All You Need to Know About The Saint Laurent Martine Bedin Exhibition
Saint Laurent offers a sensorial journey where you can explore Martine Bedin through the artists’ lens
Lifestyle15 July 2026 Words Syameen Salehaldin
Bridging the gap between culture and fashion, Saint Laurent is presenting its first-ever exhibition at their Montaigne store with a selection of works by French artist Martine Bedin—all curated by Anthony Vaccarello. Spanning designs, paintings and sculptural artworks, the exhibition brings together early Memphis drawings to newer pieces, all engaging in a dialogue between reality and abstracts, present and illusions.
Born in 1957 in Bordeaux, Bedin is an architect and designer who lives and works in Paris. In the 1980s, she became one of the founding members of Milan’s Memphis Group—the movement that redefined design by favouring symbolic, expressive presence over function and production.
In honour of her work over the past years, Anthony Vaccarello will be exhibiting her masterpieces through the 1980 – 2023 – 2025 exhibition, in which everyday objects are stripped of purpose and reborn as autonomous forms. Bedin has described these pieces as things “kept at the back of cupboards, which only come to life when needed”—objects suspended between reality and abstraction, presence and illusion.
The exhibition is staged under Saint Laurent Rive Droite, Vaccarello’s curatorial concept spanning Paris, Los Angeles, New York, and Beijing—a name that nods to Saint Laurent’s own Rive Gauche line, which democratised luxury in the 1960s. Here, that spirit continues in a more amusing, culturally restless register: art, design and fashion sharing a single room.
When:
3 July – 14 October
Where:
Saint Laurent Montaigne, Paris, France
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