H.R. Giger Paris

Long Story Short Paris, in collaboration with Mai 36 Galerie and Kaleidoscope magazine, presents H.R. Giger Paris, an exhibition dedicated to the visionary Swiss artist H.R. Giger.

The show brings together original works spanning Giger’s career including a life-size Necronom from the original Alien III film, an emblematic sculpture that embodies the very essence of Giger’s biomechanica vision.

Hans Ruedi Giger (1940–2014) is one of the most influential artists of the late 20th century. Renowned for designing the alien in Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic, he created a distinctive “biomechanical” aesthetic where human anatomy, technology, and surreal imagination converge. His paintings, sculptures, and drawings collapse dream and reality, life and death, man and machine — a vision that continues to shape cinema, fashion, music, and contemporary art.

The exhibition highlights key works from the late 1960s onward, tracing the evolution of Giger’s dystopian imagination. Decades after his iconic creations, his themes feel uncannily prescient: in an era of AI, transhumanism, and ecological uncertainty, Giger’s fantastic realism confronts human fragility, machine sovereignty, and the shadow side of progress.