Adèle Jancovici
Adèle Jancovici seated in a white armchair beside a stack of books
Photo: Audrey Rose Smith

Adèle Jancovici (b. Paris, France) is a prize-winning publisher, curator and writer.

In 2011, she founded the New York–based art publishing company Le Livre Art Publishing, whose first release, Maripola X, launched with Marc Jacobs’ Bookmarc in Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. From 2017 to 2018, she was co-director and publisher at Éditions & Galerie Dilecta in Paris, where she published the first edition of the correspondence between Constantin Brancusi and Marcel Duchamp. Works & Days by Hélène Delprat received the Filaf/Galeristes Prize for Best Contemporary Art Book in 2018.

Her work begins with a refusal of the white cube, in favor of places that are lived in, and returns again and again to memory: inheritance, loss, traces and transcendence. As a curator, she has developed exhibitions in Europe, the United States and Asia with artists including Paolo Canevari, Sarah Moon, Robert Longo and John Baldessari.

In 2020, she acquired the Herrera Building, an 8,000-square-foot historic adobe in Presidio, Texas, on the border with Mexico, which she restored over five years. She co-founded and chaired the Presidio Cultural District Association, a nonprofit that brought public art and cultural programming to the town. The Dreamers Gallery opened in the building in 2025, with exhibitions and an invitation-only residency for artists and writers; Le Livre became its publishing house. The building is also her home: when the gallery closes, the works remain in a house that is lived in.

Her book on art theory will be published in 2027. She lives and works in Presidio, Texas, and Paris.

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Selected press

  1. 2026The Big Bend Sentinel“Major Parisian artist explores ‘the unconscious’ in Presidio exhibit”, Kate Bubacz — Through the Touch of My Hand
  2. 2025Texas ReporterOn Abel Llavall-Ubach’s first US solo exhibition at The Dreamers
  3. 2020Texas Highways“Enduring Spirit”, Clayton Maxwell and Joe Nick Patoski — Presidio
  4. 2018Libération“La vie d’une femme pas si ordinaire par Michel Journiac”, Clémentine Mercier — Le Corps travesti
  5. 2018ActuaLittéFilaf/Galeristes Prize for Best Contemporary Art Book — Les Travaux et les Jours
  6. 2017NuméroOn Melancholia, May; on Sour Patch Kids, Léa Zetlaoui, October
  7. 2017Le Figaro, Télérama, Time Out Paris, Connaissance des ArtsOn Melancholia and Sour Patch Kids, Galerie Dilecta
  8. 2016Vogue Paris“Sans Titre (2016), la nouvelle garde arty exposée à Paris” — Monuments of the Memory
  9. 2015Flash Art, Document, Art DailyOn Monuments of the Memory, Paolo Canevari, The High Line Hotel
  10. 2015Vogue“A Makeup Moment with Maripol”, Alexandra Pechman
  11. 2014L’Œil de la Photographie“New York: Adèle Jancovici, Le Livre Art Publishing”, Miss Rosen — profile
  12. 2014The New York Times — T Magazine“The Stars of New York’s Old Downtown Scene Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before”, Ann Binlot — Maripola X
  13. 2014W Magazine, Hyperallergic, V MagazineOn Maripola X and Le Livre Art Publishing
  14. 2013Dazed, Purple DiaryOn the launch of Maripola X, Bookmarc London