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Christian berst art brut gallery is internationally recognized as a key player in its field.
The growing interest that the art world is showing in outsider art has recently been illustrated by the inclusion, over the past three years, of over fifty gallery artists in the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou), MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Furthermore, since 2020, the gallery has loaned artwork to some of the world’s largest museum institutions—such as the Fondation Prada, The Barbican Center, Museo Reina Sofía, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Lafayette Anticipations, Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou Metz, MAMC-Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Centre d’Art Contemporain, and the American Folk Art Museum—alongside international art biennials in Athens, Shanghai, and Berlin, as well as the Venice Biennales of 2013 and 2017.
This year, the same Venice Biennale presents the “art brut” as a “main axis,” as highlighted by its curator, Adriano Pedrosa. The Centre Pompidou, which opened an outsider art gallery in its permanent collections in 2022, plans to explore this field of art through a large-scale exhibition (scheduled after its reopening in 2027). This exhibition will be preceded in 2026 by another, with comparable ambition, in the newly renovated Grand Palais. The gallery will then have consolidated its contribution to the theoretical emulation that now drives outsider art, as evidenced by the documentary “La folie art brut,” co-produced by the Centre Pompidou and broadcasted by Arte in 2023. Among its major initiatives: an increased 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 invited 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
Zoé Zachariasen
pr and communication manager
Amanda Jamme
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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.