Galerie XII is honored to present this show marking the launch of a collaboration with Peter Fetterman Gallery.
When Doisneau reveals the poetry within the real Paris, Ventura invents a Paris where poetry becomes reality.
Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept. 12, 3-6 pm
Bergamot Station Arts Center, #A1
Santa Monica

The jury for the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Photography Prize—Académie des Beaux-Arts, which met on September 10, 2026, at the Palais de l’Institut de France, reviewed the 21 shortlisted entries this year and selected Sophie Zénon as the winner of the 2026 edition of the Prize for her project Odyssée Végétale.

Galerie XII Paris is pleased to present L’Envers du visible, a group exhibition bringing together artists from the gallery and guest artists from various disciplines.
By juxtaposing contemporary photography with painting, sculpture, textiles, and drawing, the exhibition explores what remains of a gesture once it is no longer visible. Through imprints, strata, and transformations, the works reveal the forms of persistence that inhabit matter and images. October 2–31, 2026.

We regularly invite you to discover the practices of our artists through our Viewing Rooms. The first in this series is dedicated to American photographer Gail Albert Halaban. Windows, fragments of intimacy, scenes from everyday life: discover a selection of her works.

Discover a series of short videos dedicated to the Gallery’s artists, currently featured in Présence at CAMPREDON art & image in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Vaucluse.

Patrizia Mussa,
Christopher Thomas,
Ziqian Ziu,
Sophie Zénon

A must‑see in the Avignon region this summer: the exhibition PRÉSENCE at Campredon art & image (L’Isle‑sur‑la‑Sorgue). We are delighted to have several of our artists featured within this demanding and sensitive programme. Ziqian Liu, Patrizia Mussa, Anja Niemi, Christopher Thomas and Sophie Zénon,.

Paolo Ventura presents a new project inspired by Capri’s legendary Grotta Azzurra. Six large-format photographs, created from the artist’s handcrafted miniature sets, unfold a poetic and imaginary world between reality, memory and fiction. On view from August 30 to October 11, 2026, at the Certosa di San Giacomo, Capri.

As part of the major celebrations marking the Bicentenary of Photography, this 18th edition will spotlight the ways in which photographers continue to reinvent the medium, opening up new fields of sensitivity and reflection.

Saturday, October 3 – Saturday, October 24, 2026

Haikus mongolsMongolian Haikus, Sophie Zénon’s very first photographs, created in the late 1990s, are featured in the exhibition Our Distant Dreams. Curated by Fannie Escoulen and Laure Augustins, the exhibition brings together photographs from the FNAC Collection, one of the most significant corporate photography collections in France. Through one hundred images spanning several decades, it takes us to the far reaches of the territories explored by photographers, revealing the intensity of their relationship with the landscape and their encounters with “the other, both near and distant.” July 6 – October 4, 2026. Espace Monoprix, Arles France. During the Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival.

The group exhibition “We Are Not Alone,” curated by Phillippe Baudoin, explores the visual imagination of extraterrestrial worlds, where fiction and reality, science and belief intertwine. For this occasion, artworks by the artist Sacha Goldberger, part of his project “Alien Love,” including the series I Want to Believe and Extra Not so Terrestre, are on display at Espace Croisière.