5 BIS
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Charlotte Gainsbourg’s first photography exhibition, 5bis, with the support of Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Maja Hoffmann, will be presented as part of the 57th Rencontres d’Arles photography festival. The exhibition, curated by Matthieu Humery, comprising of many previously unseen images of the home of her father Serge Gainsbourg at 5bis Rue de Verneuil in Paris, will be held at La Galerie du Cloître in Arles from July 6 to September 6, 2026. It will then travel to Paris, where it will be shown at the Saint Laurent Rive Droite boutique from September 24th.

With 5bis, Charlotte Gainsbourg documents Maison Gainsbourg just before it became a museum dedicated to the life and work of her father Serge Gainsbourg, one of France’s most famous sons — a singer, songwriter, poet, actor, cultural statesman, and, at times, provocateur. Ahead of its opening to the public, Ms. Gainsbourg took her Hasselblad to the place where she once lived and photographed it. What resulted can be seen in 5bis: An exhibition that is an act of love, memory, and remembrance, featuring over twenty intimate images. Together they take us through the Gainsbourg home as any of us might visit a place that’s deeply familiar: Emotional flashes of the past coming clearly and poignantly into the present.

The accompanying 5bis book, published by Saint Laurent Editions, will be available in several versions: a standard edition of one thousand copies, a limited edition of fifteen books, each of which includes five silver gelatin prints, and lastly, nine artist’s editions, with an additional silver gelatin print and text handwritten by Charlotte Gainsbourg herself. Yet with exhibition and book alike, 5bis reveals how Charlotte Gainsbourg has transformed memory and nostalgia into artistic creation.