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“I see myself as an enabler. I like the idea that by collecting I enable artists to carry on working. I enable institutions to carry on putting up great shows.” —Catherine Petitgas
Catherine Petitgas is also a delight. Ever since a year spent living in Mexico City, the focus of the former financier’s collecting has been on artists from Latin America, “especially those artists who approach the city with this sense of poetry, the poetry of the flaneur, who is really going to try to find ways of sublimating the experience of living in a chaotic and intense city like Mexico City.” Fortunately for these institutions, the philanthropist and art historian has also supported institutions in London as diverse as the Tate, the Serpentine Galleries, Gasworks, and Fluxus Art Projects, among many others. Art Basel sat down with Petitgas at her home in London to find out what inspires her collecting – and her enabling – and Hans Ulrich Obrist also chimed in.
