Raza Odiada nunca muere: Neïla Czermak Ichti explores family legacies at the Palais de Tokyo

The Palais de Tokyo hosts Raza Odiada nunca muere, the first solo exhibition by Neïla Czermak Ichti in a major public cultural institution in Paris, running from 5 June to 13 September 2026. Led by curator Horya Makhlouf, this project brings together the artist, her father Polô Czermak and several family figures around a narrative dedicated to memory, heritage and transmission.

The exhibition’s title, borrowed from the Mexican deathgrind group Brujeria, means "A Hated Race Never Dies." This phrase sets the tone for a parcours that unfolds like a family investigation, straddling intimate storytelling and the construction of autofiction. Neïla Czermak Ichti summons close figures, fragmentary memories, vanished houses, altered family names, and inherited burdens that can be hard to bear.

The exhibition reshapes the space into a haunted classroom, where works claim the walls and the school desks. Drawings, a mural, animatronics and sculptures come together in a show that wrestles with questions of posterity, shame, pride and memory. The artist uses the display to interrogate the stories passed down from one generation to the next, family silences, and the ways ordinary lives are honored.

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Born in Bondy in 1996 and now based in Marseille, Neïla Czermak Ichti develops a practice that sits at the crossroads of fiction, personal narrative and fantastical imagination. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille in 2021, she has already presented her work at Villa Arson, at MO.CO Montpellier, at the CAC Brétigny, and at the Institut du monde arabe. With Raza Odiada nunca muere, the Palais de Tokyo offers her work a space where family memory can be told differently, through traces, memories and presences that keep circulating.

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