Goswell Road 10 Years

In celebration of publishing house and artist-run space Goswell Road’s tenth anniversary, join writer, critic, and curator Marie Canet in conversation with Goswell Road founders, Coralie Ruiz and Anthony Stephinson.

Goswell Road was founded in 2016 by artists Coralie Ruiz and Anthony Stephinson in their studio in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. It has since evolved into what its founders refer to as a “living, evolving work”. Every project interrupts the exhibition format; each show is accompanied by a publication, and a carefully curated bouquet. These bouquets, or ‘living sculptures’, embody the program’s values of hospitality and attention, and side-eye the bombast of the commercial gallery bouquet. On the eve of each exhibition opening, Goswell Road literally ‘gives the artist their flowers’.

They have paved a unique curatorial path over the last ten years, bringing in artists whose work is frequently marginalised—transgressive, underappreciated, unfashionable or historically disregarded—and reintegrating them into larger institutional and artistic narratives. Often, transposing artists from their established disciplines into the realm of the ‘contemporary art world’ allows them to reassess their oeuvre in the art historical timeline. The space has contributed to a broader ecology of independent structures, emphasising collaboration, publishing, and alternative modes of circulation as central rather than supplemental to exhibition-making.

The discussion will examine Goswell Road as a structure formed by relationships and changing forms of attention rather than just as a venue. Together, they will examine how publishing functions as a continuation of curatorial practice, how exhibitions endure through printed materials, and how communities are formed around common interests rather than institutional frameworks.

The conversation will provide an insight into ten years of independent practice—as well as the forms of continuity, care, and resistance that support it.