Cuturi Gallery opens its doors in Paris with Decadence & Decay

Cuturi Gallery is proud to open the doors of its first permanent space in Europe, with the inaugural exhibition Decadence & Decay, curated by Singapore-based independent curator Deborah Lim. On view from 19 March to 16 May 2026, the exhibition inaugurates the gallery's new home at 24 Galerie de Montpensier, in the heart of the Palais-Royal in Paris.

 

Six years after its founding in Singapore, this Paris opening is a natural extension of what Cuturi Gallery has always stood for: a transnational, transdisciplinary approach to contemporary art, built on genuine exchange between artists and curators from across Asia and Europe. The choice of the Palais-Royal as a setting is fitting: a site steeped in history and luxury, it provides an apt backdrop for an exhibition that asks what beauty looks like at the very moment it begins to fade.

 

Decadence & Decay brings together eight artists – Iris van Herpen, Hubert Le Gall, Jane Lee, Lionel Sabatté, Hiromi Tango, Sookoon Ang, Mahalakshmi Kannappan, and Khairulddin Wahab – working across couture, sculpture, painting, textile, and mixed media. Rather than treating decadence and decay as opposites, the exhibition proposes them as a single, unbroken cycle: splendour does not simply fade; it transforms, composting into the conditions for something new. From van Herpen's extraordinary Biolume Corset Gown, constructed from opalescent glass-organza, to Sabatté's bronze hybrids cast from organic residue, to Kannappan's reconstituted charcoal surfaces and Wahab's layered post-colonial tableaux, each work finds its own way of inhabiting that charged threshold.

 

Decadence & Decay is on view at Cuturi Gallery Paris, 24 Galerie de Montpensier, 75001 Paris, from 19 March to 16 May 2026.