About us
House of Chappaz was born in July 2021 from the evolution and transformation of the gallery project Espai Tactel (founded in 2011 in Valencia by Ismaël Chappaz), to which a second space had been added in Barcelona in 2018 (by Oriol Armengou and Ferran Mitjans). At the end of 2021 the project takes a step forward with the aim of constituting an even more solid project that, while maintaining the essence of the first project, would expand the field of action, the projection, the team and the proposals. This transformation, which occurred naturally at the end of 2021 with the new name of House of Chappaz, evolves from 2024 with the concentration of all efforts in a single stable headquarters in Barcelona with a co-direction of three, bringing new knowledge, more strength and projection.
House of Chappaz is both a network of collaboration and friendship that feels like a big family. House Of Chappaz is a gallery conceived as a space open to experimentation and currently, articulating bold contemporary art proposals, with great weight of artists from the Mediterranean corridor (Valencia - Barcelona). With a clear vocation of international projection, already endorsed from the beginning, the gallery is present in various state and international fairs of prestige, having as a great milestone the uninterrupted participation in the Arco Fair since 2017.
House Of Chappaz is part of ART BARCELONA, Association of Galleries of Barcelona and also of the Consortium of Spanish Galleries.
Ismaël Chappaz
Ismaël Chappaz opens in 2011 in Valencia the gallery that was originally called Espai Tactel. The project continues with the opening of the Barcelona space in 2018 and finally in 2021 it is renamed House of Chappaz in honor of his Swiss origin surname. Gallery owner, specialist in modern contemporary art and professor at various art and design schools, Ismaël currently co-directs the project to which new partners are joining and that right now concentrates its forces at the headquarters in the Gràcia district of Barcelona.
ismael@houseofchappaz.com
Oriol Armengou and Ferran Mitjans
Oriol Armengou and Ferran Mitjans, partners since 2000 of the Barcelona design and branding studio Toormix join the project in 2018 with the opening of the gallery’s Barcelona space. The physical space of two floors, which they share with the studio, runs parallel to the values of the studio where they defend the most conceptual art, but also emphasizing the process of creation, methodology and research in cultural environments, expanding aspects and meanings. A sum that helps to strengthen the House of Chappaz project with the vocation of being leaders in the contemporary avant-garde, while making visible new emerging talent located in Catalonia and remain open to experimentation and helping to link new expressions of design through the art world.
oriol@houseofchappaz.com | ferran@houseofchappaz.com