Acne Studios Opens A Gallery In Paris And It’s Giving Culture

Acne Studios just entered its next chapter — and it’s not on a runway. This June, the Stockholm-born brand opens Acne Paper Palais Royal, its first-ever permanent gallery, tucked beneath the neoclassical arcades of Paris’s historic Palais Royal. More than a white box, the space is a full-on creative salon: a stage for exhibitions, artist talks, magazine launches, and everything in between. If Acne Paper was the brand’s intellectual love letter to culture, this gallery is its embodied form.

Set at 124 Galerie de Valois, the new space is designed to blur the lines between fashion and the creative disciplines that inform it. Think image-makers, thinkers, and artisans in deep dialogue — not just with the work, but with the city, the architecture, and each other.

Acne Paper Comes to Life

With this move, Acne Studios doubles down on its OG ethos: that art, photography, and publishing aren’t extras — they’re the core. The Palais Royal gallery will spotlight voices both emerging and iconic, each exhibition curated to riff off the storied surroundings and the brand’s multidimensional DNA.

The debut exhibition opens June 26, featuring Dutch photography provocateur Paul Kooiker. Titled 2025, the show presents 42 uncanny portraits of students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam — a nod to school photo traditions, reimagined through Kooiker’s offbeat, otherworldly lens.

A Cultural Commitment

More than a sleek addition to the Paris art scene, Acne Paper Palais Royal marks Acne Studios’ evolution from cult fashion brand to full-fledged cultural institution. It’s a bold step — but also, somehow, exactly what we’d expect.

Heritage meets now. Art meets fashion. Acne meets the future.