11 Facts About Bernard Ruiz-Picasso

Bernard Ruiz-Picasso was born on 3 September 1959 and is a businessman and art collector.

Bernard Ruiz-Picasso is the grandson of Pablo Picasso and the son of Paul and Christine Ruiz-Picasso.

Bernard Ruiz-Picasso organised his first exhibition, presenting seventy paintings from his collections, in 2000 at the Kunstforum in Vienna, Austria.

Bernard Ruiz-Picasso is married to the art dealer and gallery owner Almine Rech, with whom he founded in 2002 the Fundacion Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, which promotes contemporary art.

The Fundacion Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte is a foundation incorporated under Spanish law, created in 2002, and is made up by a collection of works by Pablo Picasso and contemporary artists.

Chateau de Boisgeloup, which Ruiz-Picasso inherited in 1975, was opened to the public in 2012 to show Picasso's studio and a series of contemporary art exhibitions starting with Un Soir a Boisgeloup.

Bernard Ruiz-Picasso is President of the Advisory Council of the museum.

On that occasion, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso donated 180 works to establish the museum's collection.

Bernard Ruiz-Picasso regularly lends other works from his collection to the Picasso Museum in Malaga.

Bernard Ruiz-Picasso organised an exhibition with the Kunstforum in Vienna and the Kunsthalle in Tubingen which hosted the exhibition in January 2002.

In 2017, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso was co-curator of an exhibition devoted to Olga, Picasso's first wife, at the Musee Picasso in Paris.