# Polka Galerie

Photography gallery in Marais, Paris.

- Address: 12 rue Saint-Gilles, Paris, 75003
- Website: https://www.polkagalerie.com
- Directions: <https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=Polka%20Galerie%2C%2012%20rue%20Saint-Gilles%2C%20Paris%2C%2075003>
- On the map: https://onview.so/paris/map/polka-galerie

The show’s dates come from a listing, not the gallery.

## Exhibitions

### Irina Werning: *Twinning Moments*

Sep 11 – Oct 31, 2026 · on view

The Argentine photographer’s series on Buenos Aires animal fairs.

Full details: [polkagalerie.com](https://www.polkagalerie.com/fr/exposition-twinning-moments.htm)

On On View: https://onview.so/paris/polka-galerie/twinning-moments

### Philippe Chancel: *Cactusmania*

Sep 11 – Oct 31, 2026 · on view

New photographs of cacti, shot on neutral backdrops by day and in infrared-like multispectral color at dusk.

Chancel photographed cactus collections in gardens in Monaco, the Mexican orchard of the Hanbury botanical garden and the Villa Bocanegra near Menton, pairing daylight studio-style shots with blue-hour images made with a multispectral technique recalling infrared and ultraviolet film.

The project grew out of a cactus-themed exhibition at Marrakech’s Yves Saint Laurent museum and Monaco’s Nouveau Musée National, and follows Chancel’s 2023 Polka show Welcome to Paradise.

Full details: [polkagalerie.com](https://www.polkagalerie.com/fr/exposition-cactusmania-de-philippe-chancel.htm)

On On View: https://onview.so/paris/polka-galerie/cactusmania

### Claude Nori: *La Dolce Vista*

Sep 11 – Oct 31, 2026 · on view

A retrospective of Claude Nori’s black-and-white and color photographs of couples, teenagers and beach life, shot since the 1970s.

Nori’s first major gallery retrospective, fifteen years after a tribute at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, brings together iconic black-and-white and color prints alongside previously unseen images found in a fresh look at his contact sheets from the 1970s onward. Couples embrace, bodies brush past each other, and friends pose awkwardly or joyfully on beaches from the Adriatic to the Basque coast, in settings shaped by his love of neorealist and New Wave cinema and by the photo-novel.

The black-and-white prints are made the traditional way, enlarger-printed on gelatin silver paper; many are drawn from Nori’s own archive and exhibited here for the first time.

Full details: [polkagalerie.com](https://www.polkagalerie.com/fr/exposition-dolce-vista-de-claude-nori.htm)

On On View: https://onview.so/paris/polka-galerie/la-dolce-vista

### Steve McCurry: *Immersion*

Nov 12, 2026 – Jan 16, 2027 · coming up

Full details: [polkagalerie.com](https://www.polkagalerie.com/fr/exposition-immersion-de-steve-mccurry.htm)

On On View: https://onview.so/paris/polka-galerie/immersion

### Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre: *Les Ruines de Détroit, 20 ans après*

Nov 12, 2026 – Jan 16, 2027 · coming up

Full details: [polkagalerie.com](https://www.polkagalerie.com/fr/exposition-les-ruines-de-detroit-20-ans-apres-d-yves-marchand-romain-meffre.htm)

On On View: https://onview.so/paris/polka-galerie/les-ruines-de-detroit-20-ans-apres

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On View's listing, as of Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Every gallery and museum in Paris: https://onview.so/paris.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt
