Leading French Gallery Air de Paris Is Declaring Bankruptcy and Closing After 36 Years
ARTnews reports that Air de Paris, a prominent French gallery, will declare bankruptcy and close after 36 years, according to cofounders Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino speaking to Cultured. Bonnefous said the gallery’s debts are limited to its landlord and bank and cited fragile finances and health issues—her Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Merino’s unspecified problems—as factors in the closure. Founded in 1990 in Nice, based in Paris from 1994, and located in Romainville since 2019, Air de Paris worked with artists including Trisha Donnelly, Joseph Grigely, Pati Hill, Allen Ruppersberg, Lily van der Stokker, Mona Varichon, and Amy Vogel, and helped champion figures such as Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Paul McCarthy, Philippe Parreno, and Sturtevant. The gallery also drew attention by withdrawing from Art Basel’s June 2025 Swiss edition in protest over floor-plan placement after participating since 1999, and Bonnefous said she will continue managing several estates, including Guy de Cointet and Dorothy Iannone, while working as a curator.
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