After a meteoric rise in Seattle and Chicago, French‑Somali dealer Mariane Ibrahim returned to her hometown to plant roots on Paris’s prestigious Avenue Matignon. Unveiled on 18 September 2021, the space occupies three interconnected floors of a refined Haussmann building, discreetly tucked behind a street‑level portal. Inside, fluid galleries flow around generous ceiling heights and skylit volumes, giving room for large‑scale painting, sculpture, and immersive installations while retaining the intimacy of a townhouse.
The launch exhibition, “J’ai Deux Amours,” gathered all fifteen roster artists—Amoako Boafo, Florine Démosthène, Clotilde Jiménez, among others—to create twin works inspired by Josephine Baker’s anthem to dual belonging. The show underscored the gallery’s guiding ethos: celebrating multiplicity of identity and amplifying voices historically sidelined in Europe’s art capitals.
Strategically located among heavyweights like White Cube and Perrotin, the Paris outpost positions Ibrahim at the heart of a post‑Brexit renaissance that is pulling the global market toward the French capital. Regular solo and group shows, artist talks, and fair activations make the venue a bridge between Chicago, Mexico City, and European collectors, accelerating the gallery’s broader goal of rewriting the art‑historical canon through an Afro‑diasporic lens.
