David LIHARD "De l'autre côté" ©Lihard/VivoEquidem Painting

The VivoEquidem Gallery was created in 2005 as a space of artistic exchanges on a European scale. Through an eponymous organisation, it primarily focuses on introducing and promoting emerging artists from France and other European countries, such as Germany, the United Kingdom, Greece, Italy and Switzerland. The gallery mainly features contemporary painting but its activity can embrace artists who work in other media, including space and volume, photography and video. The idea is not to promote painting in the narrow sense of the term but to introduce the public and institutions to works by artists who hail from a very wide range of backgrounds but have one thing in common: the sensitivity and relevance required to reveal contemporary society's essential values. The gallery's programme includes individual and group shows. An illustrated catalogue in French and English presenting the artist's work and a text by an art historian or critic can accompany those events. In addition to a desire to position itself and create new networks in the context of the art market, the VivoEquidem Gallery's founding goal is to develop an intellectual approach. The gallery commits itself to artists very early in their careers, maintaining a steady, human relationship with them, enabling it at the same time to offer the public a more intimate understanding of their works and creative process.