Sophistication & Slowness Our measured sensibility and curatorial vision ensure that we house and support ground-breaking contemporary artists working across and beyond sonic and visual lines.

Blurring the Line Our thinking continuously challenges the confines of genre and artistic discipline. We champion the undefinable and the hybrid.

Conversation & Community Our creative relationships are the core of what we do and who we are: we prioritize craft, sustained dialogue, and creative engagement.

Art as Healing We believe in the therapeutic dimension that experiencing the arts can bring to the individual and the collective.

Born in Switzerland in 1963, Olivier Berggruen attended the École Alsacienne in Paris and graduated in 1982. He studied piano and composition at the Conservatoire Serge Rachmaninoff and with Florencia Raitzin. He majored in Art History at Brown University and received an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute in London. After various gallery stints in London, he opened a contemporary art gallery with Aroldo Zevi in 1992. From 2002-2007, he served as associate curator at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. His writings on Paul Klee, Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ed Ruscha, and Adriana Varejão, among others, have been published in various museum catalogues as well as online. He also curated a retrospective of Picasso and the Ballets Russes at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome in 2017, and is the author of The Writing of Art (Pushkin Press, London 2011) and Formes du désir: une brève histoire de la collection d’art (Presses du réel, Dijon, 2024).

Olivier is a member of the advisory board for the Museum Berggruen in Berlin and The Kitchen in New York. In 2025 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Durrës in Albania.