From 12 March to 11 April 2026, the Jonathan Roze Gallery presents La nouvelle exposition collective (The New Collective Exhibition). Bringing together seven artists, this exhibition is an opportunity to unveil new, specially created works, as well as others selected for the event but already exhibited on Rue Leperdit or in Paris. In the case of the latter, it is clear that a different context often helps us to rediscover the works in a new light. While highlighting the creations of already recognised artists such as Invader, Matthieu Pommier, François Malingrëy, Julien Colombier and Diane Benoit du Rey, the Jonathan Roze Gallery continues its commitment to Rosalie Mailard, a young artist who is now in her fifth year at the Beaux-Arts in Rennes. The gallery is also pleased to show for the first time the works of Julie Hostin, a young Breton painter born in 2000 and graduating in 2025 from the Rennes School of Fine Arts.
The new group exhibition features a previously unseen work by Invader from 2012. Entitled 'Lucky One', it is a unique piece made of Briare enamels (ceramic) on panel. The work was created in parallel with the 'Mission Miami' invasion guides and uses the same colour code as the latter. Throughout the exhibition, you will also discover Matthieu Pommier's new painting.
He incorporates more movement and a sharp blur effect that he had already begun to develop in 2025, notably in the fresco and gouaches (Teletel) created in Rennes on Rue Leperdit. He contrasts this effect with highly detailed objects that are instantly recognisable and representative of his work. Like Matthieu Pommier, Julien Colombier continues to explore motifs and techniques. The series of works presented here is painted entirely in acrylic, with occasional lines of oil paint. However, oil pastels have disappeared from the compositions this time around. The motifs have also been transformed: more abstract and repetitive, they were created one after the other in a burst of creativity. The series bears the evocative name Grand Flow. Among the new works to be discovered is Rosalie Maillard's latest painting. Always started on the floor, so that its irregularities mark the canvas and the ink spread across its surface, the work is then left to dry. Once ready, Rosalie traces the shapes that have appeared with coloured pencil, like so many traces of the moment spent on the floor. It is meticulous work, carried out in two stages, reminiscent of the two stages of the epileptic seizures that sometimes affect her.
Next, delicate oils, whose creation requires unsuspected energy, are juxtaposed with the mysterious paintings of two former students of the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, Diane Benoit du Rey and François Malingrëy.
Those who know them have already seen their work, either at solo exhibitions dedicated to them at the gallery in Paris (three times for François, once for Diane), or at the gallery in Rennes, on Rue Leperdit for François and more recently on Place du Parlement for Diane. These are two artists with extremely different worlds, but whom the gallery supports with equal enthusiasm. François is currently preparing a solo show for Art Paris, while Diane has just completed a successful 2025 with two solo exhibitions at Art Basel Paris and Art Basel Miami, in the Net Jets VIP lounges.
Julie Hostin completes the list of artists featured in this exhibition. A figurative painter, Julie Hostin most often works on recycled materials, particularly wood or medium-density fibreboard scraps that she finds in DIY stores. These materials, which have already lived a previous life, provide her with a base. She uses their colour, texture, grain and sometimes even their flaws to bring her forms to life. These forms often resemble recognisable objects or recompositions of objects or animals whose use or nature has been diverted. Swiss Army knife crabs, mushrooms that come to life, a trio of merry-go-round horses set free and moved away - so many unexpected subjects that catch the eye. The astonishing simplicity of the compositions also adds depth to the works by focusing our attention on the essential. But what is essential in the image, which generally consists of a central figure, is intriguing enough to make us want to linger over it several times. Julie Hostin's work is both raw and delicate. Her scenography is equally so. She often strives to avoid reducing the presentation of her works to a simple hanging of paintings, playing with forms and space, for example by creating volumes out of cut wood, to serve the purpose of her paintings as much as to bring a dynamic scenography to the fore.