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The curator of the first exhibition in the Red House of the Today Art Museum in Beijing was Christian Berst, assisted by Anna Liang.

Josef Hofer, John Devlin, Dan Miller and Albert Moser will be featured.

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josef hofer drawing - © © florian moser, christian berst — art brut

Josef Hofer

A resident of an Austrian institution, Josef Hofer did not speak; he drew. Tirelessly. In the mirror he held up to himself and to us, his figures strive to take flight within the confines of the frame, with an eroticized, untamed grace. His drawings give visual form to a foundational duality between body and psyche.
Held by numerous museums, his work features in major private collections such as those of Antoine de Galbert (FR) and Arnulf Rainer (AT), who regarded him as “one of the greatest contemporary art brut artists.” A significant group of his works entered the collections of the Centre Pompidou in 2021.
In 2026, the gallery published a 270-page monograph and launched an online catalogue raisonné of nearly 3,000 works.

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portrait of dan miller - © creative growth art center, christian berst — art brut

Dan Miller

Having become, in a decade, one of the most recognized contemporary brut artists, this autistic native of California is sometimes compared to Cy Twombly: while the latter deconstructs language, the former builds it. Since 2010, the gallery has contributed to its international recognition by organizing several exhibitions and publishing the only monograph available to date, enriched with an essay by Richard Leemann. Present in countless public and private collections - including those of the MoMA and Pompidou –, Dan Miller’s work was also part of the official selection of the 2017 Venice Biennale.

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Albert Moser - © christian berst — art brut

Albert Moser

This American artist, autistic, lived most of his life with his parents, before joining the New Jersey foster home. Moser first gained recognition for his tinkered photographic panoramas, then for his psychedelic geometric designs. But whatever the medium, his work testifies to the same obsession with space. They report, in their own way, the vertigo through which he tries to find his place in the world. Exhibited in 2019 at the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, his work is as well in the collections of Antoine de Galbert (France) and Treger Saint Silvestre (Portugal).

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portrait of john devlin - © christian berst — art brut

John Devlin

John Devlin was only 25 years old when he left Canada to study theology at Cambridge and set himself on the path to priesthood. Although he adored Cambridge, he had to return and abandon his ecclesiastical dreams because of a psychotic disorder. He thus devoted his life to drawing his own Nova Cantabrigiensis, an idealized Cambridge that became both a symbolic projection and a healing protocol. Once his great work - developed in secret - was discovered in the late 1980s, he was the subject of numerous exhibitions and publications including the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles for the iconic exhibition Photo Brut.

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