Born into art in 1968, Akim Monet’s earliest visual memory is of a vast expanse of blue—an important Yves Klein painting titled California—set against a backdrop of Egyptian and Greek antiquities, all housed within the shrine-like interior of a Swiss mountain home near Gstaad.

After earning a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Art History from Cornell University, Akim embarked, at age 22, on a curatorial journey that would see him privately mount nearly thirty exhibitions, beginning in Switzerland with La poésie de l’objet – from Duchamp to Steinbach.

Following several years in New York—working privately and as Director of Sales for North America for legendary Picasso dealer Jan Krugier—he opened his own exhibition space in 2011: Side by Side Gallery Akim Monet. The Welt am Sonntag hailed it as “the latest and most spectacular addition to the Berlin gallery scene.”

Over the next seven years, he developed an acclaimed program that opened with Fertility, featuring works by Rodin, Kirchner, Grosz, Bourgeois, and Emin, and concluded with Mythology & Science, a landmark exhibition asserting—through the language of art—that we are living in an unprecedented moment in the history of humanity, one in which science and technology appear to realize myths born in antiquity.

In 2018, continuing his lifelong engagement with the most resonant expressions of culture—and seeking to offer his twin sons an environment attuned to the building blocks of the future—Akim relocated with his French-Italian wife, Anne-Marie Visconti, to the United States, where he established an American hub for his activities under the banner of Akim Monet Fine Arts.

Now based in Dallas, he continues to represent the Estate of Auguste Rodin, with which he has been closely associated for several years. His focus includes expanding the narrative around Les Inédits—the plaster models bequeathed by Rodin to the French State in 1916, many of which have only recently been cast in bronze for the first time.

In parallel, Akim continues to develop his artistic practice in the field of photography.