Almine Rech

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Almine Rech Ruiz-Picasso (née Rech) is a French art dealer and owner of the eponymous contemporary art gallery. The gallery has exhibition spaces in Paris, Brussels, London, New York and Shanghai.[1] The gallery opened in 1997 in Paris.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Almine Rech was born in Paris to a Vietnamese-French mother and a French father, Georges Rech,[3] who founded one of France's first ready-to-wear labels in the 1960s. She took up painting and drawing in high school and while at boarding school in Switzerland[4] before studying art, cinema and literature at Faculté des lettres de Paris and the École du Louvre.

Career[edit]

Early in her career, Rech did provenance research for Parisian auction houses. By the mid-1980s she was married to her first husband, businessman Xavier de Froment, for six years[5] and had started selling art, helping friends and clients part with modernist artworks from the likes of Pierre Bonnard, Kurt Schwitters, and Félix Vallotton.[6]

Rech began her career as a gallerist with her second husband Cyrille Putman, the son of Andrée Putman, opening a gallery in the Marais in 1989 where they presented a single work by James Turrell, who did not have a European dealer at the time;[7] Robert R. Littman, the director of Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, a private museum in Mexico City, bought the work.[8]

Alongside other galleries including Air de Paris and Galerie Perrotin, Rech opened her own gallery on Rue Louise Weiss in the 13th arrondissement in 1997, as part of a city-sponsored initiative.[9] At the time, she worked with artists Ugo Rondinone, Joseph Kosuth, and other artists with minimalist and conceptual leanings,[10] including John McCracken.[11]

In 2006, the gallery moved to a larger, two-story space in the Marais district, before launching its current space in rue de Turenne in 2013. In 2008, Rech opened a second gallery in Brussels.[12] In 2014, she opened a 225 m2 (2,420 sq ft) gallery in London,[13][14] and added a 280 m2 (3,000 sq ft) space [15] – in New York in 2016.[16][17] In 2019, the gallery expanded to Shanghai, where it operates a 370 m2 (4,000 sq ft) space in the Amber Building — a three-story former People's Bank of China warehouse at 27 Hu Qiu Road –, sharing the floor with Lisson Gallery.[18][19] On the gallery's expansion, Rech has noted, 'Each step in expanding our platform has increased our ability to support and invest in a new generation of artists, which is a consideration at the very core of our gallery's DNA.'[20]

In 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the gallery opened a 84 m2 (900 sq ft) space next door to the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen.[21]

Almine Rech represents numerous living artists, including:

In addition, the gallery has managed various artist estates, including:

Other activities[edit]

Recognition[edit]

Rech is a member of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[29]

Personal life[edit]

Since 1997, Rech has been married to Bernard Ruiz-Picasso.[30] They lived in Brussels since 2006[31] but have since moved to Monaco for tax optimization reasons, and also maintain apartments in Paris and New York as well as a French country estate inherited from Picasso callebd Boisgeloup.[32]

Since 2002,[33] Rech and Ruiz-Picasso have been serving as co-chairs of the Madrid-based Fundación Almine Y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte (FABA), which holds a collection of works by Pablo Picasso.[34] FABA also supports some of the couple's favorite institutions, including Le Consortium in Dijon, France, Serpentine Galleries in London and the New Museum in New York.[35] In 2012, Ruiz-Picasso and Rech opened up Boisgeloup, inviting Sean Scully (2019) and other artists to exhibit throughout the chateau and its grounds.[36]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Almine Ruiz-Picasso". Alain Elkann Interviews. 25 February 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  2. ^ Tarmy, James. "Gallery Owner Almine Ruiz-Picasso, and Her Blockbuster Art Shows, Are Taking New York". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  3. ^ Figaro, Madame (2014-09-18). "Mon petit déj' avec Almine Rech". Madame Figaro. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  4. ^ Christopher Bagley (March 1, 2013), The Mixologist W.
  5. ^ Christopher Bagley (March 1, 2013), The Mixologist W.
  6. ^ James Tarmy (October 27, 2016), Gallery Owner Almine Ruiz-Picasso, and Her Blockbuster Art Shows, Are Taking New York Bloomberg News.
  7. ^ Echos, Les (2013-03-15). "ALMINE RECH-PICASSO : "J'OFFRE UNE BOÎTE BLANCHE AUX ARTISTES"". lesechos.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  8. ^ "ALMINE RECH". HUMANITY Magazine. 2015-11-26. Archived from the original on 2019-11-04. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  9. ^ Anna Sansom (July 29, 2019), ‘Grand Paris’: new art complex to open in Parisian suburb The Art Newspaper.
  10. ^ Bagley, Christopher. "The Mixologist". W Magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  11. ^ "Almine Rech in Conversation | Ocula". ocula.com. 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  12. ^ "rech - Art Brussels". www.artbrussels.com. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  13. ^ Georgina Adam (June 10, 2016), The Art Market: A dealer with staying power Financial Times.
  14. ^ "La galerie Almine Rech ouvre un nouvel espace à Londres". Le Quotidien de l'Art (in French). Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  15. ^ Nate Freeman (October 26, 2016), Almine Rech Discusses Expansion of Her Gallery Empire, as Upper East Side Space Opens ARTnews.
  16. ^ "Parisian Dealer Almine Rech Opens Her New York Space". Cultured Magazine. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  17. ^ "La galerie Almine Rech ouvre un espace à New York - 14 juin 2016 - lejournaldesarts.fr". Le Journal Des Arts (in French). Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  18. ^ Annie Armstrong (June 19, 2019), Almine Rech Heads to Shanghai ARTnews.
  19. ^ Melanie Gerlis (February 8, 2019), The art market’s move to the east Financial Times.
  20. ^ Gaskin, Sam (8 November 2019). "Almine Rech-Picasso Goes Global". Ocula. Archived from the original on 2019-11-11.
  21. ^ Sarah Douglas (March 24, 2021), Almine Rech Joins Growing Mass of Galleries with Aspen Pop-Ups: ‘We’re Going Where the Collectors Are’ ARTnews.
  22. ^ Claire Selvin (6 June 2019), Almine Rech Now Represents Allen Jones in France, Belgium, and China ARTnews.
  23. ^ Georgina Adam (June 10, 2016), The Art Market: A dealer with staying power Financial Times.
  24. ^ Annie Armstrong (25 July 2019), Almine Rech Now Represents Closely Watched Painter Vaughn Spann ARTnews.
  25. ^ Alex Greenberger (25 January 2022), Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe Memorializes Virgil Abloh for Teen Vogue Cover ARTnews.
  26. ^ Alex Greenberger (1 June 2018), Hauser & Wirth Now Represents the Estate of Günther Förg ARTnews.
  27. ^ Annie Armstrong (1 March 2019), Almine Rech Gallery Now Represents the Estate of Antoni Tàpies ARTnews.
  28. ^ The Drawing Center Welcomes New Board Members Artforum, April 3, 2019.
  29. ^ "Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres hiver 2017 - Ministère de la Culture". www.culture.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  30. ^ Alexa Brazilian (February 11, 2015), Gallerist Almine Rech’s Eclectic and Elegant Paris Apartment The Wall Street Journal.
  31. ^ Christopher Bagley (March 1, 2013), The Mixologist W.
  32. ^ Alexa Brazilian (February 11, 2015), Gallerist Almine Rech’s Eclectic and Elegant Paris Apartment The Wall Street Journal.
  33. ^ Christopher Bagley (March 1, 2013), The Mixologist W.
  34. ^ Henderson, Violet (2018-09-19). "At home with Picassos: gallerist Almine Rech on living with the legacy of the most celebrated artist of the 20th century". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  35. ^ Alexa Brazilian (February 11, 2015), Gallerist Almine Rech’s Eclectic and Elegant Paris Apartment The Wall Street Journal.
  36. ^ Annie Shaw (10 September 2019) Sean Scully to take over Picasso’s Château de Boisgeloup The Art Newspaper.
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