Staffan Ahrenberg was born in Sweden but grew up in Switzerland. Staffan is an art collector and publisher of Editions Cahiers d’Art, the art publishing house based in Paris, founded by Christian Zervos in 1926. Ahrenberg has collected modern and contemporary art since 1977, beginning with geometrical art including that of Auguste Herbin and Josef Albers. His current collection contains works by Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Richard Serra, Robert Longo, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cildo Meireles, Jenny Holzer, Martin Kippenberger and Adrián Villar Rojas, among many others. Staffan Ahrenberg supports the following arts organizations: the Fondation Beyeler in Basel / the Moderna Museet in Stockholm / the Berggruen Museum in Berlin / the Pushkin Museum in Moscow / the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Ahrenberg was nominated Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in May 2018.