Nathalie Obadia
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Nathalie Obadia is a French contemporary art dealer working in Paris
and Brussels
. She is a member of the bureau of the French professional committee of art galleries and was its vice-chairman for three years (2005–2008).
As a teenager she spent her summer vacations doing internships at the galleries Adrien Maeght (Paris), Daniel Varenne (Geneva) and Marie-Louise Jeanneret (Boissano, Italy and Geneva). After completing a Masters degree in european and international law at the University Panthéon-Assas, she obtained a diploma from Sciences-Po in 1988. For five years, she worked as a senior director at Galerie Daniel Templon
in Paris.
In 1993, Nathalie Obadia opened her own gallery Rue de Normandie in the Marais
, a parisian district famous for its art galleries and museums. She put forward a new generation of French and international first-rank artists such as Carole Benzaken (Marcel Duchamp Prize
in 2004), Valérie Favre
, Pascal Pinaud, Fiona Rae
, Lorna Simpson
and Jessica Stockholder
by bringing forth their first personal exhibition in France. In 2005, the gallery moves on to Rue du Grenier Saint Lazare and renews her programme by associating herself with confirmed artists such as Jean-Marc Bustamante
(French Pavillon at the Biennale di Venezia, 2003), Shirley Jaffe
, Albert Oehlen
and Roland Flexner.
In 2003, the gallery expanded and moved on nearby the National Museum of Modern Art also known as the Centre Georges Pompidou
, at the 3 rue du Cloitre Saint-Merri, its current location. Nathalie Obadia then contributes to the diffusion of the works of her artists among museums, institutions and art critics, introducing artists such as Huma Bhabha
, Guy Ben-Ner
, Cameron Jamie, Frank Nitsche and Chloe Piene
.
Since 2007, the gallery had made possible the fast and international recognition of young or mid-career artists such as Rina Banerjee
, Rosson Crow
, Joana Vasconcelos
. Meanwhile, she worked for the new acknowledgement of Martin Barré
’s painting. The artist, who died in 1993, is now regarded as a key abstract painter. Galerie Nathalie Obadia, in a partnership with the editions Thea Westreich/Ethan Wagner, published a significative monography on the artist including the translation in English of Yve-Alain Bois
’reference text.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia opened in October 2008 a second gallery in Brussels in Rue Charles Decoster in a contemporary building offering new exhibitions’s possibilities to artists such as the iranian Khosrow Hassanzadeh
and the movie-maker Agnes Varda
. In 2009, Nathalie Obadia is made Officier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2010, the French artist from Turkey Sarkis
joined Galerie Nathalie Obadia.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia takes part in numerous international art fairs : Fiac (Paris), Armory show (NY) ; Art Brussels (Brussels), Frieze (London), Art Forum (Berlin), Art Basel (Basel).
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
. She is a member of the bureau of the French professional committee of art galleries and was its vice-chairman for three years (2005–2008).
Biography
The daughter of contemporary art collectors, Nathalie Obadia grew up surrounded by artists and art dealers and she decided precociously on an art dealer career.As a teenager she spent her summer vacations doing internships at the galleries Adrien Maeght (Paris), Daniel Varenne (Geneva) and Marie-Louise Jeanneret (Boissano, Italy and Geneva). After completing a Masters degree in european and international law at the University Panthéon-Assas, she obtained a diploma from Sciences-Po in 1988. For five years, she worked as a senior director at Galerie Daniel Templon
Daniel Templon
Daniel Templon is a French art contemporary and modern art dealer born in 1945. He founded in 1972, the bilingual contemporary art magazine art press with art critic and erotic biographer Catherine Millet.- Biography :...
in Paris.
In 1993, Nathalie Obadia opened her own gallery Rue de Normandie in the Marais
Le Marais
Le Marais is a historic district in Paris, France. Long the aristocratic district of Paris, it hosts many outstanding buildings of historic and architectural importance...
, a parisian district famous for its art galleries and museums. She put forward a new generation of French and international first-rank artists such as Carole Benzaken (Marcel Duchamp Prize
Marcel Duchamp Prize
The Marcel Duchamp Prize is an annual award given to a young artist. The winner receives €35,000 personally and up to €30,000 in order to produce an exhibition of their work in the Modern Art museum...
in 2004), Valérie Favre
Valérie Favre
Valérie Favre is a Berlin-based artist.Since 2006 she is Professor of painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin.Background...
, Pascal Pinaud, Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae is a British artist. Her work is firmly identified with the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in the 1990s....
, Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex...
and Jessica Stockholder
Jessica Stockholder
Jessica Stockholder is a sculptor and installation artist who has had exhibitions in Europe and USA, her works, "challenge boundaries, blurring the distinction among painting, sculpture and environment, and even breaching gallery walls by extending beyond windows and doors".-Life and...
by bringing forth their first personal exhibition in France. In 2005, the gallery moves on to Rue du Grenier Saint Lazare and renews her programme by associating herself with confirmed artists such as Jean-Marc Bustamante
Jean-Marc Bustamante
Jean-Marc Bustamante is a French artist, sculptor and photographer. He was born in Toulouse. He is noted as a conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works. He has also worked with film . From 1983 to 1987 he and Bernard Bazile...
(French Pavillon at the Biennale di Venezia, 2003), Shirley Jaffe
Shirley Jaffe
Shirley Jaffe, abstract painter and sculptor, was born in New Jersey, USA, in 1923 and educated at Cooper Union in New York City. She moved to Paris in 1949 as a young painter and has carried on her career primarily in France, although she returns regularly to the United States where she has...
, Albert Oehlen
Albert Oehlen
Albert Oehlen is a contemporary German artist. He graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978. Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, he was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others...
and Roland Flexner.
In 2003, the gallery expanded and moved on nearby the National Museum of Modern Art also known as the Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
, at the 3 rue du Cloitre Saint-Merri, its current location. Nathalie Obadia then contributes to the diffusion of the works of her artists among museums, institutions and art critics, introducing artists such as Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha is a sculptor based in New York. Her sculptures are composed from basic construction media and found objects.Bhabha studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University ....
, Guy Ben-Ner
Guy Ben-Ner
- Biography :Guy Ben Ner lives and works in Tel Aviv, Berlin and New York.-Education :* 1994 - 1997 B.Ed., Hamidrash Art College, Ramat Hasharon, Israel* 2001 - 2003 M.F.A., Columbia University, New York-Awards and Prizes :...
, Cameron Jamie, Frank Nitsche and Chloe Piene
Chloe Piene
Chloe Piene, artist, born 1972Fine artist known for skeletal and morbid imagery. Born in 1972 in Stamford Connecticut of German and Jewish parentage. Chloe Piene has shown internationally throughout Europe and the United States...
.
Since 2007, the gallery had made possible the fast and international recognition of young or mid-career artists such as Rina Banerjee
Rina Banerjee
Rina Banerjee is an Indian born, New York based artist of international repute.-Biography:Banerjee was born in Kolkata in 1963 and moved with her family to the UK and then to USA...
, Rosson Crow
Rosson Crow
Rosson Crow is a painter working in Los Angeles.-Education:She graduated with a BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York in 2004 and an MFA from Yale in 2006. She grew up in Dallas, Texas.-Life and work:...
, Joana Vasconcelos
Joana Vasconcelos
Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris and lives and works in Lisbon. Her participation in the 2005 edition of the Venice Bienale has affirmed her career within the international art circuit...
. Meanwhile, she worked for the new acknowledgement of Martin Barré
Martin Barre
Martin Lancelot Barre is an English rock musician.Barre has been the guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull since 1969. He has appeared on every Jethro Tull album except their debut This Was...
’s painting. The artist, who died in 1993, is now regarded as a key abstract painter. Galerie Nathalie Obadia, in a partnership with the editions Thea Westreich/Ethan Wagner, published a significative monography on the artist including the translation in English of Yve-Alain Bois
Yve-Alain Bois
Yve-Alain Bois is an historian and critic of modern art. Yve-Alain Bois was born on April 16, 1952 in Constantine, Algeria.-Education:...
’reference text.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia opened in October 2008 a second gallery in Brussels in Rue Charles Decoster in a contemporary building offering new exhibitions’s possibilities to artists such as the iranian Khosrow Hassanzadeh
Khosrow Hassanzadeh
Khosrow Hassanzadeh is an Iranian painter. He is known for his "Terrorist" collection.Hassanzadeh lives and works in Tehran, where he works as an actor and visual artist. His work featured in many exhibitions in Europe and the Middle East. Hassanzadeh works primarily with painting, silkscreen and...
and the movie-maker Agnes Varda
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
. In 2009, Nathalie Obadia is made Officier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2010, the French artist from Turkey Sarkis
Sarkis
Sarkis Zabunyan, known as Sarkis, is a Turkish-born Armenian conceptual artist living in France....
joined Galerie Nathalie Obadia.
Galerie Nathalie Obadia takes part in numerous international art fairs : Fiac (Paris), Armory show (NY) ; Art Brussels (Brussels), Frieze (London), Art Forum (Berlin), Art Basel (Basel).
Artists represented
- Mequitta Ahuja
- Huma BhabhaHuma BhabhaHuma Bhabha is a sculptor based in New York. Her sculptures are composed from basic construction media and found objects.Bhabha studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University ....
- Rina BanerjeeRina BanerjeeRina Banerjee is an Indian born, New York based artist of international repute.-Biography:Banerjee was born in Kolkata in 1963 and moved with her family to the UK and then to USA...
- Martin BarréMartin BarreMartin Lancelot Barre is an English rock musician.Barre has been the guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull since 1969. He has appeared on every Jethro Tull album except their debut This Was...
(1924–1993) - Carole Benzaken
- Guy Ben Ner
- Guillaume Bresson
- Jedediah Caesar
- Rosson CrowRosson CrowRosson Crow is a painter working in Los Angeles.-Education:She graduated with a BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York in 2004 and an MFA from Yale in 2006. She grew up in Dallas, Texas.-Life and work:...
- Luc DelahayeLuc DelahayeLuc Delahaye is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative...
- Michael DeLucia
- Patrick Faigenbaum
- Roland Flexner
- Roger HiornsRoger HiornsRoger Hiorns is a British artist. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2009.Hiorns was born in Birmingham. He attended the Bournville College of Art from 1991 to 1993, and Goldsmiths College in London from 1993 to 1996. He lives in London....
- Shirley JaffeShirley JaffeShirley Jaffe, abstract painter and sculptor, was born in New Jersey, USA, in 1923 and educated at Cooper Union in New York City. She moved to Paris in 1949 as a young painter and has carried on her career primarily in France, although she returns regularly to the United States where she has...
- Cameron Jamie
- Michael LandyMichael LandyMichael Landy RA is one of the Young British Artists . He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down , in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008 Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in...
- Thomas Lerooy
- Meuser
- Ana MendietaAna MendietaAna Mendieta was a Cuban American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist who is known for her "earth-body" art work....
- Beatriz MilhazesBeatriz MilhazesBeatriz Milhazes is a Brazilian artist.Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting.The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960...
- Youssef NabilYoussef NabilYoussef Nabil is an Egyptian artist & photographer.Nabil started his photography career in 1992, short before meeting the American photographer David LaChapelle in Cairo, with whom he worked in New York in 1993....
- Frank Nitsche
- Manuel OcampoManuel OcampoManuel Ocampo is a Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with secular political narrative. His works draw upon a wide range of art historical references, contain cartoonish elements, and draw inspiration from punk subculture.-Background:Manuel Ocampo was born in the...
- Albert OehlenAlbert OehlenAlbert Oehlen is a contemporary German artist. He graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978. Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, he was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others...
- Enoc Perez
- Chloe PieneChloe PieneChloe Piene, artist, born 1972Fine artist known for skeletal and morbid imagery. Born in 1972 in Stamford Connecticut of German and Jewish parentage. Chloe Piene has shown internationally throughout Europe and the United States...
- Pascal Pinaud
- Jorge Queiroz
- Fiona RaeFiona RaeFiona Rae is a British artist. Her work is firmly identified with the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in the 1990s....
- Faisal Samra
- SarkisSarkisSarkis Zabunyan, known as Sarkis, is a Turkish-born Armenian conceptual artist living in France....
- Pieter Schoolwerth
- Lorna SimpsonLorna SimpsonLorna Simpson is an African American artist and photographer who made her name in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal. Her work often portrays black women combined with text to express contemporary society's relationship with race, ethnicity and sex...
- Eliezer Sonnenschein
- Jessica StockholderJessica StockholderJessica Stockholder is a sculptor and installation artist who has had exhibitions in Europe and USA, her works, "challenge boundaries, blurring the distinction among painting, sculpture and environment, and even breaching gallery walls by extending beyond windows and doors".-Life and...
- Nicola Tyson
- Jeffrey VallanceJeffrey VallanceJeffrey Karl Reese Vallance is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California....
- Agnès VardaAgnès VardaAgnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
- Joana VasconcelosJoana VasconcelosJoana Vasconcelos was born in Paris and lives and works in Lisbon. Her participation in the 2005 edition of the Venice Bienale has affirmed her career within the international art circuit...