H Gallery
"Auprès du cœur sauvage"
Group show
Oda Jaune, Apple of my Eyes, 2025 huile sur toile, 405x30cm_OJ 25.008, Courtesy Galerie Templon
The title of this exhibition, curated by Olivier Kaeppelin, borrows its poetic language from the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. It brings together the work of four female artists—Oda Jaune, Karine Hoffman, Sarah Jérôme, and Louise
Tilleke—whose paintings resonate with the words of James Joyce quoted by Clarice Lispector: “(…) He was abandoned, happy, near the wild heart of life.”
These four painters, belonging to the same generation, have, in recent years, demonstrated a renewed interest in the use of the figure: characters, faces, landscapes, objects, animals…
Karine Hoffman constructs her forms from the presence of historical or symbolic memory; Oda Jaune, from the essential manifestation of the body and dreams; Sarah Jérôme, from the flows of nature and love between beings; and Louise Tilleke, from human or animal expression in relation to the demands of freedom.
Some of these artists were featured in the Immortelle exhibition at MO.CO in Montpellier, at Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, and in various galleries in France and abroad.
Their works offer us a feeling of profound existential and pictorial intensity. A singular harmony between gentleness and violence reigns within them, inviting us to “enter” their space, a space where we find that profound experience of
creation expressed by the Brazilian writer: “(…) there will be no space within me for me to know that time, men, dimensions exist; there will be no space within me to even notice that I am creating, moment by moment, not moment by moment: always fused, because then I will live, only then will I live greater than in childhood, I will be brutal and misshapen like a stone, I will be light and vague like that which one feels and does not understand, I will transcend myself in waves (…).” In short, the crux of the enigma, the wager of art and painting against the reductive rhetoric of dominant discourses.
- Olivier Kaeppelin, March 2026
Group show of Karine Hoffman, Oda Jaune, Sarah Jérôme and Louise Tilleke
From April 23 to May 31, 2026
Rendez-Vous
Saturday 30 May 2026
Meeting and Tea time – H Gallery
Sunday 31 May 2026 from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Meeting and Tea time – H Gallery
75003 Paris, France 09 78 80 43 05 www.h-gallery.fr
The gallery
After eight years in New York (Peter Freeman, Inc.) and six years at the Pinacothèque de Paris (Paris–Singapore), Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin opened H Gallery in Paris in September 2016. An art historian with degrees from the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne, she discovers and promotes new talent. The mediums are varied, but ""Figuration"" is the gallery's primary focus. The careers of established artists are showcased alongside those of emerging artists, and the past nine years have been marked by success: Guggenheim Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Colas Foundation Prize, Société Générale Prize, Art Collector Prize, and Carré-sur-Seine Prize. Exhibitions have been held at institutions such as the MAC Marseille, the Wallonia-Brussels Centre, the MUCEM, the Caillebotte Museum, the Suquet des Artistes in Cannes, Fontevraud, and the Bullukian Foundation. Collections from Les Abattoirs - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, FRAC Sud, Artothèque d’Annecy, Société Générale, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, and CNAP. Carte blanche was given to curators, art critics, and collectors: Camille Bardin, Clément Thibault, Olfa Feki, and Olivier Kaeppelin. Collaborations were initiated with Jérôme Neutres, L’Hôtel des Barmes de l’Ours, the Colas Foundation, Maison Hermès, the Bullukian Foundation, and Fontevraud.
H Gallery presented 68 exhibitions in 9 years. It has long represented Bilal Hamdad, Alice Gauthier, Corine Borgnet, Barbara Navi, Caroline Le Méhauté, Lara Bloy, François Réau, and Isabelle Levenez. It exhibited the early careers of Dhewadi Hadjab, Arnaud Adami, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Anaïs Prouzet, Kenia Almaraz Murillo, Louis Verret, Louise Janet, and Lea Toutain. Today, it represents rising stars such as Sarah Jérôme, Thierry Carrier, Axel Pahlavi, Alex Hedison, Paul Vergier, and Lucile Piketty. The gallery is resolutely committed to supporting and promoting women artists.
Gallery artists
Ardif, Becquemin&Sagot, Matt Blackwell, Thierry Carrier, Noa Charuvi, Alexandra Hedison, Sarah Jérôme, Linas Kaziulionis, Fay Ku, Claire Lesteven, Monkeybird, Reuben Negrón, Lucile Piketty, André Raffray, Axel Roy, Maryline Terrier, Paul Vergier, Axel Pahlavi, Rachel Marks, Arthur Novak, Davide Cantoni
