Maureen Paley is pleased to participate in Condo London 2024, hosting Sweetwater, Berlin. Sweetwater will present works by Christopher Aque and Alexandre Khondji at Studio M, London.
Christopher Aque (b. 1987, Chicago, USA) lives and works in New York, USA. Selected solo exhibitions include Growth, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA (2023); Civic, Regards, Chicago, USA (2022); A void, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany (2021); Red-blooded, White-skinned, and the Blues, Sweetwater, Berlin, Germany (2018); Idling, Regards, Chicago, USA (2018); I am, etc., Regards, Chicago, USA (2015); Homonyms (for Misfits and Outcasts), PeregrineProgram, Chicago (2012). Selected group exhibitions include Ithaca, Herald St, London, UK (2023); Oak House, Fernberger, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (2023); Basement Romance, Romance, Pittsburgh, USA (2023); Some of it Falls from the Belt and Lands on the Walkway Beside the Conveyor Belt, cur. Yaby, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, The Netherlands (2022); Maison Dakota, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium (2020); The Comedies of the Status Quo, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, USA (2019); Call Me Mr. Benson, OCD Chinatown, New York, USA (2018); Not an edge but a hinge, Abrons Arts Center, New York, USA (2017); Ice Wine, Rzeplinski, Brooklyn, USA (2016); In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New, SculptureCenter, New York, USA (2016).Alexandre Khondji (b. 1993, Paris, France) lives and works in Paris, France and London, UK. Selected solo exhibitions include Alexandre Khondji, cur. Myriam Ben Salah, Shahryar Nashat, Paris, France (2024); Dam Dam Damns, cur. Julie Boukobza, LUMA Arles, France (2021). Selected group exhibitions, screenings and performances include: Air de Repos/Breathworks, cur. Cédric Fauq, CAPC, Bordeaux (2024); Watch Me Fall, Shivers Only at DOC, Paris, France (2023); SHOW, Royal College of Art, London, UK (2019); Togetherness, Assembly Point, London, UK (2019); Across the Slippery Pitch, Royal College of Art, London, UK (2019); WIP SHOW, Royal College of Art, London, UK (2018). Khondji received the LUMA Foundation Residency Arles in 2021 and the Jean French Travel Award from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA, in 2014.
Installation view: Christopher Aque and Alexandre Khondi, Condo London,Studio M hosting Sweetwater, Berlin, Maureen Paley, London (20 January–18 February 2024). Courtesy Maureen Paley.
Installation view: Christopher Aque and Alexandre Khondi, Condo London,Studio M hosting Sweetwater, Berlin, Maureen Paley, London (20 January–18 February 2024). Courtesy Maureen Paley.
Installation view: Christopher Aque and Alexandre Khondi, Condo London,Studio M hosting Sweetwater, Berlin, Maureen Paley, London (20 January–18 February 2024). Courtesy Maureen Paley.
Installation view: Christopher Aque and Alexandre Khondi, Condo London,Studio M hosting Sweetwater, Berlin, Maureen Paley, London (20 January–18 February 2024). Courtesy Maureen Paley.
The gallery programme began in 1984 in a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End. Initially named Interim Art the gallery changed its name to Maureen Paley in 2004 as a celebration of its 20th anniversary. Since September 1999 the gallery has been situated in light industrial space in Bethnal Green. In July 2017 Maureen Paley opened a second space in Hove called Morena di Luna. In October 2020 a third space was opened in London called STUDIO M. From its inception the gallery’s aim has remained consistent: to promote great and innovative artists in all media.
Maureen Paley Artists
From its inception, Maureen Paley has promoted international contemporary art with a focus on artists from Europe, America, and the United Kingdom. While working across diverse practices, many gallery artists share a common interest in social concerns. These include German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, whose has presented subjects such as pride parades and Black Lives Matter rallies in intimate photographs and moving image works; Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout and his deeply personal installation and collages; and Gillian Wearing, a Young British Artist with a penchant for tackling public and private spheres in her photographs and videos. These artists are represented alongside General Idea, an artist group known for its role in the development of discourses on queer identity and AIDS activism in art; and Liam Gillick, whose sculptures and films interrogate socio-political and economic systems of the constructed world.
