Exhibition by artist Zipcy in Paris: The Sweet Fortress at the Goldshteyn-Saatort Gallery

In Paris, the Goldshteyn-Saatort gallery presents Zipcy, the South Korean artist, with La Forteresse Douce — her first solo show in France — running from April 24 to June 4, 2026. Drawing on Hanji paper, natural pigments and marouflage, the artist builds a universe centered on intimacy, materiality, and human connection, to be discovered at an opening in her presence on April 23, 2026.

Calling all contemporary art enthusiasts! The Goldshteyn-Saatort Gallery in Paris presents The Gentle Fortress, the first solo exhibition in France by South Korean artist Zipcy, running from April 24 to June 4, 2026, with an opening reception for the artist on April 23, 2026. This contemporary art exhibition highlights a body of work centered on intimacy, desire, vulnerability and human connection, through pieces that blend Hanji, natural pigments and marouflage. Vernissage by reservation only.

With The Soft Fortress, Zipcy offers a collection of works that play on a form of visual calm, without erasing the emotional tension of their subjects. The exhibition is introduced by this quotation from Gilles Deleuze: "The world and I are not separate; we fold and unfold, in a state of constant connection". This line illuminates the artist’s aim, who is drawn to human relationships in their most delicate aspects: proximity, hesitation, fragility, and silence.

Here, bodies are not merely there to form an image. They become sensitive spaces, traversed by memory and emotion. The visitor thus enters a journey where fluid forms, mineral hues, and layered surfaces create a calm, almost contemplative atmosphere.

A delicate material, straddling tradition and a contemporary gaze

The exhibition also stands out for its techniques and materials. Zipcy fuses an aesthetic drawn from Asian landscape painting sansui with more contemporary elements, particularly in the treatment of textiles and textures. She uses Hanji, the traditional Korean paper made from mulberry bark, as well as natural Korean and Japanese pigments. The result is works in which the materiality is as important as the image.

The figures, often delicate and introspective, move through dense emotional landscapes built up in successive layers. This dialogue between stillness and visual intensity lends the whole work a distinctive presence, appealing as much to painting enthusiasts as to visitors eager to discover a different take on Korean art in Paris.

Zipcy in Paris, between an established path and a new chapter

Zipcy, who has been known internationally since her debut in 2009, first as an illustrator and then through her series TOUCH, arrives in Paris at a pivotal moment in her career. Her work, already recognized in collaborations with major players like Disney, Netflix or Penguin Books, now adopts a form more directly tied to the exhibition and the gallery space.

For gallery visitors, La Forteresse Douce offers a straightforward doorway into a visual universe shaped by sensation, by materiality, and by the ties between beings. All that's left is to drop by when it opens!

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