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Group exhibition · 2025

Quiet Grounds

PIASA · Paris

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Group exhibition installation with sculptures and paintings — Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris, 2025. Photography — Nicola Morittu.

Angular wooden sculpture beside a large painting — Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris, 2025. Photography — Nicola Morittu.

Pale wooden sculpture and paintings in the end room — Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris, 2025. Photography — Nicola Morittu.

Tall wooden sculpture and a sphere across the gallery — Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris, 2025. Photography — Nicola Morittu.

A dark carved wooden column pierced with openings on a white plinth beside PIASA’s spiral staircase, Quiet Grounds, Paris — Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris, 2025. Photography — Nicola Morittu.

Two dark carved wooden columns on plinths in PIASA’s gallery, the spiral staircase between them — Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris, 2025. Photography — Nicola Morittu.

A dark carved wooden sculpture on a white plinth in front of a large painting at PIASA — Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris, 2025. Photography — Nicola Morittu.

The PIASA facade on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré with a dark carved column standing in the window — PIASA, Paris, during Quiet Grounds, 2025. Photography — Nicola Morittu.

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Date: October 2025
Location: PIASA · Paris
Format: Group exhibition

Quiet Grounds was a Tyburn Foundation group exhibition at PIASA in Paris, presenting work developed following residencies in Italy and Zimbabwe. Driaan Claassen exhibited alongside Primrose Panashe Chingandu, Michele Mathison and Mbali Tshabalala.

His presentation included four wood sculptures and four paintings. The paintings developed during his Civitella Ranieri fellowship extended his sculpture practice through colour, line and gesture. The eight works shown here are recorded in the exhibition archive.

Tyburn Foundation exhibition record

Works in the exhibition

Eight works by Driaan Claassen · exhibition archive.

Feel your way through — wood sculpture by Driaan Claassen, Neural Pathway collection, 2025

Feel your way through

Break your limitations — wood sculpture by Driaan Claassen, Neural Pathway collection, 2025

Break your limitations

Trust yourself — wood sculpture by Driaan Claassen, Conscience collection, 2021

Trust yourself

Joy can be found inside — work by Driaan Claassen, shown in Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris, 2025

Joy can be found inside

Untitled II, 2025 — painting by Driaan Claassen made at Civitella Ranieri, shown in Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris

Untitled II

Untitled I, 2025 — painting by Driaan Claassen made at Civitella Ranieri, shown in Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris

Untitled I

Untitled IV, 2025 — painting by Driaan Claassen made at Civitella Ranieri, shown in Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris

Untitled IV

Untitled III, 2025 — painting by Driaan Claassen made at Civitella Ranieri, shown in Quiet Grounds, PIASA, Paris

Untitled III