The Swedish brand Acne Studios inaugurates its first permanent gallery in Paris, reaffirming its deep ties to contemporary culture and multidisciplinary creativity.
Acne Studios has opened the doors to Acne Paper Palais Royal, a new permanent gallery space tucked beneath the arcades of the Palais Royal in Paris. Situated at 124 Galerie de Valois, the location signals a new chapter in the Swedish label’s ongoing dialogue with art, design, photography and publishing – disciplines that have long been part of its creative DNA.
True to the spirit of Acne Paper, the brand’s cult-favorite magazine, this new space will host exhibitions, artist talks, magazine launches and book signings. Imagined as a meeting point for established and emerging voices, Acne Paper Palais Royal aims to foster exchange and experimentation across creative fields. From Thursday to Sunday, visitors can access the gallery’s neoclassical interiors and engage with a fluid, interdisciplinary program that embraces culture as a living, porous terrain.
The inaugural exhibition, titled 2025, presents a new series of portraits by Dutch photographer Paul Kooiker, known for his enigmatic and often surreal approach to the image. Featuring 42 students from Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the project evokes the genre of school photography, but turns it on its head. Kooiker captures not a sense of completion, but the volatile in-betweenness of youth – where ambition, uncertainty and the pressures of the world coexist in fragile harmony. His gaze is unsentimental, quietly powerful, and in tune with the complexities of a generation on the edge of transformation.
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