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Damien Fragnon is a French artist born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1987, living and working in Sète. He obtained his DNSEP in 2015 at the ESAAA (Annecy Alpes) then moved to Lyon where he benefited from the Grand-Large workshops for 3 years. He then started presenting his work in various art venues such as La BF15, Kommet in Lyon, Ceysson-Bénétière Saint-Etienne, as well as Chapelle XIV and Villa Radet in Paris; started a residency with the Institut Français and S.A.C art LAB in Thailand before exhibiting in Chiang-Maï and Bangkok. In 2020, he started collaborating internationally: Amsterdam and Tapachula, Mexico. The same year, he entered Moly Sabata to prepare the Galeries Nomades at the IAC, where he receives the Friends of the IAC prize (2021).

In 2021 the town of Sète awards him a studio and he takes part in the CANAL ROYAL project at the Crac de Sète in partnership with Mécènes du Sud. Since then, he presented his work in Marseille and in a duo exhibition with Naomi Maury at Mécènes du Sud, curated by Géraldine Gourbe, joined the brain space laboratory at L'I.A.C., which took him to exhibit in their collection at the Fondation Robert Ardouvin until 2023. After winning the Jury Prize at ceramic brussels 2024, and two additional special awards, one from the Fondation LAccolade and the other from the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris, Damien exhibited his work in a number of venues, including Nendo Galerie, the Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the Fig in Saint dié-des-vosges, the Sète-Lisboa festival and Artissima and is currently a resident at the cité des arts in partnership with the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

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Damien Fragnon is the winner of the ceramic brussels jury prize 2024. He was chosen among the 10 laureates and has won the opportunity to exhibit his work during ceramic brussels 2025. His solo show is called: The Alpha Seashell groto 2140.

A contemporary art and design gallery celebrating exchanges between the Western scene and the Global South, 110 Galerie Véronique Rieffel is a new key player in the promotion and dissemination of these artists and their cultural contexts in France and around the world. It presents works by artists from the Middle East and Africa, as well as international artists who have forged strong links with these regions of the world. 

Founded by Véronique Rieffel, a curator and author specialising in art from Africa and the Middle East, the gallery is dedicated to promoting emerging and established artists, and pursues a demanding artistic policy that encourages multidisciplinary approaches between the two shores of the Mediterranean.  

Faced with contemporary challenges, the gallery offers an open platform for today's social, environmental, political and cultural issues, cultivating an ethical and responsible artistic approach. 

Located in the heart of Paris, the gallery occupies the 110 Honoré, a space dedicated to culture and experimentation where art, design, creation, well-being and the art of living intersect, offering an ideal setting for artistic exploration and discovery. 

The gallery also has a second exhibition space in Côte d'Ivoire, cementing its commitment to promoting the arts of Africa. 

le-110.fr/galerie 
@110veroniquerieffel

In 2018, AIFA was established with the aim of exhibiting and promoting the work of contemporary Japanese artists in Switzerland. The fulfilment of a desire to share emotions experienced during their many Japanese artistic discoveries. 

Japan's dynamic contemporary art scene, constantly fuelled by talented and creative artists, is relatively under-represented outside Japan, making it difficult for foreign art collectors to access. AIFA’s expertise in the Japanese contemporary art market and their privileged relationships allow them to offer a selection of quality original works. 

AIFA's artistic program revolves around individual and collective thematic exhibitions both at the Verbier gallery and in other places likely to host the exhibition of artworks. 

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@aifa.art

Almine Rech opened her first gallery with an associate in the Marais in Paris in November 1989, presenting an exhibition centered on a James Turrell ‘Space Division’ light piece. Since 1995, Almine Rech has continuously served as the sole director of the gallery.  

In addition to these long-standing relationships with artists such as Joseph Kosuth, James Turrell, and De Wain Valentine, Almine Rech works with young artists such as Farah Atassi, Oliver Beer, Genieve Figgis, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, George Rouy, Emma Stern, Claire Tabouret, Genesis Tramaine, Amanda Wall and Chloe Wise to name a few, alongside established artists and Estates, such as Karel Appel, Alexander Calder, Ha Chong-Hyun, Günther Förg, Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Antoni Tàpies, Mai-Thu, Richard Prince and Tom Wesselmann. In addition to its plethora of internationally recognized, mid-career and emerging artists, it has always been Almine Rech’s mission to continually seek out and include new artists in its program, opening especially to painters.  

In April 1997, the gallery relocated to a larger space in the 13th arrondissement in Paris and first presented a solo show by John McCracken, followed by James Turrell's '‘Wedgework Milkrun III’, which is now part of the Aarhus Museum Collection. Throughout the years, Almine Rech has expanded its spaces throughout Europe, United Kingdom, United States and Asia. The relocation of the initial gallery in Paris to the Marais opened in 2006 with a group exhibition curated by French fashion designer and photographer Hedi Slimane.

In the subsequent years new gallery spaces opened in Brussels, London, New York, and Shanghai. The inaugural exhibition in New York showcased works of Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso. A second space opened in Paris on Avenue Matignon (with a further expansion of the space in 2022), as well as two venues in Gstaad and the Principality of Monaco in 2023 and a second New York gallery in Tribeca, opened in the third quarter of 2023. 

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@alminerech

arsenicgalerie's vocation is to explore the most primitive and intimate expressions of artists from different worlds and horizons, all of whom, in the fertile terrain of their unbridled imaginations, express their sensitivity to the protean realities of the contemporary world with energy, humour, violence, impropriety and jubilation. 

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@arsenicgalerie

The genesis of BeCraft can be traced back to a small group of friends, most of them passionate ceramists, who got together in 1981 around Anne Leclercq, a ceramics teacher and one of the founding members of the association (then called the World Craft Council - French-speaking Belgium). Together, they worked to promote creative crafts and improve living conditions for creators.  

Over the years, the association and its objectives have expanded to become the sole representative of contemporary applied arts in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The active work carried out by its team to promote Walloon and Brussels artists, to ensure the continuity of know-how through the transmission of knowledge and to raise public awareness of the reality of contemporary applied arts is fundamental. 

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@becraftorg

After 14 years of promoting Belgian modern art at national and international fairs, the gallery is now concentrating on contemporary Belgian artists or artists living in Belgium, both in its Brussels space and through its concept of travelling exhibitions. 

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@BelgianGallery

Since its creation in 2004, Espace à vendre has been dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of the arts in all their forms. In 2015, Espace à vendre expanded with a second location, bringing the total space to over 250 m2. With nearly 20 years' experience, exhibitions at art fairs in France, Europe and New York, the structure is now nationally recognized, active in local and international networks, and acknowledged on the contemporary art scene thanks to its cutting-edge, forward-looking and singular programming. 

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@espace_avendre

Format was founded in 1991 and is a leading gallery for contemporary crafts and design in Norway. The gallery is an exhibition and sales venue of the finest artistic quality within the material-based arts. The gallery aims to strengthen the position of Norwegian contemporary crafts and design internationally, and through working with both established and emerging artists the gallery reflects the various tendencies in contemporary crafts and design today. The gallery’s goal is to challenge established norms while highlighting key values in the field by actively bringing a wider spectrum of artistic practices to the fore. 

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@formatoslo

Galerie Annabelle Boulakia, founded by Annabelle Cohen-Boulakia in June 2021, is a nomadic gallery that showcases the work of emerging French and international artists through private visits to artists' studios and the organisation of ephemeral exhibitions in Paris and abroad.  

Passionate about the diversity of materials and their expressive potential, Annabelle represents artists who explore a variety of mediums, each helping to create an aesthetic and convey a unique message within their artistic universe. 

Since its creation, Galerie Annabelle Boulakia has presented more than ten exhibitions, including three solo shows in London with Bolivian artist Kenia Almaraz Murillo (April 2022), Léo Nataf (October 2022) and Daniela Busarello (November 2023). 

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@galerie.annabelle.boulakia

Galerie Ariane C-Y specialises in contemporary art, focusing on emerging French and international artists: drawing, painting and sculpture. 

What sets the gallery apart is its support for ultra-contemporary creation. Each exhibition project is conceived in close collaboration with the artist. 

The themes addressed by the gallery highlight a form of intimacy, whether linked to the body, the home or nature. The artists represented by the gallery share a strong grounding in the history of art. 

Each exhibition is organised as an independent project. The exhibition venue varies to suit the specifics of the curatorial project. Most often, the gallery is located in Paris, in the Marais district, but also in the provinces and abroad. 

The gallery is open all year round by appointment in Paris, on rue Vaneau in the 7th arrondissement, and is a member of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art. 

The gallery publishes a catalogue for each solo exhibition, accompanied by a critical text. 

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@galeriearianecy

Based at the Marché Paul Bert in Saint-Ouen since 2015, Aurélien Gendras promotes the work of modern and contemporary sculptors. 

His work is both rediscovered, notably with the work of Anne Barrès, Michel Lanos and Georges Martin, and discovered with a dozen artists.  

The Gallery plays with the boundaries between decoration and contemporary art.  

This has led to a number of collaborations on sculptural ceramic furniture, including fireplaces by Laurent Dufour, tables and mirrors by Mia Jensen, benches by Maarten Stuer, light fittings by Denis Castaing and vases by Patrick Crulis, as well as pursuing a demanding project with sculptors Wayne Fischer and Pierre Martinon. 

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@aurelien_gendras 

Founded in 1984 in Paris, the gallery has remained faithful to the impulse of its first exhibition dedicated to the graphic work of Robert Motherwell, by cultivating an abundant and rigorous relationship with its artists and their work. Over the decades, the gallery’s identity has sharpened, while maintaining its motto : “nothing is forbidden”. 

In addition to organizing and supervising exhibitions, the gallery has developed an editorial vision. It publishes and co-publishes several books per year to accompany each visitor in their desire to learn more about the artists and their works. In doing so, Bernard Jordan brings to life an idea of art as a daily and long-lasting companionship. 

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Located in mysterious Sologne - a 17th-century historic heritage site attached to the Château de Nançay - the Galerie Capazza was created in 1975 by Sophie and Gérard Capazza. 

The gallery is designed as a haven of peace, where you can discover the works of 90 renowned contemporary artists in a peaceful natural setting. 

Ceramics, prints, silversmithing, painting, photography, sculpture, glass - the gallery is home to several hundred carefully selected works at any one time. 

In recent years, the gallery has been taken over by Laura and Denis Capazza-Durand, who, along with their team, are keen to share their passion with you. 

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@galeriecapazza

This Liège gallery was founded in 2006. Christine Colon, who holds an expert diploma in works of art awarded by the Chambre des Antiquaires de Belgique, has been assisted for over a year now by her son Pierre Hubeaux, who holds a Master's degree in Romance philology and literature from the University of Liège. They are keen to step up their presence at international contemporary art fairs, while maintaining a strong foothold in the cultural landscape of contemporary visual art in Liège.  

They regularly take part in institutional events in their home town, and every year take part in the "En piste!" event at the Musée de La Boverie, which showcases Liège's art centres and contemporary art galleries. 

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@christine.colon2018

Since 2007, the Galerie du Don has been part of the European centre for contemporary ceramics at Le Don du Fel in Aveyron. Its international vision and the rigour of its artistic choices have made it a local cultural phenomenon and, with fifty thousand visitors a year, one of the busiest ceramic art galleries in France.  

The gallery holds three major exhibitions a year. 

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@ledondufel

dudokdegroot was founded in 2015 by Nicole Dudok van Heel and Jedithja de Groot. 

The gallery has an interest in artists who push the boundaries of their medium in different techniques: photography, painting, video, three-dimensional art, drawings. In its space in Amsterdam, the gallery shows eight exhibitions, mostly solos, per year. In addition, the gallery presents work at fairs and in exhibitions on location. 

dudokdegroot.nl 
@galeriedudokdegroot

Founded in 2011, Galerie Fontana is committed to the development of a socially reflexive program by presenting work across all media including textile, painting, sculpture, photography and monumental installations. At Fontana, they pride themselves on presenting high quality artworks and specialize in contemporary art with emphasis on craftsmanship, materiality, and exquisite technical execution. 

However, the key ingredient determining their choice is a strong personal connection with the artwork and artist. In exhibiting works, especially from engaged female artists such as Claudy Jongstra, Carolein Smit and Hellen van Meene, they seek to embrace equality and unite all people from all nations around cutting-edge contemporary art. In the gallery program and at art fairs these beliefs are translated in their presentation. So not just phrases on website but tangible curated presentations where their respect for social values are expressed through contemporary crafts, conceptual by international leading artists. 

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@galeriefontana

In October 2001 Jacques Cerami opened a contemporary art gallery. Located in Couillet, the gallery organises five exhibitions a year from September to July, with monographic, collective or thematic projects. 

The aim is to present art in all its diversity, with a mix of different artistic disciplines (painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, photography, installation, video). The exhibition features artists who are close to the concerns of their time, and whose research questions our society. 

Considering openness to the outside world to be essential, it has set itself the goal of promoting young talent both nationally and internationally by helping them to find exhibition projects in galleries, art centres and museums. And in particular by taking part in Contemporary Art Fairs.   

The concern for the link between art and society is one of the constant themes in the work of the Galerie Jacques Cerami.

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@galeriejacquescerami

Founded in 1989, Galerie Lélia Mordoch presents the work of both established and emerging artists, with a particular predilection for art in movement and the artists of GRAV (Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel). 

From François Morellet to Miguel Chevalier, Julio Le Parc to Michel Paysant, Laordoch is constantly innovating while remaining true to its aesthetic: abstraction, kinetic art and, above all, poetry.  

In its thirty years of existence, the Galerie Lélia Mordoch has held numerous exhibitions in its Paris and Miami venues, as well as at international art fairs in France and the United States.  

From pixel to voxel, from mural sculpture to nano sculpture, the Lélia Mordoch Gallery invites you to discover the work of contemporary artists expressing themselves with both new technologies and traditional media.

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@leliamordochgallery 

Since March 2001, the Galerie Michel Giraud has been located on the Left Bank in Paris, in the heart of the most renowned Art Deco districts. It has thus found its place among the most prestigious galleries presenting this period. Mr. Giraud wanted to make his gallery a place of choice for collectors: he recreated the atmosphere of the interior of a 1930’s era collector, who would share his discoveries and passions on a daily basis or during an exhibition. 

Even if furniture has a prominent place with a selection of works by Ruhlmann, Printz and Sornay, no artistic discipline is left out: in addition to the arts of fire with ceramics by Jean Besnard or Emile Decoeur and glassware, the gallery also exhibits sculpture and painting. Although dedicated to Art Deco, the gallery is also open to the Fine Arts of the 20th century: from Gustave Moreau’s symbolism to contemporary artists. 

galeriemichelgiraud.com 
@galeriemichelgiraud

For more than 15 years, the Galerie Olivier Castaing / Team School Gallery has been promoting the work of established artists and young talents from all horizons, in a spirit that is radical, hard-hitting, transcultural and bubbling over. 

The School Gallery, founded in January 2008 by Olivier Castaing, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. It is located in the Haut Marais district, close to the Gaité Lyrique. 

The gallery aims to be a place for discovering and promoting contemporary art in all its forms, from installations and video to sculpture and ceramics, painting, drawing, photography, design and architecture. 

schoolgallery.fr 
@schoolgalleryparis

After opening on rue Saint-Claude in 1989, Galerie Polaris moved to its current location at 15 rue des Arquebusiers in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. 

The gallery has always been dedicated to presenting young artists who have had their first exhibition here. It follows the work of some twenty artists, including Yto Barrada , Sara Ouhaddou , Marcos Carrasquer, Speedy Graphito, Clémence van Lunen  ... From video to drawing, painting to photography, sculpture and ceramics, the gallery presents not the latest media, but the various trends that help artists express themselves today. 

It is keen to emphasize the long-term relationship that can and should exist between artist and gallery, institution and collector. 

Après avoir ouvert rue Saint-Claude en 1989, la galerie Polaris a déménagé dans l’espace actuel au 15 rue des Arquebusiers à Paris dans le 3 ème arrondissement. 

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@galeriepolaris

Galerie SCENE OUVERTE, located at 13 rue Bonaparte, Saint Germain des Prés in Paris, embodies the alliance between contemporary creativity and artisanal excellence. Here, beauty, craftsmanship and the sensations generated by materials converge to create a unique collection of art furniture and ceramics, available as one-off pieces or very limited editions. 

The young designers and ceramists represented by the gallery share a vision that transcends the simple functionality of objects. Their intrinsic creative energy, fuelled by in-depth research into materials and know-how, makes them part of a History of the Decorative Arts. Each work thus becomes the unique story of an era, a total vision of creation. 

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@gallery_sceneouverte 

Since 2018, Éditions Sylvain Courbois has devoted itself to producing artists' books and multiples. Julio Le Parc, Dorothy Iannone, Raphaël Zarka, Harold Ancart and Michel François are just some of the artists with whom projects have been launched. Since 2021, a gallery in Lille has been developing exhibitions around each new multiple project completed. These include Claudine Monchaussé in 2022, Michaël and Florian Quistrebert in 2023, Raphaël Zarka and Christian Hidaka in 2024. 

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@editions.sylvain.courbois

Galerie Tanit is a contemporary art gallery established in Munich in 1972 by Naila Kettaneh-Kunigk and Stefan Kunigk to be later joined by Walther Mollier in 1981. 

For over fifty years Galerie Tanit, now present in both Munich, Germany and Beirut, Lebanon, has worked with emerging artists as well as established artists. From introducing local art to the international scene and vice versa, Galerie Tanit has presented itself as a daring art gallery with a unique approach towards artists and the arts. 

Initial shows included Robert Rauschenberg, Michael Heizer and Jasper Johns, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hamish Fulton and Helmut Newton. 

The program of the 80s and 90s focused on showing artists from the minimal, conceptual, and arte povera movements. 

After 2002, the gallery's program gradually shifted to a younger generation of artists and introduced international artists like Jeremy Blake and Michael Lin to local audiences.  

Tanit Beirut opened in 2007 focusing on Artists from the Middle East like Nabil Nahas, Simone Fattal, Rania Matar, Sadik Alfraji, Youssef Abdelke, Zena Assi, Chafa Ghaddar and many more.  

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@galerietanit

Galerie Vallois Art Moderne et Contemporain was founded by Robert Vallois in 1983. Today it has two premises in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, at 35 and 41 rue de Seine, next door to the Art Deco gallery founded in 1971 by Robert and Cheska Vallois.  

Initially devoted to modern and contemporary sculpture, the gallery has gradually opened up to other media and now represents painters, photographers and sculptors from a wide range of geographical backgrounds.   

Since 2012, Galerie Vallois has been particularly committed to promoting the younger generation of African visual artists, mainly from Benin and its diaspora. 

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@cedric.destailleur

Galleria Anna Marra is active since 2013. Located in Rome’s ancient Jewish Ghetto, the space’s minimalist architecture is its main characteristic, mirrored in the choice of its exhibitions.

The Gallery focuses on valorising emerging and middle career talents, that promotes by organising exhibitions both in its own exhibition spaces and in public institutions (as Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum, Roma). For its exhibitions the gallery avails itself of scientific contributions from external curators with which each project is elaborated, as well as through the publication of dedicated monographs and catalogues, and participation in international art fairs. While maintaining its attentive eye on Italian art, the intent of the Gallery is also to bring to Italy artists from the international art scene.

Thanks to collaboration with galleries and curators in New York in 2016 it started a cycle of exhibitions dedicated to American artists active on the New York scene, with a particular focus on artists from the African Diaspora. The investigation of this last important artistic reality, which is finally receiving the attention it deserves at an international level, is entrusted to the curatorship of Larry Ossei-Mensah - Formerly Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAD), Detroit, and Curator-at-Large at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) - and Alessandro Romanini - Co-Curator of the Ivory Coast Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2022. Over the years, the gallery has broadened the exhibition proposal presenting artists also from South America and Middle-East, with the aim of comparison and cultural enrichment. 

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@galleriaannamarra

GoMulan Gallery was founded in 2019 by Mulan Go (1998). The gallery made its debut at Van Ostadestraat 43A in Amsterdam, initially as a pop-up space. Within a year, it evolved into a permanent establishment. Located within a historic school building at the heart of Amsterdam. GoMulan Gallery is dedicated to providing a platform for emerging artists. 

The gallery frequently paired avant garde with renowned artists, which results in a strong substantive connection between generations. 

gomulangallery.com 
@gomulangallery

Han Collection, established in London in 2006, is dedicated to showcasing exceptional Korean contemporary art and antiques to an international audience.

Under the leadership of Jinsoo Park, who brings over 30 years of expertise in the field, the gallery has become an important platform for presenting the rich diversity of Korean artistic traditions. Our extensive roster of established and emerging artists exemplifies the dynamic interplay between heritage and innovation.

Han Collection celebrates the richness of Korean art while fostering vibrant connections between Korean and global audiences, creating an inspiring space for artistic exploration and cultural dialogue.

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@hancollection.london

Founded by Hélène Bailly Marcilhac in 2007, the gallery has been based at 71, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris since 2015. 

HELENE BAILLY specialises in Impressionist and Modern Art. 

The gallery is committed to organising museum-quality exhibitions featuring works by major artists such as Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Edgar Degas, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dubuffet, Paul Gauguin, Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Serge Poliakoff, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Kees Van Dongen and Ossip Zadkine.  

For over a decade, they have contributed to the enrichment of international museum collections through publications, sales and loans to institutions such as the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée du Quai Branly, the Hermitage Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Singer Laren and the Palazzo Reale. 

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@helenebaillygallery

Hostler Burrows is a design gallery founded in 1998 by Juliet Burrows and Kim Hostler. Initially dedicated solely to Nordic design and decorative arts, the gallery has expanded its program and now integrates a full roster of contemporary artists, both established and emerging, with historical works. While international in scope, the gallery’s primary focus remains in Scandinavia and rooted in the tradition of studio ceramics, particularly work by female artists. 

hostlerburrows.com 
@hostlerburrows
@hb381gallery

Jarmuschek + Partner has been representing contemporary artists since 2004 and shows their works in Berlin, at external exhibition projects and at international art fairs. Many of the works presented move in a tension field between figurative-representational and abstraction, the focus is also on painting and the medium of paper. In addition to the long- standing collaboration with the artists of the gallery, also young positions are discovered and promoted. The communication of artistic content and the intensive exchange with visitors and a broad interested public are particularly important to the team. 

After initial locations in Sophienstraße in Mitte (until 2008) and the Halle am Wasser behind the Hamburger Bahnhof, Jarmuschek + Partner has been located since 2013 in the Mercator-Höfe at Potsdamer Straße, the former site of the Tagesspiegel newspaper, known for its numerous galleries and designers. Art already has a long tradition in the villa built by the painter Anton von Werner in the center of the area: In the gallery‘s current exhibition space, the then university director and chairman of the Berlin Artists‘ Association worked on his large-format history paintings in the second half of the 19th century. 

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@jarmuschekpartner

Joanna Bird has been exhibiting since 1994. She is known for her eye and spotting promising young talent early. From whence they fly! These include Edmund de Waal, and many others. Joanna Bird Gallery won two significant prizes at Collect; for best artist in the show (from 450 artists, Emmanuel Boos, 2023) and for the most outstanding artist, the Craft Council and Brookfield properties award in 2024. (Halima Cassell, whose piece Tulipa was recently acquired by the Gardiner Museum, Toronto).  

This year Joanna Bird is delighted to be showing outstanding examples of work by international artists, each of whom is supremely accomplished in their field of ceramics. Joanna Bird Gallery represents international artists and specialises in installations in various contexts from domestic to commercial. Joanna is guided by artists' original thinking, integrity and innovative making, and presents contemporary pieces juxtaposed in a historical context. Having trained and worked with Michael Cardew, Joanna is recognised as an international authority on studio ceramics and contemporary glass, and is consulted by private collectors and museums worldwide.  

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@joanna_bird

Steps away from the bustling Grand Sablon, a neo-Flemish house built in 1888 beckons. Its facade, adorned with a turret and a sculpted balcony, is a distinctive landmark. This former lawyer's office, with its imposing chimneys, now houses Jonathan F. Kugel's Cabinet de Curiosités Contemporain. Here, time and style playfully interweave through a program of themed exhibitions.  

The artists showcased at the Cabinet embody a unique blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary vision. Their works share space with a curated selection of objects spanning centuries. From European paintings and artworks of the 17th to 19th centuries, chosen for their authenticity, aesthetics, and occasional touch of the peculiar, a conversation unfolds. 

"For me," explains Kugel, "the qualities I seek in a contemporary piece are no different from those I value in an antique: virtuosity, craftsmanship, historical significance, and a distinct artistic vision. Ultimately, an object should evoke emotions – beauty, intrigue, or a touch of the grotesque – while simultaneously stimulating the intellect through its scientific or technical ingenuity." 

 jonathanfkugel.com 
@jfkugel 

KIOSKEN is an interdisciplinary project space that operates across artistic genres that started as a trial project in 2018 and was established in 2020. KIOSKEN is also an outlet for local and international art for the Bergen audience. KIOSKEN  is a collaborative project between curator Daniela Ramos Arias, artist and fashion designer Siv Støldal, graphic designer Ann-Kristin Stølan and furniture and interior designer Stine Aas. 

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@kiosken.studio 

Since its creation, the gallery has dedicated a significant part of its program to contemporary ceramics. With 8 ceramics exhibition only for the last two years, the gallery supports the development and the production of its 6 represented ceramists.  

La peau de l’ours is an uptown contemporary art gallery founded in 2017 by Thomas Ghaye. After just over 6 years, the gallery moved to a new space in Rivoli, doubling its surface area.  

After 3 months of renovation work, the gallery reopened its doors last March, and is now pursuing its development by strengthening its presence and that of its artists on the international scene, notably through participation in several European art fairs, as well as its active exhibition program. 

lapeaudelours.net 
@lapeaudelours_art

Patrick Lancz opened his first gallery in 1991 in the Sablon district of Brussels. A fervent admirer of the École Belge, which covers the Symbolist, Impressionist and Fauvist periods of the 1890s-1930s, he also specialises in the Belgian avant-garde of the 1920s and abstraction of the 1950s-1970s. Patrick Lancz organises two or three exhibitions a year, with the ambition of offering a varied range of artists whose works offer a harmony of techniques and colours. These works are enhanced by carefully chosen antique frames. For the rest of the year, the gallery's walls host a variety of exhibitions that change with the seasons. 

lanczgallery.be 
@lancz_gallery

140 years of existence, 140 years of expertise, in-depth knowledge of objects, the right taste and eye, exchanges with museum curators and unfailing links forged with private collectors. Since 1880, the members of the Lefebvre family have been discovering and offering increasingly sophisticated objects and works of art to an international clientele.  

In 2009, Galerie Lefebvre & Fils naturally began to take a fresh look at ceramics, and in particular contemporary ceramics, with the aim of showing that this medium has real permanence and is constantly renewing itself.  

Since 2009, Galerie Lefebvre & Fils - thanks to its director, Louis Lefebvre, a keen collector of contemporary art and design - has presented the work of major contemporary artists such as Ettore Sottsass, Ron Nagle and, more recently, Roger Herman and José Sierra, but it is also committed to promoting the young artistic scene, with exhibitions of work by Emily Yong Beck, Nick Weddell and Maxwell Mustardo, each of whom had their first solo show in Europe. Today, the gallery is resolutely committed to contemporary creation, working alongside international contemporary artists. 

From the practical, everyday objects of previous centuries, we are now faced with works of art in the original sense of the term. While the gesture remains, the artistic scope is quite different. The idea of a container or domestic object has disappeared in favour of a dialogue between the artist who models it with his hands and the artistic intention he gives it.  

Drawing on his knowledge and mastery of ceramics, Louis Lefebvre has made his exhibition space a must for lovers and collectors of contemporary ceramics. 

In keeping with his family's desire to promote and raise awareness of an ancestral skill that enables the creation of complex and unique works of art, Louis Lefebvre opened an artists' residence in Versailles in September 2015: The Residency. 

Located in the former music pavilion of Madame Elisabeth, sister of King Louis XVI, the residence is dedicated to the arts of fire. The artists have a studio at their disposal and stay there from 6 weeks to 3 months, with each residency giving rise to a solo show at the gallery. 

LEFEBVREETFILS.FR 
@LEFEBVREETFILS 

MBA Fine Arts aims to explore the field of Japanese ceramics of the twentieth century, to contribute to discovering this field of creations, experiments and traditions. All their pieces come from private collections and dealers in Japan and are visible by appointment in Paris. 

Born out of a curiosity for impressive and complex pieces, MBA Fine Arts tries to open up the field of Japanese ceramics to everyone by presenting pieces by already recognized ceramists and some who more than deserve a showcase. These artists represent a century of innovation in the field of ceramics. 

Far from being accessories or utilitarian objects, these pieces are sculptures, designed as works of art by artisans with an intense sensitivity to the material. 

mbafinearts.com 
@mba_fine_arts

Mennour is an art gallery founded in Paris in 1999. Through its exhibitions, its projects developed in partnership with cultural institutions, its presence in major international art fairs, and its network of collaborators throughout the world, the gallery is present from Asia to the Americas, and from Africa to the Middle East. Today, it is one of the key actors in contemporary art and the art market. 

The energy that Mennour pours into the promotion of its artists is motivated by a vision of bringing different generations of artists and different periods of art history together in order to permanently reevaluate what contemporaneity is in art. 

mennour.com
@mennour

Founded in 2011, Modern Shapes Gallery is specialised in unique contemporary and modern sculptural art with an emphasis on ceramics. It is as much a gallery as it is a curated platform. It presents  several exhibitions a year, dedicated to both rising and established talent. And it presents a very personal and balanced selection of objects, often balancing on the dividing line between design, art and architecture. Founder Michaël Francken’s personal taste and quirky passion results in a program that combines both high quality 20th century masters and more contemporary artists working on the balance between abstract, sculptural and architectural work. All bearing witness to craftsmanship and sculptural presence. As a result, Modern Shapes is a progressive and supportive space for emerging and established artists and their objects. 

modernshapes.com 
@modernshapes

Founded in 2011, Modern Shapes Gallery is specialised in unique contemporary and modern sculptural art with an emphasis on ceramics. It is as much a gallery as it is a curated platform. It presents  several exhibitions a year, dedicated to both rising and established talent. And it presents a very personal and balanced selection of objects, often balancing on the dividing line between design, art and architecture. Founder Michaël Francken’s personal taste and quirky passion results in a program that combines both high quality 20th century masters and more contemporary artists working on the balance between abstract, sculptural and architectural work. All bearing witness to craftsmanship and sculptural presence. As a result, Modern Shapes is a progressive and supportive space for emerging and established artists and their objects. 

modernshapes.com 
@modernshapes

Based on a unique expertise, the NeC gallery is now recognized for what has become their specialty: contemporary ceramics, raised to the rank of sculpture and inscribed in a dynamic of innovation both technical and formal. 

The commitment of the gallery to the promotion of the ceramic medium has been relayed by the dynamism of many international institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Sevres-City of Ceramics and the Decorative Arts Museums in Paris, Icheon World Ceramic Center in Korea ... in which most of the gallery's artists are represented. 

Since collectors are already conquered by the secular expression of ceramics, the NeC gallery has set itself the mission of federating them around contemporary creations. There is no doubt that the public is particularly receptive to the modernity that these artists have approached in a few decades, by the exceptional profusion of their creativity in the world of plastic arts. 

Today, the gallery is concentrating and continuing its search for new talents with the same concern for consistency in its choices to support its collectors in forming ever more innovative collections. 

galerienec.com 
@galerienec 

Nendo Galerie is dedicated to modern and contemporary ceramics, with the aim of establishing permanent links between the utilitarian and the fine arts. 

In order to foster conversations and exchanges between different approaches to ceramics, the exhibition program will alternate between sculptors who have made ceramics a medium of expression and ceramists working on domestic forms. A rotating selection of sculptures and objects are also on permanent display at the gallery. 

The ambition of the program and the gallery’s research is international, with an important opening towards Asia and Latin America, as well as towards scenes still little considered in France, such as the Netherlands or eastern Europe. 

nendogalerie.com 
@nendogalerie 

NQ Gallery is an Antwerp-based contemporary art gallery, representing both established and emerging artists. 

The gallery is founded by Niqui van Olphen in 2021. Niqui has over 20 years of experience in the museum world, both in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Aside from providing the gallery with an extensive network, she also cultivates an understanding of how to collaborate with artists and support them. NQ Gallery presents solo and group exhibitions. 

From its start NQ gallery presented 5-6 exhibitions each year. Well known artists but young emerging artists too. 

The combination of the two gives a nice atmosphere in the gallery and a safe base for everyone to work from. 

It is the wish of the gallery to participate at fairs on the highest level to give their artists an extra platform. 

nqgallery.be 
@nqgallerybe 

PEACH CORNER is a dynamic forum for artistic materialization in clay and unfolds the ceramic field across craft, design and visual artistic expression. 

They stand out by focusing on the ceramic material itself, and show artists who work with the limits of its possibilities in the present day. 

PEACH CORNER is an exhibition place for Danish and international ceramics. With changing curated exhibitions and a 'Wunderkammer' with specially selected works, PEACH CORNER will give the audience the opportunity to meet very different approaches to clay and a diversity of ceramic expressions. 

PEACH CORNER is an artist-run exhibition space initiated by a group of twelve ceramicists. 

peachcorner.dk 
@peachcornergallery

QB Gallery was founded in 2014 and is an Oslo-based gallery for Norwegian and Scandinavian contemporary art, representing both emerging and established artists. 

The gallery works with a broad range of practices within contemporary art, including painting, photography, sculpture, ceramic, textile art and installation, whilst following a non-hierarchical approach towards several scenes and artistic backgrounds. In 2021 the gallery introduced the exhibition room KUBEN, offering space to curatorial projects and exhibitions with artists and young creatives. In 2021 the gallery was named by the newspaper Aftenposten as one of the Norwegian galleries placing Oslo as an art capital of Europe, stating “They have captured the spirit of the times”. In 2018, the gallery was nominated for the “Gallery of the year” award by the cultural magazine Subjekt, stating “QB Gallery clearly stands out as one of the capitals hippest and most vibrant commercial exhibition spaces". The gallery aspires to make art available for a larger audience through gallery exhibitions, art fairs and online. In addition to exhibitions, the gallery has a large showroom on site. 

qbg.no 
@qbgallery

RAM galleri, is a multidisciplinary gallery focusing on the intersection between contemporary art, craft and design. RAM aims to be a platform for emerging and mid-career artists and makers from Scandinavia and beyond. The exhibition program features 6-8 exhibitions yearly, as well as a great number of temporary events such as artist talks, performances, lectures and art fair participation. 

ramgalleri.no 
@ramgalleri

The Reuter Bausch Art Gallery, founded in 2021 by Julie Reuter and Lou Bausch, is a contemporary art gallery located in the heart of Luxembourg. It showcases local and international artists and offers a programme that creates an intergenerational dialogue between young emerging artists, mid-career artists and established artists. 

reuterbausch.lu  
@reuter_bausch

Guido Romero Pierini and Tristan Paprocki join forces in 2020 to found the Romero Paprocki gallery, representing contemporary rising and mid-career french and international artists. 

For the gallery, settings support any given discourse that highlights the artist’s work as well as his thoughts, the revelation of a shape, its dialogue, its structure of meaning and its articulation. The gallery has to be a unique spacetime, equally favorable to reflection and contemplation, to exchange as much as to introspection. 

Guido and Tristan also choose spaces for their museum-like scale so that they live up to the quality of the works that are being displayed in them, with a steady desire to formulate a discourse both visible and legible at the service of art. 

romeropaprocki.com 
@romeropaprocki

Since 1740, the Sèvres Manufacture has affirmed its heritage and experimental vocation at the same time. 

The Manufacture is a unique, lively laboratory and an important player in the artistic scene, design and decorative arts. It draws its strength from the excellence of the 120 ceramists who practice and master about thirty professions there, but also from that of its materials (pastes, colors, enamels...) manufactured in situ according to ancient techniques preserved and which are today exceptional and privileged tools of contemporary artistic expression. 

Both a transmission factory, guarantor of the safeguarding of its know-how and the widest dissemination of knowledge on ceramic art, but also a high-end creative laboratory through its ability to innovate in its porcelain production for almost three centuries, it is an atypical and unique public institution that preserves tradition and modernity in a fair balance. 

sevresciteceramique.fr
@sevresmanufactureetmusee  

SKOG is an art space located at Galgeberg in Oslo. Fall 2022, Foreningen Skogen, which operates SKOG, was established. They were a group of people, with broad and varied experience in organizational development, art and design, who wanted to create a living art space at Oslos east side. Their board consists of artists as well as people with broad managerial expertise, including expertise within finance, communication, architecture, design and non-profit organisations. 

SKOG actively prioritizes material-based exhibitions. With this focus, they believe they can make an important contribution to Oslos art scene. Furthermore, SKOG argues that it is particularly important for newly established artists to access exhibition venues. In parallel, it is important that newly established and established artists are given meeting points where they can exchange knowledge across generations and professional fields. SKOG promotes this interaction by facilitating networks and curating mentoring exhibitions.  

skogart.org 
@skogartspace 

Sorry We're Closed is a contemporary art gallery created by Sébastien Janssen in 2008. The focus of the gallery is upon mid-career and emerging artists from Belgium and abroad. Since 2021, the galerie is located in a four hundred meter square XIX century mansion, in the heart of the historic Sablons district. The gallery maintains a diverse exhibition program with solo exhibitions of the gallery artists as well as group exhibitions and special projects as editing artists jewels. 

sorrywereclosed.com 
@sorrysorry_were_closed

SPAX Projects was established with the objective to collaborate with young, emerging and more established artists working across different mediums and disciplines. Driven by an in-depth awareness of current artistic practices and a search for an original and unique aesthetics, SPAX projects is aimed at a broad and cosmopolitan audience having an interest in contemporary art. 

Founded in 2022 by Xavier Gandon, contemporary art enthusiast for more than ten years, SPAX Projects provides artists with worldwide opportunities through specific art projects, collaboration with art galleries and participation to art fairs. While favoring long term collaboration with its stakeholders, SPAX Projects works on a project mode and has no permanent exhibition space. 

So far, SPAX Projects has organized several successful projects aimed at introducing and developing the work of young female artists and advising them at the early stage of their professional career. It has collaborated with several galleries in Europe as well as in the US. Last, it has co-curated group shows in London and Brussels, working with several international artists and featuring ceramics, paintings and drawings. 

spaxprojects.com 
@spaxprojects

By opening Spazio Nobile in 2016 in the very lively and cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Place Brugmann in Brussels, art historians Lise Coirier and Gian Giuseppe Simeone have united their passions for design and art history, initiating an erudite dialogue between contemporary applied arts, design and photography. With no boundaries between disciplines, the visual arts interact with the fine arts. 

spazionobile.com 
@spazionobilegallery

Thomas Fritsch opened his gallery specialising in French Decorative Arts from 1945 to 1970 at 6, rue de Seine in 2004. 

He is recognised as a specialist in post-war French ceramics. The gallery presents a selection of "masterpieces of French ceramics from 1945 to 1970", most of which are unique. From Vallauris (South of France) to La Borne (Centre of France), the gallery presents a varied selection of rare or unique ceramics made by the most renowned ceramists of this period. 

thomasfritsch.fr 
@thomas_fritsch

Yodo Gallery was established in 1960 by Yasuko Kotani, who had been a managing director of Osaka Formes Gallery which introduced Fauvism, Ecole de Paris and Surrealist European artists to Japan. She contributed to the development of local and international art scenes in Osaka after the war, especially by having first solo exhibitions by Joan Miro and Andres Derain in Osaka. 

YOD Gallery was established in 2008 as a contemporary art gallery branch of Yodo Gallery, with a mission to present a new sense of value and expression to and from Japan. It has been supporting local art scenes and emerging artists working with new media, including video, photography, and installation. 

yodgallery.com 

Knokke 2001 — 2019 

Galerie Zwart Huis is founded in 2001 by Gerda Vander Kerken in Knokke. The gallery is first housed in Villa De Beir, a modernist doctor’s house from 1924, designed by the Belgian architect Huib Hoste. The gallery focuses on Belgian contemporary art from the very beginning. Often figurative drawing and painting are the main focus of the gallery’s choice, but conceptual artists, sculptors, photographers and designers are also regularly featured. In the early years Carl De Keyzer, Luc Deleu, Christophe Coppens, Ronny Delrue, Johan Tahon, Jan Vanriet, Jan De Vlieger and Liliane Vertessen, among others, are given important solo shows. By continuously striving for high quality, the gallery is building a solid reputation in Belgium in its relatively young existence.  

In 2007 the gallery moves to a new building on the seafront. Zwart Huis continues its élan and shows the work of  Johan Tahon, Philip Aguirre, Hans Vandekerckhove, Philippe Vandenberg, Pjeroo Roobjee, Nick Andrews, Jan Vanriet, Jan De Vliegher, Fik van Gestel, Koen Deprez, Jozef Van Ruyssevelt, Luk Van Soom, Koen Broucke and Colin Waeghe amongst others. 

Brussels 2017 — now 

Since 2015, the gallery has been under the direction of Elke Helbig, who relocated it from Knokke to Brussels in 2017. Galerie Zwart Huis represents and collaborates with both emerging talents and well-established Belgian artists. Among them are Stefan Peters, Liliane Vertessen, Christophe Coppens, Koen Deprez, Fik van Gestel, Jan Vanriet, Nick Andrews, Robin Vermeersch and Colin Waeghe, among others. 

galeriezwarthuis.be 
@zwarthuis