Career
Jean-David Malat is currently the Director of Opera Gallery London, the London branch of the Opera Gallery international group of Modern and Contemporary Art galleries. He has been at this position since 2005 and is an internationally recognised curator and art expert. Malat"s curatorial projects have been reviewed and praised by publications such as Glass Magazine, Market Magazine, British Broadcasting Corporation, and telegraph.
In 2011, London Loves Business accredited Malat with "a legacy of plucking artists from obscurity – or off the street – and making them international".
Malat trained at Sotheby"son He has sold several late-period Picasso paintings, two of them acquired during the 2008 recession.
In 2007, Malat redesigned the art-on-display of the Théâtre Mogador for its opening, by including works of several contemporary artists from the Opera Gallery. Malat writes articles for LUX Magazine.
Gridlock Magazine foresaw Malat"s influence on the British Art Market in their 2011 article "Jean David – The Future of British Art", with his stance on Art as Business.
Since 2011, Malat has found a niche in the street art market, which he is developing through Opera Gallery shows. In June 2013, Malat curated The Many Faces of David Bowie show. In 2013, Malat wrote an article on the 55th year Venice Biennale for the Arbuturian.
In 2014, Malat curated the Marc Chagall exhibition at Opera Gallery London and the Bernard Buffet exhibition at the Heydar Aliyev Center Baku Azerbaijan.
In 2015, Malat started working with the hyper realistic German artist Mike Dargas that he discovered on Instagram. Malat looks for new painters, sculptors or photographers.
He represents:
Rich Simmons
Alireza Fani, a young Iranian photographer
Oli G. Johansson, Icelandic painter in his late 60s
Zoobs – a visual, mixed media artist: in 2011 ‘God Save the Future Queen’ Zoobs reworked the 1977 ‘God Save the Queen’ Sex Pistols poster. Mac1 - a street artist.
Joe Black
Malat supports the Serpentine Gallery and is a patron of the Tate gallery.
Curated projects
Theatre Mogador, Paris, 2007
One Hyde Park Penthouse, appointed by Candy&Candy, London, 2010-2011
David Mach, Opera Gallery, 2010
Theatre Lope De Vega, Madrid, 2011
Zoobs at the Blakes, 2011
Street Art Show, Opera Gallery, 2011
Brainwash Street Art Show, Opera Gallery, 2011
Urban Masters Urban Masters popular-up gallery show, Shoreditch, 2012
The Many Faces of David Bowie The Many Faces of David Bowie, 2013
Ways of Seeing Joe Black, Opera Gallery, 2013
Marc Chagall Opera Gallery, May 2014
Bernard Buffet Heydar Aliyev Center Baku Azerbaijan, September 2014 - January 2015
Glass Magazine - David Mach, 2010
Market Magazine - Street Art Show, Opera Gallery 2011
Concierge - Mr. Brainwash, Opera Gallery 2011
The Telegraph - Are We Being Mr. Brainwashed? Mail Online - Zoobs Takes Over the Blakes Hotel
New style Magazine - Zoobs at Blakes, 2011
British Broadcasting Corporation - Mr.
Brainwash
Culture and Life - Rancinan in London, Opera Gallery 2011
The Market Magazine - Gerard Rancinan, Opera Gallery 2011
The Independent - Blek le Rat Solo Show 2012
LUX Magazine - Rancinan, Art Out of War 2012
PressTV - Shishegaran, 2012
LUX Magazine - Mr Brainwash, French street artist, 2012
Leveled Magazine - Urban Masters popular-up gallery, 2012
Evening Standard - Urban Masters at Factory 7
Hunger television - Venice Biennale Must Sees, 2013
/ The Independent - Rarely Seen Marc Chagall Paintings Go On Show Foreign First Time
Reviews on Jean-David Malat
The Times
LondonLovesBusiness
Gridlock Magazine
Whitewall Magazine
Concierge Magazine
TNT Magazine.
