Hervé Loevenbruck: Contemporary Art Militant

In what context did you become a gallery owner? When I opened my first gallery in 2001, it was a matter of making a little-exhibited young generation of artists happy and responding to a contemporary art world that was under-capitalised. But in 2010 we moved to a much larger space well-known to art lovers (6 rue Jacques-Callot in the 6 th arr . - Ed.), and this brought us more visibility. Is this second gallery a kind of manifesto, with its window designed by the Atelier du Pont? We called on an architect to imagine the gallery of tomorrow, and that gave us access to larger historical works, like those of Alina Szapocznikow and Michel Parmentier. Through this flagship gallery, we have been able to envisage other projects in France like Loeve…