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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