Magda Danysz

Magda Danysz (born September 1974), is a French art curator and art dealer, she owns her galleries named Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris, in Shanghai, and in London.

Life and career

Magda Danysz started in the art business in the early 1990s, when she opened her first art space in 1991 when she was 17. She studied at the ESSEC French leading business school. She went on student exchanges at Osaka International University in 1995 and Buenos Aires University in 1998. After graduating in 1998, she opened her gallery in July of that same year in a brand new space. She curated projects in her gallery with artists from various disciplines, from street art to digital art.

She brought Shepard Fairey to the French scene in the early 2000s (who did Barack Obama's official portrait for the presidential campaign), worked with such as JonOne since 1992, and also exhibited and promoted artists as Seen, Miss Van, Erwin Olaf, JR, Prune Nourry, Vhils and Ultralab. She participated in many art fairs around the world including Paris, Bologna, Brussels, New York, and even Miami. In June 2009 she was appointed to direct the building's Bund 18 gallery in Shanghai, China, which then became the Magda Danysz Gallery. She published an extensive anthology of street art. In 2015 she expanded her gallery business in London with her iconic pop up space called The London Project.

During the first years of her gallery, she did consulting at Arthur Andersen from 1997 to 2004. She consulted for the cultural field, including positions with the Ministry of Culture, Christie's, the Théâtre Marigny, the Nantes Museum, and the Louvre.

Since 2001 Danysz has taught cultural policies and economics at Sciences Po in Paris. She is on the board of the multimedia cultural art center Le Cube in Issy-les-Moulineaux, whose mayor André Santini appointed her to promote digital art and research.[citation needed] She was a founder of the Paris-based contemporary art fair known as ShowOff, which has been held every year at the same time as the Foire internationale d'art contemporain (Fiac) since 2006.

Since January 2009 she has been vice president of Fashion Group International of Paris.[citation needed]

In 2010 she helped launch the Ai Ling Foundation for the arts in Shanghai, China.

Majors Artistes represented

The following artistes are represented by Magda Danysz Gallery:

Botto e Bruno Liu Bolin Marion Peck Space Invader James McNabb
Zhang Dali Li Hongbo Charles Petillon L'Atlas SWOON
Faile Ludo Huang Rui Blek Le Rat Abdul Rahman Katanani
Shepard Fairey Wang Keping Sten Lex Mark Ryden
Futura 2000 Maleonn Vhils André Saraiva
JonOne Prune Nourry Yang Yongliang Gaël Davrinche
JR Erwin Olaf YZ Zevs

Awards and recognition
  • France China Foundation Young Leader (2013)
  • Compagnie National des Experts (CNE), experte en art contemporain chinois et street art (2010)
  • French American Foundation (Young Leader) (2009)
  • Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (promotion 14 juillet 2006)
  • Amis du Palais de Tokyo (depuis 2005)
  • Membre du Comité des Galeries d’Art (depuis 2002)
  • ESSEC Alumni (depuis 1998)

Exhibitions (selected)
  • Invader – 17 May – 21 June 2003
  • Mambo – 31 January – 28 February 2004
  • Dalek – 15 May – 12 June 2004
  • Miss Van – 19 June – 24 July 2004
  • Wonderland – 16 April – 28 May 2005, with Marion Peck, Mark Ryden, Eric White, Clayton Brothers
  • Dalek & Shepard Fairey – 4 June – 30 July 2005
  • Miss Van – 29 April – 27 May 2006
  • Shepard Fairey (Obey) – 3 June – 29 July 2006
  • Dalek – 21 October – 25 November 2006
  • Mike Giant – Solo Show; 28 April – 26 May 2007
  • Prune Nourry - Terracotta Daughters - 22 March - 10 May 2014[1]
  • JR : Close Up – Solo Show - 17 May - 5 July 2014
  • Futura: Introspective – Solo Show - 14 June - 26 July 2014[2]
  • Vhils – Vestiges – Solo Show - 11 October - 15 November 2014[3]
  • Contemporary Chinese photography - 29 November - 23 December 2014
  • Shepard Fairey et Denis Morris : SID Superman is Dead 4 July - 1 August 2015
  • JonOne - Staring at the Stars Solo Show - 10 July - 30 August 2015
  • Marion Peck – Solo Show - 15 March - 30 April 2016
  • Charles Petillon – Solo Show - 14 May - 2 July 2016[4]
  • Prune Nourry -Imbalance – Solo Show; 15 October - 27 November 2016[5]
  • FAILE – Solo Show - 5 nov - 31 December 2016
  • Abdul Rahman Katanina, Hard Core, 2 December -13 January 2017, Paris[6]
  • Superpoze, For We The Living, 14 October - 25 November 2017, Paris[7]
  • Giada Ripa, The Yokohama Project, 14 October - 25 November 2017, Paris[8]
  • André, Solo show, 15 July-16 September 2017, Shanghai[9]

References
  1. "Prune Nourry - Terracotta Daughters, Prune Nourry". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  2. "Futura: Introspective, Futura". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  3. "Vhils - Vestiges, Vhils". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  4. "Invasions, Charles Petillon". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  5. "Imbalance, Prune Nourry". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  6. "Hard Core, Abdul Rahman Katanani". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  7. "For We The Living, Superpoze". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  8. "The Yokohama Project, Giada Ripa". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  9. "André - Solo Show, André Saraiva". Magda Danysz (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  1. "Magda Danysz, Paris, André Saraiva, Liu Bolin, Gael Davrinche, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Futura, JR, Li Hongbo, Ludo, Maleonn, James McNabb, Prune Nourry, Erwin Olaf, Felipe Pantone, Marion Peck, Charles Petillon, Abdul Rahman Katanani, Swoon , Vhils, Wang Keping, Yang Yongliang, YZ, Zevs, Zhang Dali". magdagallery.com (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  2. "Magda Danysz, galeriste sinon rien". Madame Figaro (in French). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
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