Hervé Bize, who opened his gallery in Nancy, Lorraine 30 years ago, has shown that Parisian centralism is not written in stone and that an alternative is possible. Eastern France is his base to conquer the world.
How did the adventure get started? I was an artist doing my own work when I found out that one of my forebears was a painter, the quintessential nineteenth-century portraitist and landscape artist participating in salons. In 1986, I organised a contemporary art biennial at a disaffected warehouse in Nancy with around 20 artists from the Lorraine region. That’s when I became aware of the dearth of places outside Paris where art can be seen, which led me to open my own gallery three years later.
Do you have an exclusive contract with some artists? framework. We’ve also built special relationships with visual artists such as François…
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