Loop Fair Committee
- Dates
- 13-23 November 2024
- Location
- Barcelona
The galleries and their artists’ works are chosen through a selection process carried out by an independent committee formed by Isabelle & Jean Conrad Lemaître (promoters of the StudioCollector Price for Video Creation), Josée & Marc Gensollen (founders of La Fabrique, Marseilles), Haro Cumbusyan (founder of Collectorspace, Istanbul) , Renée Drake (Collector, Netherlands).
Committee
Jean-Conrad & Isabelle Lemaître
Paris-based Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître are among the most cutting edge international contemporary film and video collectors. They began collecting contemporary art in 1983. Their collection includes painting, sculpture and photography, but their focus over the past ten years has been video art. This deep interest in video art has its origin in their passion for cinema. The Lemaîtres have been generous in lending works for museums, exhibitions and showing their video art at home. They support a number of public institutions. They are Friends of the Pompidou Centre and Friends of Fondation La Maison Rouge in Paris. Lemaître have also created and sponsored “StudioCollector” prize at Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, which is a prize for young video artists. The Lemaître collection includes work by the Turner Prize-winner Gillian Wearing, Mark Wallinger, Tacita Dean, Isaac Julian, Steve McQueen and Keith Tyson, among others.
Josée & Marc Gensollen
Collectors who have turned their private home La Fabrique into a bustling art center open to new initiatives.
Haro Cumbusyan
Founder of Collectorsspace, an organisation for critical discussion on collecting video art.
Renée Drake
Closely related to the Netherlands art scene, her collection has travelled to some of the most important venues in the United States.