Exhibitions

These six brut photographers share a common approach: they conceive of the body as a stage for intimacy, transgression, and obsession. These staged bodies — transformed, fetishized, sutured — free[…]

Scarred faces, dismembered bodies, scars and crosses everywhere: Cadi’s horrific world is populated by mutant beings. Like a sorcerer’s apprentice, each individual photographed has undergone a[…]

After looking through hundreds of Jorge Alberto Cadi’s photocollages while preparing this exhibition, images from my collection of amateur photographs came back to me, as if inevitably. Cadi[…]

On the occasion of the 2025 edition of Art Basel Paris, the gallery is dedicating its booth (G11) to Julia Krause-Harder, presenting a display of her monumental dinosaur sculptures that invites the[…]

For its first participation in OFFSCREEN, the gallery is presenting a solo show of panoramas created by Albert Moser (1928–2022) in complete secrecy, beginning in the 1970s and continuing for more[…]

It is not uncommon for people to confuse the terms art brut and tribal art. I see two main reasons for this: the first lies in the adjectives brut and tribal, which seem to suggest that we are[…]

The meeting with Christian Berst is rooted in a spirit of shared curiosity and boldness. As the gallery celebrates its 20th anniversary, it opens its doors to a ten-year editorial adventure, spanning[…]

Variation in music lies in the transformation of an element, revisited in different forms but always recognizable. Here, Art Brut serves as the element we will consider in its variety. For, let us[…]

The gallery is dedicating its second solo exhibition to Anton Hirschfeld, with the support of the Cnap. The works presented in kind of blue mark an important stage in his journey. They reveal a body[…]

The exhibition Le manque (The Lack) is the result of a dialogue built around works either created or collected by Sophie Calle, alongside pieces of Art Brut selected from the Christian Berst gallery.

Who was John Urho Kemp (1942–2010)? Mystic, alchemist, mathematical poet, or simply an explorer of reality, Kemp remains an elusive figure. His works—which he called “offerings”—blended sacred[…]

The gallery is pleased to announce that Annette Messager will curate our booth (D16) showcasing a selection of works by women artists, both classic and contemporary, at the Art Paris fair at the[…]

What, then, is brewing “in the interval between the readable and the visible” – as Michel Thévoz describes it – or in what Dubuffet called the “implicit languages”?

The gallery is presenting for the first time a selection of works by Swiss artist Pascal Vonlanthen, whose creations possess a remarkable formal intensity.

It is under the sign of the full moon ( luna llena )—that celestial body presiding over the metamorphosis of man into werewolf—that this third exhibition dedicated to the lycanthropic Madrid-based[…]

Born in Livorno in 1945, Bellucci began creating objects in the late 1970s, thus channeling his destructive impulses and reconciling them – through the frequent use of toys – with the state of[…]