It has been said over and over again since the Brexit announcement: “Paris is the new London”. The Parisian scene indeed attracted major foreign brands such as David Zwirner (2019), Lévy Gorvy (which has since become LGDR), Continua (part of which opened in 2020, before completion in 2022) or Gagosian (which has invested two new spaces, in 2019 and 2021, after its arrival in 2014), but also Cécile Fakhoury, previously in Abidjan and Dakar, and the American Mariane Ibrahim, who arrived in 2021. This expansion has also materialized through the expansion of galleries that already had a Parisian base![CDATA[<0x2009>]]–![CDATA[<0x2009>]]such as Perrotin, Dumonteil or Olivier Waltman![CDATA[<0x2009>]]–![CDATA[<0x2009>]], ignoring the gloomy prognosis in vogue during the health crisis that raised the spectre of a crisis similar to that of 1992.
2022 at top speed
The virtuous circle apparently extends into 2022, as evidenced by the journey of Lœve & Co, which opened its fourth space in three years in the Marais in April. Others, such as Sultana and Cohle, preferred to move to the centre (the first from Belleville to Beaubourg, the second from Pigalle to Palais-Royal), while Derouillon moved to a beautiful…
