Gallery
Gallery's Statement
Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard specializes in contemporary art.
The gallery represents emerging and established artists from various countries.
The gallery also participates in international art fairs and publishes a collection of monographs.
Gallery’s Resume
Jean-Luc and Takako Richard opened their gallery in September 1989 under the name of Galerie OZ in the Bastille area. Galerie OZ established its reputation by bringing together Baroque artists from New York for the first time, such as: Arch Connelly, Christopher Tanner, Rhonda Zwillinger, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt and Pepon Osorio.
Jean-Luc Richard was the first gallerist to exhibit Choi Jeong Hwa in 1997. In 2005 Choi Jeong Hwa was exhibited in the Venice Biennale.
Galerie OZ also represented Robert Groborne, Milan Kunc, Joost Van den Toorn, Robert Kushner, Attila Richard Lukacs, Christophe Avella-Bagur, Stefan Hoenerloh, Laszlo Feher, Rainer Gross… Additionally, Galerie OZ exhibited various photographers such as Erwin Olaf, Bae Bien-U, Jacqueline Hassink.
In October 2002, the gallery moved to Saint-Louis island, adopted the new name of Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard as well as a brand new exhibition program that was more focused on new painting. The gallery mostly organized solo shows with new artists such as Risa Sato, Kiyoshi Nakagami, Yek, Paul Henry Ramirez, Carl Fudge, Adam Ross, Olaf Rauh, Hervé Heuzé, Beverly Fishman, Alice Stepanek & Steven Maslin, Scott Anderson, Yuichi Higashionna, Christoph Wedding, Shirley Kaneda, Tim Bavington.
In January 2006, the gallery moved to its current location in the Marais and since then it has represented David Ryan. In 2007, the gallery doubled its exhibition space allowing it to hold two individual exhibitions simultaneously. The gallery was also accepted in to the Professional Committee of Art Galleries. With its new space on rue de Turenne, the gallery has taken on new artists including: Benjamin Edwards, Pedro Barbeito, Sven-Ole Frahm, Joseph Nechvatal, Marcus Sendlinger. Since 2009, the gallery has represented Linda Besemer, Ron Gorchov, Alain Kirili, Judy Pfaff. In May 2009, the gallery opened an office in New York. Since 2010, the gallery has represented Asgar/Gabriel and Chafik Gasmi.
Since it arrived in the Marais in 2006, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard has become one of the most renowned and most visited galleries in Paris. The only Parisian gallery to have two entrances, Rue de Turenne and Rue Impasse Saint-Claude, it is one of the most impressive exhibition spaces consisting of four parallel rooms. Jean-Luc and Takako began wth a small gallery space in the Bastille area in 1989. They have always had a very international programme only exhibiting a few selected French artists and largely due to this have been supported by an equally international public. They were the first gallery to exhibit Choi Jeong Hwa and have also represented Bae Bien-U. The gallery moved to Ile Saint-Louis in 2002 until 2005 where it amassed a largely American international clientèle. It was in 1997 that Jean-Luc Richard detected the New York and the American West Coast return to painting and consequently took the decision to base his programme primarily on different types of the 21st century painting revival, both abstract and figurative. It is also the first European gallery to have discovered many young painters from Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and New York such as Paul Henry Ramirez, Beverly Fishman, Benjamin Edwards, Adam Ross, Yek, Tim Bavington, Carl Fudge, David Ryan...
True to its commitments, the gallery has represented, the French and German artists, Christophe Avella-Bagur and Stefan Hoenerloh respectively since the early stages of their careers. The gallery presents Japanese artists such as Kiyoshi Nakagami , Yuichi Higashionna and Risa Sato to the Europe art scene. With a coherent and personal programme the gallery is grounded in mutual loyalty with French, American, European and Asian collectors.