Exhibitions
RAMMELLZEE: B SIDE — CAPC Bordeaux, November 20, 2025 – March 2026
Curated by Cédric Fauq and Hugo Vitrani, in collaboration with Palais de Tokyo, Paris
RAMMELLZEE (1960–2010) was a seminal figure in New York’s late-1970s and 1980s hip-hop counterculture whose work transcended graffiti. A self-taught theorist, painter, sculptor, performer, and MC, he created Gothic Futurism—a system linking medieval calligraphers to graffiti writers, arming letters to resist the standardization of language.
His art merged aerospace technology, quantum mechanics, Italian Futurism, Japanese mecha culture, and the velocity of the New York subway, transforming letters into spacecraft and his studio, the Battlestation, into both refuge and armory.
B SIDE situates Rammellzee’s work within the artistic and cultural landscape of 1980s New York and expands upon his universe through archival materials and video. Exhibition design is by Pascal Rodriguez with a new visual timeline by Walid Bouchouchi (Akakir).
The Palais de Tokyo and the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain in Bordeaux join forces to unveil and present the cryptic work of RAMMELLZEE, an iconic artist from the 1980s American underground scene. The first large-scale European event, this deliberately enigmatic exploration is conceived in two acts, like the sides of an audio cassette or a vinyl record. Side A, at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), from February 21 to May 11, then from June 13 to September 7 2025. Side B at the CAPC (Bordeaux), from November 11, 2025 to March 26th, 2026.
