Cortex Athletico is a structure founded in 2003 in Bordeaux. In 2006, this association became a gallery and started supporting artists in an international requirement, from Bordeaux. The question of this regional geography has always been one of the preoccupations of the staff, considering that the margin is sometimes more creatively incubative than the centre.

A large number of collaborative projects were imagined in the gallery while meeting other related disciplines (dance, theatre, music, performance); or specific and parallel programs such as China Girl (artist's films) or the archives of Rolf Julius.

The gallery installed a secondary space in Paris in 2013, then in 2015 moved to a new location. In order to concentrate on this ambitious project, the structure in Bordeaux closed down. To reinforce its development, the graphic image of the gallery evolved and it changed its name to become Galerie Thomas Bernard – Cortex Athletico.