Toile Blanche Sessions: Spring and Summer 2026
Five consecutive Sessions at Toile Blanche Contemporary from April through October 2026 — Holly Hendry, Kris Dewitte, Tom Barman, John Franzen, and the Leroy Brothers.
Since 2024, Toile Blanche Contemporary has presented artists through the Sessions programme: solo exhibitions held on the property, each opening with an evening of music and food. Five consecutive sessions run from April through October this year.
Holly Hendry
On now until 18 May
Holly Hendry (London, 1990) trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Her practice spans sculpture and works on paper, exploring the body, material systems, and organic processes. Public commissions include a permanent artwork for Birmingham City University. Solo exhibitions at the De La Warr Pavilion and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, with recent presentations at the Hayward Gallery and SCAD Museum of Art.
For Toile Blanche she presents a series of cyanotypes — raw works in which intense blues and abstracted forms interrogate light and shadow — alongside two sculptures.
Kris Dewitte
21 May to 18 June
Belgian photographer Kris Dewitte (born 1967) has worked as a stills photographer on over a hundred international film productions, among them films by Justine Triet, Leos Carax, Abel Ferrara, and Joachim Lafosse. Selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s 50th anniversary exhibition, his photographs have been shown at the Suntory Museum of Art in Japan, Kunst Forum Würth in Germany, and the Melkweg Gallery in Amsterdam. Fifteen books published, cinema as their primary subject.
The exhibition opens during the Cannes Film Festival. It brings together photographs from his career on set — Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Quentin Tarantino, Monica Bellucci, Ryan Gosling, David Lynch among others, caught in the unguarded space the camera rarely sees — alongside a new series made during his stay at Toile Blanche.
Tom Barman
21 June to end of July
Tom Barman (Antwerp, 1972) founded dEUS in 1989. The band’s debut album Worst Case Scenario established them internationally. Barman has also directed a feature film and co-founded the jazz ensemble TaxiWars. He turned to photography in his forties, first exhibiting in 2019, with solo exhibitions at the Gert Voorjans gallery in Antwerp and Galerie Weisbard in Rotterdam. His photo book Hurry Up and Wait was published in 2020.
Where the music of dEUS is layered and expansive, his photographs are a search for silence, geometry, and the space between moments. He describes his process as seeing music and hearing light.
John Franzen
August to September
John Franzen (Aachen, 1981) trained at the Robert Schumann Institute in Belgium and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht in 2007. His practice is rooted in drawing and sculpture, abstraction, repetition, and geometric precision. Exhibitions at the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Kunst Forum Würth, Morgen Contemporary in Berlin, and Edition Maeght in Paris. First Prize at Art Dubai’s Sculpture Award. Shown at the Saatchi Gallery Drawing Fair and at institutions in Hong Kong, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Presented in collaboration with Galerie Podgorny.
Leroy Brothers
Mid-September to end of October
Gregory, Gilles, and Nicolas Leroy close the season with their own artworks. In 2026, the Brothers formally designated Toile Blanche a durational conceptual artwork — a declaration that reframes the building, its operations, its legal instruments, and its physical contents as a single artistic system.
Since that designation, they have been producing a series of study drawings documenting the works contained within the property: pencil on Arches 300gsm, executed in a register borrowed from architectural drafting and forensic field documentation.
This exhibition presents a selection from those artworks in progress.
All sessions are held at Toile Blanche Contemporary, 826 chemin de la Pounchounière, Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Guests staying at Toile Blanche can arrange a private viewing during their stay.