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About
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.
From 24-05-25
to 22-06-25
DNL Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by UHO, the group’s first with the gallery.
On view are three projects: a series of furniture pieces, a book and a film.
SCHIRCH is a collection of furniture pieces designed by UHO that escape the category of architecture. As such, they are not subject to the same standards as buildings.
A sofa, bench and stools are all built from aluminum profiles and fitness bags. Their visual and tactile qualities maintain a certain equivalence. At first, their visual appearance can be overwhelming; their tactility performs surprisingly well.
Their appearance gives them their name: a word derived from Franz West's Wiener Dialekt.
This show is both a continuation and a contradiction of the hypothesis developed in The Use of Space, Max Turnheim’s first book. On the occasion of this show, the book has been reissued in a second edition – co-published by éditions HKP and DNL Gallery.
As with the first edition of The Use of Space, mlav.land was invited to produce a companion film.
This new work is a commentary on the book’s content while presenting an artificially-generated aquarium – a hyper-constrained space, a simulated simulation of existence – set to a soundtrack by Erosion (fka Cléry).
The public programme includes a presentation by Jack Self on June 11. This responds to the work and articulates a theory of the readymade.
UHO Architects is a Paris-based studio led by Max Turnheim and Max Utech. The practice is dedicated to built work and academic research.
mlav.land is an autonomous spatial research practice.
Jack Self
We have moved from a materialist to a symbolic paradigm. In the 20th century, technological progress underpinned rising living standards and wealth. In turn, this advanced social welfare (education, culture, equality). The driver for this “progress” was “innovation”, which appeared to the consumer as “newness”. The ethics and aesthetics of newness were central to modernity.
Today, technological progress has been peeled away from its humanist origins. In the West, newness no longer improves society, while its extractive logic destroys the planet. We do not need anything new. We have everything we need to create a just and equal world.
The barrier to this other world is now political and cultural, not material. Symbolism and relevance are now more important than novelty and newness. There is both a social and ethical imperative to repurpose the tools and products of modernity.
Jack Self is a London-based architect and strategist.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Real Review.
Photo by Nicole Maria Winkler