About
The Christian Berst Art Brut Gallery is internationally recognized as a leading figure in its field. Active for nearly 20 years, it has organized close to 100 exhibitions, with as many bilingual publications.
The art world’s growing interest in Art Brut is illustrated by the fact that, over the past three years, more than fifty of the gallery’s artists have entered the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou), MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
In addition, since 2020, the gallery has made some 700 loans to some of the world’s leading museum institutions - Fondation Prada, The Barbican Center, Museo Reina Sofía, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Lafayette Anticipations, Palais de Tokyo, Center Pompidou Metz, MAMC-Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Centre d’Art Contemporain, American Folk Art Museum - as well as the Athens, Shanghai and Berlin International Art Biennials, and the 2013 and 2017 Venice Biennials.
In 2024, the same Venice Biennale will make the “brut artist” a “main axis”, as its curator Adriano Pedrosa points out. The Centre Pompidou, which opened an Art Brut room in its permanent collections in 2022, plans to explore this field of art with a major exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2025. By then, the gallery will have consolidated its contribution to the theoretical emulation that now drives art brut, as highlighted by the documentary La folie art brut, co-produced by the Centre Pompidou and broadcast by Arte in 2023. Among its major actions: a reinforced presence at major international fairs, including Art Basel Paris, Paris Photo, artgenève, ARCOmadrid, and the Independent Art Fair.
In 2020, the gallery opened a second space - the bridge - where guest curators express their vision of a fruitful dialogue between art brut and other categories of art.
founder
Christian Berst
associates
Daniel & Carmen Klein
Antoine Frérot
executive partner
Elisa Berst
managing director
Adriana Bustamante
office manager
Jeanne Rouxhet
exhibition manager
Juliette Lefebvre
press
Juliette Lefebvre
+33 6 62 16 18 81
juliette@christianberst.com
identity and website
Tristan Bagot
Élodie Fabbri
To those who have helped us become what we are
Manuel Anceau, Milarepa Bacot, Hélène Barré, Sarah et Jean-Claude Berny, Enki Berst, Sylvain Berst, Yoann Blot, Sophie Bonnet, Anais Boulon, Camille Boury, Aurélie Capdevielle, Emilie Champenois, Géraldine Clerc, Amélie Danchin, Émilie Deroo, Olga Escoffier, Aurélien Farina, Jeanne Fournier, Cléophée Fusier, Coralie Goyard, Benedetta Grazioli, Hortense Hinsinger, Lola Jallet, Phillip March Jones, Selma Khallaf, Alejandro Labrador, Alix de Laminne de Bex, Antoine Langé, Elsie Le Couguic, Eléonore Llorens, Aïwen Lu, Romane Marliot, Philipp March Jones, Evan Milliet, Caterina Nizzoli, Guillaume Oranger, Fanny Rojat, Sophie Roudier, Chiara Sartor, Simon Seguier, Nadine Servant, Marie Tanguy, Elisabeth Telsnig, Margaux Voillat, Rong Zheng, Alice Pepey, Jonathan Schurdevin, Zoé zachariasen.