Around 6 times per year, agnès b. and Hans-Ulrich Obrist give carte blanche to an artist to appropriate the space of the paper. An 8-page tabloid format, identical for each artist. Repetition and difference.

This is not a paper about art, each issue is created by an artist, architect, filmmaker, musician photographer, writer…

100,000 to 300,000 copies are available free of charge around the world (in bookshops, museums, galleries, schools, cafés, etc.), as well as in all of the agnès b. locations (France, Europe, USA, Asia).

Point d’ironie n° 37 by Ed Ruscha at agnès b., rue du Jour, Paris.
Sculpture by Jen-chri.


Point d’ironie n° 36 by Tacita Dean, at agnès b.
Sculpture by Jen-chri.

Idea: offer works of art on paper in the age of electronic communication–to touch, to read (or not), to exhibit, to frame, to archive, to throw away or wrap gifts with – destined to appear and to disappear.

It was founded in 1997 by agnès b., Christian Boltanski, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Carrie Pilto.

*Invented by the French writer Alcanter de Brahm at the end of the 19th century, the point d'ironie is a punctuation mark, which can be used at the end of sentences (like an exclamation point or question mark) to indicate to the reader the ironic phrases in the text.

For further information, or to become a point d’ironie distributor, please contact us at ironie@agnesb.fr