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Anne-Lise Coste
You You You You
Parri Blank is pleased to present You You You You, a solo exhibition by French artist Anne-Lise Coste. Bringing together works spanning several decades, the exhibition unfolds around Coste’s distinctive painterly language, moving between text, gesture and immediacy.
Anne-Lise Coste (*1973 in Marignane near Marseille, France) studied in Marseille and Zurich before living in New York, and is now based in Paris. Her works combine poetic fragments, political reflections and emotional intensity with a raw and highly lyrical visual language. Oscillating between rebellion, humour and vulnerability, her paintings and drawings create a visual vocabulary that feels both intimate and urgent.
Her work is held in numerous international public and private collections, including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MACBA Barcelona, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zurich, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Deutsche Bank Collection, FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, and the Swiss National Bank.
The presentation is realised with the support of Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, whose long-standing collaboration with the artist continues to resonate in this context.
22 May – 3 July 2026
Viewings by appointment:
info@parriblank.com
Nothing comes to weigh down the forms: no stretcher, no frame. The paintings, made on unmounted canvas, remain at once raw and light. Anne-Lise Coste’s practice runs counter to the dominant logics that shaped art in the 1990s and 2000s, marked by a spectacular inflation of the artwork, both in scale and in effect. Confronted with this form of artistic “virility,” she asserted early on a clear position: one grounded in the lightness and fragility of supports, and in an unapologetic economy of means. From the scale of the workspace - the studio, the home, the family house - to the use of humble materials, economic constraint appears as a structuring element of the work. The use of ordinary A4 sheets (purchased in packs of five hundred), recycled printing supports, or easily reproducible formats reflects a practice rooted in everyday life and its constraints.
