High and Dry: Katinka Bock at the Maison La Roche — Paris

Le Corbusier wanted the walls of the Maison La Roche white and the surfaces clean, a machine for looking at paintings, built in 1923-1925 for the banker and collector Raoul La Roche in a quiet cul-de-sac of the sixteenth arrondissement. For nineteen days in October the German-born sculptor Katinka Bock moves into it with work made of glass, wood, copper and clay — materials that rust, stain and change with the weather, which is precisely what the house was designed to keep out.

The exhibition, called High and Dry, is organised by the Fondation Le Corbusier together with Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and curated by Raphaël Giannésini, and it opens in the week of Art Basel Paris. It gathers sculptures, prints, photographs and installations that Bock has placed through the rooms and the ramp of the villa. The title is a sailor’s phrase for a boat left out of the water, and the house invites it: La Roche was the first building in which Le Corbusier raised a volume on pilotis, and the result has been compared to an ocean liner since the 1920s.

The Maison La Roche is a UNESCO World Heritage property, part of the transnational series “The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier”, and it is open to visitors the rest of the year as a house museum. During the exhibition the usual ticket applies.

Practical details

• When: 13 to 31 October 2026
• Where: Maison La Roche, 10 square du Docteur Blanche, 75016 Paris, France (entrance at 55 rue du Docteur Blanche)
• Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm, last admission 5.30pm
• Admission: 10 euro full, 5 euro reduced, free under 14; booking online
• Organised by: Fondation Le Corbusier with Galerie Jocelyn Wolff; curator Raphaël Giannésini

Cultural Heritage Online lists this exhibition for readers in Paris in October.