2025 CULTURAL SEASON
In 2025, ICICLE consolidates its platform for cultural exchange and continues its commitment to promoting French artists in China and Chinese artists in France. This cross-programme between the Shanghai and Paris Cultural Spaces is dedicated to artists who place sensation and poetry at the heart of their work. The four artists featured in the first half of 2025 are faithful to the world of the senses, rooted in everyday reality and at odds with the cult of speed and performance, shaping their work in the depth of time. Shi Qi, Luo Quanmu, Cécile Savelli and Lola Bret have taken winding roads and detours. They have sometimes doubted and groped in the dark. In the meanders of their trajectories, they have layered life experiences, nourishing their works with a deeper truth, a more particular vibration. Far from the formatted norms imposed by straight, marked-out lines, they have woven, each in their own way, unpredictable wefts, where every diversion, every silence and every restart reveals a stronger authenticity.
Shi Qi
Cécile Savelli
Luo Quanmu
Lola Bret
In the second half of 2025, ICICLE has developed an ambitious programme of four solo exhibitions dedicated to young talents - either particularly promising or already widely recognised on the contemporary art scene. In Paris, Japanese artist Shiori Eda, then Chinese visual artist Cai Lei each engage in their own way with the theme of landscape: mental, sensitive, or architectural landscapes, inhabited by fragile figures or enigmatic structures. In Shanghai, two French painters, Félix Deschamps Mak followed by Simon Martin, unveil powerful works — either strikingly frontal or softly muted — where the human figure, theatrical or ghostly, takes centre stage. This mirrored programme furthers ICICLE's mission: to reveal, accompany and foster dialogue between the creative forces of East and West.
ICICLE CULTURAL SPACES
ICICLE’s Cultural Spaces in Shanghai and Paris embody the brand’s commitment to dialogue, discovery, and cross-cultural exchange.
In Paris, the Cultural Space—situated on the third floor of the avenue George V store—offers a dynamic programme of exhibitions dedicated to art and design, alongside an eclectic bookshop whose selection spans the visual arts, literature, philosophy, history, and traditional practices.
In Shanghai, the ICICLE Space at ICCF Garden provides a platform for encounters between artists and cultural thinkers from East and West, nurturing a global community rooted in shared artistic and cultural exploration.