This year the tech investor closed the San Francisco gallery space his foundation, Kadist, has operated since 2011. Retaining the original Paris gallery, Kadist has centred its energy on institutional partnerships, leveraging a $15.5m collection of more than 2,000 artworks to form the basis of a series of international exhibitions: at the He Art Museum in Foshan, China, a group show addressing the feminist history of the Self-Comb Sisters, women from Guangdong who refused marriage; the legacies of colonial plantations was the subject of a show at Ilham in Kuala Lumpur; and Pivô, São Paulo, staged a screening programme featuring films by Bahar Noorizadeh and Bo Wang & Pan Lu, among others. The foundation has also supported moving image – with works by Korakrit Arunanondchai and Oliver Laric in its partnership with LE 18, Marrakech; for a weekend of films at the French Institute of Senegal; and for a programme touring five museums across China. There’s Résidence Tallard, too, a Paris residency that saw philosopher Felwine Sarr take rooms in September vacated by previous occupant psychotherapist Esther Perel.
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