Experience

lilia ben salah Gallery

• France
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  For Lilia Ben Salah, opening a gallery in Paris represents the next step in a personal journey that corresponds with the artistic program she wishes to develop on the contemporary art scene. A desire that has been reinforced over time for this professional with a cosmopolitan career, who boasts twenty years’ experience as a gallery Director in Tunis, and since 2015 in Dubai. The choice of Paris as the site of a new artistic adventure is obviously linked to the place held by the French capital on the international contemporary art stage. Lilia Ben Salah is the granddaughter of a Parisian, and was raised in Switzerland, Kenya, Ivory Coast, before living and working in Geneva, Paris, Miami, then Tunis and Dubai. Today, Lilia Ben Salah affirms a clear and frank desire to be one with the landscape and codes of Parisian and French art, while voicing her own distinctly unique position and perspectives!Over the course of her artistic career, the gallery owner has rubbed shoulders with artists, both emerging and established, whose life paths have also led them, like herself, to move around, to settle for a time in one place, before leaving for other, newer horizons. This nomadic lifestyle, whether chosen or imposed, has encouraged them to break free of cultural differences, thereby forging a transversal and multicultural conception of the arts that has become a source of inspiration, and ultimately, the true wealth of their practice.Through her programming, Lilia Ben Salah seeks to showcase these free, uncompromising expressions that play a role in the cultural hybridization that is so essential to the development of societies. It is also a way for her to continue the work she has been carrying out for two decades: supporting the artists she believes in and working with them in close collaboration, inviting curators to design projects, getting closer to institutional players, but also presenting and sharing the art she herself loves. Show less

• Founder

  • Sep 2022 - Apr 2023



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• United Arab Emirates
• Fine Art
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co Founder

  • Jan 2015 - Present

• Director

  • Oct 2003 - Apr 2023


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• International Trade and Development
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• France
• Marketing&PR

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• France
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sales

  • 1987 - 1989

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