Jordan Hemingway - Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels With Dirty Faces presented a striking body of monochrome photography by multidisciplinary artist Jordan Hemingway, exploring beauty and the macabre to reveal contrasts between humanity and spirituality. Featuring Marina Abramović, Yves Tumor, and Mariacarla Boscono, the exhibition unfolded as a theatrical study of strength and vulnerability, beauty and resistance, the sacred and the profane.

Peter Schlesinger - Sculpture

Peter Schlesinger Sculpture presented eight ceramic works by New York–based artist Peter Schlesinger, shifting from monumental vessels to more intimate forms rendered in glazed stoneware. Marking the tenth anniversary of Peter Schlesinger Sculpture (Acne Studios, 2015), the exhibition coincided with an expanded second edition of the artist’s monograph, available exclusively at Acne Paper Palais Royal.

Emman - The Jewellery Box

The Jewellery Box transformed Acne Paper Palais Royal into an immersive, life-sized musical jewellery box by London-based artist Emman, lined in coral-pink velvet and animated by a spinning ballerina. Her collages fused fine jewellery with insects, shells, birds, and ephemera, exploring heritage, memory, and identity where symbols of protection and desire intersect with gender, performance, and spectacle. Digital works by HEY_REILLY extended the exhibition, animating Emman’s jewellery pieces onto figures from Hollywood’s golden age.

Paul Kooiker

2025, the inaugural exhibition at Acne Paper Palais Royal, presented forty-two portraits by Paul Kooiker of art students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Referencing the tradition of school portraiture while resisting nostalgia, the images observed an unstable present - where youthful desire collides with uncertainty, and hope and despair coexist. Kooiker approached this tension with restraint and pragmatism, refusing sentimentality while acknowledging the resilience of a generation facing an unpredictable future.