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What has your career path been?
After studying economic and social administration at the University of Lyon, I joined the Bachelor in Art Expertise and Art Trade program at IESA from 2001 to 2004.
I did internships as a gallery assistant at Nicolas Plescoff and as a boutique manager at Antiquités Décoration Isabelle Klein. Then I was hired by IESA as a communications and administrative assistant. After that I was the personal assistant of a collector of modern and contemporary art, and I was also a client manager and exhibition coordinator at Chenue. My last position before creating my gallery was production manager and art registrar for AIA Productions. I was in charge of the exhibition “Chanel, l’art comme univers” at the Pushkin Museum.
And now?
I am now a gallery owner in Lyon. The idea of creating an art gallery came above all from the desire to support and promote young contemporary creation, whether regional, national or international, alongside the work of international visual artists already present on the contemporary art scene.
My wish is to offer a selection of artists I have discovered through curiosity, travel, encounters or simply by chance, artists who let me share their world by discovering their works.
These are the talents I want to champion, by presenting their creations, which have the privilege of explaining themselves without speaking.
To open a space where discovering and encountering art is possible for everyone, both for passionate amateurs who may not feel like pushing open the door of venues showing inaccessible artworks, and to offer informed buyers the chance to complete their collection with contemporary works by already recognized artists while discovering a selection of promising young talents.
Opening a space in Lyon is a way of contributing to the dynamic synergy of a city that keeps growing and standing out as a dynamic international city for the art market. Indeed, the location of Lyon and its region is a major asset for creating a contemporary art gallery.
Close to Switzerland and northern Italy, it is home to very important museums: MAC Lyon, IAC Villeurbanne, Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne, Musée de Grenoble… and leading artistic and cultural institutions such as the Magasin de Grenoble and the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Likewise, the contemporary art biennale and the parallel DOCKS fair contribute to the development of the contemporary art market in the region, which has many passionate collectors with significant purchasing power.
Many of them are members of ADIAF, Marcel Duchamp Prize, and ART38, two associations of highly committed collectors.
The goal is certainly to offer a selection of works in a French gallery, but also to help artists travel through partnerships with renowned foreign galleries, take part in their programming, and create exchanges by presenting their selection as well. All of this will contribute to the influence of contemporary art.
Finally, the initiative of the galleries located on rue Burdeau shows a general enthusiasm for promoting contemporary art and creating events in the heart of Lyon, which I wish to contribute to by settling in this neighborhood.
Opening: exhibition from April 29 to July 31, 2008
The Caroline Vachet gallery, in collaboration with Francine Meoule, curator of the contemporary Asian scene, will present from April 29, 2008 to July 31, 2008 an exhibition staging Chrystel Egal, a French artist, in dialogue with a contemporary Thai artist, Kamin Lertchaiprasert.
This first exhibition aims to position the gallery’s commitment to promoting French artists alongside artists from emerging contemporary art scenes (Asia, Middle East…)