Nathan Chicheportiche, a collector-turned-gallerist, transformed a Jean Prouvé-designed school in Metz into Galerie Nathan Chiche, merging intuition, architecture and contemporary art.
His passion began in childhood. At thirteen he bid €200 on a painting and later learned it was an authentic gouache by Sonia Delaunay. “It taught me that art relies on intuition, curiosity and the eye. That day, I understood that collecting, and later guiding collectors, means learning.”
After studying law and art history, he discovered a love for mixing rigour with intuition. One evening he found an advert for a former Prouvé school, “steeped in history, waiting for a second life.” He saw it as “a space where architecture, memory and contemporary creation could engage in dialogue.”
To fund the gallery’s 2024 opening, he sold the gouache. The leap paid off, leading to collaborations with emerging and established artists, including a solo show by Jean-Pierre Raynaud, an installation with Jean Nouvel and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, and L’École des Mondes by Mircea Cantor, reflecting his aim to “create dialogue between the work, the space and the viewer.”
He has since worked with the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Musée Guimet and fairs such as 1-54 London, Asia NOW and Luxembourg Art Week. Chicheportiche now aims to deepen links between Luxembourg and France and open a second space to “support both emerging and established artists while helping collectors build coherent, sensitive and visionary collections.”
This article was published in the 8th edition of Forbes Luxembourg.
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