Laurent Godin

In 1990, Laurent Godin got his degree from Les Beaux Arts de Lyon. He then worked several years with the galerist Roger Pailhas in Marseille first then in Paris. In 1993 he was in charge with Pontus Hulten of the sculpture park « Devant le Futur » based in South Korea where he’ll spend a couple years. Between 2000 and 2005 he is made head of « Le Rectangle », Lyon Contemporary Art Center, where he will present exhibitions by Wang Du, L’atelier Van Lieshout, Stephan Balkenhol, Anselm Kiefer… In 2005 he is curator and organizer of a large sculpture exhibition in Jinan, China during which he showed pieces by Daniel Buren, Pierre Huygue, Anne Veronica Janssen… Convinced by the major role galeries play for artists, he finally founded his own gallery in 2005 with the support and trust of many artists.