15/03/2026
ALEXANDRE SAP’S RUPTURE ARTS & BOOKS STORE IN VENICE IS PART OF A NETWORK THAT ENCOURAGES THE EXCHANGE OF CULTURE, CONVERSATION AND COMMUNITY IN A CREATIVE INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL SPACE
«Rupture is a gallery of books, not a bookstore. I want to surprise people. I want them to feel like they don’t know where they are».
RUPTURE – ‘A MOMENT TO REINVENT ONESELF’ – THE FIRST ‘HYBRID SPACE’ CURATED BY ALEXANDRE SAP, BETWEEN RARE BOOKS, ART, AND MUSIC
When Alexandre Sap experienced his first rupture. What he identifies as a moment where he can reinvent himself. He combined his knowledge from his previous experience in the music industry and his background in advertisement. However, he wanted to create a space where his artists could hang out, listen to music, and look at records. From this, he founded Rupture Record, a café in Paris that aspired to create a ‘cultural haven’. A hybrid space where people could work and immerse themselves in art, music, and converse with others. Free from the pressures of the external world all while having a cup of coffee.
Wanting to continue expanding his network of international cultural spaces and needing to feed his hunger for art and beauty, Sap traveled down to the South of France, to Marseille. There, he took over a bookstore that specialized in Architecture. And that was la Cité Radieuse of Le Corbusier. The start of Sap’s expansion of cultural networks.
Having curated a large selection of books on Architecture, Alexandre Sap wanted to create a link between Marseille and Venice. With the Biennial of Architecture in mind. And so, Mr Sap looked to Italy for his next step.
In May 2023, Alexandre Sap finally opened his first international Rupture store in Venice. «I want people to come in, grab a book and read the whole thing if they want. The doors to the store are always open. I want the space to be somewhere peaceful people can come to. They can even change the music if they want to. There has to be an exchange of culture and conversation. I want people to find something that they wouldn’t find anywhere else».