Brigitte Mulholland, previously a senior director at Anton Kern Gallery in New York, has decided to open her eponymous gallery in Paris, finding prime real estate in the former storefront of a real estate agent on Rue de Turenne in the Marais.
For a second, I thought there might be some symbolism in this. This is a part of Paris that saw its property values explode after the government decided to turn it from a working class neighbourhood into a museum district in the 1960s. So was it a subtle sign of reversal that a scrappy new gallery could replace a seller of expensive property in the 3rd arrondissement? I’m not sure. The real estate agent actually just moved a few streets over to Rue Réaumur, and the powerhouse galleries continue to reign all around Rue de Turenne — another JR show opened at Perrotin this month.
Le vernissage, partie deux (The Opening, Part Two) is the group show currently underway at the gallery, and it follows a first leg that ran from mid-April to June 1st. Mulholland has said she could have simply called these inaugural shows “Here’s shit I love” and indeed, among the 36 artists featured, there is work to love — Katherine Bradford, Sarah Dwyer, Alexandre Lenoir, Kevin Lowenthal, Florian Meisenberg, and others.