opening of The Bridge
new gallery space
On the occasion of our 15th anniversary, Christian Berst Art Brut will open a second gallery space called The Bridge, located a few steps away, across the alley. This new space will serve as a physical and intellectual bridge between art brut and other categories of art by inviting guest curators to express their own vision of this fruitful dialogue.
Under the auspices of a unifying theme, guest curators will be invited seven times a year to display the works of artists from the gallery alongside those drawn from elsewhere. The Bridge’s exhibition dates will mirror those of the main gallery, and in the same spirit, will be accompanied by a bilingual publication.
The gallery whose focus remains on both the decompartmentalization of the genre, while calling into question the specificities of what we call art brut, continues to work in close collaboration with independent curators including Jean-Hubert Martin, Gaël Charbau, and Matali Crasset, among others. To date, the gallery has published the writings of eighty curators from the contemporary art world, a reality that has not only allowed art brut to emerge from its insularity, but created a new platform for reflection and openness to the larger art world.
