Antoine Schneck artist studios reveal the hidden spaces of French contemporary art in a major Sotheby’s Paris exhibition opening January 2026.
Art history often focuses on finished works. Antoine Schneck artist studios shifts attention to where art is made. The project documents creative spaces with precision and restraint.
Presented at Sotheby’s Paris in January 2026, 100 ateliers d’artistes d’aujourd’hui condenses seven years of research into a visual archive that is both documentary and historical.
Artist studios function as evidence, not scenery. Schneck treats each atelier as a living system shaped by routine and constraint.
Studios reveal artistic process and discipline
Many photographed spaces no longer exist
Several artists passed away shortly after documentation
Between 2015 and 2022, Schneck traveled across France to preserve these environments before they vanished.
Schneck applies a multiple portrait technique. Each artist appears several times within the same studio image.
Movement replaces static identity
The studio becomes temporal
Process is visible, not implied
His controlled lighting system removes hierarchy between artist and space. Nothing dominates. Everything informs.
Sotheby’s Paris is not just a venue. It is a validator.
By hosting the exhibition, Sotheby’s positions Schneck’s work between scholarship and the art market. Twenty five large format photographs are shown. Each is editioned, collectible, and historically loaded.
The project is developed with Guy Boyer, editorial director of Connaissance des Arts. His texts frame each artist within France’s contemporary canon. This transforms the exhibition into a critical map for collectors and researchers.
100 ateliers d’artistes d’aujourd’hui is not about access. It is about preservation. Schneck records what usually disappears. The daily architecture of artistic labor.
At Sotheby’s Paris, the studio becomes artwork. The process becomes legacy. And looking slowly becomes an act of respect.
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