Maxime Chabal

Only a few days left to check out my work 'De Profundis' part of the group show 'hyper-soft : double-down' at @galerieklemms curated by @gvilhenamartins Open Wed-Sat 12-18 Drop me a DM if you want to arrange a visit, I will also be at the gallery on Saturday in case you want to come by 🫶 I was really happy to show this piece among the great works from @marcus___nelson and @tollwvt ✨ Views : @charlottewalterr

Some time ago, my dear friend Beyza Agim @beyzaagim came to my studio in Berlin and took this portrait. I’m so grateful I could be seen through the lens of this incredible artist. 🤍 🌻

‘hyper-soft: double-down’ Maxime Chabal, Marcus Nelson, Sarah Neumann curated by Guilherme Vilhena Martins MAR 20 — APR 18, 2026 Klemm’s Downstairs We are glad to share the installation views of ‘hyper-soft: double-down’, featuring Maxime Chabal, Marcus Nelson, and Sarah Neumann. ‘hyper-soft: double-down’ brings together a group of works that hover at the threshold between the bodily, the psychological, and the architectural. Spanning drawing, installation, and painting, the exhibition unfolds as a field of tension. On one hand, the works mirror a social anxiety embodied through architectural containment and repression; on the other, they pry open these conditions, gesturing toward flight, shelter, and ambiguity, as industrial materials and formal vocabularies are appropriated and transformed into gestures of tenderness. ‘hyper-soft: double-down’ runs through April 18, 2026 at Klemm’s Downstairs. @maxime.chabal @marcus___nelson @tollwvt @gvilhenamartins Installation views: Charlotte Walter @charlottewalterr #maximechabal #marcusnelson #sarahneumann #hypersoftdoubledown #klemms

Here are a few more details of my latest installation part of the show Future Continuous at Kunsthaus Hamburg (@kunsthaushamburg ) curated by Jaana Heine (@jaana.hn ) 🔥 Story of the Eye Galvanised steel, bleached denim, book, shoelaces, mesh, glass, paper, paraffin oil, lead, leather, rubber, foam, tank top, plaster, Plexiglas, 2025

I am happy to share the first images of my latest installation, part of the group exhibition “Future Continuous” at Kunsthaus Hamburg (@kunsthaushamburg ) curated by Jaana Heine (@jaana.hn ). The exhibition marked the conclusion of my year as a recipient of the Hamburg Grant for Visual Arts, and I am deeply grateful to have shared it with so many talented artists. Looking forward for what's coming next now ! 🔥 Story of the Eye Galvanised steel, bleached denim, book, shoelaces, mesh, glass, paper, paraffin oil, lead, leather, rubber, foam, tank top, plaster, Plexiglas, 2025

I’m really happy to share some images from the publication accompanying the exhibition Future Continuous, which I took part at the end of last year, published by Mousse Publishing (@moussemagazine ). The publication features texts on the artistic practices of the recipients of the Hamburg Grant for Visual Arts 2025, written by amazing authors whom I invite you to discover. Thanks a lot to Christopher Wierling (@labrador_eyes ) for the great text 'Porous Taxonomies' he wrote on my practice. Thanks to Jaana Heine (@jaana.hn ) for curating the show and working on the publication and to the whole Kunsthaus (@kunsthaushamburg ) team. 🫶 More pictures of the exhibition coming up.. 📷 : 1,3,4 @ronaldr0se 📷 : 2,5 @moussemagazine

Here's some images from the show 'Planned Obsolescence' I curated at HFBK Boutique. I'm super happy to see these beautiful practices coexist together. Thank you again @asmabenslama_ , @adrien_lgr , @frenulo.rotto and @sannaleone_ . 💙 Thanks to Swaantje Benson for your support and @hfbkhamburg · At the same time as the city is nervously bustling around them, a group of artists have occupied this space on the edge of inside and outside, between contemplation and consumption. The sculptures they are exhibiting are set in this in-between space: between productivity and fatigue, between expenditure and loss. Although at first sight absent, the body is lodged in the interstices of these forms, for example through the passer-by's images appearing on a reflective surface, or through the portrait of a man who has hardly been allowed to enter history. There are objects whose function has been annihilated, which have become containers of an obsolete use: a hollowed-out computer, warm ice packs, prostheses added to radiators or mechanisms and motors that turn on themselves. These objects, as much in conflict as in adaptation with the space they occupy, have proudly abandoned their commercial brilliance, becoming instead, luminous in their precariousness. · The show is still running until the 23rd of March. It's visible through the vitrine of MediaMarkt Village, Mönckebergstraße 1, Hamburg or dm me to plan a visit for an insight. 📩

An insight into my installation 'Ghost Image' captured by my dear Jannis @mein.rehlein . The sound design was produced by Clara Midon Gomez @nodimc , and could be heard as a distant echo in the room, becoming clearer as you approached certain elements.

Some more details from my installation "L'image fantôme (Ghost image)" 🖇️ Slide (1,2) : An inflammatory surge of images : laser print on paper, vaseline, wallpaper glue. Slide (3) : Installation detail : galvanised steel, aluminium. Slide (4,5) : The X-ray : paper, vaseline, paraffin oil.

Some more details from my Installation "L'image fantôme (Ghost Image)", presented last summer at HFBK Hamburg. 🖇 Slide (1;4) : Drop-Kick : lead casting, 3D Air mesh, aluminium, wood, shoe laces, 80×80 cm Slide (5;7) : Ecstasy & Hysteria : plaster, galvanised steel, straps, plexiglass, crystallised concentration of calcium chloride, sodium, magnesium, variable dimensions Slide (6;8) : Installation details 🖇

Some installation views from my graduation show : Ghost Image, (L'image fantôme) at @hfbkhamburg . It was a long journey that would have not been possible without the precious help of so many people. I'm excited for what's coming next 🌻 "The installation ‘L’image fantôme (Ghost Image)’ is at the first glance eminently architectural, formed and structured by elements typically hidden within walls, such as pipes or plasterboard. Various alterations occur within the standardized space. Precarious and imperfect constructions attempt to hold within the hollowed-out spaces of the room. Although initially disembodied, the installation features certain motifs: a zipper running across a plaster form creating an arc of hysteria or used laces from some fetishized shoes preventing a form from collapsing. The title of the installation is taken from Hervé Guibert’s book, a writing about photography that includes no photographs. In the room, a single window is covered with a page from the text, which blends with large sheets of paper clinging to the glass through the use of vaseline, making it opaque. In another part of the room, a video projected from behind onto a small plexiglass panel depicts a palpation of lymph nodes on a male body. This evanescent image explores the medical gaze, oscillating between violence and care. In an ongoing series of collages, layers of printed images are superposed, glued in reverse and made visible through the application of a greasy substance, revealing their undersides. This corpus, like a tattoo applied to the surface of the wall, unveils and transfers an invisible history, both past and present, stemming from marginalized sexualities and gender identities. The pages of a queercore fanzine, snapshots from Barbara Hammer’s film ‘Nitrate Kisses’ or “monstruous” figures from historical anatomy books become bodies struggling for their apparition but refusing complete porosity to the surrounding space." 🖇️🖇️🖇️

Thanks to everyone that came across to check out my graduation show at HFBK last weekend. I'm so grateful for the beautiful talks and encounters that made this moment so precious. This installation would've never been possible without the incredible support and love from so many people around me. My "emotional support fag" team you're the best. 🫶✨ More pictures and projects to come soon ✨✨