Almine Rech has announced the representation of British artist Christopher Le Brun, in conjunction with Lisson Gallery and Albertz Benda.
The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will be on view at Almine Rech Paris, Turenne from October 18th to November 15th, 2025. The gallery will present works by Christopher Le Brun at Art Basel, Basel, June 2025.
“I was attracted to British artist Christopher Le Brun through his abstraction, showing deep research into space, colors, and light. His paintings can be called abstract, but evoke day or night phases, the cosmos. His work challenges our perception and creates an interesting dialogue with that of other artists we show, particularly those associated with the Light and Space and ZERO movements.”
— Almine Rech
“There aren’t any reasons for painting. That’s what is special about it. It doesn’t need justification. It’s essential that it is not used for other purposes. All the things which will, as it were, take away from what is mysterious about it.”
— Christopher Le Brun
Sir Christopher Le Brun (b. 1951, UK) is one of the leading British painters of his generation, celebrated internationally since the 1980s, making both figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture, and print. He was an instrumental public figure in his role as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019. Since 1990 he has served as a Trustee of major British institutions at Tate, National Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and was a founding Trustee of the Royal Drawing School. He was awarded a Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) for services to the Arts in the 2021 New Year Honours. Le Brun trained at the Slade and Chelsea Schools of Art, London. In his early career, he was a double prize winner at the John Moores exhibitions (1978, 1980), also showing in the Venice Biennale (1980) and the ground-breaking exhibition ‘Zeitgeist’ (1982) at the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin.
His work is in many museum collections including Tate, London, UK; The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US; Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAUP), Shenzhen, China; British Museum, London, UK; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland; The Whitworth, Manchester, UK; Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, US; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, US; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, US. Le Brun’s public sculptures include Union (horse with two discs) at the London Museum, UK; City Wing on the site of the original London Stock Exchange, UK; and The Monument to Victor Hugo in Saint Helier, Jersey, UK.
His recent solo exhibitions have been held at Lisson Gallery, Beijing, China (2024); Albertz Benda, New York, USA (2023, 2020, 2017); Lisson Gallery, London, UK (2022, 2018); Albertz Benda, Los Angeles, USA (2022); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China (2021); Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China (2019); Southampton City Art Gallery, UK (2018).
In September 2025 Rizzoli will release Christopher Le Brun: The Speech of Light, Paintings 2013-2024, an in-depth exploration of the artist’s body of work over the past ten years.
