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DNL gallery is a new gallery based in Paris, opening in March 2024. It is positioned as an exhibition, exploration and prospecting space dedicated to architecture in all its components.
The gallery aims to highlight the close links between the visual arts, media, contemporary culture and architecture, promoting their encounter and presenting their interactions. This is neither a confrontation between disciplines nor an eclectic selection, but a synthesis, a perspective that raises many questions. How do we select the pieces to be exhibited? Should the creative process be broken down? And what about references? Above all, how can architecture be collected?
To achieve its mission of encouraging these questions and fostering a better understanding of the built environment, the gallery will produce original works solicited from a new generation of architects, as well as selecting older works. While the most contemporary initiatives are exhibited, heritage and the history of architecture are by no means neglected.
The gallery is located in an apartment in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, offering an unusual setting for presenting architecture. An office, a living room and a storeroom will now be transformed into exhibition spaces to share architecture, its details, fragments and concepts with a specialised public, while seeking to reach as wide an audience as possible.
DNL stands for Double Neon Light, the leitmotif of exhibition spaces.
03 September – 11 October 2026
It is said that Ormek foretells storms, But nothing appears alone.
Things carry traces of what they have passed through, even when these can no longer be recognised. Over time, these traces accumulate. Each becomes part of something else, forming relations that cannot be taken apart without producing something new. Nothing here begins. Nothing here ends. Things simply become distinguishable for a while.
An image by Arnaud Bostelmann shows a small sculpture, itself made from images of earlier sculptures. Reimagined and enlarged, the image detaches itself from its original meaning. It no longer functions as a representation, but becomes a sculpture: assembled, suspended, unfinished. At the same time, it remains composed of 84 individual images. Each can be separated again, becoming the possible beginning of another uncertain evolution.
Through this continuous accumulation and transformation, another reality begins to take form. Its logic is not predetermined. It emerges through encounters between materials, images, machines, hands and histories. None takes precedence over another. Each alters what it encounters and is altered in return. From this uncertainty, a set of creatures begins to emerge, forming a mythology without origin.
Forms appear for a while. Some acquire names. Others recall things seen elsewhere, without revealing exactly where they came from. What appears here is not a final state, but a temporary constellation within a landscape that continues to change.
Every translation invents the thing it claims to preserve.
Truwant + Rodet + is an architectural practice founded in Basel in 2015 by Charlotte Truwant and Dries Rodet. Their practice operates at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism, scenography, installation, furniture and research.
Attentive to territorial dynamics and the transformation of existing structures, they approach time, uncertainty and environmental conditions as materials in their own right within the design process.
Rather than seeking to fix architecture in a permanent state, their work aims to create structures capable of evolving, altering over time and engaging with their context. This approach runs through their buildings as well as their research, exhibitions and objects.
Recipients of the Swiss Art Award in 2017 for A Pavilion, they have since developed several large-scale transformation projects, including the renovation of the Swiss Cultural Centre in Paris with ASBR, the conversion of the Nauentor postal distribution centre in Basel with Bruther and Jan Kinsbergen, and the transformation of the IWAZ site in Wetzikon. Since 2023, Charlotte Truwant and Dries Rodet have taught together at EPFL, where their Atelier for Uncertain Conditions extends their research into architecture as an open-ended and evolving process, in dialogue with landscape, climate and patterns of use.
IMI is an entity that grew independently out of the practice of Dries Rodet. It serves as a container for an ongoing research into new realities, where the physical, digital, natural and artificial coexist without clear boundaries.
Its work begins with environments, understood as entanglements rather than settings, and with the forms that emerge from the processes through which they are produced. These processes, whether digital or physical, bring their own logics and limitations, acting upon one another and becoming part of what is produced. The work never reaches a final state but unfolds through a continuous process of transformation, where each new production cannibalises what came before.
Photographie par Aurélien Mole.