Waddington Custot has announced it will open a new gallery in Paris this October. The London-based gallery will open a permanent space in the city’s 6th arrondissement, coinciding with Art Basel Paris 2025, which runs from October 22nd to 26th.
The new gallery will be located at 36 rue de Seine, in the former home of Galerie Lansberg in the neighborhood of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The 200-square-meter space features natural light and sits in the heart of a neighborhood long-associated with Paris’s contemporary art scene. It will be led by Isaure de Roquefeuil, who has worked at Waddington Custot in London for nearly a decade, and Antoine Clavé, a Paris-based gallerist and grandson of artist Antoni Clavé.
The inaugural exhibition will focus on the Les Nabis, a group of post-impressionist French painters active between 1888 and 1900. This show will be followed by a group exhibition of contemporary and modern artists, aimed at fostering an intergenerational dialogue.
Founded in London in 1958 as Waddington Galleries, the gallery became Waddington Custot in 2010 following a partnership between founder Leslie Waddington and French art dealer Stéphane Custot. Custot assumed full ownership in 2015 and expanded the gallery’s operations to Dubai that same year. The Paris location will be the gallery’s third venue.
Waddington Custot is known for its programming of Nabis and Photorealist painters, with an inventory that includes work by Josef Albers, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Hartung, and Pierre Soulages, among others. The gallery represents several contemporary artists and estates, including Peter Blake, Fabienne Verdier, Pablo Reinoso, and Bernar Venet, the latter of which was the subject of a solo show in London, “When Steel Dreams of Code.”
