UHO SOLO SHOW

2025 / 30m2 / DNL gallery Paris

DNL Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by UHO, the group’s first with the gallery. 

On view are three projects: a series of furniture pieces, a book and a film.

SCHIRCH is a collection of furniture pieces designed by UHO that escape the category of architecture. As such, they are not subject to the same standards as buildings.

A sofa, bench and stools are all built from aluminum profiles and fitness bags. Their visual and tactile qualities maintain a certain equivalence. At first, their visual appearance can be overwhelming; their tactility performs surprisingly well.

Their appearance gives them their name: a word derived from Franz West's Wiener Dialekt. 

This show is both a continuation and a contradiction of the hypothesis developed in The Use of Space, Max Turnheim’s first book. On the occasion of this show, the book has been reissued in a second edition – co-published by éditions HKP and DNL Gallery.

As with the first edition of The Use of Space, mlav.land was invited to produce a companion film. 
This new work is a commentary on the book’s content while presenting an artificially-generated aquarium – a hyper-constrained space, a simulated simulation of existence – set to a soundtrack by Erosion (fka Cléry).

The public programme includes a presentation by Jack Self on June 11. This responds to the work and articulates a theory of the readymade. 

UHO Architects is a Paris-based studio led by Max Turnheim and Max Utech. The practice is dedicated to built work and academic research. 

mlav.land is an autonomous spatial research practice.

All images (c) Nicole Maria Winkler