The Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont specialises in contemporary art, focussing on the primary market, and intends to promote the French and foreign artists it represents. All living artists - either already internationally-renowned or emerging talents - from various backgrounds, they are painters, photographers, sculptors, video and performance artists, working with a very wide range of supports:

Shoja AZARI - Valérie BELIN - George CONDO - Claudine DRAI - Anh DUONG - EVA & ADELE - FUTURA 2000 - Keith HARING - Fabrice HYBER - Jeff KOONS - McDERMOTT & McGOUGH - David MACH - Brigitte NAHON - Shirin NESHAT - A.R. PENCK - PIERRE et GILLES -  Benjamin SABATIER - Marjane SATRAPI - Yi ZHOU.

The Galerie genuinely cares about building an exclusive, ongoing, long-term relationship with these artists, supporting them in their creation, getting involved in the production of their works or large-scale projects, in representing them internationally by organising exhibitions of their work in museums all over the world, and in helping them to widen their audience by placing the works in major private or public collections.

Again with the aim of improving the artists’ visibility, the mainly solo exhibitions which the Galerie holds in its own premises are noteworthy by their length (a month and a half / two months), and are supported by numerous catalogues created in close relation with the artist and published by the gallery, which is also editor.

Besides, the gallery has shown the work of artists it believes in and of whom it permanently holds some works, through in-situ and out-of-walls exhibitions, such as:

Jean-Michel BASQUIAT – BEN - Francesco CLEMENTE – Jean-Pierre RAYNAUD – TSENG Kwong-Chi– Bernar VENET - Andy WARHOL…

The gallery was opened by Jérôme and Emmanuelle de Noirmont on October 6, 1994 and aimed initially at offering people a chance to discover world-renowned artists whose work was then either totally or partially unrecognised in France. It has been notably exhibiting the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat since 1998, the German artist A.R. Penck since 1996, the Scottish sculptor David Mach since 1997, and also the American artist Jeff Koons – indeed it held his first solo exhibition in France back in 1997!

The gallery very soon decided to promote also major French talents such as the duo Pierre et Gilles (since 1998) and Fabrice Hyber (since 2005), who was awarded the Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Biennale representing now all of these artists exclusively worldwide, Valérie Belin being the last one to join the gallery in 2007.

As the gallery also has a desire to represent the art of today with an open-minded approach to new talents, it has been supporting Benjamin Sabatier and Yi Zhou since 2002, Claudine Drai since 2005, Shoja Azari, FUTURA 2000 and Marjane SATRAPI since 2011.

This first market activity is characterized by a number of key events which contributed to the reputation of the gallery throughout the years.

For instance, in 2008 the Galerie initiated the famous Jeff Koons Versailles exhibition at the Château de Versailles, a few years after commissioning the artist to produce his largest artwork to date, the floral sculpture Split-Rocker which was unveiled at the La Beauté exhibition held at the Palais des Papes in Avignon in 2000.

The artist Shirin Neshat joined the gallery in 1998, a year before being awarded the Golden Lion for her video Turbulent at the Venice Biennale 1999, as Jérôme de Noirmont had decided to finance her then-new project Rapture, which became later a worldwide hit. More recently, the Galerie co-produced her videos Munis, Faezeh and Farokh Legha (2008), from the Women Without Men series.

In an attempt to emphasize David Mach’s very spectacular monumental work, the Galerie has produced many of his large sculptures / installations, including Spaceman, made out of coat-hangers and exhibited in the gardens of the Palais-Royal in Paris in 2000, and the extraordinary It Takes Two and Silver Back which were unveiled during the 2006 and 2007 FIAC art fairs in Paris.

The Galerie has also organised and supported all of Pierre et Gilles’ retrospectives worldwide, since the show held at the New Museum in New York in 2000 right through to their 30th anniversary exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2007, Bettina Rheims’ very extensive tour of European museums, from Helsinki in late 2004 to Lyon in 2006, and the retrospective showing the photographic work of McDermott & McGough in Dublin and Paris in 2008/2009, which led to the publication of a major reference work.

At the same time, Jérôme de Noirmont shows his commitment to the art market by acting as a member of the Bureau (Board) of the Comité des Galeries d’Art (Art Galleries Committee).