"To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Galerie Philia presents STRATES, a large-scale exhibition staged across two of France's most emblematic brutalist landmarks: Jacques Kalisz's Mont d'Est car park and Ricardo Bofill's Espaces Abraxas in Noisy-le-Grand, Grand Paris. On view until November 30th, 2025, the show reflects on a decade of curatorial exploration that has seen the gallery bring contemporary design into conversation with architecture, philosophy, and civic life."
"Since its founding in 2015, Galerie Philia has become known for situating contemporary design within charged architectural settings, from Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse in Marseille to Oscar Niemeyer's MAC Niterói in Brazil. STRATES continues this approach by transforming Kalisz's monumental car park into an experimental exhibition space, reinterpreting the raw concrete geometry of the site through design. 'Our curatorial approach has always been to place contemporary design in dialogue with charged architectural sites rather than neutral white cubes,' says Philia's co-founder Ygaël Attali. 'When we encountered Jacques Kalisz's Mont d'Est car park, we felt the same shock of recognition: an extraordinary piece of brutalist architecture, at once monumental and fragile, whose latent potential could be reactivated through design.'"
Galerie Philia marks its tenth anniversary with STRATES, a large-scale exhibition occupying Jacques Kalisz's Mont d'Est car park and Ricardo Bofill's Espaces Abraxas in Noisy-le-Grand, Grand Paris. The exhibition runs until November 30, 2025, and positions contemporary design in active dialogue with charged architectural settings, reinterpreting raw concrete geometry as experimental exhibition environments. The show foregrounds tensions between brutalist monumentality and wabi-sabi imperfection, drawing on post-war utopian visions for Paris's periphery. STRATES continues a practice of activating landmark architecture—from Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse to Oscar Niemeyer's MAC Niterói—turning civic ruins into living narratives through design interventions.
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