Constantin Kyriakopoulos

Present Work III: for/with Mathilde 
Doorbells found in Athens, book fragment found in Athens
2026 Steel, lamp copied from @georges.ju.ay work ,screen-printed posters
60 × 80 cm
2026 Present Works (2026) is a series of sculptures composed of four small bed-shaped plinths, each holding 500 copies of a different poster. Each poster features an image of a small illuminated sculpture made from materials available in the artist’s studio and addressed to specific individuals as gifts. Within the setting of each image, a portal toward other spaces emerges — spaces that belong more to the realm of intimacy. The title carries a double meaning (present: gift / present: present time): it considers the act of giving and addressing as a central gesture within an artistic practice, while also pointing to a methodology grounded in the necessity of producing quickly and prioritizing the act of address over the produced object. The reproduction of the original sculptures as images — and therefore their physical absence — questions how we perceive the figure of the artist addressing the world at large. Thank you to Elfi for the initial invitation. Thank you to the Frac team — @pauline_pre , @emdavincente , and Céline Chabat — for their precious help with production and installation. Thank you to @simondenise , @lucas_hosteing_ , @jonnathan_marti , @boris_camaca , @for.nothing_______ , and @morgane_leferec for lending equipment and offering thoughtful advice. Thank you to @les_ateliers_wonder , without whom nothing would have been possible. A HUGE thank you to @adelouballif , who helped me tremendously with these works.

Present Work II: for Elfi
Two empty cigarette packs, rolling paper, LED light, electrical wires, Xerox print, cigarette gold foil Steel, lamp copied from @georges.ju.ay , screen-printed posters
60 × 80 cm
2026 Present Works (2026) is a series of sculptures composed of four small bed-shaped plinths, each holding 500 copies of a different poster. Each poster features an image of a small illuminated sculpture made from materials available in the artist’s studio and addressed to specific individuals as gifts. Within the setting of each image, a portal toward other spaces emerges — spaces that belong more to the realm of intimacy. The title carries a double meaning (present: gift / present: present time): it considers the act of giving and addressing as a central gesture within an artistic practice, while also pointing to a methodology grounded in the necessity of producing quickly and prioritizing the act of address over the produced object. The reproduction of the original sculptures as images — and therefore their physical absence — questions how we perceive the figure of the artist addressing the world at large. Thank you to Elfi for the initial invitation. Thank you to the Frac team — @pauline_pre , @emdavincente , and Céline Chabat — for their precious help with production and installation. Thank you to @simondenise , @lucas_hosteing_ , @jonnathan_marti , @boris_camaca , @for.nothing_______ , and @morgane_leferec for lending equipment and offering thoughtful advice. Thank you to @les_ateliers_wonder , without whom nothing would have been possible. A HUGE thank you to @adelouballif , who helped me tremendously with these works.

Present Work I: for Louise
Paper cups, nail, green and red LED lights, electrical wire, batteries
2026 Steel, lamp copied from @georges.ju.ay work, screen-printed posters
60 × 80 cm
2026 Present Works (2026) is a series of sculptures composed of four small bed-shaped plinths, each holding 500 copies of a different poster. Each poster features an image of a small illuminated sculpture made from materials available in the artist’s studio and addressed to specific individuals as gifts. Within the setting of each image, a portal toward other spaces emerges — spaces that belong more to the realm of intimacy. The title carries a double meaning (present: gift / present: present time): it considers the act of giving and addressing as a central gesture within an artistic practice, while also pointing to a methodology grounded in the necessity of producing quickly and prioritizing the act of address over the produced object. The reproduction of the original sculptures as images — and therefore their physical absence — questions how we perceive the figure of the artist addressing the world at large. Thank you to Elfi for the initial invitation. Thank you to the Frac team — @pauline_pre , @emdavincente , and Céline Chabat — for their precious help with production and installation. Thank you to @simondenise , @lucas_hosteing_ , @jonnathan_marti , @boris_camaca , @for.nothing_______ , and @morgane_leferec for lending equipment and offering thoughtful advice. Thank you to @les_ateliers_wonder , without whom nothing would have been possible. A HUGE thank you to @adelouballif , who helped me a lottt with these works.

Marcelo
In collaboration with @janji.couture 
Steel, wood, paint, LED lights, wheels, textile,
printed floor plan
2026 Marcelo (2026) is a sculpture in the form of a storage bed whose structure follows the architectural outline of the Frac MÉCA exhibition space. Closed, and covered with bedsheets co-designed with the artist Jeanne Gilois, it offers an invitation to rest — both for the public and for the Frac MÉCA team. When opened, the bed reveals a scale model of the exhibition space in which, throughout the duration of the exhibition, the artist placed objects they received as gifts from friends. After the exhibition, Marcelo is donated to Frac MÉCA to serve as a tool for mediation, experimentation, and rest. Thank you to Elfi for the initial invitation. Thank you to the Frac team — @pauline_pre , @emdavincente , and Céline Chabat — for their precious help with production and installation. Thank you to @simondenise , @lucas_hosteing_ , @jonnathan_marti , @boris_camaca , @for.nothing_______ , and @morgane_leferec for lending equipment and offering thoughtful advice. Thank you to @les_ateliers_wonder , without whom nothing would have been possible. A HUGE thank you to @adelouballif , who helped me tremendously with these works, and to @sitbon.raphael , who saved the day with his woodworking skills. Last but not least, thank you to all the friends who gave me the small presents included in this miniature exhibition space nested inside the bed: @gabriel_day__ @lou.b.villapadierna @carolinerosecurdy @for.nothing_______ @georges.ju.ay @eleni_papazoglou_ @elle_chab @pierreg666 @plaisirscoupables @adelouballif

Marcelo
In collaboration with @janji.couture 
Steel, wood, paint, LED lights, wheels, textile,
printed floor plan Marcelo (2026) is a sculpture in the form of a storage bed whose structure follows the architectural outline of the Frac MÉCA exhibition space. Closed, and covered with bedsheets co-designed with the artist Jeanne Gilois, it offers an invitation to rest — both for the public and for the Frac MÉCA team. When opened, the bed reveals a scale model of the exhibition space in which, throughout the duration of the exhibition, the artist placed objects they received as gifts from friends. After the exhibition, Marcelo is donated to Frac MÉCA to serve as a tool for mediation, experimentation, and rest. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thank you to Elfi for the initial invitation. Thank you to the @fracmeca team— @pauline_pre , @emdavincente , and Céline Chabat — for their precious help with production and installation. Thank you to @simondenise , @lucas_hosteing_ , @jonnathan_marti , @boris_camaca , @for.nothing_______ , and @morgane_leferec for lending equipment and offering thoughtful advice. Thank you to @les_ateliers_wonder , without whom nothing would have been possible. A HUGE thank you to @adelouballif , who helped me tremendously with these works, and to @sitbon.raphael , who saved the day with his woodworking skills. Last but not least, thank you to all the friends who gave me the small presents included in this miniature exhibition space nested inside the bed: @gabriel_day__ @lou.b.villapadierna @carolinerosecurdy @for.nothing_______ @georges.ju.ay @eleni_papazoglou_ @elle_chab @pierreg666 @plaisirscoupables @adelouballif

December ‘25 and January´26 have been intense, working on new pieces for the exhibition « Chambres, Ghosts and Digitales », curated by Elfi Turpin at the Frac MÉCA. I would like to thank all the people who helped over these past months to make it happen. @janji.couture for accepting to collaborate with me and her exceptional coutureee skills ;) Elfi, for the initial invitation. The Frac team — @pauline_pre , @emdavincente , and Celine Chabat — for their help with production and installation. @simondenise , @lucas_hosteing_ , @jonnathan_marti , @boris_camaca , @for.nothing_______ , @morgane_leferec for lending me their equipment and offering thoughtful advices. @les_ateliers_wonder without whom nothing would have been possible. BIG BIG !!! thank you to @adelouballif - who helped me loads with these works, and to @sitbon.raphael - who saved the day with his woodworking skills. On a final note thank you to @georges.ju.ay - ou conversations ( consciously and not consciously) has played a definitive role on thinking this new forms .. ♥️💔♥️

Conceived and produced with @carolinerosecurdy , Solo Hotel is an in situ sculpture created for Aperto, the project space of the @fondationpernodricard , designed to host artist residencies, exhibitions, public gatherings, and workshops. Solo Hotel serves utilitarian functions that respond to the fundamental needs of its users. A series of three events was programmed, inviting artists and theorists to leave and inscribe their marks, permanently and visibly. A unit within another unit, the piece negotiates its function — between an institution and an exhibition space — embedding itself within and existing inside another structure. As it evolves through various invitations, SOLO HOTEL takes on hybrid forms, expanding through the addition of new structures . A small publication for each occasion, designed by @emilieferrat (@espaceness )the format of a door hanger, will accompany each intervention. The third (***) presents Stedman, Lorraine, Denise, Doris and Derloy, a collaboration between artists @eleni_papazoglou_ and @xavetmichel .Through performative gestures and a series of interventions on the sculpture, they question maintenance and the flows of passage within hotel rooms. 🙏 @noepac @franck_balland @antoniascintilla @jerome_valton @tomcazin @les_ateliers_wonder

SOLO HOTEL ** Conceived and produced with @carolinerosecurdy , Solo Hotel is an in situ sculpture created for Aperto, the project space of the @fondationpernodricard , designed to host artist residencies, exhibitions, public gatherings, and workshops. Solo Hotel serves utilitarian functions that respond to the fundamental needs of its users. A series of three events was programmed, inviting artists and theorists to leave and inscribe their marks, permanently and visibly. A unit within another unit, the piece negotiates its function — between an institution and an exhibition space — embedding itself within and existing inside another structure. As it evolves through various invitations, SOLO HOTEL takes on hybrid forms, expanding through the addition of new structures . A small publication for each occasion, designed by @emilieferrat (@espaceness )the format of a door hanger, will accompany each intervention. The second event (**) presents I’m grateful for the view... but this looks like a no-sex scenario, a collection of works by @georges.ju.ay and @louischaumier_ . Exploring the feeling of boredom within the specific context of a hotel room, they propose a series of pieces and drawings to be seen as playful attempts to escape it or live comfortably in it. 🙏 @noepac @franck_balland @antoniascintilla @jerome_valton @tomcazin @les_ateliers_wonder

SOLO HOTEL* Conceived and produced with @carolinerosecurdy , Solo Hotel is an in situ sculpture created for Aperto, the project space of the Fondation d’Entreprise Pernod Ricard, designed to host artist residencies, exhibitions, public gatherings, and workshops. Solo Hotel serves utilitarian functions that respond to the fundamental needs of its users. A series of three events was programmed, inviting artists and theorists to leave and inscribe their marks, permanently and visibly. A unit within another unit, the piece negotiates its function — between an institution and an exhibition space — embedding itself within and existing inside another structure. As it evolves through various invitations, SOLO HOTEL takes on hybrid forms, expanding through the addition of new structures and the telephone broadcast of sound-based works. A small publication, designed by @emilieferrat (@espaceness ) in the format of a door hanger, will accompany each intervention. The first one (*) presents Alpha Amylase, a work by @svchv in dialogue with a text by @marouanebkt — to be read here and online, and listened to through the SOLO HOTEL telephone. BIG BIG THANKS TO @noepac @franck_balland @antoniascintilla @tom_cazin @jerome_valton @les_ateliers_wonder and all the friends for their immense support Without them it wouldn’t have been possible ♥️♥️♥️

VOUS AVEZ UN CHIEN _ With @plaisirscoupables on the occasion of « Dans ma chambre », curated by @lumiere_kebab (📸-slide 4), @__anna__milone and Luca Avanzini at @centrecultureljeancocteau — Assis. — Vous avez un chien* est une assise destinée à accueillir les spectateurices souhaitant regarder la vidéo d’Hervé Guibert, La pudeur ou l’impudeur. — C’est un lit qui n’en est pas un, du mobilier plus qu’une pièce. Un objet-support utile et pratique dans un espace d’exposition. La simplicité qu’il incarne est une façade, il est lourd de sens et d’affects, si tant est qu’on veut chercher. — Cette assise matérialise un lien particulier au texte Les Chiens, écrit par Hervé Guibert. — Couché. — Dans cet écrit autobiographique publié en 1982, Hervé Guibert propose une écriture érotique très frontale, directe allusion à Thierry et Christine, les deux personnes avec qui il a partagé une partie de sa vie. — Iel tend ses oreilles et écoute ma voix quand je lui lis Les Chiens. Iel est sage, les yeux ouverts. — C’est une assise qui a pour vocation d’être utilisée pour voir quelque chose d’autre, elle est fonctionnelle et sera a priori oubliée, du fait de son utilité. — Au pied. — Bien dressé.e, iel nous montre comment s’installer sur son lit de chien·ne : les pattes arrière rangées sous ses fesses, tendu·e sur le métal froid et dur. C’est juste la taille qu’il lui faut – son corps contraint. — Deux pratiques poreuses, qui se répondent par le biais de l’invitation et du dialogue, interrogeant les postures et rôles d’artiste et/ou de curateurice, et donnant une place à l’appropriation des objets et espaces que peuvent en faire les usager·es. — Donne la patte. — Vous avez un chien* est un espace d’accueil sur et/ou dans lequel des corps peuvent exister, qui questionne les rapports de domination et soumission lorsqu’il s’agit de porter-contenir un·e autre que soi. — C’est un travail collectif mais contractuel. — Pas bouger. — Tranquille, les muscles contractés, aux aguets : le.a spectateurice regarde ce corps maigre qui s’habille et qui se meut douloureusement. — Ce n’est pas une invitation, c’est un ordre. Text by @plaisirscoupables ✨ 🙏 @les_ateliers_wonder

BOUNDING BOX II_ With ANGELS FRONT : @angels_front , @victorvillafagne ,@serraaurore , @charlottelecuit , @dimaximal3 @leleumarine @hprkd @plaisirscoupables @gariemirhon @mathildechazaud @gabowlcboy @lucien.valle @ievakotrynaski @leleumarine for the performance series “CANNIBALES I, II,III” at @fondationpernodricard 🙏🙏 @romain.best , @les_ateliers_wonder 📸 @leleumarine

BOUNDING BOX I_ With ANGELS FRONT : @angels_front , @victorvillafagne ,@serraaurore , @charlottelecuit , @dimaximal3 @leleumarine @hprkd @plaisirscoupables @gariemirhon @mathildechazaud @gabowlcboy @lucien.valle @ievakotrynaski @leleumarine for the performance series “CANNIBALES I, II,III” at @fondationpernodricard 🙏🙏 @romain.best , @les_ateliers_wonder 📸 @leleumarine