Rooster/Lion is a platform created by Maty Sall to cultivate cultural pollination across the global art ecosystem.

Rooted in Sall’s multicultural background and shaped by her life between New York, Paris, Dakar, and the American West Coast, the platform champions conceptually rigorous, emotionally resonant practices that bridge geographies, histories, and ways of seeing. Rooster/Lion operates at the intersection of curation, cultural strategy, and cross-disciplinary collaboration—foregrounding the intelligence, plurality, and dynamism of artists and creatives whose work expands the global narrative.

Rooster/Lion channels Sall’s instinct for cultural pollination and her ease moving between contemporary art, design, performance and the secondary market. Her curatorial projects have been featured in Hyperallergic, Impulse, and other leading cultural publications, and her decade-long work in New York galleries has led to her working with figures such as Rick Owens, Remy Jungerman, Dinga McCannon, and Kim Simonsson, as well as participating in major international fairs including TEFAF Maastricht, Design Miami/, The Armory Show, Independent and FOG.

Moving beyond the conventional gallery model, Rooster/Lion convenes venture capital dialogues, fashion and art exchanges, and curated gatherings that examine the intersections of culture, innovation, and economic systems. Contemporary African art is one of the platform’s core pillars, held alongside a broader constellation of global voices—guided by a belief in multiplicity, nuance, and the transformative power of art.

Image courtesy of Mimi Plange and Mangue Banzima / Artwork: Hilary Balu