Paul Olivennes

I recently had the chance of speaking with Elizabeth Peyton on the occasion of her exhibition ‘mountains in my heart (the death of Sarpedon)’ at @davidzwirner in New York. A conversation around the face as a site of intensity—where attention is the purest form of generosity. And also about geography and displacement, spirituality, mountains, Emerson, Simone Weil, and the Iliad. Thank you @meicost_ettal for the invitation and for your generosity And to @davidzwirner for hosting this conversation This amazing exhibition is currently on view at the 19th Street location, don’t miss it 💎

Thank you @fthtsi for including me @kittygrady for the conversation @jellison22 @bayasimons and @documentedbytess for this portrait @adamgoujjane 🗞️

Merci à Paul d’être passé nous voir chez TheBoldWay ! @paulolivennes est le fondateur de @magmajournal , une plateforme artistique multidisciplinaire, intervenant aussi bien dans les domaines de l’édition, que des expositions, des performances, ou des documentaires. Le projet fondateur de Magma est sa publication annuelle qui réunit chaque année des artistes, écrivains, cinéastes, compositeurs et designers autour d’une édition. En à peine trois ans, Magma s’est imposée comme un véritable laboratoire d’avant-garde, tout en ayant collaboré avec le Centre Pompidou, la Bourse de Commerce ou encore Bottega Veneta. À 28 ans, Paul a déjà collaboré avec certains des plus grands artistes contemporains et signé la direction artistique d’une campagne pour Bottega Veneta. Dans cet épisode, il nous raconte comment il a transformé une simple idée — celle de redonner aux artistes un espace libre d’expression — en un écosystème créatif multiforme. On revient sur son parcours atypique, de l’étudiant du ESCP à l’entrepreneur culturel, sur sa rencontre décisive avec India Mahdavi, sur la naissance de Magma, et sur sa quête du temps long, de l’exigence et de la beauté dans un monde qui va toujours plus vite. Un échange passionnant sur la création, la transmission, la collaboration et cette tension permanente entre exigence et sérénité. Bonne écoute.

ON VIEW — Merry Alpern ‘Dirty Windows’ exhibition organised by @tramp.s and @magmajournal until Dec. 15, 2025 McGlynn’s Staff Accommodation 1-5 Whidborne Street London WC1H 8ET Floor 2 One evening in 1993, Merry Alpern visited a friend living in Manhattan’s Wall Street district. At the back of the loft, she discovered a window overlooking the bathroom of an illegal strip club. Night after night, she watched a parade of suited traders and dancers in sequins exchanging kisses, cash, and drugs—in a clandestine choreography of desire and illicit transactions. For six months, Alpern assembled a body of work as powerful as it is unsettling. Dirty Windows is no mere expression of voyeuristic curiosity. It is a striking vision of the human condition—wretched and sorrowful even in its most sordid pleasures. When first shown in 1994, the series sparked scandal. The National Endowment for the Arts withdrew the artist’s grant, but the act of censorship only accelerated her rise to prominence. Cult for some, provocative to others, Merry Alpern’s work offers a two-way vertigo of being both watcher and watched. The exhibition brings together for the first time, works that have never been exhibited before. #MerryAlpern #Magma #MagmaJournal #DirtyWindows #Tramps @magmajournal @tramp.s

On the occasion of the release of @magmajournal No. 3 ‘Archive of the Future’ an exhibition extends the publication into space. Installed at 127 rue de Turenne, this curatorial project brings together a selection of original works featured in the book: paintings, photographs, sculptures, as well as sound and film installations. Staged by the Paris-based studio @matiere.noire.paris the exhibition offers a singular encounter: the possibility of inhabiting a book, of living alongside its artworks. Among the featured works: poetic voice recordings by sculptor Charles Ray; two recent portraits by Elizabeth Peyton; a series of unpublished Polaroids by Jonas Mekas accompanied by drawings from Yoko Ono and John Lennon; a triptych — one sculpture and two charcoal drawings — by Pol Taburet; a set of works by Jill Mulleady in homage to Lautréamont’s hermaphrodite; a painting by Stanislava Kovalčíková; a mirror painting by Michelangelo Pistoletto; the monumental Guillotine (1971) by Michel Journiac; a special series by Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys; Jean-Luc Godard’s very first film (Opération Béton, 1954), followed by a sound installation by Stephan Crasneanscki presented by the Biennale Son and a work by Patti Smith; and Jonathan Glazer’s short film Strasbourg 1518, screened for the first time in a public space, accompanied by a soundtrack by Mica Levi and performed by dancers from Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. The exhibition will be open to the public from 20 October to 19 November 2025. The publication will be available on site, as well as in a selection of bookstores, galleries, and museums around the world. Throughout the month, the exhibition will be punctuated by screenings, listening sessions, readings, talks, performances, and encounters with the artists. MAGMA No. 3 — Archive of the Future 127 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris (@forma.paris ) 20 October — 19 November, 2025 Tue — Sat, 11 am — 18 pm Scenography @matiere.noire.paris Executive and Creative Production @central_sv Project Management @unkpleasures Photographs @nicolas__brasseur With the support of Bottega Veneta Thank you to everyone who contributed to the making of this exhibition.

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the third issue of @magmajournal ‘Archive of the Future’. The edition brings together unpublished works—paintings, texts, photographs, sounds, scents, and archives. With contributions from Merry Alpern, Elizabeth Peyton, Charles Ray, Cyrus Goberville, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Pol Taburet, Guillaume Blanc-Marianne, Jonas Mekas, Yoko Ono & John Lennon, Precious Okoyomon, Francis Ponge, Jean Siméon Chardin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Laura Salas Redondo, Théo Casciani, Jonathan Glazer, Jill Mulleady, Mike Kelley, Lautréamont, Jean-Luc Godard, Stephan Crasneanscki, Patti Smith, Stanislava Kovalčiková, Henri Michaux, Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Michel Journiac, Armance Léger, Sissel Tolaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist Available worldwide from October 20, 2025, and to pre-order now at magmajournal.com or via @kdpresse . We’ve been working on this edition for over a year, and it is such a joy that we can finally share it with you all! Thank you to the whole team for making this issue possible: with love and gratitude to @helenaka @rocioortiz_r my two co-founders and dear friends, to @borisbergmann for his invaluable help, ideas and friendship, to @unkpleasures for carrying this project with such brilliance, to the irreplaceable @maureen_nls and to @lucienpages @lucienpagescommunication @adamgoujjane @kdpresse @l_pd_r @robstolk.amsterdam @newbottega — and all our collaborators, copy editors, printer and friends. We extend our special thanks to Bottega Veneta for their support. #MerryAlpern #ElizabethPeyton @meicost_ettal #CharlesRay @cyrusgoberville @yves_ciroc #PolTaburet @maculabulligen #JonasMekas #YokoOno @yokoono #JohnLennon @johnlennon #PreciousOkoyomon @devilintraining_ #FrancisPonge #JeanSiméonChardin #MichelangeloPistoletto @michelangelo_pistoletto @la.redondo_o @theocasciani #JonathanGlazer @jillmldy #MikeKelley @mike_kelley_foundation #Lautréamont #JeanLucGodard @soundwalkcollective #PattiSmith @thisispattismith @queenstagrame #HenriMichaux @josdegruyterandharaldthys #MichelJourniac @armance.leger @sssl_berlin #HansUlrichObrist @hansulrichobrist #Magma #MagmaJournal

Announcing DIRTY WINDOWS an exhibition of photographs by Merry Alpern, opens in London on October 13 organised by @tramp.s and @magmajournal at McGlynn’s Staff Accommodation, 1-5 Whidborne Street, London WCH 8ET. This show brings together for the first time, works that have never been exhibited before, from this storied series. It marks the first in a series of events of @magmajournal we’ll be sharing soon! #merryalpern #tramps #magmajournal #magma

Art Direction for Bottega Veneta ‘Craft is our Language’ directed by @jackdavisonphoto and choreographed by @leniokaklea Thank you @louise_trotter_ @thconrad and everyone involved at Bottega Veneta Also @james____beattie @peterhouu @robbiespencer @julialangecasting @sigikumpfmueller @hiromi_ueda @staci.lee @frau.juliawagner @untitledproject_com

Art Direction for Bottega Veneta ‘Craft is our Language’ directed by @jackdavisonphoto and choreographed by @leniokaklea Thank you @louise_trotter_ @thconrad and everyone involved at Bottega Veneta Also @james____beattie @peterhouu @robbiespencer @julialangecasting @sigikumpfmueller @hiromi_ueda @staci.lee @frau.juliawagner @untitledproject_com

Art Direction for Bottega Veneta ‘Craft is our Language’ directed by @jackdavisonphoto and choreographed by @leniokaklea Thank you @louise_trotter_ @thconrad and everyone involved at Bottega Veneta Also @james____beattie @peterhouu @robbiespencer @julialangecasting @sigikumpfmueller @hiromi_ueda @staci.lee @frau.juliawagner @untitledproject_com

Now open in Paris: ’Hauser & Wirth Invite(s) Carlotta Amanzi.' Discover the work of Carlotta Amanzi (@carlottaamanzi ), where painting becomes a site of discord—balancing instability, elusive forms and unresolved harmonies of color, light and matter. Presented as the second edition of Hauser & Wirth Invite(s) in Paris, the exhibition is organized in collaboration with Lo Brutto Stahl (@lobruttostahl ) and features a text by Paul Olivennes (@paulolivennes ). 📆 Through 24 May. 🔗Link in bio to plan your visit. Maintenant à Paris: ‘Hauser & Wirth Invite(s) Carlotta Amanzi.' Découvrez l’œuvre de Carlotta Amanzi (@carlottaamanzi ), où la peinture devient un lieu de discorde—équilibre entre l’instabilité, les formes insaisissables et les harmonies irrésolues de la couleur, de la lumière et de la matière. Deuxième édition de Hauser & Wirth Invite(s) à Paris, cette exposition est organisée en collaboration avec Lo Brutto Stahl (@lobruttostahl ) et avec un texte de Paul Olivennes (@paulolivennes ). 📆 Jusqu’au 24 Mai. 🔗Plus d’infos en bio. 1,3,6 Installation views, ‘Hauser & Wirth Invite(s). Carlotta Amanzi,’ Hauser & Wirth Paris, 2025. Photos: Nicolas Brasseur 2 Carlotta Amanzi, Ponente (detail), 2025 4 Carlotta Amanzi, Lysis (detail), 2025 7 Carlotta Amanzi, Signage (detail), 2025 9 Carlotta Amanzi, Ponente (detail), 2025

Exhibition of @carlottaamanzi opens tomorrow at @hauserwirth until May 24. Thank you @hauserwirth and friends of @lobruttostahl for inviting me to write about Carlotta’s work, which I hold so dear—and to @olivierrenaudclement for bringing this project to life, to my dearest friend Alan Argento and to @terihantke @alice.haguenauer and all the team See you tomorrow 💎