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Helianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin
Founder and Director of H Gallery
www.h-gallery.fr
French, English
Specialty: Multidisciplinary
After eight years in New York (Peter Freeman, Inc.; Parkers Box) and six years at the Pinacothèque de Paris (Paris - Singapore), Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin opened H Gallery in Paris in 2016, with her friends and future partners, Benjamin Hélion and Benjamin Lanot. An art historian with degrees from the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne, and an independent curator, Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin bases her artistic line on the discovery and promotion of talents that have never, or rarely, been shown in France: whether European artists or, more specifically, artists who live and work in North and Latin America.
The careers of established artists rub shoulders with those of emerging artists: Matt Blackwell has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, Noa Charuvi the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Caroline Le Méhauté the 2020 Art Collector Prize and Bilal Hamdad is the 2020 Colas Foundation Laureate. H Gallery's artists use a variety of media including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, installations, videos and performances. Across the different continents, H Gallery clears, explores and seeks to bring new blood, unexplored treasures at the crossroads of cultures that nourish both the diversity and the contemporaneity of the gallery's artistic line.
The gallery is also resolutely committed to the defence and promotion of women artists: it represents more than 50% of them. Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin has collaborated with artists Clara Feder and Liu Bolin on projects around the notion of female solidarity in the art world.
The gallery participates in many prestigious fairs such as Paris Photo, Art Paris Art Fair, Photo London, Urban Art Fair or DDessin, where it won the First Prize in 2017 and 2018. The gallery's activities have been reviewed by Le Monde and Le Journal des Arts as well as by Le Quotidien de l'Art, Connaissance des Arts, Beaux-Arts Magazine and The Washington Post. It has been a member of Paris Galerie Map (PGMAP) since 2019 and of the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art since 2017 (CPGA).
