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Long perceived as a terra incognita, outsider art has now made its way onto the walls of the world’s leading institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art to the Centre Pompidou, from the Albertina Modern to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and from the Museo Reina Sofía to the Tate Modern. A new chapter in the history of art is thus being written.

To shed light on these individual mythologies that long remained secret, we have chosen to present two major artists in this field—Anna Zemánková and Carlo Zinelli—alongside three rising figures: Misleidys Castillo Pedroso, Julia Krause-Harder, and Yuichiro Ukaï.

The Czech visionary Anna Zemánková, with her mysterious organic blossoms; the Italian Carlo Zinelli, a hallucinatory chronicler of an autobiographical theater; the Cuban Misleidys Castillo Pedroso and her totemic companions; the German Julia Krause-Harder, poetically resurrecting dinosaurs; and the Japanese Yuichiro Ukaï, who fuses classical Japanese and Flemish painting with contemporary pop culture.

Artworks
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Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso untitled, 2018
34.25 x 61.42 in
Julia Krause-Harder Juravenator, 2013
40.94 x 20.08 in
Yuichiro Ukaï untitled, 2015
42.52 x 29.92 in
Anna Zemánková untitled, 1965
34.65 x 24.41 in
untitled - © christian berst — art brut
Carlo Zinelli untitled, 1963
19.29 x 27.56 in
Artists
Carlo Zinelli - © christian berst — art brut

Carlo Zinelli

Committed at 31 years old after participating in the Spanish Civil War, Carlo Zinelli is now seen as a major figure of art brut. Like tales illustrating episodes of his life before his internment, his iterative and dislocated drawings in which perspective is abandoned and replaced by interstitial writings aligned with the concept of “modernity”. Honored in many international exhibitions, Carlo Zinelli was exhibited in the Giardini at the 2013 Venice Biennale and we are pleased to present his work at Art Basel Paris 2024. Many of his works were donated to the Centre Pompidou in 2021.

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anna zemankova - © christian berst — art brut

Anna Zemánková

It was at the beginning of the 1960s that this humble Moravian woman began creating works, strikingly responding to impulses from the depths. At dawn, she would mentally gather flowers “that grow nowhere else,” making them emerge from the paper.
Anna Zemánková is an established figure of outsider art, to the point that she was honored in 2013 at the Venice Biennale before a significant collection of her works joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Mumok.
In 2023, the gallery presented her in a solo show at Art Basel Paris, and the following year Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the Venice Biennale, exhibited a group of her works. In 2026, the Hermès Corporate Foundation in Brussels subsequently presented eight of her drawings.

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portrait of misleidys castillo pedroso - © christian berst — art brut

Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso

This Cuban artist has no other means of expression than that of her creation. The walls of her home, where she lives with her mother, are covered with drawings of bodybuilders, brown tape scattered along the outlines. A true community of men, women, hermaphrodites and wildlife, Misleidys has built her sociality through her work. Discovered by the gallery in 2014, she has been featured in more than 10 international exhibitions since 2018, including New Images of Man in Los Angeles, Flying High in Vienna, and Independent in New York. Acclaimed by Matthew Higgs and Karen Wong (New Museum, NYC), the artist has been the subject of recent reviews in the New York Times and Art in America.
A significant number of his works was donated to the Centre Pompidou collection in 2021.

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yuichiro ukai - © yamanami, christian berst — art brut

Yuichiro Ukaï

Yuichiro Ukai, a member of the renowned Yamanami workshop in Japan, is a passionate illustrator: he strives to draw, from memory, characters from the manga world, etchings, and from encyclopedic works on Reptiliomorpha. These serials or polyptych drawings, often overloaded and of a breathtaking precision, are singularly reminiscent of the triptychs of the Flemish primitive, Jérôme Bosch. Exhibited for the first time in France at the gallery in 2019, his work is now very popular, especially as its rarity only sharpens this appeal.

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Julia Krause-Harder - © christian berst — art brut

Julia Krause-Harder

Julia Krause-Harder’s work is driven by a profound fascination with paleontology and geography. The artist’s goal is to bring back to life the 800 documented species of dinosaurs.

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