Jean-David Malat
Jean-David Malat (born in Paris, France in 1975) is a London-based art dealer and curator and founder of the JD Malat Gallery located at 30 Davies Street, Mayfair, W1K 4NB. Career. Jean-David Malat is an internationally recognised curator and art expert who is the founder and director of his eponymous, Mayfair JD Malat Gallery. Malat has been branded "one of the most powerful people in the art world" by The Telegraph. And his curatorial projects have been reviewed and praised by publications such as GQ,Evening Standard, Metro, and BBC amongst others. In  June 2017, Metro UK stated Malat was "Known as the ‘most well-connected man in London’″ and "London Loves Business" credited Malat with "a legacy of plucking artists from obscurity – or off the street – and making them international". Malat trained at Sotheby's. He has sold several late-period Picasso paintings, two of them acquired during the 2008 recession. 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 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. In 2018, Malat founded the JD Malat Gallery in Mayfair, which opened in June 2018. In 2020, in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, JD Malat Gallery used the lockdown period to give a platform to new artists and support the art community in 2020 and beyond. JD Malat launched a new group exhibition during lockdown titled 'Isolation Mastered', which gave aspiring artists of all ages and backgrounds an opportunity to showcase and sell their artwork  in one of London’s leading galleries. They received over 1,000 submissions and featured 25 artists in the exhibition, selecting artists who demonstrated innovative dialogue with the lockdown period. 8,000 public votes selected 5 top artists, with Marina Gonzalez winning a solo exhibition at the Gallery in 2021 and Andrew Litten and Kojo Marfo being added to the JD Malat Gallery artist roster. All profits made from the exhibition were directed to each artist and their practice to support artists during this difficult climate. Malat represents: Malat supports the Serpentine Gallery and is a patron of the Tate gallery. Jean