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Our favorite galleries in the Marais

The Marais and its surroundings are a gold mine for adepts and art lovers. Paris Select presents you the art galleries not to be missed to embellish your Parisian walks… Galerie Maria Lund Located in the heart of the Marais, the Galerie Maria Lund highlights and promotes works that are profound in a philosophical sense and raise real existential questions. The resulting responses are intended to be more suggestive than imposing. Alongside the temporary exhibitions which follow one another throughout the year - for which the gallery sometimes collaborates with institutions - the gallery can receive artists for concerts and reading conferences. Galerie Maria Lund, 48 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris Galerie Schwab Beaubourg Created in 2011 by Thierry Schwab and his son Edouard, the Schwab Beaubourg gallery is housed in a beautiful 170 m2 space near the Pompidou center. It defends contemporary figurative painting and sculpture, by presenting leading artists such as the sculptor Marc Petit, continuously exhibited as well as the painters Safet Zec, Antoni ...

Pacific art in the spotlight at the Tema gallery

The primitive arts of the Pacific and Aboriginal painting have their Parisian cradle (or at least their exhibition space), in the ninth arrondissement of Paris, at the Tema gallery. What works are there? There are everyday and ritual objects, but also canvases with precise and aesthetic patterns. Decorative and artistic, these pieces give pride of place to lines, ochres and noble materials. They are a benchmark in ethnic interior decoration in Paris. Who is behind the project? Julie Auclair-Semere, an interior designer with a passion for art and travel. For years, she has crisscrossed Oceania several months a year, accompanied by a team of explorers, in search of objects that tell a story, a culture. Which regions of the world? Julie and her team met the populations of Melanesia, Australia, Insulindia and Papua. It is in the heart of forests, valleys, near tribes still living in harmony with their traditions today, that they collect rare objects. A gallery of experts? If the documentary qualities of certain objects do not fail to appeal to those who ...