Virginie Ittah
Virginie Ittah (1984) is a French artist living and working in Paris. Her multidisciplinary practice – encompassing painting, sculpture, sound, and olfaction – follows a transversal approach that connects different disciplines, geographic contexts, and temporalities.
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Combining ancestral know-how with contemporary technologies, she creates her pigments from stones, soils, and plants collected during her residencies and exhibitions. By returning to age-old gestures, she asserts a deep ecological commitment while embracing technological innovations such as 3D modelling and photogrammetry. Her work thus unfolds in a constant dialogue between the tangible and the immaterial. Abstraction becomes a language for revealing the invisible: emotions, elemental forces, vital energies, and the networks of interdependence that shape the world.
Her landscapes and figures, often suspended between appearance and disappearance, open spaces of resonance where the viewer perceives more than they simply look, projecting their own reality into them. The figures she creates – emerging from a dialogue between ancient statuary, live models, and multiple mythologies – unfold within hybrid landscapes where time and space overlap, giving rise to singular, immersive worlds. Through this hybridisation, Virginie Ittah transforms the body into landscape and invites us to rethink our relationship to the living, opening pathways toward more symbiotic forms of cohabitation. Her work also questions power structures, systemic violence, and the persistence of monstrous figures in contemporary society. In counterpoint, she reveals forms of vitality, sorority, and resilience, creating spaces where intimate narratives and collective imaginaries intertwine. Between memory and innovation, archaic gestures and advanced technologies, Virginie Ittah shapes immersive environments that challenge our ways of inhabiting the world and forming sensitive connections with the living.
Virginie Ittah was part of the duo Ittah Yoda from 2016 to 2024. The duo joined Galerie Poggi in January 2022, which dedicated its first solo exhibition to their work in spring 2023, alongside several recent solo and group exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (FR), Kunstverein Göttingen (DE), the Bally Foundation in Lugano (CH), and the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de Vassivière (FR). In recent years, through her collaborative practice as a duo, Virginie Ittah has taken part in numerous exhibitions, notably at Collection Lambert in Avignon (FR), the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers (FR), Art Basel Paris (FR), ROH Projects in Jakarta (ID), Podium Gallery in Hong Kong (HK), Palais Augmenté at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris (FR), the Nice Biennale at Le 109 (FR), Rencontres d’Arles (FR), Poush Manifesto in Paris (FR), Sprout Curation in Tokyo (JP), the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (FR), Frieze No.9 Cork Street in London (UK), ARCO Madrid (ES), the Huiden Club in Rotterdam (NL), among others.
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Exhibitions at the Gallery
Dream Machine
September 4 - 20, 2025
The Last Museum
May 16 - August 2, 2025
Sophie Ristelhueber, What The Fuck !
Novembre 5, 2024 - February 1, 2025
The First Stone
October 13 - December 2, 2023
Ittah Yoda, At the Edge of Dreams
April 27th - May 31st, 2023
Ecce Homo
02 Jul. – 13 Aug. 2022
Paul Mignard, Nopal
6 Nov. - 23 Dec. 2021
