21/10/2025
RECORDS
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10—8 pm
Booth #1.5
1st floor
Rond-point des Champs-Élysées
75008 Paris
21—26 October 2025
Rey Akdogan’s works often attend to the materiality of atmospheres that surround objects of consumption. Starting from materials used for display, she alters them through operations such as peeling, folding and subtracting, revealing their substrata and their inherent structure. She lays hold of the unseen experience as opposed to a standardized way of viewing things. The residues—pigments, hooks, metal clips, remains of foam and velvet—that survive her precise, almost archaeological removals transform the display supports into unexpectedly painterly forms that reveal the tensions between structure and chance, visibility and invisibility, surface polish and manual labor.
Recent solo exhibitions include terre, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne (2025); Subtraction, Miguel Abreu Gallery (2023); Lost Record, Commercial Street, Los Angeles (2022); Subtractions, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne (2021); Rey Akdogan, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (2017); Faction, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2017); and Rey Akdogan, Radio Athènes, Athens (2016). Akdogan was included in the 15th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius, Lithuania (2024); and the XIV Bienal de Cuenca (2018). Plant Light Curtain, a limited-edition artist book, was published by Minerva Projects in 2023, and #46, a book of the artist’s work, was published by PPP Editions in 2012. Forthcoming in 2026 are solo exhibitions at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, and Kunsteverein Gartenhaus, Vienna.