Art brut: breaking the boundaries
curator Christian Berst
Opening on the 1st of June, the Oliva Creative Factory Museum, close to Porto, opens its second floor to Richard Treger and Antonio Saint Silvestre art brut collection.
Christian Berst is the curator of this section. The works of some 75 creators will be exhibited among them the classics (Wolfli, Darger, Domsic, Voll, Erhard, Evaristo, Zemankova, Gironella, Deeds, Held, Monsiel, Janke, Lesage, Lobanov, Lonné, Wilson, Perdrizet, Schröder-Sonnenstern…) and the contemporaries (Widener, Hofer, Guo, Romanenkov, Stoffers, Moser, Mitchell, Lippstreu, Kapeller, Bosco, Tichy, Ademeit, Koochaki, Plny, Robillard, Wittlich…).
The ground floor will show the singular and contemporary pieces of the collection supported by a 300 page catalogue.
![portrait of éric benetto - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/eric-benetto/a6d4cc1c1a-1608547167/portrait-benetto-1-400x.jpg)
![portrait of giovanni bosco - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/giovanni-bosco/fec6aab5c1-1608547167/giovanni-bosco-avec-pinceau-400x.jpg)
![Henry Darger - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/henry-darger/eb7cd1c627-1608547167/henry-darger-400x.jpg)
![James Edward Deeds - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/james-edward-deeds/c68aa7d690-1655904136/james-edward-deeds-age-36-400x.jpg)
![Janko Domsic - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/janko-domsic/026dce83ba-1608547167/dom032-400x.jpg)
![Guo Fengyi - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/guo-fengyi/1db1504b74-1701360123/guo-dessine-1200x-400x.jpg)
![Sebastián Ferreira - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/sebastian-ferreira/4f3ac579f7-1682613051/img-0439-site-internet-400x.jpg)
![portrait of pietro ghizzardi - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/pietro-ghizzardi/fb3d373298-1608547167/portrait-pietro-ghizzardi-400x.jpg)
![Joaquim Vicens Gironella during the shooting of the movie *Le Liège et la Mémoire* 1992-1993 - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/joaquim-vicens-gironella/93f1642db2-1679322299/giro-400x.jpg)
![johann hauser, gugging - © martin vukovits foto, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/johann-hauser/33aac7c65e-1608547167/hauser-400x.jpg)
![josef hofer drawing - © © florian moser, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/josef-hofer/98333364b0-1608547167/portrait-josef-hofer-c-florian-moser-400x.jpg)
![Davood Koochaki - © ©christian berst art brut, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/davood-koochaki/e34ced82c4-1608547167/davood-koochaki-400x.jpg)
![Augustin Lesage - © © Désiré Appourchaux, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/augustin-lesage/5116346fd4-1608547167/lesage-portrait-400x.jpg)
![Alexandre Lobanov - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/alexandre-lobanov/22bdbc6f81-1608547167/portrait-lobanov-400x.jpg)
![portrait of raphaël lonné - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/raphael-lonne/f23d705394-1608547167/raphel-lonne-portrait-400x.jpg)
![Edmund Monsiel - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/edmund-monsiel/e6fd94a298-1608547167/mon3-001-400x.jpg)
![Albert Moser - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/albert-moser/9921a36e8e-1608547167/portrait-albert-moser-400x.jpg)
![Jean Perdrizet - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/jean-perdrizet/6118483540-1608547167/perdrizetjeune-x-400x.jpg)
![Luboš Plný - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/lubos-plny/d4593095b3-1700755724/capture-decran-2023-07-08-181343-400x-400x.png)
![Marco Raugei - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/marco-raugei/f99fb7d822-1608547167/marco-raugei-400x.jpg)
![andré robillard - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/andre-robillard/7b5b94805d-1608547167/andre-robillard-accordeon-400x.jpg)
![friedrich schröder-sonnenstern - © photo: dietmar bührer, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/friedrich-schroder-sonnenstern/66ffac88ea-1608547167/157970-xxl-400x.jpg)
![portrait of henry speller - © photo: william arnett, 1987, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/henry-speller/7e1cbd21f6-1608547167/henry-speller-400x.jpg)
![harald stoffers - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/harald-stoffers/7601f1b23e-1608547167/portrait-harald-stoffers-1-400x.jpg)
![Miroslav Tichý - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/miroslav-tichy/ec249288d4-1608547167/tic015-400x.jpg)
![eugene von bruenchenhein, self-portrait, 1947. - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/eugene-von-bruenchenhein/f793df7e4d-1608547167/eugene-von-bruenchenhein-400x.jpg)
![george widener - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/george-widener/bc2674288b-1608547167/portrait-george-widener-400x.jpg)
![Scottie Louis Freeman Wilson - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/scottie-wilson/20d291026a-1608547167/wil019-400x.jpg)
![adolf wölfli - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/adolf-wolfli/9013fafa44-1608547167/adolf-wolfli-portrait-400x.jpg)
![anna zemankova - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/anna-zemankova/6a69bef89b-1608547167/zemankova-portrait-400x.jpg)