About
The christian berst art brut gallery is internationally recognized as a key player in its field.
Active for almost 20 years, it has organized nearly 100 exhibitions, each accompanied by a bilingual publication. The growing interest of the art world in art brut has been recently demonstrated by the inclusion, over the past three years, of more than fifty artists of the gallery into the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou), MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Since 2020, the gallery has made some 700 loans to several of the world’s leading museum institutions – Fondazione Prada (Venice), The Barbican Centre (London), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Metz), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), MAMC-Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (Saint-Étienne), Centre pour l’Art Contemporain (Geneva), American Folk Art Museum (New York) – along with the international art biennials in Athens, Shanghai, and Berlin, as well as the Venice Biennales of 2013 and 2017.
The same Venice Biennale, for its upcoming edition (2024), will make the “art brut artist” a “central focus,” as stressed by its curator, Adriano Pedrosa.
The Centre Pompidou, which opened an art brut room in its permanent collections in 2022, plans to further explore this field through a major exhibition (scheduled after its reopening in 2027). This exhibition will be preceded in 2026 by another, of comparable ambition, at the recently renovated Grand Palais.
The gallery will then have solidified its contribution to the theoretical discourse that now drives art brut – a point also underscored by the documentary La folie art brut co-produced by the Centre Pompidou and broadcasted on Arte in 2023. Among its major initiatives: a strengthened presence in major international art fairs, including Paris+ by Art Basel, 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 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
Zoé Zachariasen
pr and communication manager
Amanda Jamme
+33 6 62 16 18 81
amanda@christianberst.com
sales & development
Guillaume Oranger
identity and website
Tristan Bagot
Élodie Fabbri
To those who have helped us become what we are
Milarepa Bacot, Hélène Barré, Sarah et Jean-Claude Berny, Yoann Blot, Camille Boury, Aurélie Capdevielle, Emilie Champenois, Géraldine Clerc, Amélie Danchin, Émilie Deroo, Olga Escoffier, Aurélien Farina, Cléophée Fusier, Coralie Goyard, Benedetta Grazioli, Hortense Hinsinger, Lola Jallet, Phillip March Jones, Alix de Laminne de Bex, Antoine Langé, Elsie Le Couguic, Eléonore Llorens, Aïwen Lu, Philipp March Jones, Caterina Nizzoli, Fanny Rojat, Sophie Roudier, Chiara Sartor, Simon Seguier, Nadine Servant, Marie Tanguy, Margaux Voillat, Rong Zheng, Selma Khallaf, Sophie Bonnet, Alice Pepey, Anais Boulon, Romane Marliot, Jonathan Schurdevin, Evan Milliet.