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Sophie Calle

SOPHIE CALLE

Behind The Curtain Perrotin 4 September–18 October 2025 New York
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Perrotin New York is pleased to present Behind the Curtain by Sophie Calle, an exhibition that disrupts conventional ideas of perception. In 2023, Calle became the first artist to take over the Picasso Museum galleries in Paris. Behind the Curtain will include two series on Picasso’s most emblematic paintings. Also on view, In Memory of Frank Gehry’s Flowers imagines a memorial in honor of the renowned architect, and Calle’s Parce que series pairs photographs and poems that disrupt traditional processing of information.

Concurrently, Sophie Calle will present an exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York titled Sophie Calle: On the Hunt, on view September 5 - October 18.

On October 17, Art21 will premiere an episode featuring Sophie Calle as part of their Peabody Award-winning biennial program, Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS. On September 9th, Sophie Calle will participate in a conversation with Bette Gordon, hosted by Art21, including an advanced screening of Calle’s segment.

Over the last four decades, Calle has become known for artworks that blur the boundaries between private and public spaces, reality and fiction, art and life. Internationally acclaimed, Sophie Calle represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and has exhibited in major museums across the globe, including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Art Institute of Chicago; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chile. Her work is held in the collections of numerous prestigious institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Louisiana Museum, Denmark, among others.

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Installation Views

Exhibition View: Sophie Calle, Behind the Curtain, Perrotin, Paris (4 September - 18 October). Courtesy Perrotin, Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli.
Exhibition View: Sophie Calle, Behind the Curtain, Perrotin, Paris (4 September - 18 October). Courtesy Perrotin, Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli.
Exhibition View: Sophie Calle, Behind the Curtain, Perrotin, Paris (4 September - 18 October). Courtesy Perrotin, Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli.
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About the Artist

Born in 1953 in Paris, Sophie Calle is a French artist who has exhibited extensively throughout the world since the late 1970s. She has been described as a conceptual artist, a photographer, a movie director or even detective; but has developed a practice that is instantly recognisable for a distinct narrative and the frequent combination of images with text. Each of these projects can be seen as another chapter in a vast overall system of references and echoes where Calle often blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the public, reality and fiction, art and life. Since the late 1970s, Sophie Calle has merged image and narration. Her work methodically organises an unveiling of reality–her own and that of others, while allocating a controlled part of this reality to chance.

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About the Gallery
Emmanuel Perrotin founded his first gallery in 1989 at the age of 21. He has opened since then over 17 different spaces, with the aim of continuing to offer increasingly vibrant and creative environments to experience artists work. He has worked closely with his roster of artists, some since more than 25 years, to help fulfill their ambitious dreams and projects. The gallery is now based in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, and participates in all the significant worldwide art fairs each year (Art Basel (Hong Kong, Miami, Basel), Frieze (London, New York), FIAC (Paris), Dallas Art Fair, Art Cologne, Art Stage Jakarta, Expo Chicago, Art021 & West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, Zona Maco Mexico, amongst others).
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