Galerie Materiel

08/10/2025

Galerie Matériel is not a gallery. It’s an instrument.

Founded in Tribeca, Galerie Matériel operates at the intersection of physical form and conceptual weight. We don’t showcase art — we stage precision. Each exhibition is a site-specific response to cultural entropy, market saturation, and the collapse of meaning in contemporary aesthetics.

We work with artists who treat material not as medium, but as memory. Steel, resin, pigment, plaster — these are not tools. They are residues of conflict, desire, and transformation.

The gallery functions as a rotating field of presence: part showroom, part ritual zone, part speculative archive. Nothing here is permanent. Every wall is provisional. Every show is a test.

Our roster includes sculptors, painters, and interdisciplinary agents whose works resist flattening — materially, commercially, and semantically. The gallery’s program aligns with our belief that objects can think — and that the role of art is not to decorate reality, but to interrogate it.

Galerie Matériel is co-conceived by those who believe art is a form of tactical epistemology.

This is not for everyone.

06/06/2023

05/21/2023

03/07/2023

In March, our Florida art endeavors will continue, taking over Palm Beach Convention Center for several days from March 23rd to March 26th.
We invite you to join us at the fair and explore our collection of contemporary artists Murray Zimiles, Sergei Alferov, Nathan Altman, Ella Kogan, and Barbara Taff

01/31/2023

Kasmin is pleased to announce that Matvey Levenstein has been named a recipient of the 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant. Unrestricted grants have been awarded to 20 artists working in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, craft, and new media. The grants give artists the opportunity to produce new work and push the boundaries of their creativity. A full-color catalogue documenting the work of grant recipients will be published this spring. Congratulations to all those chosen for this year’s grant cycle! *party emoji*

Matvey Levenstein’s delicate and exquisitely rendered paintings explore themes of history and representation. His paintings and works on paper are filtered through the most traditional painterly genres—the landscape, the still life, and the portrait—and are imbued with a distinctly literary sensitivity; they are quiet meditations on the relevance of Romanticism in the 21st Century.

Levenstein was born in Moscow, U.S.S.R. and lives and works in New York City. He received his M.F.A. at Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, after attaining a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, and the Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow, U.S.S.R. He has been the recipient of a number of awards including the Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome; the Penny McCall Foundation Award, New York; the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant; the Katherine J. Horwitch Grant, Jewish Foundation; and the Anna Louise Raymond Traveling Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
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Photography by Diego Flores
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