Galerie St. Petri

Galerie St. Petri - an important Conceptual art gallery was opened in Lund, Sweden by Jean Sellem, a French artist who immigrated to Sweden in the 1970s. He is now a professor of Art history at Lund University and the publisher.

In the 1970s the gallery called: "Galerie S:t Petri - Archive of Experimental and Marginal Art" quickly became an international Conceptual art and Performance art space, closely collaborating with Fluxus artists - Eric Andersen, Ken Friedman and Tomas Schmit as well as Christian Boltanski, Henck van Dijck, John Fekner, Arne Groh, Jarosław Kozłowski, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Carel Lanters, Endre TÓT, Horst Tress, Jacek Tylicki and Krzysztof Wodiczko among many others.

In 1989 Jean Sellem received an honor of the professor of Bauhaus Situationiste in connection with the major retrospective of Situationist International at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Bibliography

• Jean Sellem, (ed.): Fluxus Research, Lund Art Press, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1991
• Jean Sellem, Hardy Strid's Work and Swedish modernism in art from 1935 to 1980. (ISBN 3923091001)
• The Fluxus reader By Ken Friedman, ISBN 0-471-97858-2, page Page 171
• Encyclopedia of aesthetics By Michael Kelly, Oxford University Press, 1998 v. 4, Page 294