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Joseph Kosuth The Question

Sep 12 — Oct 11, 2025 | Paris, Turenne

Opening on Friday, September 12, 2025 from 6 to 8 pm

Almine Rech Paris, Turenne is pleased to present Joseph Kosuth's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from September 12 to October 11, 2025.

“Musil was wary of the pragmatic reduction to which the complexity of our experiences is subjected by language. He wanted his writing to reflect the discontinuity that characterises much of our lived experience.”
- Joseph Kosuth


Joseph Kosuth’s exhibition at the Almine Rech gallery in Paris is secretly and deeply moving. We are confronted with both older works (1988) and more recent ones, whose selection and spatial composition are of extreme relevance both to the artist and to the imperilled society in which we live.

Naturally, in keeping with the principles of his creation and his thinking, there is no rhetoric, no discourse, but rather a repeated enigmatic question, in cold white, warm white, yellow, green, cobalt blue, orange and purple neon: Any message? The answer is not formulated, and yet, based on the question, the meaning begins to unfold. It projects us into Joseph Kosuth’s essential experience, which is to “work on the relationships between relationships.”

He points out these relationships in the Any Message pieces with George Orwell’s 1984, which I find increasingly and profoundly accurate in terms of the evolution of our societies. From hypothesis to the advent of reality, this movement is far from over, as suggested by the subtlety of the relationships established in this exhibition.

— Olivier Kaeppelin

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