— About

SABOT was founded in 2009 as an attempt to test the raison d'être of a gallery in the third millennium. Its initiators are Daria D. Pervain, former art critic and journalist, and Marcel Janco, a Romanian-born, Turin-based critic and curator. Hidden relationships, long-standing friendships, communality, fictional identities, and situations that blur the boundary between public and domestic are its coordinates.

SABOT resists prophecy and favors an elastic, almost shapeless format — one capable of assuming the contours of its artists. A project incubator, a generator, an eccentric travesty of a gallery. Curatorial and commercial models are embraced as a continuous practice. We raise questions rather than spell predictable truths, sabotaging the foundational divisions between high and low culture, process and result, art-making and curating.

SABOT operates under the aegis of a nonprofit association — a structural choice that is anything but incidental. All revenue generated is reinvested directly into artistic production: exhibition-making and sustained support of artists' careers. There are no shareholders to satisfy, no profit margins to protect. What circulates returns. The commercial dimension, rather than serving accumulation, becomes a mechanism of redistribution — a way of keeping the work alive, sustained by its own circulation. In this sense, SABOT's economic model is inseparable from its ethics: the gallery does not merely represent art; it sustains the conditions under which art can be made and dispersed.

Daria D. Pervain
co-founder, director
daria.d.pervain@galeria-sabot.ro

Marcel Janco
co-founder
marcel.janco@galeria-sabot.ro

general enquiries
info@galeria-sabot.ro