87 rue de Turenne, 75003, Paris, France
Open: Tue-Sat 11am-7pm
Artists: Steffen Kern - Isidore Bishop-Sauve - Craig Cameron-Mackintosh - Brice Blanqué - Julien Lischka - Thomas Andréa Barbey - Jean Bosphore - Hogan Brown - Alejandro Asensio - Kevin Franitch
For Night Bloom, Sobering Galerie brings together ten artists from its program around a shared exploration of what emerges after dark. Conceived as an open proposition rather than a fixed theme, the exhibition invites each artist to approach the night freely - as atmosphere, sensation, memory, desire, solitude, artificial light, or psychological space.
Night Bloom brings together ten gallery artists around the idea of night, approached less as a subject than as a territory for the imagination.
The exhibition does not seek to impose a literal representation of the nocturnal. Instead, night becomes a point of departure: a moment when forms are perceived differently, colors intensify, and familiar spaces can suddenly become strange, intimate, or theatrical. It opens up a field in which desire, memory, solitude, the energy of a city still awake, or the more elusive sensation of something appearing in the darkness can surface.
Painting and drawing enter into dialogue throughout the exhibition. Alongside paintings on canvas by Julien Lischka, Brice Blanqué, Thomas Andréa Barbey, Kevin Franitch, Isidore Bishop-Sauve, Jean Bosphore, Craig Cameron-Mackintosh, and Hogan Brown, Steffen Kern and Alejandro Asensio work in colored pencil, pushing the medium toward an almost painterly density and depth.
Alejandro Asensio’s Party, Party, Party (2026) sets an initial tone for the exhibition: a monumental disco ball appears to emerge from the darkness, catching and fragmenting light until the surface of the drawing becomes almost constellation-like. Suspended between celebration, fascination, and solitude, the image already contains the ambiguity at the heart of Night Bloom: what shines at night can feel both spectacular and deeply intimate.
Through very different visual languages, the artists are invited to let the night operate freely - as atmosphere, psychological space, or simply as the possibility of bringing forth something that full daylight does not reveal.
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