Galerie Polad-Hardouin

Founded in 2001, the gallery Polad-Hardouin opened at 17 rue Quincampoix (75004) by paying tribute to the artist Stani Nitkowski (1949-2001). In 2007, always Quincampoix street but at 86, she deployed a new, more comfortable space.

His artistic line asserts itself around two main poles:

• Promote young artists of the French and international scene;
• Make a working memory by rehabilitating artists of the New Figuration such Maryan (1927-1977), Michel Macréau (1935-1995), Marcel Pouget it considers to be the spiritual fathers of this new generation.

Organizing large events, it showed the actuality of paint on the international stage. In autumn 2009, the "Holy Destruction" exhibition featured the works of twenty international artists. This experience, repeated several times, with "Riders" in 2010, and double exposure "Mr. Lady Killer & Paranoia "in 2011, helped to expose artists such as Bjarne Melgaard, André Butzer, Jonathan Meese, Valérie Favre, Makhi Xenakis or Armen Eloyan which were joined by artists like Raphaële Ricol, Lucy Stein, Tyler Russell, Guillaume Bruere, Marcel Hüppauff, Wu Xiaohai.

Today the gallery has strengthened its team and regularly presents in the gallery and outside the walls: Sabhan Adam, Timothy Archer, Anya Belyat-Giunta, Christophe Boursault, Daphne Chevallereau, Ayako David Kawauchi, Caroline Demangel, Raynald Driez Daniel Flammer, Elizabeth Garouste, Andrew Gilbert, Emmanuelle Renard, Christine Sefolosha and Wu Xiaohai. Many catalogs or books accompanied the artists or those events.

The gallery has also taken in recent years to strengthen collaborations with European and American galleries like the gallery of Gabriel Rolt in Amsterdam, Gimpel Fils in London, the gallery C Neuchâtel, Cavin Morris and Phyllis Kind in New York.En 2011 / 2012 exchange was organized with the van de Loo Projekte gallery: "Gastspiel: Paris / Munich / Paris": eight artists represented by the Munich gallery exhibited in Paris, while a dozen gallery artists Polad- Hardouin was shown in Germany.

The gallery extends its presence by participating in fairs: the Drawing Now living in Paris (since the first edition), a presence in 2008 Scope (London), the Pavilion of Arts and Design at the Tuileries (2009), Arts Elysées Paris (2008 and 2012) and Art Paris (2013).

Finally, the demonstrations outside the walls have not stopped since 2001:

• Kremlin Bicetre with Sabhan Adam (2005), Christine Sefolosha (2005), Elizabeth Garouste (2013);
• In 2012, the Château de Servières in Marseille offers several artists to participate in a collective "To your discharge" (police Christophe Boursault);
• With the city of Le Mans in 2007 and 2014 Sabhan Adam Emmanuelle Renard one hand and Elizabeth Garouste other;
• With the Halle Saint Pierre for an exhibition of works by Stani Nitkowski (2002), then twice around Christine Sefolosha (2007 and 2014);
• With the Muba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing (2011) several artists of the gallery were invited to the exhibition on contemporary drawing "Mental Landscape: drawing without purpose."

Finally, art historians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, conservatives came animate debates in the gallery. For the record, a few names: Yannick curves, Philippe Dagen, Itzhak Goldberg, Jean-Michel Hirt, Catherine Kessedjian, Simone Korff-Sausse Catherine Lamour, Jacqueline Schaeffer.