Collective matter
Group exhibition at SISSI, Marseille, 2025
Sculpture, ciment, textile, wax.

DEFECT DESIRE
Solo exhibition at MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier, 2024, Co-curated by Caroline Chabrand & Anya Harrison, assisted by Deniz Yoruc, on the invitation by Vincent Honoré.
Throughout the exhibition rooms ran a spatial generative sound composition by Lugh O’Neill.
Photos : Pauline Rosen-Cros / MO.CO. Panacée

Intent
Solo exhibition at NıCOLETTı, London, 2025
Photos : Lewis Ronald

Attention
Solo exhibition at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, 2025
In the parallel program of the gallery there was a work by Mohamad Abdouni.
Photos : kunst-dokumentation.com

“Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the loop. If I am hungry and I eat and I remain hungry, hunger becomes rage. But to deny fulfillment makes sense of the hunger – I don’t eat, so I am hungry.” ― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over

TRUST TRUTH DEFECT SILENCE

(…) Under the altered and muted light of the gallery space a tension between the industrial quality of the wire and the natural forms they embody hangs in the air. 

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Losing
Steel sculptures
Group exhibition Hors de la nuit des normes, hors de l’énorme ennui, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, curation Valentina D’Avenia & Clément Raveu, 2023
Photos : Aurélien Mole

I’ve seen the future
Steel sculpture
Group exhibition SISSI Club, Marseille, 2023
Photos : Élise Poitevin

Edge
Site-specific installation, mortar made out of lime
Group exhibition No suspense nor drama, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2023
Photos : Aurélien Mole

My edges are sharpening
Three hanging sculptures, cables, cable clamps, salt crystals, bended steel
In-situ wall installation made out of lime mortar
Group exhibition at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, 2023
Photos : kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez

Resistance of Fluids
Series of printed poems on drawings
Exhibition “Resistance of Fluids” at galerie Air de Paris, december 2022

Loose Compass 
Performance, CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, invitation Cédric Fauq,  2022
and Casa Encendida, Madrid, invitation Juf, 2023
Photo : Arthur Péquin for Capc and Estudio Perplejo for Casa Encendida

Grow
Installation
Cables, salt cristals, steel, cable clamps, lime, soil, ceramics, melted tin
Collective exhibition “JAIMES”, curation Marie de Gaulejac, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2022
Photos : Aurélien Mole

To the spirits that stole the light of five hundred suns
Intervention in the studio, summer 2021

Currently :
Residency at Homesession, Barcelona // until Nov. 2025

Upcoming :

• Chi esce entra, Group exhibition, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Roma, curated by Simon Würsten Marin, with Vincenzo Agnetti, Louise Bourgeois, Francesca Cornacchini, Jesse Darling, Eva Fàbregas, Tarik Hayward, margaretha jüngling, Thomas Julier, Tarik Kiswanson, Corrado Levi, Paul Maheke, Marie Matusz, Mónica Mays, Hana Miletić, Effe Minelli, Lulù Nuti, Francesca Pionati and Tommaso Arnaldi, Aurélien Potier, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Prem Sahib, Davide Stucchi, Grégory Sugnaux, Ian Waelder, Rachel Whiteread // 10 Oct. – 09 Nov. 2025

• Frieze London 2025, Solo presentation with gallery Gianni Manhattan // 15 – 19 Oct. 2025

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Bio

Aurélien Potier lives and works in Marseille. His work has been presented at MO.CO. (Montpellier), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Triangle – Astérides (Marseille), CAPC (Bordeaux), CCA (Glasgow), la Casa Encendida (Madrid), Gianni Manhattan (Vienna), Sissi Club (Marseille), Air de Paris (Romainville), Sultana (Paris), Cooper Union (New York), Belsunce Projects (Marseille), Centre International de Poésie (Marseille), Montez Press Radio (New York). He was an artist in residency at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Triangle – Astérides (Marseille), Center for Contemporary Arts & GSS (Glasgow), and the CAC Synagogue de Delme.
His work is represented by Gianni Manhattan, Vienna.

Aurélien Potier creates emotionally charged environments, in which materials — metal cables, wax, steel, wood, mortar, language — become carriers of physical and affective tension. From these, a language emerges from matter itself, implicit or explicit, oscillating between erosion and resurgence.

His works — sculpture, installation, drawing, print, sound composition — unfold in direct response to the site, revealing a visceral sensitivity to space. They do not simply settle within it: they integrate, running across floors, climbing walls, pressing thresholds. Within these environments, the works operate as breaches, where instability and impermanence become both method and condition.

In Potier’s work, the confrontation of two opposing movements — dismantling and emerging — traces the contours of a paradoxical, generative space. The works thus expose their intrinsic contradictions as a driving force. In this sense, his practice insists, persists, and gives form to a way of inhabiting zones of fracture, where the sustained friction of opposing forces generates an opening at the very core of desire.

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Texts

• Article by Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas, Artforum
• Article by Theo Casciani, Art Basel

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Contact
aurelien.potier@yahoo.fr

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