Manifesto of the gallery
Toward a Practice of Traversal
Founded in 2025 in Paris, Galerie KHÅL constitutes itself as a space of passage. Not a site of representation, but a field of circulation where artworks do not illustrate identities but activate processes of becoming.
The practices that unfold here emerge from multiple trajectories, disjointed memories, and fragmented histories. They do not seek pure origin or stable belonging. They move through displacement, friction, and return. Diaspora appears less as a theme than as a condition, a way of inhabiting the world shaped by tension, distance, and interrupted transmission.
At KHÅL, matter is approached as a sensitive surface upon which lived experience inscribes itself. Painting, textile, drawing, installation, and publishing become modes of articulation. Each gesture carries memory. Each form implies a position. The artists do not narrate; they compose. They assemble fragments, allowing heterogeneous stories to coexist without forcing resolution.
The gallery is constructed through relation. Between artists, between generations, between techniques. Each exhibition is conceived as a precise arrangement, a dynamic equilibrium in which works respond to one another without collapsing into sameness. What takes place is not synthesis, but coexistence. Differences are sustained. Silences hold as much weight as speech.
KHÅL is anchored in a familial artistic history, in North African inheritances consciously assumed, and in the lived territory of Paris. Yet this anchoring is never fixation. It serves as a point of departure for movement, a ground from which works may circulate, transform, and encounter new publics.
The gallery operates at a human scale, attentive to the concrete conditions of production, visibility, and transmission. Artistic rigor is inseparable from economic reality. To sustain the work is to create the conditions for its encounter.
The team
Karima Ben Cheikh
Co Founder
Brice Davoli
Co Founder