, 2025
1 pm – 6 pm or by appointment