Founded at 9 French Place, Shoreditch, London — FRENCH PLACE enters its next chapter in Milan, where our programme extends across exhibitions, an artist residency, and research–driven initiatives that support deep engagement with contemporary practice.
Founded at 9 French Place, Shoreditch, London — FRENCH PLACE enters its next chapter in Milan, where our programme extends across exhibitions, an artist residency, and research–driven initiatives that support deep engagement with contemporary practice.
ARIST IN RESIDENCE,
MAtthias odin 12.02.26—12.03.26
From Thursday 12 February to Thursday 12 March 2026, Matthias Odin will undertake the first artist residency at FRENCH PLACE, inaugurating the organisation’s residency programme dedicated to process-based practice, research, and critical engagement. Developed in parallel with the exhibition Corale (29 January–28 February 2026), the residency unfolds in dialogue with its polyphonic framework, positioning the space as a site of simultaneity between exhibition, production, and inquiry. Conceived as an open-ended period of experimentation and formation, the residency will culminate in Odin’s solo show at FRENCH PLACE, opening on 12 March 2026.
Matthias Odin
Matthias Odin (b. 1995 in Lyon, France) is a Paris-based artist. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Cergy in 2023 and has since exhibited and collaborated with a wide range of independent spaces and institutions in France and internationally. In France, his work has been presented at the Institut d’Art Contemporain (as part of the Lyon Biennale), FRAC Île-de-France (solo exhibition), Palais de Tokyo, FRAC Corsica, La Graineterie, Treize, Glassbox, Pauline Perplexe, Voiture 14, La Station, and the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Louis Senlecq.
Internationally, Odin has exhibited at Palazzo San Giuseppe, Keiv Gallery, Okay Space, and the Moderna Museet, among others. More recently, his work has been presented in exhibitions at Peter Kilchmann and Dvir Gallery.
Odin is a founding member of the collective Ygreves, with whom he has curated and co-curated heterotopic exhibitions in neglected and interstitial architectures—former docks, underground galleries, and other marginal sites. He is also the founder of the ephemeral exhibition space Galerie LA.
Drawing on Henri Bergson’s conception of time as an accumulative and mobile process, Odin’s practice investigates how memory, perception, and lived experience become attached to images, spaces, and objects. Influenced by urban exploration, Situationist psychogeography, and the promenadology of the Italian collective Stalker, he approaches space both sensorially—through bodily immersion—and cognitively, as an investigator. Walking, searching, and collecting form the basis of his method, developed through itinerant projects and collective practices. Periods of homelessness, urban drifting, and the gathering of objects from abandoned places are translated into sculptural compositions that function as poems in space. Through strategies borrowed from interior design, advertising, and museography, these works are displaced from autobiography, rendering memory ghostlike—suspended between presence and disappearance. Light plays a central role in this process, generating halos and shadows that articulate absence and survival alike.
Open Studios Schedule:
21.02.26, 9AM—12PM
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26.02.26, 6—8 PM
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28.02.26, 9AM—12 PM
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