Jocelyn Wolff | Paris Internationale

Prinz Gholam, *Appearance*, 2025, colored pencil on paper, 122 x 172 cm - © Paris Internationale

Jocelyn Wolff

Based in Paris, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff has championed a rigorous, committed vision of contemporary art
for over twenty years, supporting emerging artists while advancing the recognition of key historical
figures. Founded in 2003 in a small Belleville space with a solo show by Clemens von Wedemeyer, the
gallery initially focused on the German-Swiss avant-garde scene. In 2025, it relocates to 1 rue de
Penthièvre in the 8th arrondissement, bringing its research-driven and experimental approach to the
Matignon area, dominated by the secondary market, and opening new perspectives for development.

1 rue de Penthièvre 75008 Paris

For this first edition of Paris Internationale Milano, we present a curated selection of works by Prinz Gholam and Santiago de Paoli.

Though emerging from distinct conceptual and geographic contexts, their practices resonate through shared aesthetic affinities and a sustained engagement with physicality, density and tactility.

Prinz Gholam

Appearance, 2025

colored pencil on paper, 122 x 172 cm

Prinz Gholam is an artistic duo, working together since 2001 and based in Berlin, Germany. Wolfgang Prinz was born in 1969 in Leutkirch, Germany. Michel Gholam was born 1963 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Prinz Gholam, The Filling Station Attendant & Notre Dame des Fleurs, 2025, colored pencil on paper, elastic band, 2 masks, each ca. 26 cm diameter

Drawings by the Berlin-based duo Prinz Gholam extend this focus on the (un)gendered body. Working between performance and drawing, their practice unfolds between the live body and its representation. Some works document enacted gestures; others feature paper masks worn by them. They often reference historical depictions of the male body and contemporary homosocial and sexual imagery, notably in a recent series inspired by Fassbinder’s Querelle. Deeply invested in sensuality as both subject and method, these works engage the body as a site of tension. Installed together, they will create a charged hanging anchored in rigorous theoretical inquiry.

Prinz Gholam, Stones, 2023, colored pencil on canvas, 214 x 365 cm

Prinz Gholam, Pure Land (Oesch), 2024, stones, glue, 11 elements, dimensions variable

“Since 2017 we have been picking up stones on sea shores, at river banks, walking along a path in a wood or any place not frequented by masses of people: Kea Island, Vouliagmeni, mountains in Bavaria, Tempelhofer Feld Berlin, Koyasan and Nara in Japan, Ostia, and Santa Severa. The morphology of a stone catches our eyes at a distance. We bend down, crouch or kneel, hold the stones, and look for others. We add eyes, mouth, nose, sometimes ears until an expression is found. They become ‘them.”
Prinz Gholam, While Being Other, Quodlibet, 2021, p. 62

Born in Buenos Aires in 1978 and now based in New York, Santiago de Paoli works with unconventional materials such as plaster, copper and felt.

Santiago de Paoli, Dos lunas, 2017, oil on felt fabric, 49 x 41 cm

His practice revisits recurring motifs — moons, candles, socks, flowers, clouds — inflected with subtle irony, between intimacy and absurdity. For this presentation, we will focus on four paintings depicting butts at times fused into domestic objects. It evokes a surrealist lineage and echo assemblage, reflecting an artistic heritage rooted in Argentina.