Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Inaugurated in 1996 in Paris, in a beautiful industrial building in the Marais area, the programming of the gallery comprises three main directions: the fields of abstract painting, art photography around the issue of the image and the notion of the subject and multidisciplinary creations around the concept of installation and video.

In painting, the selection is intended as a possible reflection of international abstraction, representing artists such as Olivier Mosset or Adrian Schiess, from radical and minimum trends and painters having a rooted expression in a painterly gestures, such Dominique Gauthier. This is not to promote the painting in the narrow sense of the table but rather to attempt to cover a field of contemporary creation by putting into perspective the expansion of pictorial abstraction territory and the language. In this context, the gallery also defends painters who leave the table to go into space or volume or photography and video, such Emmanuelle Villard, John Beech and James Hyde or tend to figuration as Merlin James or Walter Swennen. Also in photography, the gallery since it opened, marked its commitment with a selection made up half of photographers. The gallery chose to neighboring practices but certainly all unique. It represents artists who play with the idea of ​​staging such as Karen Knorr, Ellen Kooi, Paul Pouvreau, Laura Henno or with the notion of the photographic writing in a very personal style, such as Catherine Poncin, Corinne Mercadier Gilbert Garcin, Matt Wilson and Antoine d'Agata. Cuisset, Gilbert Fastenaekens and Paola de Pietri come from the European movement "Landscape and Architecture." Finally, Paul Graham and Shai Kremer is a social commitment photographic radical.

Meanwhile, the gallery increases its selection of artists to multidisciplinary practice such as François Daireaux Ismail Bahri, Dorothée Smith and Joris van Moortel and opened its programming to video artists such as Dinahet and Martin Sastre.

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