The POGGI & BERTOUX GALLERY is a French-Belgian gallery of contemporary art based in Paris. Situated a single block away from the Gare du Nord, the POGGI/BERTOUX Gallery has occupied a former workshop situated in a Haussmanian building.
The gallery space is shared with Objet de production, an associative structure created in 2004 by the critic and art historian Jerôme Poggi to promote contemporary art in society, especially through commission.
Seeing that the profound recent changes in the art scene necessitates new means of production, diffusion, and reflection, the Poggi & Bertoux Gallery and Objet de Production have united to create this new hybrid means of action, both commercial and political, critical and pedagogical. In taking action on all levels of the artistic and cultural process, the combined effort of the two structures allows both private and public investment. Exhibition space, production agency – at once a place of study and debate, the gallery hopes to take advantage of its location in a cosmopolitan neighborhood at the threshold of Northern Europe. Hoping to develop a privileged relation with the public, it reflects an evolution of the function of the gallery structure at the beginning of the 21st century.
Measuring two thousand square feet, the gallery operates on two floors – a ground area and a vast space on the basement level illuminated by a large glass awning. It also comprises a studio room with an art history library and other diverse technical spaces, such as a cutting room.
The gallery collaborates with both French and foreign artists, including Kees VISSER, Sophie RISTELHUEBER, Cédrick EYMENIER, Dominique FURGÉ, Philippe CAURANT, Isabelle ARTHUIS, Hélène D’HERVÉ, and Bertrand LAMARCHE, etc.
After having completed his studies as an Engineer-economist of the École Centrale Paris, Jerome Poggi also graduated from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) and has a master’s degree in Art History from the University of Paris – Pantheon Sorbonne. He teaches at the Ecole Centrale Paris and with multiple Franco-American university programs.
He spent multiple years involved in the institutional field of art – abroad as the artistic attaché of the Consulate General of France in Atlanta in 1997 and 1998, in France as the deputy director of the center of contemporary art of Kerguehennec from 1998 to 2001 and as general coordinator of the Interprofessional Congress of Contemporary Art in 2001 to 2002.
In 2004 he founded Objet de Production, of which he is today the director, and through this structure contributed to the development of the New Patrons Program with the support of the Fondation de France. In 2009, in association with Belgium art consultant Peter Bertoux he created the Poggi & Bertoux Gallery in Paris.
Art and cultural historian, Jérôme Poggi specializes in the history of political culture and in the history of the art business. He is particularly invested in the study of the alternative forms of art commerce that were experimented throughout the 19th century. Author of many articles, he is currently preparing a work dedicated to “The Gallery of the Boulevard des Italiens – Antechamber of Modernity” and will publish at the end of the year a compilation of texts by Edvard Munch with Presses du Reel. He also publishes critical texts on contemporary artists and acts as curator of multiple exhibitions, including the recent retrospective of Kees Visser at the Matisse Museum. As a film director he has been charged by the Fondation de France with directing a series of films with François Hers about the most important works of art commissioned through the New Patrons Program of the last fifteen years.
After studying interior architecture and communication at the Saint Luc de Tournai Institute (Belgium), Peter Bertoux has lived in Paris since 1981 where he has acted as curator of independent exhibitions, organizing notably those taking part in the Paris Biennal. He developed multidisciplinary projects with the choreographer Daniel Larrieu and the company “Astrakan” collaborating on artistic projects for Actual Nova, Le Monde/Telerama, and “Les Editions Autrement,” etc….
Afterwards he became the agent of a group of graphic designers and other visual professionals. In 1993 he founded the DE-VI-ZU agency of which he is currently the creative manager.
At the same time he is engaged with the work of multiple artists, including Paul Pack and Albert Pepermans in association with Sarah Heymann, media consultant. In 2007 he was invited to take part in the development of activities for Objet de Production, of which he is today one of the main associates, and has co-founded the PGGI/BERTOUX Gallery with Jérôme Poggi in 2009.