About
In 2019, drawing on her experience at the Claude Bernard Gallery, Caroline Vossen set up shop at 58 Rue Chapon. There, she opened the Avant Galerie with Albertine Meunier, an artist and specialist in new technologies.
For its first exhibition, “INFINITE SKULLS,” the gallery presents a convergence of Ronan Barrot’s painting and Robbie Barrat’s artificial intelligence networks. From the outset, the Avant Galerie has established a bold, surprising artistic direction, always tinged with humor. An artistic thread that spans from traditional practices of painting and sculpture to poetic explorations through the computer.
The gallery does not wish to participate in the fantasized narrative of technological innovation at any cost. Rather, through the eyes of the invited artists, it invites us to question, tinker with, and re-enchant digital tools. L’Avant Galerie has thus established itself as a key milestone in the recognition of Crypto Art through its presentation of the Trash Art movement. It has also highlighted artistic creation using AI with the exhibition “From Spam to Slop” and installations by Albertine Meunier such as “HyperChips” and “Qui est là ?”.
Notable exhibitions such as “Poem Subjkt,” in collaboration with the digital poetry collective theVERSEverse and the Métamorphoses bookstore, demonstrate the gallery’s focus on textual and poetic forms.
Now recognized as one of the most innovative galleries, both for its aesthetic choices and its technological approaches, the Avant Galerie has seen its boldness rewarded by the inclusion of works by its artists Albertine Meunier and Robness in prestigious collections, including that of the Centre Pompidou.
At the Avant Galerie Vossen, there is no art that we call contemporary, no art that we confine to the so-called digital category—simply art and artists.