Bonny Poon / Conditions

Please join us for the opening of Cédric Rivrain “System” on Friday, May 22, 6-9 pm. “Cédric Rivrain is an artist of the interstice, sensitive to those few seconds — perhaps even to the singular second — between beings, and opening onto the immortal. In System, the artist’s first exhibition in Canada, Rivrain situates himself within a doubly biographical logic, rooted in a childhood memory first structured by two regimes of images: on the one hand, the anatomical plates of his father, a doctor, disposed throughout his childhood home; on the other, the devotional images arranged by his mother, a devoted Catholic. From this coexistence emerges a dual knowledge of the body, at once scientific and symbolic, and of what lies beneath. Within this resides a tenderness toward the concealed, the masked — prohibition, limit, and taboo.” — Hugo Bausch Belbachir (@hugobauschbelbachir ) Cédric Rivrain lives and works in Paris. Solo exhibitions include Fitzpatrick Gallery, Grand Garage Haussmann, Paris (2025); Fitzpatrick Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris (2021); Shanaynay, Paris (2018); and Balice Hertling (2015.) Group exhibitions include Braunsfelder, Cologne (2025); Frac MECA, Bordeaux (2025); Synagogue de Delme (2025); Shmorévaz, Paris (2024); MO.CO, Montpellier (2023); Medium P, Frankfurt (2021); Treize, Paris (2020); and Sans Titre , Paris (2017, 2016). He has published two books: Cendré (2018), with Rodrigue Fondeviolle, and Selected Drawings (2011), through Do.Pe. Press. #cedricrivrain

@shoplifting__ and @conditions___ collaboration to discover in the new issue of 90antiope, series 66-80 out on June 2nd at @lafayetteanticipations

Announcing representation of Erwan Sene, whose current solo exhibition “Checked or four attacks that will never happen” is on view at the gallery and now extended through May 16. Erwan Sene’s installations unfold as a dense sculptural field, made of intricate layers of sound, material, and movement. Found objects like streetlamp casings, metal grates, and PVC piping are embedded alongside cast resin, hand-cut wood, or fabricated hardware, with no visible distinction between salvaged and newly made elements. This collapse of hierarchy insists that nothing—no part, no gesture—is more authored than another. His materials form a relational assemblage, drawing the viewer into a multi-sensory encounter. To enter the space is to be enfolded, metabolized into its circuitry. This erasure of stratification extends into Sene’s sound practice. His compositions, like his sculptures, are thick with texture and equivalence: metallic clatter folds into drone, and field recordings glitch on percussive bursts. No foreground or background. Only planes of intensity that press against one another. His practice points to an economy of life: a system of circulation and transformation, where modular components are hacked and reconfigured into new machinic organisms. Encrypted languages from Morse code to medieval criminal argot are sampled alongside bodily and urban sounds. Stomach gurgles and sewer flows intone a shared anatomy between human and city. Where agent and infrastructure coalesce, Sene’s works function like living circuits, interlinked, interdependent, and in transmission. Erwan Sene (b. 1991, France) is a Paris-based artist and musician. Recent solo exhibitions include Bonny Poon/Conditions, Toronto (2026); 032C, Berlin (2025); Liebaert Project, Kortrijk (2023); and Balice Hertling, Paris (2023). He is included in the forthcoming 18th Biennale de Lyon. His debut album, JUnQ, was released by PAN in 2023. Erwan Sene Foul Burn Palimpsest 2, 2025 Wood, aluminium, acrylic paint, print on acrylic glass, high gloss clear coat, rubber, wires, rubber sheath, speaker, sound 130 x 190 x 35 cm (51 1/8 x 74 3/4 x 13 3/4 in) #erwansene

Erwan Sene at Bonny Poon / Conditions, Toronto “Checked or four attacks that will never happen” April 2 – May 9, 2026 Photos: ©LF Documentation, all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Bonny Poon / Conditions, Toronto @conditions___ @erwansene

Tonight @against_interpretation_club @ohmberlin running all night in the smoking room: a video/film program of satirical and tender takes on collective fever dreams, libidinal transactions and identity porosity. Sam Lipp: Commons (2017), 08:23 Dean Sameshima: Masseurs (1999), 00:15 Mara McKevitt: Val (2023), 15:04 Marie Karlberg: The Gallery Worker (2019), 30:56 Bruce LaBruce: Purple Army Faction (2018), 26:58 Rob Kulisek: Variation I (2023), 07:49 TRANSmisia and Courtesy: If agony is your objet petit a, what am I? (2026), 02:29 Bruce LaBruce: I Know What It’s Like to be Dead (1989), 15:19

Friday May 1: Against Interpretation Club x Bonny Poon / Conditions @ohmberlin Performance/DJ set times: 22:00 Ruth Angel Edwards (DJ/performance) 23:30 Stuart McKenzie (Live) 00:15 Erwan Sene 02:15 Courtesy 04:15-close evin Ruth Angel Edwards is a multidisciplinary artist based in London.  Stuart McKenzie is an artist, illustrator, poet and musician. His work explores the performance of self through materiality, manifested through painting, poetry, performance and objects. He was a founding member of the band Wild Daughter. His first full poetry collection The Dead Weight of Beauty was recently published by Joan Publishing. Erwan Sene is an artist and musician based in Paris. His debut album, JUnQ, was released by PAN in March 2023. evin has been steadily making her mark across Europe’s club scene with instinct-driven, hard-to-pin-down sets that thrive on energy and unpredictability. Shaped subtly by her Kurdish roots, her sound blends seductive basslines, tight percussion and momentum. #ruthangeledwards #stuartmackenzie #erwansene #evin #djcourtesy

Erwan Sene “Checked or four attacks that will never happen” continues through May 9. We are open Fridays 5-7 pm and by appointment. Image: Erwan Sene C-TURN Case (dull teal-blue shell), 2026 ABS suitcase, acrylic resin, acrylic paint, clear coat, aluminum, wood, power amplifier, speaker, silicone tube, electric wire, metal signage 67 x 50 x 30 cm (26.4 x 19.7 x 11.8 inches) Photo: @lfdocumentation #erwansene

May 1st Berlin - @against_interpretation_club x @conditions___ @ohmberlin 22:00-07:00 How much art can you put in a nightclub? @ruthangeledwards (hybrid) @stuart__mckenzie (live) @erwansene (dj) @e3v1n (dj) @courtesy707 (dj) Videos by @brucelabruce3000 @dean_sameshima @proto_m4ra @marie_karlberg_ @rob_kulisek @shoplifting__ @courtesy707 Limited presale via RA.co Flyer by @dansolbachstudio

Courtesy is a Danish artist and DJ who lives and works in Berlin. With a fluid relationship between her work as a DJ, composer, musician and visual artist, Courtesy is interested in making cross-referential connections between sound, image, text, and performance, as seen in her music video work and her sound and choral series ‘Gossip II’. Courtesy has exhibited and performed at CCA Berlin, Treize, Den Fri Udstillingsbygning, Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center, k-t z, Arken and Schinkel Pavillon. As a DJ, Courtesy has toured extensively around the world, and played venues and festivals such as Berghain/Panorama Bar, Tresor, Sonar, Primavera, Club to Club, Atonal, Hamburger Bahnhof, Städel Museum and Sustain-Release. She maintains a residency on NTS Radio and is the founder and artistic director of the interdisciplinary arts platform Against Interpretation Club fka. Kulør, curating epochal music releases, publications and events. She released her sophomore studio album ‘intimate yell’ in October 2024. Against Interpretation Club How much art can you put in a nightclub? Courtesy invites you to an experience between a group show and a dance party. ‘Against Interpretation Club’ is a night where musicians, DJs, and contemporary artists explore performance, music and sound. Like an opening that keeps going after the lights are turned off. Against Interpretation Club is a touring concept, presented so far at Panorama Bar/Berghain, OHM/Tresor Berlin, RAUM Amsterdam, Schinkel Pavillon and ICA London. We are happy to announce our collaboration with Courtesy on the next Against Interpretation Club, taking place on May 1 at OHM Berlin. Look forward to performances and DJ sets by Ruth Angel Edwards, Stuart McKenzie, Erwan Sene, evin, and Courtesy; and an all night video program with Sam Lipp, Bruce LaBruce, Dean Sameshima, Rob Kulisek, Marie Karlberg, and Mara McKevitt. 📸: Luke Abbey #djcourtesy

Limited film screenings & exhibition! 🎥 Södemalm gallery @_beau_travail_ is participating during Art Week! Join a night of exclusive film screenings showing pieces by Toronto-based artist, gallerist and filmmaker Bonny Poon at Cues. Also take the chance to visit the limited exhibition ’Speculation’ by Nikhil Vettukattil. Filmscreening night 5:45 -10 PM RSVP At Cues Speculation, Nikhil Vettukattil Saturday 13 - 16 PM At Beau Travail Bonny Poon is an artist working across film and performance. Her practice explores desire and communality through the making and breaking of rules, roles, and borders within the agrarian Anthropocene. Speculation stages a set of references around the afterlife of bohemianism, artistic precarity, and the conversion of images into assets. Van Gogh’s bedroom has become both an image of artistic life and an object of speculation. Check the calender! (1) Still Image, Film I am Alpha, Bonny Poon (2) Installation, Speculation, Nikhil Vettukattil (3) Installation, Speculation, Nikhil Vettukattil

We are open today from 5-7 pm. Erwan Sene “Checked or four attacks that will never open” continues through May 9. “Sergei Dovlatov, in The Suitcase (1986), makes it the minimal archive of a life reduced to what can be transported: eight items, eight stories, an existence compressed into a standard-sized volume. The container becomes sentimental contraband. What customs cannot seize because they cannot read it, because the value lies not in the artifact but in the context it carries without revealing it. Henry Box Brown solves the problem differently, and more radically. In 1849, he had himself shipped in a wooden crate to escape slavery. The body becomes a package, and freedom comes through transit. This is perhaps the most precise formulation of what McLuhan did not mean to say. Some bodies gain access to mobility only by becoming their own merchandise.“ — Pierre-Alexandre Mateos (@theadventuresofluckypierre ) Photo: @lfdocumentation #erwansene

Full documentation of Erwan Sene “Checked or four attacks that will never happen” is online. The exhibition is on view through May 9. We are open Fridays 5-7 pm and by appointment. Image 3: Erwan Sene Still (dull teal-blue shell II), 2026 (detail) ABS suitcase, acrylic resin, acrylic paint, clear coat, aluminum, wood, power amplifier, speakers, silicone tube, electric wire 67 x 50 x 30 cm (26.4 x 19.7 x 11.8 inches) Photo: @lfdocumentation #erwansene