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ltd los angeles in 500 Best Galleries Worldwide in Blouin Modern
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500 BEST GALLERIES WORLDWIDE
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Survival of Serena | oil on resin | variant of 3, 38 x 84 x 32 inches
Carole A. Feuerman
Perception
July 14 – August 20, 2016
KM Fine Arts
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West Hollywood
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Elsa Schiaparelli, en collaboration avec Salvador Dalí © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / ADAGP, Paris, 2016, Chapeau-chaussure de Gala Dalí, hiver 1937-1938. Collection Palais Galliera © Eric Poitevin / ADAGP, Paris 2016
Elsa Schiaparelli, in collaboration with Salvador Dalí © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / ADAGP, Paris 2016, Shoe-hat owned by Gala, 1937-1938. Collection Palais Galliera © Eric Poitevin / ADAGP, Paris 2016
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RIGHT:
Antony Micallef
Raw Intent No. 1, 2016, at Pearl
Lam Galleries, Hong Kong.
Oil with beeswax on French
linen, 53¼ x 44¼ in.
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: MITCHELL-INNES & NASH, NEW YORK; THOMAS BUTLER, ANTONY MICALLEF, AND PEARL LAM GALLERIES, HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, AND SINGAPORE;
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Eddie Martinez
Installation view of
the 2016 show
“Salmon Eye”
at Mitchell-Innes &
Nash, New York.
109
ABOVE:
Jeremiah Quarshie
Village Tech,
2011, at Gallery
1957, Accra,
Ghana. Acrylic on
linen, 48 x 60 in.
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begins here.
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Europe
57
The Americas
83
Asia
95
Australasia
102
Middle East
109
Africa
41
RIGHT:
Maggie Madden
Installation view of Out
of focus, 2016, at Mother’s
Tankstation, Dublin.
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Top 500 Galleries Worldwide
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Represented Artists:
Andrea Francolino
Celina Teague
Chris Agnew
Daniel Malva
Dawit Abebe
Ephrem Solomon
James Alec Hardy
Martine Poppe
Muhammad Zeshaan
Richard Schur
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PARTICIPATING GALLERIES
Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid
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AND NOW, Dallas
Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach
Bortolami, New York
Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
The Breeder, Athens
Browse & Darby, London
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Lugano
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London, Paris, New York
casati gallery, Chicago
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Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables
Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv
CONNERSMITH., Washington, DC
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CRG Gallery, New York
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Galerie Crone, Berlin, Vienna
Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Douglas Dawson, Chicago
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
Flowers Gallery, London, New York
Forum Gallery, New York, Beverly Hills
Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
Geary Contemporary, New York
Graphicstudio, Tampa
Alexander Gray Associates,
New York
Richard Gray Gallery,
Chicago, New York
Christopher Grimes Gallery,
Santa Monica
GRIMM, Amsterdam
Kavi Gupta, Chicago
Hacket | Mill, San Francisco
Leila Heller Gallery, New York, Dubai
Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
HOSTLER BURROWS, New York
Edwynn Houk Gallery,
New York, Zürich
Jenkins Johnson Gallery,
San Francisco, New York
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Pearl Lam Galleries,
Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore
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Jane Lombard Gallery, New York
Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami
MACCARONE, New York, Los Angeles
Matthew Marks Gallery,
New York, Los Angeles
Marlborough, New York, London,
Madrid, Barcelona
Marlborough Chelsea, New York
The Mayor Gallery, London
McCormick Gallery, Chicago
Anthony Meier Fine Arts,
San Francisco
moniquemeloche, Chicago
nina menocal, Mexico City
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
THE MISSION, Chicago
Gallery MOMO,
Johannesburg, Cape Town
Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel
MOT International, Brussels, London
Carolina Nitsch, New York
David Nolan Gallery, New York
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Claire Oliver Gallery, New York
ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul
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Peres Projects, Berlin
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Barcelona
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PROYECTOSMONCLOVA,
Mexico City
R & Company, New York
ANDREW RAFACZ, Chicago
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica
rosenfeld porcini, London
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Salon 94, New York
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Eduardo Secci Contemporary,
Florence, Pietrasanta
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix
William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis
Jessica Silverman Gallery,
San Francisco
Sims Reed Gallery, London
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Louis Stern Fine Arts,
West Hollywood
Allan Stone Projects, New York
MARC STRAUS, New York
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Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
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Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles
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Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
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Horton Gallery, New York
Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
Kimmerich, Berlin
Josh Lilley, London
Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago
LUCE GALLERY, Torino
MARSO, Mexico City
MIER GALLERY, Los Angeles
On Stellar Rays, New York
PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles
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Vienna
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Vienna
LEADERSHIP:
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Vienna
Renate Kainer
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Vienna
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Vienna
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Zhang Ding, Franz Graf,
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Nikolaus Ruzicska
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Salzburg
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Brussels
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GALERIE ALBERT BARONIAN, BRUSSELS
Mitja Tusek
Long Before,
2015–16, at
Albert Baronian,
Brussels.
Oil on canvas,
94½ x 71 in.
e
Carver, Peter Schuyff, Jansson
Stegner
ESTABLISHED:
2005
CONTACT:
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Korsgaard, and
Britt Bjerggaard
CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Copenhagen
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CZECH REPUBLIC
LEADERSHIP:
Per Inge Bjørlo, Poul Gernes,
Per Bak Jensen, John Kørner,
Jannis Kounellis
Christian Andersen
ESTABLISHED:
HUNT KASTNER
Prague
ARTISTS:
1999
Julia Haller, Benjamin Hirte,
Tom Humphreys, Morten
Skrøder Lund, Shelly Nadashi
CONTACT:
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TIM VAN LAERE
Antwerp
LEADERSHIP:
erggaard
erggaard
erggaard
+45 33 93 42 21
Camille Hunt and
Katherine Kastner
ESTABLISHED:
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ARTISTS:
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CONTACT:
Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck,
Jonathan Meese, Rinus Van de
Velde, Franz West
Alena Kotzmannová, Dominik
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info@christianandersen.net
+45 25 37 41 01
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VEDOVI GALLERY
Brussels
LEICA GALLERY
Prague
Anna Bjerger, Jake & Dinos
Chapman, Alex Da Corte, Dexter
Dalwood, Michael Simpson
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LEADERSHIP:
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ESTABLISHED:
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M la
2003
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Carl Andre, Jean Arp, Alighiero
e Boetti, Agostino Bonalumi,
Lucio Fontana
Andrej Balco, Andreas H.
Bitesnich, Eva Fuková,
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OTTESEN
Copenhagen
LEADERSHIP:
DAVID RISLEY GALLERY
Copenhagen
Susanne Ottesen
ARTISTS:
Andreas Eriksson,
Ian McKeever, Daido Moriyama,
Bjørn Nørgaard,
Lawrence Weiner
LEADERSHIP:
David Risley
ARTISTS:
GALLERI BO BJERGGAARD
Copenhagen
1983
CONTACT:
MARTIN ASBAEK
GALLERY
Copenhagen
LEADERSHIP:
Mar in
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Bo Bjerggaard, Morten
Niels Bonde, Elina Brotherus,
Mircea Suciu
Installation view
of the 2016 show
“Ship of Fools,”
at Zeno X Gallery,
Antwerp.
XAVIER HUFKENS
Brussels
LEADERSHIP:
Xavier Hufkens
ARTISTS:
George Condo, Adam Fuss,
Tracy Emin, Antony Gormley,
Danh Vo
ESTABLISHED:
1987
CONTACT:
xavierhufkens.com
info@xavierhufkens.com
+32 2 639 6730
ZENO X GALLERY
Antwerp
LEADERSHIP:
Frank and Eliane Demaegd
PETER COX
ARTISTS:
Raoul De Keyser, Yun-Fei Ji,
Grace Schwindt, Luc Tuymans,
Jack Whitten
ESTABLISHED:
1981
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CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN | COPENHAGEN
With a gallery located in what was once an auto repair shop in northwest Copenhagen—some distance from the
more picturesque urban center—Andersen has nonetheless injected a new perspective into the Danish city’s
small gallery scene. His roster includes artists like Benjamin Hirte, Astrid Svangren, and Shelly Nadashi—many
of whom stray notably from the more traditional painting practices that, he says, are usually most popular with
Danish collectors. We spoke to Andersen about cultivating local support while maintaining an international profile.
Christian Andersen
Tell us a bit about how your gallery came to be.
My background is in photography, and in 2002 I
started as a curator at the National Museum of
Photography here in Copenhagen. After four years at
the museum, I changed jobs and became a director
at one of the more established galleries here. Then in
2010, when we were still feeling the financial crisis,
it was time to move on again—in fact, times were
so bad that I had little choice but to open on my own.
My first space was a small window front in the
meatpacking district, close to the central station. One
could literally see everything inside from the street.
The space was 16 by 40 feet and had a floor-to-ceiling
window lengthwise. Realizing I really needed some
more room, I eventually moved in the summer of
2015. The new space is in an old working-class area
with small industry, known locally for being a little
rough. We are in a former auto repair shop with
17-foot-high ceilings. The new gallery is almost 3,200
square feet, and we can now do all sorts of things
we couldn’t do in the old space.
What has been your experience of the Danish/
Scandinavian contemporary art scene?
It’s important for me to work with a few local artists.
It grounds the gallery, and we contribute to the landscape here. So I work with a small handful of Danish
artists, but it’s primarily quite an international
program. In fact, much of the program comes out of a
strong link to Vienna and the class of Heimo Zobernig.
I think we have quite a strong art scene here in
Copenhagen. But, interestingly, I find that the most
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CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Broadly, how would you describe the artists on
your roster? Is there any tendency or trait that
ties your program together?
I think the roster is characterized by a certain toughness,
and also by a diversity within it—quite eclectic
bodies of work that are not tied to a single medium or
expression. Language and materiality are clearly
interests. I also work with more female artists than
most galleries in town.
CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
exciting things take place at either artist-run spaces
or a couple of the very established museums here.
There’s substantial public support for the self-initiated
spaces, and it seems as if an interesting new venue
opens up every year.
How would you characterize the gallery scene and
art market in Copenhagen? Has the introduction
of local fairs like Chart changed it?
The market in Copenhagen is quite conservative, to
be honest, and most collectors here buy paintings,
with the exception of a few very open-minded people
who have collections that can match what you see
internationally. That’s partly why I wanted the gallery
to start doing the international fairs as soon as we
could. We have very good galleries in Copenhagen—
I am highly biased, but a good example is my girlfriend’s
gallery, Bianca D’Alessandro—but it’s also a difficult
market here, and it seems sometimes to set a tone
for what it’s possible to show at some of the mid-tier
galleries in town.
Chart was particularly good for me in 2013, its
debut year. Though the gallery had begun to do fairs
like Independent New York and Liste, it was still
really known only locally by a self-selecting group of
people. So Chart helped introduce the gallery to a
wider Danish public.
What are some of your favorite spots—not
necessarily just to see art—in Copenhagen?
You cannot visit the city without making a stop at the
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. There’s also a
beautiful restaurant at the nearby harbor if you have
something to celebrate. We have very nice parks
here, and we often just hang out in Kongens Have, next
to our apartment. Otherwise, I really like abandoned
spaces on the outskirts of Copenhagen. But there are
few of them left these days, though Refshaleøen is still
an interesting place, and the northwest, where the
gallery is now located, also still has some gritty charm.
Rolf Nowotny
Installation
view of
“Conkcloaca,”
2016.
What do you and your artists have coming up?
The National Gallery just acquired an installation
by Rolf Nowotny, who inaugurated our gallery back
in 2010. Carl Mannov is Danish but just graduated
from the academy in Oslo and had a solo show with
Standard Oslo in October. He has an upcoming solo
show with me that will be open through September.
And later in the year, we will have a solo by German
artist Till Megerle. MP
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Philippe Parreno
ARTISTS:
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1990
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Paris
LEADERSHIP:
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ARTISTS:
John M Armleder, Alex Israel,
Erik Lindman, James Turrell,
DeWain Valentine
Wade Guyton, Jean-Luc
Moulène, Anri Sala, Danh Vo,
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GALERIE ANHAVA
Helsinki
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Copenhagen
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Paris
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Paris
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nilsstaerk.dk
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+45 32 54 4562
V1 GALLERY
Copenhagen
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
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Mary Beth Edelson, Alexander
May, Stephen Willats
Jesper Elg, Peter Funch,
Mikkel Grønnebæk
CONTACT:
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FRANCE
AIR DE PARIS
Paris
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Paris
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Nathalie Vallois
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Gilles Barbier, Richard Jackson,
Henrique Oliveira, Niki de Saint
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Paris
LEADERSHIP:
Florence Bonnefous and
Edouard Merino
Frank Elbaz
CONTACT:
BALICE HERTLING GALERIE
Paris
Stephan Balkenhol,
Secundino Hernández, Chantal
Joffe, Kaarina Kaikkonen,
Heikki Marila
1977
Asger Carlsen, Richard
Colman, John Copeland,
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FINLAND
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GALERIE CHANTAL
CROUSEL
Paris
Chantal Crousel and
Niklas Svennung
Brussels; London
CONTACT:
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+33 1 42 72 14 10
ESTABLISHED:
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2005
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JAN SONDERGAARD AND V1 GALLERY, COPENHAGEN
Søren Behncke
Installation
view of the
exhibition
“La Chambre,”
at V1 Gallery,
Copenhagen,
2016.
Brussels
GALERIE
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Paris
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Paris
New York; Hong Kong; Seoul
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Paris
GALERIE POLARIS
Paris
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Guillaume Leblon,
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Peter Kogler, Claude &
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+33 1 42 03 05 65
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GALERIE
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Paris
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Paris
LEADERSHIP:
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Scoli Acosta, Claude Closky,
Liz Cohen, Delphine Coindet,
David Kramer
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2005
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Paris
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1983
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tube light, Duratrans
print, Boss OD-1
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chain, 78 x 39¾ in.
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PARIS-BEIJING
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Paris
LEADERSHIP:
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Beijing; Brussels
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+33 1 42 74 32 36
ARTISTS:
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Durham, LaToya Ruby Frazier,
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GALERIE PERROTIN
Paris
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Daniel Arsham, Elmgreen &
Dragset, Bernard Frize, Park
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CONTACT:
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+33 1 42 72 68 13
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Paris
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NEW GALERIE
Paris
MAGDA DANYSZ GALLERY
Paris
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Marion Dana and
Corentin Hamel
LEADERSHIP:
Magda Danysz
ARTISTS:
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Zhang Dali, Alexandre Farto
(a.k.a. Vhils), JR,
Prune Nourry, Erwin Olaf
Darja Bajagić, Dora Budor,
Sean Raspet, Jasper Spicero,
Artie Vierkant
2001
CONTACT:
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KAMEL MENNOUR
Paris
Fabienne Leclerc
Valentin Carron,
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Anish Kapoor, Alicja Kwade,
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Paris
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cfa-berlin.de
gallery@cfa-berlin.de
+49 30 288 787 0
1990
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
PROJECTE SD, BARCELONA, VG BILD-KUNST, AND BQ, BERLIN
1998
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
VALENTIN
Paris
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
DELMES & ZANDER
Cologne and Berlin
Geneva; Montevideo
and Punta del Este, Uruguay
ESTABLISHED:
2008
1991
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
Nicole Delmes
xippas.com
paris@xippas.com
+33 1 40 27 05 55
aurelscheibler.com
fi e a rel hei ler
+49 30 25 93 86 07
capitainpetzel.de
info@capitainpetzel.de
+49 30 24 08 81 30
GERMANY
BARBARA WIEN
Berlin
ALEXANDER LEVY
Berlin
ARTISTS:
Madge Gill, Karl Junker, Laying
on of Hands, Michel Nedjar,
Oswald Tschirtner
CARLIER | GEBAUER
Berlin
ESTABLISHED:
1988
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Barbara Wien
Ulrich Gebauer and
Marie-Blanche Carlier
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
galerie-zander.de
info@galerie-zander.de
+49 221 52 16 25
Alexander Levy
Georges Adéagbo, Nina Canell,
Mariana Castillo Deball,
Jimmie Durham, Haegue Yang
Sara Barker, Paul Graham,
Iman Issa, Caroline Mesquita,
Laure Prouvost
ESTHER SCHIPPER
Berlin
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
1988
1991
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
Esther Schipper
2012
barbarawien.de
bw@barbarawien.de
+49 30 28 38 53 52
carliergebauer.com
mail@carliergebauer.com
+49 30 24 00 86 30
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Julius von Bismarck,
Felix Kiessling, Fabian Knecht,
Nik Nowak, Sinta Werner
CONTACT:
alexanderlevy.net
LEADERSHIP:
Jochen Lempert
Untitled
(Wasserlinse),
2011,at BQ,Berlin.
Foliogram,
silver gelatin print,
41 x 32 in.
Angela Bulloch, Liam Gillick,
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
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NEW GALERIE | PARIS
Partners Marion Dana and Corentin Hamel opened
New Galerie in 2008. In addition to spearheading
several related projects, like a New York outpost and a
collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives, they have
maintained a strong international roster of up-andcoming artists, including Artie Vierkant, Darja Bajagić,
and Dora Budor, with a multidisciplinary, mediaoriented bent. We spoke to Hamel about running a
“classical” gallery with cutting-edge artists.
Tell us a bit about your roster. How would you
characterize the artists you work with?
We have an international roster, with a number of
emerging artists. We think that they tell us something
about the world as it is today—and maybe tomorrow.
We love artists who have an in-depth way of thinking
through the changes of society. This possible echo,
and how you negotiate between your private situation
and the world at large, is what fascinates us about
the art world. It’s an old story, and the way artists deal
with it is so resilient, from caverns to churches to
airports to social media.
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What’s the backstory of New Galerie? Did you
have any particular intentions or goals in starting
this space?
We opened six years ago. The idea from the beginning
was to work as a “classical” gallery, following the
artists and the clients long term. Being a gallerist gives
you access to the whole spectrum of the art world,
from the shippers to the museums, the artists and the
collectors, the writers and the fabricators. This
openness is something that has always interested us,
both in how we make shows and the way we want
to see the world. Artists we work with have this same
sensitivity. Marion and I have worked in many fields
within the art world: galleries, writing, curating,
managing private collections, teaching, auction houses.
NEW GALERIE
For a period of time, you ran a New Galerie outpost
in New York. What was the relationship between
the two spaces?
A good part of the gallery’s activity has always been
linked to the U.S., be it through the artists, clients,
or a cultural dialogue. We wanted to explore this link
more, and live and work there part-time. Ultimately,
rules and mind-sets in the U.S. and Europe are different,
and that’s what interested us. We designed our space
in New York as a project, to learn, meet, and create.
We have since closed the space, but we are very happy
to have done it; we met great people, and the gallery
is still imbued with the results of this experiment.
You work with a younger-skewing group of artists,
some of whom are engaged with new media
or are working in unprecedented zones between
disciplines. How does this sort of programming
fit into the larger Paris gallery scene?
These artists are well received here, at least by a
specific, but active, group of viewers. One of the nice
traditions in Paris has been the interest in welcoming
foreign cutting-edge culture. Classic movies from
abroad are still shown in numerous movie theaters. The
challenging part is that you have to convince people
that the changes are relevant, and people can take some
time to be convinced. The rewarding part is that when
viewers are convinced, they get extremely enthusiastic.
What are some of your favorite places or things to
do—not necessarily art-related—in Paris? We have been living here for a long time—Marion
was born here. Both of us like to walk in the city—you
always get a new perspective on it. This is more
obvious when you come back from a trip abroad. It
is a very dense city, and walking 100 meters often
puts you in a new world.
Tell me about the work in your personal collections.
What’s a dream acquisition? We have a few works from the gallery’s artists. We
do not live with them; we keep them at the gallery.
These works are part of the artists’ history, so we want
to have them ready for showing. As for our dream
acquisition, this may seem too gallery related, but
we would love to be able to acquire more works by the
artists we show. At the end of the day, we show the
artists whose work we like best.
Artie Vierkant
Profile, 2016.
Two-channel
HD video,
10 hours, 23 min.
OPPOSITE, FROM TOP:
New Galerie’s
exterior.
Artie Vierkant
Expression
Space, Neutral
(Profile), 2016.
Dye sublimation
print on
aluminum,
30 x 30 in.
Reflection
(Profile), 2016.
Dye sublimation
print on
aluminum,
20 x 16 in.
What does New Galerie have coming up in
September and beyond?
In September we will have a show with Christopher
Kulendran Thomas, a very exciting artist we recently
started to represent. He also has a room in the
Berlin Biennale that we are working on. He works on
circulation of values—monetary, cultural, and
geographic—which is a keen interest of ours. MP
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GALERIE EIGEN + ART
Berlin and Leipzig
LEADERSHIP:
Gerd Harry Lybke
ARTISTS:
Martin Eder, Tim Eitel,
Uwe Kowski, Neo Rauch,
David Schnell
ESTABLISHED:
1983
CONTACT:
eigen-art.com
erlin eigen ar
+49 30 28 06 605
GALERIE
GISELA CAPITAIN
Cologne
LEADERSHIP:
Gisela Capitain
ARTISTS:
Karla Black, Charline von Heyl,
Estate of Martin Kippenberger,
Zoe Leonard, Christopher
Williams
ESTABLISHED:
1986
Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
bthumm.de
in
h
de
+49 30 28 39 03 47
estherschipper.com
fi e e her hi er
+49 30 37 44 33 133
GALERIE BARBARA WEISS
Berlin
1989
galerie
hh l de
+49 30 88 62 40 56
GALERIE CRONE
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
Markus Peichl
GALERIA PLAN B
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Bärbel Trautwein and
Daniel Herleth
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Mihai Pop and Mihaela Lutea
Nicole Eisenman, Berta Fischer,
Jonathan Horowitz,
Collier Schorr, Roman Signer
Norbert Bisky, Hanne
Darboven, Monika
Grzymala, Ruprecht
von Kaufmann,
Rosemarie Trockel
CONTACT:
galeriecapitain.de
in
galerie a i ain de
+49 221 355 70 10
GALERIE
GUIDO W. BAUDACH
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
Guido W. Baudach
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
1982
Björn Dahlem,
Thilo Heinzmann,
Andy Hope 1930, Bjarne
Melgaard, Thomas Zipp
1992
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
Vienna
1999
2005
galeriebarbaraweiss.de
ail galerie ar ara ei
+49 30 26 24 284
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
galeriecrone.com
in
galerie r ne de
+49 30 25 92 44 90
guidowbaudach.com
galerie g id
a da h
+49 30 319 98 101
GALERIE DANIEL BLAU
Munich
GALERIE JUDIN
Berlin
Daniel Buchholz and
Christopher Müller
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Daniel Blau
Juerg Judin
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Barbara Thumm and
Nici Wegener
Isa Genzken, R.H. Quaytman,
Cameron Rowland,
Wolfgang Tillmans, Danh Vo
Chuck Close, Lucian Freud,
Anselm Kiefer, Andy Warhol,
Weegee
Edouard Baribeaud, Philipp
Fürhofer, Adrian Ghenie,
Christoph Hänsli, Uwe Wittwer
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
Jo Baer, Fiona Banner, Teresa
Burga, Diango Hernández,
Anna Oppermann
1986
1990
2008
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
New York
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
1997
galeriebuchholz.de
danielblau.com
na
daniel la
+49 89 29 73 42
galeriejudin.com
in
galerie din
+49 30 39 40 48 40
ARTISTS:
Adrian Ghenie, Victor Man,
Ciprian Muresan, Navid Nuur,
Serban Savu
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Cluj, Romania
de
CONTACT:
plan-b.ro
na
lan r
+49 30 3980 5236
GALERIE BUCHHOLZ
Cologne and Berlin
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
GALERIE BARBARA THUMM
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
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Martin Eder
Installation view
of the 2015
exhibition
“Those Bloody
Colours,”at
Galerie Eigen +
Art,Berlin.
GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE
Cologne
GALERIE NEU
Berlin
GALERIJA GREGOR PODNAR
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
2004
Karsten Greve
Thilo Wermke and
Alexander Schröder
Gregor Podnar
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Irwin, Julije Knifer,
Marzena Nowak,
Goran Petercol, B. Wurtz
bortolozzi.com
info@bortolozzi.com
+49 30 26 39 76 20
Susan Philipsz, Seth Price,
Carol Rama
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
Louise Bourgeois, John
Chamberlain, Lucio Fontana,
Jannis Kounellis, Cy Twombly
ESTABLISHED:
Jana Euler, Yngve Holen,
Klara Lidén, Gedi Sibony,
Reena Spaulings
1973
ESTABLISHED:
2003
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
1994
CONTACT:
Paris; St. Moritz
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
galerieneu.net
mail@galerieneu.com
+49 30 285 75 50
gregorpodnar.com
berlin@gregorpodnar.com
+49 30 259 346 51
galerie-karsten-greve.com
info@galerie-karsten-greve.de
+49 221 257 10 12
MARCUS SCHNEIDER, THE ESTATE OF JULIJE KNIFER, AND GALERIJA GREGOR PODNAR, BERLIN
GALERIE KLUESER
Munich
GALERIE
RUEDIGER SCHOETTLE
Munich
JABLONKA GALERIE
Cologne
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
Birgit Müller
ARTISTS:
HAEUSLER CONTEMPORARY
Munich
Eric Fischl, Mike Kelley,
Sherrie Levine,
Andreas Slominski,
Philip Taaffe
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
1988
jablonkagalerie.com
info@jablonkagalerie.com
+49 221 240 34 26
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Wolfgang Häusler and
Christa Häusler
Bernd Klüser
Rüdiger Schöttle
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Tony Cragg, Jan Fabre,
Alex Katz, Olaf Metzel,
Andy Warhol
Elger Esser, Candida Höfer,
On Kawara, Goshka Macuga,
Anicka Yi
Sébastien de Ganay, Judy
Ledgerwood, Kyung-Lim Lee,
Roman Signer, James Turrell
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
1992
1978
1968
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
Zurich; Lustenau, Austria
LEADERSHIP:
galerieklueser.de
info@galerieklueser.com
+49 89 384 081-0
galerie-ruediger-schoettle.de
info@galerie-schoettle.de
+49 89 33 36 86
CONTACT:
Jiri Svestka
ARTISTS:
GALERIE MAX HETZLER
Berlin
GALERIE THOMAS
Munich
haeusler-contemporary.com
muenchen@haeusler-contempo
rary.com
+49 89 210 980 3
LEADERSHIP:
Max Hetzler and Samia Saouma
Raimund Thomas
ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI
GALERIE
Berlin
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Glenn Brown, Günther Förg,
Beatriz Milhazes, Albert
Oehlen, Bridget Riley
Michele Oka Doner, Futura,
Bettina Rheims, Martha Rosler,
William Wegman
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Isabella Bortolozzi
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
Ed Atkins, Oscar Murillo,
jirisvestka.com
gallery@jirisvestka.com
+49 30 2391 1644
1974
1964
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
CONTACT:
Paris
galerie-thomas.de
info@galerie-thomas.de
+49 89 29 000 860
CONTACT:
maxhetzler.com
info@maxhetzler.com
+49 30 34 64 97 850
MEHDI CHOUAKRI
Berlin
CONTACT:
JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY
Berlin
ESTABLISHED:
Andrej Dubravsky,
Maki Na Kamura, Kristof
Kintera, Jan van der Pol,
Hans Rath
1995
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Prague
ARTISTS:
Julije Knifer
Installation view
of the artist’s
show “Elements,”
at Galerija
Gregor Podnar,
Berlin, 2016.
GALERIE
THOMAS SCHULTE
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Thomas Schulte
Alexandra Alexopoulou
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
a dane fi
hn M r leder
N. Dash, Hans-Peter Feldmann,
Sylvie Fleury
Alice Aycock, Alfredo Jaar,
Idris Khan,
Gordon Matta-Clark,
Leunora Salihu
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
1996
1991
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
mehdi-chouakri.com
galerie@mehdi-chouakri.com
+49 30 28 39 11 53
galeriethomasschulte.de
mail@galeriethomasschulte.de
+49 30 2060 89 90
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JOHNEN GALERIE
Berlin
KOENIG GALERIE
Berlin
KRAUPA-TUSKANY
ZEIDLER
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Manuel Miseur
Johann König
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Martin Creed, Candida Höfer,
Yoshitomo Nara, Anri Sala,
Liu Ye
Katharina Grosse,
Jeppe Hein, Camille
Henrot, Alicja Kwade,
Tatiana Trouvé
Amadeo Kraupa-Tuskany
and Nadine Zeidler
PERES PROJECTS
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
Javier Peres and
Nick Koenigsknecht
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
Aids-3D, Andrea Crespo,
Katja Novitskova, Slavs and
Tatars, Guan Xiao
Mike Bouchet, Mark
Flood, Donna Huanca,
Dorothy Iannone,
Melike Kara
2002
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
2011
2002
koeniggalerie.com
info@koeniggalerie.com
+49 30 261 030 80
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
aktnz.com
fi e a n
+49 30 68 81 27 10
peresprojects.com
berlin@peresprojects.com
+49 30 275 95 07 70
KONRAD FISCHER
GALERIE
Düsseldorf and Berlin
NEUGERRIEMSCHNEIDER
Berlin
SIES + HOEKE
Düsseldorf
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Dorothee Fischer
Tim Neuger and
Burkhard Riemschneider
Nina Höke
ARTISTS:
1986
Giovanni Anselmo,
Marcel Broodthaers,
Tony Cragg, Thomas Schütte,
Tatjana Valsang
Olafur Eliasson, Elizabeth
Peyton, Tobias Rehberger,
Ai Weiwei, Pae White
Julius von Bismarck,
Julian Charrière, Lothar
Hempel, Kris Martin,
Henning Strassburger
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
Palma De Mallorca, Spain
1967
1994
1999
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
kewenig.com
gallery@kewenig.com
+49 30 39 88 03 80
nradfi hergalerie de
fi e
nradfi hergalerie de
+49 211 685 908
neugerriemschneider.com
mail@neugerriemschneider.com
+49 30 28 87 72 77
sieshoeke.com
post@sieshoeke.com
+49 211 301 43 60
CONTACT:
johnengalerie.de
mail@johnengalerie.de
+49 30 27 58 30 30
KEWENIG
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
Michael Kewenig and
Jule Kewenig
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Giovanni Anselmo,
Marcel Broodthaers,
William N. Copley,
Seydou Keïta,
William Kentridge
ESTABLISHED:
Marcel Dzama
A Flower of Evil,
2016,at Sies +
Höke, Düsseldorf.
Gouache,ink,
and pencil on
paper,22 x 30 in.
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
SOCIETE
Berlin
ARTISTS:
Trisha Baga,
Petra Cortright,
Josh Kolbo, Jeanette Mundt,
Timur Si-Qin
CONTACT:
societeberlin.com
contact@societeberlin.com
+49 30 261 03283
SPRUETH MAGERS
Berlin
LEADERSHIP:
Philomene Magers and
Monika Sprüth
ARTISTS:
George Condo,
Thea Djordjadze,
Jenny Holzer, Sterling Ruby,
Cindy Sherman
1983
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
London; Los Angeles
CONTACT:
spruethmagers.com
info@spruethmagers.com
+49 30 2 88 84 03 0
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SIES + HOEKE, DUSSELDORF
ESTABLISHED:
TANYA
LEIGHTON
Berlin
indagaleria.hu
info@indagaleria.hu
+36 1 413 1960
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
ICELAND
ESTABLISHED:
I8 GALLERY
Reykjavik
CONTACT:
Tanya Leighton
ARTISTS:
Aleksandra Domanović,
Sharon Hayes,
Sanya Kantarovsky,
Oliver Laric, Jamian
Juliano-Villani
LEADERSHIP:
Börkur Arnarson
and Audur Jörundsdóttir
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
2008
Olafur Eliasson,
reinn ridfinn n
Callum Innes,
Ragnar Kjartansson,
Alicja Kwade
CONTACT:
tanyaleighton.com
info@tanyaleighton.com
+49 30 221 60 77 70
2006
motherstankstation.com
gallery@motherstanksta
tion.com
+3531 671 7654
ITALY
BRAND NEW
GALLERY
Milan
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
HUNGARY
1995
Fabrizio Affronti and
Chiara Badinella
ACB GALLERY
Budapest
i8.is
info@i8.is
+354 551 3666
ARTISTS:
Amy Feldman, José Lerma,
Josh Reames, Kate Steciw,
Letha Wilson
LEADERSHIP:
IRELAND
ESTABLISHED:
Róbert Batykó, Stephen
Felsmann, Gábor
Fülöp, Tehnica Schweiz,
Endre Tót
GREEN ON RED
GALLERY
Dublin
CONTACT:
Rosa Barba, Kerstin Brätsch,
Günther Förg, Wade Guyton,
Allison Katz
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
2003
Jerome O Drisceoil
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
acbgaleria.hu
acbinfo@acbgaleria.hu
+36 1 413 7608
John Cronin, Mary FitzGerald,
Mark Joyce, Arno Kramer,
Niamh McCann
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
1997
Agostino Bonalumi,
Lucio Fontana,
Agnes Martin,
Salvatore Scarpitta,
Gilberto Zorio
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
Gábor Pados
ARTISTS:
CHIMERA-PROJECT
Budapest
LEADERSHIP:
Patrick Urwyler
CONTACT:
greenonredgallery.com
info@greenonredgallery.com
+353 01 87 245 4282
ARTISTS:
AGOSTINO OSCIO AND FRANCESCA MININI, MILAN
Uri Aran, Nina Canell,
Mairead O’hEocha, Cui Jie,
Yuri Pattison
Márk Fridvalszki,
Gábor Koós, Aron KútvölgyiSzabó, Géza Perneczky,
Anu Vahtra
KERLIN GALLERY
Dublin
ESTABLISHED:
2013
David Fitzgerald,
Darragh Hogan, John Kennedy
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
chimera-project.com
patrick@chimera-project.com
+36 30 768 2947
Willie Doherty,
Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska,
Isabel Nolan, Sean Scully
INDA GALLERY
Budapest
LEADERSHIP:
Agnes Tallér
LEADERSHIP:
Agnes Eperjesi, Andras Nagy,
Peter Somody
2010
brandnew-gallery.com
info@brandnew-gallery.com
+39 02 89 05 30 83
Giò Marconi
ESTABLISHED:
1990
CONTACT:
giomarconi.com
info@giomarconi.com
+39 02 29 404 373
CARDI GALLERY
Milan
LIA RUMMA
Milan and Naples
Nicolo Cardi
LEADERSHIP:
Lia Rumma
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
Marina Abramović, William
Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer,
Joseph Kosuth, Ettore Spalletti
1972
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
1971
cardigallery.com
mail@cardigallery.com
+39 02 45 47 81 89
CONTACT:
liarumma.it
info@liarumma.it
+39 02 2900 0101
FRANCESCA MININI
Milan
MASSIMO DE CARLO
Milan
LEADERSHIP:
Francesca Minini
LEADERSHIP:
1998
ARTISTS:
Massimo De Carlo
CONTACT:
Matthias Bitzer,
Flavio Favelli,
Mandla Reuter,
Francesco Simeti, Armando
Andrade Tudela
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
2006
London; Hong Kong
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
francescaminini.it
info@francescaminini.it
+39 02 269 246 71
massimodecarlo.com
milano@massimodecarlo.com
+39 02 7000 3987
kerlingallery.com
gallery@kerlin.ie
+3531 670 9093
MOTHER’S
TANKSTATION
Dublin
ESTABLISHED:
2006
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Finola Jones
Francesco
Simeti
Billows V, 2015, at
Francesca
Minini, Milan.
Ceramic.
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
AKA , Kim Corbisier,
GIO MARCONI
Milan
Steven Claydon, Gelitin, Olivier
Mosset, Paola Pivi, Aaron Young
ESTABLISHED:
1987
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The U.K.-born Leighton opened her eponymous
gallery in 2008, with an initial focus on representing
British and American experimental filmmakers
and performance artists. She spoke to us about the
gallery’s intuitive expansion and its growing
roster of artists, which now includes David Diao,
Sharon Hayes, and Sanya Kantarovsky in the fold.
Tanya Leighton
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What led you to open your own gallery?
I was a student at Glasgow School of Art when I joined
Transmission Gallery—an artist-run space in the
East End of Glasgow. Transmission ran on a rolling
committee basis, where five people worked together
for a period of two and a half years, organizing the
shows and collaboratively overseeing all aspects of
running the gallery. Together, Will Bradley, Eva
Rothschild, Kirsty Ogg, Toby Webster, and I organized
anywhere between 12 and 16 shows a year, as well
as numerous projects and events, all on a shoestring
budget and with little or no experience to speak
of. There was a dynamic energy and an interesting
crossover of art, design, and music—Franz Ferdinand’s
song “Do You Want To” references the art and parties
of the time: “Here we are at the Transmission party / I
love your friends / they’re all so arty / oh yeah!”
Transmission was part of a phenomenon of artist-led
initiatives in Britain that peaked in the mid ’90s—
along with the likes of City Racing and Cubitt Gallery—
and was significant for making ambitious shows with
established artists like Lawrence Weiner and Hanne
Darboven while giving the first-ever solo shows to
young local artists like Jim Lambie and David Shrigley.
It also was a platform for international artists like
Jackie McAllister or Art Club 2000 to exhibit. I think it
was the combination of working closely with and for
other artists, being part of a committed shared project
with a frenetic turnover and unbeatable energy, that
sparked my desire for independent and self-initiated
projects and ultimately led me to open my own space.
Can you identify any significant changes in the
direction of the gallery over the years?
I detoured between a number of curatorial positions—
from Dundee Contemporary Arts to the Whitney
Museum and ICA at the University of Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia—and various editorial and publishing
projects before finding myself in Berlin and realizing
that the city afforded both the time and the conditions to
start something. I opened on July 4, 2008, perfectly
timed right before the global financial crisis. If my
work hadn’t already been cut out for me, it certainly
was by October of that year. So, yes, fortunately I’ve
seen significant changes since then! This wasn’t
to do with a shift in programming, rather a reflection
of collector confidence rebuilding as the economic
situation slowly became more robust.
The program was developed out of my associations
with American and British experimental cinema,
artist’s film and video, performance, Minimalist and
Conceptual art. I was interested in artists with a
predominantly strong political focus or who had been
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TANYA LEIGHTON | BERLIN
ignored by the art market, and working within
mediums like film, video, and performance. Artists
who have joined the gallery more recently widened
its focus from moving image and performance
to include more painting, sculpture, and installation.
It continues to be important for me to maintain a
mix of younger positions along with established artists,
marginalized figures, and historical frameworks.
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Can you describe the art scene around you in Berlin?
It’s an incredible international community comprising
brilliant young artists, writers, curators, and gallerist
friends. Sadly, it’s notoriously weak on the institutional
side, but the commercial gallery programs and artistrun spaces fortunately compensate for this shortcoming.
Aleksandra
Domanović
Partridge, 2016.
Laser sintered
PA plastic,
polyurethane,
soft-touch aluminum, copper
and Kevlarcarbon fiber
coating, Corian,
and foam,
69¼ x 24¾ x 15 in.
BELOW:
Three C-prints
from the artist’s
“Bulls Without
Horns” series,
all 2016.
What do you have planned for fall and beyond?
In September we are dedicating both gallery spaces
to Studio for Propositional Cinema from Düsseldorf,
which was founded in 2013. For Art Basel Miami
Beach, we are presenting new works by Aleksandra
Domanović and Oliver Laric, two young Berlin-based
artists using cutting-edge technologies to explore
methods of production and reproduction and shed light
on past, present, and potential future politics. We are
introducing the work of a couple new artists to our
program, including an exciting young artist from New
York, Sam Anderson, and the wonderful Marianne
Wex, a German artist who started out as a painter
before producing her photographic project “Let’s Take
Back Our Space,” one of the great unsung works of
1970s feminist history and cultural analysis.
What would you say was the biggest challenge in
opening and running your own gallery?
The biggest challenge is never having enough time
to do everything I would like to do for the artists at the
level of professionalism I aspire to, and never having
deep enough pockets. MP
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GALERIE FONS WELTERS
Amsterdam
GALLERI K
Oslo
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Fons Welters
Ben Frija
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Olga Balema, David
Jablonowski, Folkert de Jong,
Gabriel Lester, Renzo Martens
ESTABLISHED:
Stian Adlandsvik, Rune
Johansen, Michel Majerus,
Nina Roos, Wolfgang
Tillmans
1988
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
1977
fonswelters.nl
mail@fonswelters.nl
+31 20 423 30 46
CONTACT:
GRIMM
Amsterdam
gallerik.com
gallerik@online.no
+47 22 55 35 88
NOPLACE
Oslo
LEADERSHIP:
Jorg Grimm and
Hannah Reefhuis
MONITOR
Rome
Lauren Luloff, Bernar Venet
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
Charles Avery, Desiree Dolron,
Matthew Day Jackson, Michael
Raedecker, Matthias Weischer
2006
LEADERSHIP:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Paola Capata
Paris and Saint-Etienne,
France; Geneva
ESTABLISHED:
2011
2005
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
bernardceysson.com
+352 26 262 208
grimmgallery.com
info@grimmgallery.com
+31 20 6 752 465
noplace.no
utopia@noplace.no
ARTISTS:
Eric Bainbridge, Thomas
Braida, Nathaniel Mellors,
Nicola Samorì, Claudio Verna
ESTABLISHED:
2003
CONTACT:
monitoronline.org
monitor@monitoronline.org
+39 06 3937 8024
THE NETHERLANDS
ANNET GELINK GALLERY
Amsterdam
NORWAY
1857
Oslo
PROMETEO GALLERY
Milan and Lucca
LEADERSHIP:
Eivind Furnesvik
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Steffen Håndlykken and
Stian Eide Kluge
Gardar Eide Einarsson,
Alex Hubbard, Ann Cathrin
November Høibo,
Michaela Meise, Josh Smith
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
2005
standardoslo.no
info@standardoslo.no
+47 22 60 13 10
Ida Pisani
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
Petter Ballo, Tora Dalseng, Ane
Graff, Mirak Jamal, Eirik Senje
Fabrizio Cotognini, Edson
Luli, Ivan Moudov, Giuseppe
Stampone, Sandra Vásquez
de la Horra
2000
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
2010
annetgelink.com
info@annetgelink.com
+31 20 330 2066
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
STANDARD (OSLO)
Oslo
LEADERSHIP:
Yael Bartana, Ed van der
Elsken, Meiro Koizumi, Erik
van Lieshout, David Maljkovic
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
Annet Gelink
LEADERSHIP:
2005
1857.no
electronicmail@1857.no
+47 22 17 60 50
CONTACT:
POLAND
ELLEN DE BRUIJNE
PROJECTS
Amsterdam
GALLERI BRANDSTRUP
Oslo
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
LUXEMBOURG
Ellen de Bruijne
Kim Brandstrup and
Marit Gillespie
GALERIE
BERNARD CEYSSON
Luxembourg and Koerich
Lara Almarcegui, Pauline
Boudry & Renate Lorenz,
Dora García, Susan Philipsz,
Falke Pisano
ARTISTS:
Dag Alveng, Christer Glein,
Joseph Kosuth, Kjell Nupen,
Fredrik Raddum
Ewa Axelrad, Little
Warsaw, Karol Radziszewski,
Iza Tarasewicz, Jakub
Woynarowski
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
Bernard Ceysson, François
Ceysson, Loic Bénétière
1999
2000
2011
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
edbprojects.com
edbprojects@cs.com
+31 20 530 4994
brandstrup.no
galleri@brandstrup.no
+47 22 54 54 54
bwawarszawa.pl
bwawarszawa@gmail.com
+48 72 553 6075
CONTACT:
prometeogallery.com
info@prometeogallery.com
+39 22 692 4450
Sarah Braman, Franck
Chalendard, Rémy Jacquier,
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Jason Havneraas, Kristian
Skylstad, Karen Nikgol, Hans
Christian Skovholt, Stian W.
Gabrielsen, Petter Buhagen
BWA WARSZAWA
Warsaw
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
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Justyna Kowalska and
Michal Suchora
ARTISTS:
PAVEL CURAGAU
Radu Comsa
Double diapente
4/6/9, 2016,
at Sabot in Cluj.
Pigments on
cotton fabric
(batik),three
sloping wooden
stretchers,
71 x 106 in.
LEADERSHIP:
GALERIA FOKSAL
Warsaw
geral@pedrocera.com
+351 21 816 2032
SABOT
Cluj
LEADERSHIP:
VERA CORTES ART AGENCY
Lisbon
LEADERSHIP:
Katarzyna Krysiak
ARTISTS:
Daria D. Pervain
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Ekatherina Iragui
Radu Comşa, Nona Inescu,
Nicolás Lamas, Alex Mirutziu,
lad an a
ARTISTS:
Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys,
Daniel Buren, Michael CraigMartin, Susan Hiller
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
Joana Escoval, Alexander
Gutke, Nuno da Luz, André
Romão, João Queiroz
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
galeria-sabot.ro
info@galeria-sabot.ro
+40 723 224 105
veracortes.com
+351 21 395 0177
RUSSIA
1966
CONTACT:
galeriafoksal.pl
foksal@mik.waw.pl
+48 22 827 6243
Vera Cortês
ARTISTS:
2009
CONTACT:
2003
PORTUGAL
CRISTINA GUERRA
CONTEMPORARY ART
Lisbon
ROMANIA
ARKA GALLERY
Vladivostok
IVAN GALLERY
Bucharest
GALERIE
IRAGUI
Moscow
Sergey Anufriev,
Olga Bozhko,
Daria Krotova,
Pavel Pepperstein,
Natalia Zourabova
ESTABLISHED:
2008
CONTACT:
iragui.com
contact@iragui.com
+7 495 978 3213
GALLERY 21
Moscow
LEADERSHIP:
Vera Glazkova
LEADERSHIP:
Cristina Guerra
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Ksenia Podoynitsyna
ARTISTS:
Marian Ivan
ARTISTS:
Juan Araujo, John Baldessari,
Adriana Barreto,
André Cepeda, Filipa César
ARTISTS:
Olga Kisseleva,
Konstantin Kuzminykh,
Mikhail Pavin,
Vladimir Pogrebniak,
Gleb Teleshov
LEADERSHIP:
a
Nikolay Alekseev,
Natasha Dahnberg, Ivan
Egelskii, Sergey Katran,
Sergey Lotsmanov
ESTABLISHED:
e a ra e
ndreea i
Cristina David, Paul Neagu,
Stefan Sava
2001
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
2007
1995
2010
cristinaguerra.com
galeria@cristinaguerra.com
+351 21 395 9559
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
ivangallery.com
info@ivangallery.com
+40 214 100 139
arkagallery.ru
info@arkagallery.ru
+7 423 241 0526
gallery-21.ru
dialog@gallery-21.ru
+7 910 463 0404
Pavel
Pepperstein
Execution of
Louis XVI Paris,
21 January 1793,
2016,at Galerie
Iragui,Moscow.
Acrylic on canvas,
59 x 79 in.
GALERIA FILOMENA SOARES
Lisbon
LEADERSHIP:
Filomena Soares and
Manuel Santos
ARTISTS:
Helena Almeida, Pedro
Barateiro, Rui Chafes,
Angela Ferreira, Bruno Pacheco
ESTABLISHED:
1999
CONTACT:
gfil ena are
gfil ena are
pac.pt
+351 21 862 4122
ail ele
GALERIA PEDRO CERA
Lisbon
LEADERSHIP:
Pedro Cera
GALERIE IRAGUI, MOSCOW
ARTISTS:
Gil Heitor Cortesão, Matt
Keegan, Adam Pendleton,
Tobias Rehberger,
Gilberto Zorio
ESTABLISHED:
1998
CONTACT:
pedrocera.com
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Sapozhnikov, ZIP Group
ESTABLISHED:
1993
CONTACT:
xlgallery.ru
xlgallery@gmail.com
+7 495 775 8373
SPAIN
GALERIA HELGA DE ALVEAR
Madrid
LEADERSHIP:
Helga de Alvear
ARTISTS:
Elmgreen & Dragset,
Candida Höfer, Isaac Julien,
Thomas Locher, Santiago Sierra
ESTABLISHED:
1995
CONTACT:
helgadealvear.com
galeria@helgadealvear.com
+34 91 468 0506
GALERIA JAVIER LOPEZ &
FER FRANCES
Madrid
MARINA GISICH GALLERY
St. Petersburg
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Olga Chernysheva,
Haralampi G. Oroshakoff,
Ivan Plusch,
Vitaly Pushnitsky,
Olga & Oleg Tatarintsevi
Semeon Agroskin, Sergei
Borisov, Vita Buivid, Vladimir
Glynin, Alexander Zakharov
Javier López and Fer Francés
2004
Francesco Clemente, Phil Frost,
Alex Katz, KAWS, José María
Yturralde
Marina Alexeeva, Boris Kazakov,
Alexander Morozov, Semyon
Motolyanets, Anna Zholud
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
2004
1995
ESTABLISHED:
Berlin
ruarts.ru
info@ruarts.ru
+7 495 637 4475
2000
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
popoffart.com
moscow@popoffart.com
+7 495 775 8706
LEADERSHIP:
Marina Gisich
ARTISTS:
gisich.com
marina.gisich@gmail.com
+7 812 314 4380
PECHERSKY GALLERY
Moscow
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
REGINA GALLERY
Moscow
LEADERSHIP:
TRIUMPH GALLERY
Moscow
CONTACT:
javierlopezferfrances.com
info@javierlopezferfrances.com
+34 91 593 21 84
LEADERSHIP:
GALERIA MAX ESTRELLA
Madrid
Emelyan Zakharov and
Dmitry Khankin
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Alberto de Juan
Antonina Baever, Pavel
Brat, crocodilePOWER,
Ilya Gaponov, Maria Safronova,
Alexander Yakut
ARTISTS:
Marina Pecherskaya
Vladimir and
Regina Ovcharenko
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Aslan Gaisumov, Rachel Lee
Hovnanian, Andrey Krasulin,
Roman Sakin, Leonid Tishkov
Victor Alimpiev, Sergey Bratkov,
Ivan Chuikov, Claire Fontaine,
Oleg Kulik
ESTABLISHED:
Almudena Lobera, Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer, Angel
Marcos, Bernardí Roig,
Pablo Valbuena
2006
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
1994
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
2011
1990
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
triumph-gallery.ru
info@triumph-gallery.com
+7 495 162 0893
pecherskygallery.com
info@pecherskygallery.com
+7 495 280 0772
reginagallery.com
moscow@reginagallery.com
+7 495 228 1330
XL GALLERY
Moscow
POP/OFF/ART
Moscow
RU ARTS GALLERY
Moscow
LEADERSHIP:
44
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Sergey Popov
Marianna Sardarova
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maxestrella.com
info@maxestrella.com
+34 91 319 55 17
GALERIA PILAR SERRA
Madrid
LEADERSHIP:
Elena Selina
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Pilar Serra
Bluesoup Group, Irina Korina,
Alexander Povzner, Sergey
ARTISTS:
Mona Kuhn, Linarejos Moreno,
KRISTINA ROMANOVA AND TRIUMPH GALLERY, MOSCOW
Maria
Safronova
Installation view
of File Cabinet
with models,
2013–14,in
the artist’s 2015
exhibition
“The Game of
General View,”
at Triumph
Gallery,Moscow.
MDF board,
acrylic,gesso,
wire,rubber,
and carton.
Paul Schütze, Rainer Splitt,
Jan Dibbets
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2007
1969
2003
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
1972
christianlarsen.se
info@christianlarsen.se
+46 8 30 98 30
annemarie-verna.ch
fi e anne arie erna h
+41 44 262 3820
presenhuber.com
info@presenhuber.com
+41 43 444 7050
GALLERI MAGNUS KARLSSON
Stockholm
FREYMOND-GUTH FINE ARTS
Basel
GALERIE GMURZYNSKA
Zurich, St. Moritz, and Zug
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Magnus Karlsson
Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Krystyna Gmurzynska and
Mathias Rastorfer
Koenraad Dedobbeleer, HansPeter Feldmann, Jochen Lempert,
Matt Mullican, Peter Piller
Mamma Andersson, Jens
Fänge, Carl Hammoud, Klara
Kristalova, Jockum Nordström
Heidi Bucher, Dani Gal,
Virginia Overton, Sylvia Sleigh,
Billy Sullivan
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Robert Indiana, Yves Klein,
Wifredo Lam,
Joan Miró, Kurt Schwitters
projectesd.com
info@projectesd.com
+34 93 488 13 60
1990
New York
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
1965
gallerimagnuskarlsson.com
info@gallerimagnuskarls
son.com
+46 8 660 4353
freymondguth.com
fi e re
ndg h
+41 61 501 9020
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
pilarserra.com
galeria@pilarserra.com
+34 91 308 15 69
PROJECTE SD
Barcelona
SWEDEN
ANDREHN-SCHIPTJENKO
Stockholm
ARTISTS:
gmurzynska.com
galerie@gmurzynska.com
+41 44 226 7070
LOYAL
Stockholm
GALERIE BRUNO
BISCHOFBERGER
Männedorf
GALERIE MARK MUELLER
Zurich
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Zoe Barcza, Brian Belott, Till
Gerhard, Joe Grillo, Ben Jones
Miquel Barceló, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, George Condo,
Peter Halley, Andy Warhol
Mark Müller
LEADERSHIP:
Ciléne Andréhn
and Marina Schiptjenko
ARTISTS:
José León Cerrillo, Annika von
Hausswolff, Matts Leiderstam,
Xavier Veilhan, Gunnel
Wåhlstrand
CONTACT:
loyalgallery.com
loyal@loyalgallery.com
+46 8 680 7711
ESTABLISHED:
1991
CONTACT:
andrehn-schiptjenko.com
info@andrehn-schiptjenko.com
+46 8 612 0075
SWITZERLAND
ANNEMARIE VERNA GALERIE
Zurich
1963
Katharina Grosse, Joseph
Marioni, Judy Millar, Christine
Streuli, Markus Weggenmann
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
brunobischofberger.com
art@brunobischofberger.com
+41 44 250 7777
1990
ESTABLISHED:
GALERIE EVA PRESENHUBER
Zurich
LEADERSHIP:
Niklas Belenius and
Erik Nordenhake
CONTACT:
markmueller.ch
mail@markmueller.ch
+41 44 211 8155
GALERIE MEZZANIN
Geneva
LEADERSHIP:
BELENIUS/NORDENHAKE
Stockholm
ARTISTS:
Annemarie Verna and
Gianfranco Verna
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Antonio Calderara, Dan Flavin,
Sol LeWitt, Fred Sandback,
Richard Tuttle
Joe Bradley, Valentin Carron,
Karen Kilimnik, Ugo
Rondinone, Josh Smith
Karin Handlbauer
Eva Presenhuber
ARTISTS:
Thomas Bayrle, Peter Kogler,
ARTISTS:
Miriam Bäckström,
Leif Elggren, Julius Göthlin,
Ilja Karilampi, Sophie Tottie
ESTABLISHED:
2014
CONTACT:
beleniusnordenhake.com
info@beleniusnordenhake.com
+46 73 049 8680
XL GALLERY, MOSCOW
CHRISTIAN LARSEN
Stockholm
LEADERSHIP:
Christian Larsen
ARTISTS:
Don Brown, Anders Krisár,
Robert Mangold, Robert
Mapplethorpe, Gavin Turk
Bluesoup Group
Still from
Cascade,2016,
at XL Gallery in
Moscow.
HD video,5 min.
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SADIE COLES HQ | LONDON
Since founding her gallery in 1997 and making a name as a notable supporter of the YBA s, Sadie Coles has been a
stalwart on the London art scene with her Mayfair and Soho spaces. With a roster that includes Sarah Lucas,
Carl Andre, Matthew Barney, and Elizabeth Peyton, the dealer says her modus operandi has always been to base
her programming “entirely on gut feeling.” We spoke with Coles about the London scene and falling in love.
How did you first become involved in the arts?
I always wanted to be involved. Artists are wizards,
and who wouldn’t want to assist a wizard? I worked for
a museum first—Arnolfini, in Bristol—and then
for Anthony d’Offay. The artists he represented and
the quality of the exhibitions were exceptional. His
gallery raised the bar and was very inspiring. It remains
an influence.
Can you describe the art scene around you in
London, especially the areas you’ve operated in?
There has been a massive expansion of activity in
London over the past 20 years. It is incomparable now.
Tate Modern, Frieze, the YBA generation—all have
contributed to drawing the international art world
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here. The auction houses followed the energy, and
London is now indisputably the second art place after
New York. In 1997 you could not imagine that was
going to happen. Amazing really. I was always very
conscious that much of the business in London is
transient, and I have therefore remained committed to
the idea of the West End. It is a big city, so you want
to be accessible for someone who is only here for
a day. Mayfair is now full of galleries, but it was rather
sleepy 10 years ago. Now it has a real glamour, and
Soho has a more downtown energy. I like to be in both.
What specific places—art-related or other—
would you recommend to a visitor?
Sir John Soane’s Museum is a treat, a perfect cabinet
FROM LEFT: JUERGEN TELLER; RICHARD PRINCE, AND SADIE COLES HQ; SARAH LUCAS AND SADIE COLES HQ
Sadie Coles
of an 18th-century collection from the era of the Grand
Tour permanently installed in a house he designed.
Then there’s the ornate Pre-Raphaelite splendor of
Leighton House Museum in Kensington. I would also
encourage a visit to some of the newly invested-in
regional art centers: Manchester Art Gallery and the
Whitworth in Manchester, or the Hepworth Wakefield,
for instance. We have good trains! And London is
now a great place for food. Lunch at Margot Henderson’s
Rochelle Canteen at Arnold Circus has to be one of
the greatest of local pleasures.
Which artists do you feel particularly drawn to
representing or supporting? Is there something
that especially sparks your interest?
This is the most difficult question to answer and the
most frequently asked. It is just a gut feeling. Like
falling in love.
What has been the biggest challenge in opening
and running your own gallery?
The biggest challenge when we opened was finding
enough collectors in London. But because there were
fewer galleries, it was easier to put together a program
of very good artists. The biggest challenge in 2016
is the overcrowding and the fast pace. It is getting more
and more difficult to maintain your relationships with
artists, collectors, and museums while you are on a
plane 24/7 and doing eight fairs a year, plus exhibitions
in multiple spaces. Ours is a very specific business
model that relies on personal relationships.
FROM LEFT:
Richard Prince
Installation view
of the artist’s 2016
solo show at
Sadie Coles HQ.
Sarah Lucas
Father Time, 2011.
Tights, fluff, wire,
pink foam blocks,
17½ x 10½ x 10½ ft.
What do you have coming up?
In the fall we have a show of new work by Laura Owens,
which is very exciting because she always surprises
and pushes the discourse about painting forward. She
is a radical. In November I will have my sixth exhibition
with John Currin, whose show opened the gallery in
1997. That makes me very happy.
Anything else you’d like to add?
I am hopeful that culture can only become more
important as labor is replaced by computers.
We human beings like to dream, to think, to create.
MP
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LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Jacques and Helen Bellefeuille
Machado Evandro, Renata
Lucas, Arjan Martins, João
Modé, Maria Nepomuceno
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
Arman, Chuck Close, Dale
Chihuly, Michael Craig-Martin,
Jean Dubuffet
2003
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
1980
agentilcarioca.com.br
correio@agentilcarioca.com.br
+55 21 2222 1651
CONTACT:
CANADA
CLINT ROENISCH
GALLERY
Toronto
debellefeuille.com
art@debellefeuille.com
+1 514 933 4406
GALERIE LAROCHE/JONCAS
Montreal
LEADERSHIP:
André Laroche and Louis Joncas
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Clint Roenisch
Alan Belcher, Dan Brault,
Robb Jamieson, Leslie Reid,
Jana Sterbak
ARTISTS:
GALERIA NARA
ROESLER
São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
LEADERSHIP:
Nara Roesler
ESTABLISHED:
2002
CONTACT:
galeriavermelho.com.br
info@galeriavermelho.com.br
+55 11 3138 1520
ARTISTS:
Marvin Luvualu Antonio,
Marcel van Eeden, Dorian
FitzGerald, Niall McClelland,
Heather and Ivan Morison
2005
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
larochejoncas.com
larochejoncas@videotron.ca
+1 514 570 9130
clintroenisch.com
yes@clintroenisch.com
+1 416 516 8593
PARISIAN LAUNDRY
Montreal
ESTABLISHED:
2003
Carlito Carvalhosa, Antonio
Dias, Julio Le Parc, Artur
Lescher, Vik Muniz
LUCIANA BRITO GALERIA
São Paulo
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
1989
Luciana Brito
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
ARTISTS:
New York
Waldemar Cordeiro, Leandro
Erlich, Paula Garcia, Pablo
Lobato, Allan McCollum
LEADERSHIP:
BGL, Karen Kraven, Rick Leong,
Simon Cole
Celia Perrin Sidarous, Janet
Werner
ESTABLISHED:
Vikky Alexander, Sara Cwynar,
Georgia Dickie, Vanessa
Maltese, Jenine Marsh
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
parisianlaundry.com
info@parisianlaundry.com
+1 514 989 1056
CONTACT:
nararoesler.com.br
info@nararoesler.com.br
+55 11 3063 2344
1997
CONTACT:
GALERIA RAQUEL
ARNAUD
São Paulo
lucianabritogaleria.com
info@lucianabritogaleria.com.br
+55 11 3842 0634
LEADERSHIP:
MENDES WOOD DM
São Paulo
Raquel Arnaud
COOPER COLE
Toronto
LEADERSHIP:
Jeanie Riddle and Megan Bradley
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
2012
CONTACT:
coopercolegallery.com
info@coopercolegallery.com
+1 416 531 8000
ARTISTS:
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ESTABLISHED:
DANIEL FARIA GALLERY
Toronto
2007
CONTACT:
PIERRE-FRANCOIS OUELLETTE
ART CONTEMPORAIN
Montreal and Toronto
Waltércio Caldas, Sergio
Camargo, Lole de Freitas,
Arthur Luiz Piza, Tuneu
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
1973
Neil Beloufa, Mariana Castillo
Daniel Faria
Mark Clintberg, Adad Hannah,
Pedro Mendes, Matthew Wood,
Felipe Dmab
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LEADERSHIP:
Pierre-François Ouellette
GUY L’HEUREUX AND PARISIAN LAUNDRY, MONTREAL
Celia Perrin
Sidarous
Installation
view of the 2016
exhibition
“Les figures,”at
Parisian Laundry,
Montreal.
Dil Hildebrand, Maskull
Lasserre, Kent Monkman
GALERIA ENRIQUE GUERRERO
Mexico City
LABOR
Mexico City
Josef Strau, Vivian Suter
ESTABLISHED:
2008
ESTABLISHED:
2001
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Enrique Guerrero
Pamela Echeverria
pfoac.com
info@pfoac.com
+1 514 395 6032
ARTISTS:
houseofgaga.com
hello@houseofgaga.com
+52 55 6381 1219
SUSAN HOBBS GALLERY
Toronto
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
Susan Hobbs
ARTISTS:
Ian Carr-Harris,
Didier Courbot, Scott Lyall,
Althea Thauberger,
Colette Whiten
Daniela Edburg, Pablo
Helguera, Carolina Ponte,
Luis Miguel Suro, Pedro Varela
ARTISTS:
Jerónimo Elespe, Irene
Kopelman, Jill Magid, Pedro
Reyes, Santiago Sierra
KURIMANZUTTO
Mexico City
ESTABLISHED:
1997
2009
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
galeriaenriqueguerrero.com
info@galeriaenriqueguer
rero.com
+52 55 528 02941
Mónica Manzutto and
José Kuri
labor.org.mx
info@labor.org.mx
+52 55 6304 8755
GALERIA HILARIO GALGUERA
Mexico City
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
Allora & Calzadilla, Alexandra
Bachzetsis, Abraham
Cruzvillegas, Adrián Villar
Rojas, Akram Zaatari
ESTABLISHED:
PERU
GALERIA LUCIA DE LA PUENTE
Lima
1993
LEADERSHIP:
1999
CONTACT:
Mauricio Galguera
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
susanhobbs.com
info@susanhobbs.com
+1 416 504 3699
ARTISTS:
kurimanzutto.com
info@kurimanzutto.com
+52 55 5256 2408
Lucía de la Puente and
Irene Tomatis
MEXICO
ESTABLISHED:
ARREDONDO\
AROZARENA
Mexico City
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
Andres Arredondo and
Georgina Arozarena
ARTISTS:
Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes,
Fritzia Irízar,
Daniel Monroy Cuevas,
Francisco Ugarte,
Luis Urculo
ESTABLISHED:
2010
James Brown, Daniel Buren,
Daniel Lezama, Mauricio
Limón, Bosco Sodi
2006
galeriahilariogalguera.com
info@galeriahilariogal
guera.com
+52 55 5546 6703
ARTISTS:
Mariella Agois, Alberto Borea,
Billy Hare, Aldo Chaparro,
Alice Wagner
GALERIA OMR
Mexico City
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
1995
Jaime Riestra, Patricia
Ortiz Monasterio,
Cristobal Riestra
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
HOUSE OF GAGA
Mexico City
Pia Camil, Jose Dávila, Candida
Höfer, Jorge Méndez Blake,
James Turrell
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
Fernando Mesta and José Rojas
1983
ARTISTS:
CONTACT:
Marc Camille Chaimowicz,
Bernadette Corporation,
Guillermo Santamarina,
galeriaomr.com
info@galeriaomr.com
+52 55 5207 1080
gluciadelapuente.com
ldelapuente@gluciadela
puente.com
+511 477 0237
UNITED STATES
1301PE
Los Angeles
LEADERSHIP:
Brian Butler
Francis
Upritchard and
Martino Gamper
Installation
view of the artists’
2016 exhibition
at Anton Kern
Gallery, New York.
CONTACT:
arredondoarozarena.com
info@arredondoaroza
rena.com
+52 55 5514 9616
ARRONIZ ARTE
CONTEMPORANEO
Mexico City
BENDIX HARMS AND ANTON KERN GALLERY, NEW YORK
LEADERSHIP:
Gustavo Arróniz
ARTISTS:
Marcela Armas,
Mauro Giaconi,
Moris (Israel Meza Moreno),
Ricardo Rendón,
Ishmael Randall-Weeks
ESTABLISHED:
2006
CONTACT:
arroniz-arte.com
info@arroniz-arte.com
+52 55 5511 7965
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Luisa Strina
Opening her gallery under Brazil’s military dictatorship
in 1974, Strina delivered to the repressive society
a burst of color with the introduction of American Pop
art from the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
She has also since helped pave the way for South
American artists abroad, including Laura Lima,
Alfredo Jaar, Renata Lucas, and others. Strina reflected
on the more than 40 years that she has spent running
one of the most innovative galleries in the Americas.
Your venue is considered São Paulo’s first art
gallery. It was also the first Latin American
art gallery admitted to Art Basel, in 1992. How
did you manage all these firsts?
The secret is a never-ending curiosity and a sincere
passion for the arts. I never settled when my artists
were becoming established, nor did I stop looking at
what was happening around me. I’ve been through
a lot: representing counterculture artists during the
military regime, surviving three economic recessions,
and conducting business within a bureaucratic and
protectionist government. Nevertheless, I’ve never
ceased to be moved and surprised by my artists’ work. In what ways have you seen São Paulo’s art scene
change—for better or worse—since you opened
in the mid 1970s?
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It has grown and become very professional—and
sometimes I miss the days when it was more informal
and spontaneous! What was your biggest show in the past year?
“Risk Contract,” by Beto Shwafaty, his first presentation
at the gallery. It resulted from a six-year study into oil
as a kind of symbolic epicenter of political discourse
over the last six decades in Brazil. It was a timely
exhibition given our current political situation, and
a window for Beto, who is now showing in Milan and
Amersfoort, Netherlands, and will show next year
in Los Angeles, as part of the Getty Museum’s Pacific
Standard Time initiative.
What would be a dream art acquisition for you,
without worrying about the work’s price or
availability? The Sistine Chapel!
Is there anything in particular you’re looking
forward to at the São Paulo Biennial opening in
September?
The presentations of Erika Verzutti, Francis Alÿs,
and Pierre Huyghe. Are there any aesthetic currents you see taking
place in São Paulo right now?
I would say there is a lot of self-reflection on our
F R O M L E F T: R U Y T E I X E I R A ; GA L E R I A L U I S A S T R I N A . O P P O S I T E : A L L I M AG E S , E D O UA R D F R A I P O N T
GALERIA LUISA STRINA | SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
FROM TOP:
Marcius Galan
Installation
view of “Planta/
Corte,” 2015.
Federico Herrero
Installation view
of “Desordem
Alfabética,” 2015.
Beto Shwafaty
Installation view
of “Contrato
de Risco 1,” 2015.
sociocultural background and on our political situation.
There is also a desire to pursue a more global, less
“exoticized” language.
What is a typical day like for you?
I wake up early and go to the gym, then I come to
the gallery and spend the day with clients, visitors,
and friends. My office space is open, so visits are often
spontaneous—it has always been that way. I have
dinners and events with friends nearly every night of
the week, and when I don’t, I am happy to have an
early night in, especially after coming back from travels. What exhibitions or projects do you have planned
in the months to come?
During the biennial we will have a group show
curated by Ricardo Sardenberg that’s based on the
ludic aspect of art. We recently reopened our former
space, now called Anexo, to host longer and more
experimental projects. So expect some surprises at
the “old new gallery.” MP
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Kirsten Everberg, Judy
Ledgerwood, Philippe
Parreno, Jessica Stockholder,
Pae White
ACQUAVELLA GALLERIES
New York
1992
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
1301pe.com
info@1301pe.com
+1 323 938 5822
Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Paul Gauguin, Enoc
Perez, Robert Rauschenberg
303 GALLERY
New York
LEADERSHIP:
Lisa Spellman
ESTABLISHED:
Martin Basher, Chris Coy,
Samantha Thomas, Jay Stuckey,
Nicholas Pilato
2008
acquavellagalleries.com
info@acquavellagalleries.com
+1 212 734 6300
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
2012
ARTISTS:
CONTACT:
Robert Arneson, William
Beckman, John Chamberlain,
Joseph Cornell,
Wayne Thiebaud
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
andrewrafacz.com
mail@andrewrafacz.com
+1 312 404 9188
CONTACT:
anatebgi.com
info@anatebgi.com
+1 310 838 2770
ANGLIM GILBERT GALLERY
San Francisco
LEADERSHIP:
ANDREA MEISLIN GALLERY
New York
Ed Gilbert
ARTISTS:
Andrea Popowich Meislin
Nayland Blake, Barry McGee,
Tony Ourlser, Frances Stark,
Xiaoze Xie
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
1960
Ilit Azoulay, Shai Azoulay,
Andy Freeberg, Pavel Wolberg
1970
ESTABLISHED:
gallerypauleanglim.com
gallery@anglimgilbertgal
lery.com
+1 415 433 2710
CONTACT:
allanstoneprojects.com
info@allanstoneprojects.com
+1 212 987 4997
AMERICAN MEDIUM
New York
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
2004
CONTACT:
andreameislin.com
info@andreameislin.com
+1 212 627 2552
ANDREA ROSEN GALLERY
New York
CONTACT:
ANTHONY MEIER FINE ARTS
San Francisco
2011
Travis Fitzgerald, Josh
Pavlacky, Daniel Wallace
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
47canal.us
info@47canal.us
+1 646 415 7712
Ann Hirsch, Brian Khek,
Kareem Lotfy, Brenna Murphy,
Jaakko Pallasvuo
Andrea Rosen
Janine Antoni, Sarah Cain,
Teresita Fernández,
Jim Hodges, Donald Moffett
ESTABLISHED:
Serge Poliakoff
Installation view
of a 2016 survey
of the artist’s
paintings at
Cheim & Read,
New York.
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Dorothy Goldeen
Michele Abeles, Josh Kline,
Ajay Kurian, Trevor Shimizu,
Anicka Yi
Andrew Rafacz
CONTACT:
1984
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
ANAT EBGI
Los Angeles
Anat Ebgi
ESTABLISHED:
Margaret Lee and
Oliver Newton
ANDREW RAFACZ GALLERY
Chicago
1921
ALLAN STONE PROJECTS
New York
LEADERSHIP:
americanmedium.net
info@americanmedium.net
+1 201 396 7642
ESTABLISHED:
Doug Aitken,
Hans-Peter Feldmann,
Mary Heilmann,
Karen Kilimnik, Sue Williams
47 CANAL
New York
contact@andrewkreps.com
+1 212 741 8849
Samantha Bittman, Robert
Burnier, Josh Reames,
Daniel Shea, Wendy White
ARTISTS:
303gallery.com
info@303gallery.com
+1 212 255 1121
2012
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
Eleanor Acquavella Dejoux,
Nick Acquavella,
Alexander Acquavella
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
Anthony Meier
ARTISTS:
David Altmejd, Carl Andre,
Lynda Benglis, Felix GonzalezTorres, Ryan Trecartin
ESTABLISHED:
1984
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
1990
an h n eierfinear
galler an h n eierfine
arts.com
+1 415 351 1400
CONTACT:
andrearosengallery.com
j.mclennon@rosengallery.com
+1 212 627 6000
ANDREW KREPS GALLERY
New York
ANTON KERN GALLERY
New York
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Anton Kern
Andrew Kreps
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Brian Calvin, Anne Collier,
Nicole Eisenman, Jim Lambie,
Chris Martin
Darren Bader, Roe Etheridge,
Annette Kelm, Cheyney
Thompson, Erika Verzutti
1996
1996
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
antonkerngallery.com
+1 212 367 9663
andrewkreps.com
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ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
SERGE POLIAKOFF AND CHEIM & READ, NEW YORK
ARTISTS:
BALDWIN GALLERY
Aspen
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
r la igaller
in
r la igaller
+1 212 727 2050
r
in
Richard Edwards
dge
a h
ridge
ARTISTS:
CONTACT:
an ian i l M ni
M
n e i ea e
hn
ell Mar ine
ald ingaller
ald ingaller
ald ingaller
+1 970 920 9797
e
2015
CONTACT:
ridge d nah e n
+1 646 896 1368
id Ma
ARTISTS:
la n l in ar ara
and Mi hael Lei gen
Le lie
ih
ra i
er ille
ara a ale a and
a
ARTISTS:
ar le e er an a a
L her r an n r en
e in iri
hri ian
in en
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
galler
in
galler
+1 646 416 6300
LEADERSHIP:
ridge e Ma er
ARTISTS:
eil nder n e i a
a ha
ana argr e
i M arlane a l er
ESTABLISHED:
2010
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
2001
e a i ri aller
ea i
a
ne
rar
+1 205 413 2999
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
a harine lar
and
ir
ina
a had rian Ma a i
era a e hanie
an in hang
ARTISTS:
hada
er L nda engli
n r h
li e eel al
ESTABLISHED:
1991
BRUCE SILVERSTEIN
GALLERY
New York
e
ARTISTS:
CATHARINE CLARK
GALLERY
San Francisco
ARTISTS:
ridge e a ergaller
a er ridge e a ergal
ler
+1 215 413 8893
BLUM & POE
Los Angeles and New York
and e
re and Maide
r e eli
Mel gan
li
2011
BRIDGETTE MAYER
GALLERY
Philadelphia
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
lar galler
lar galler
+1 415 399 1439
1997
CONTACT:
hei read
galler
hei read
+1 212 242 7727
LEADERSHIP:
ia a il igel
e
Mar r ahn
a a hi M ra a i
hi
ara
r
e il er ein
ARTISTS:
ernd and illa e her
n an in ran i ileen
e
l red iegli
e ra
ESTABLISHED:
1994
ESTABLISHED:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
2001
l and e
in
l and e
+1 310 836 2062
i
BORTOLAMI GALLERY
New York
BRYCE WOLKOWITZ
GALLERY
New York
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
r la i
r
ARTISTS:
aniel ren
a e her
ri e le
e
l
CHERRY AND MARTIN
Los Angeles
he Ma
LEADERSHIP:
ei ei
ia ng ang ngling
ian an ha ha
nna
a
rg le
r n
lan a h
ESTABLISHED:
2006
CONTACT:
2000
herr and ar in
in
herr and ar in
+1 310 559 0100
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
ei ing
CONTACT:
CLEARING
New York
ARTISTS:
rr
Mar Leigh herr and
hili Mar in
ESTABLISHED:
ha er finear
a ha er finear
+1 212 414 1169
i
Jeremy Deprez
WINDEL, 2016, at
Feuer/Mesler,
New York. Acrylic,
modeling paste
and canvas on
panel, and
Styrofoam,
65½ x 38¼ x 10 in.
LEADERSHIP:
hri
r e il er ein
in irie
r e il er ein
+1 212 627 3930
CONTACT:
CHAMBERS FINE ART
New York and
Salt Point, New York
ARTISTS:
CONTACT:
JEREMY DEPREZ AND FEUER/MESLER, NEW YORK
i
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
BETA PICTORIS
GALLERY
Birmingham, Alabama
e ania
l
C24 GALLERY
New York
nah e
1994
l
i
e
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
i
l
r
+1 212 243 8830
BRIDGET DONAHUE
New York
ARTISTS:
e er
fin i
n
r ler
La rie i
n
e
LEADERSHIP:
d ard
arl
a la her
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2005
2002
l
CHEIM & READ
New York
li ier a in
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
hn hei
and
ard eid
ar ld n ar
r nan nd hai
a
i ni
ra ri
a ha ha
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Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri
New York when Gabriel Orozco
approached us with the initial idea:
that there was great need for
a gallery to represent a generation
of artists who were already
very active in the Mexican scene.
What is the collector base like in
Mexico City, and how have you seen
it change since the gallery opened?
A collector base has never been a
consideration, and it certainly did not
make us decide for or against our
project back in 1999. When we first
opened the gallery, there were very few
collectors in Mexico City. It was
almost a desert in terms of collecting,
but that was not important to us.
There were two or three really wellinformed buyers, such as Patrick
Charpenel and Eugenio López, who
was just starting the Jumex Collection,
but we focused on finding collectors
abroad. This was before the globalization of the art market and art fairs,
so we had to travel extensively and
meet people face to face. (“E-mail,
what is that?”)
How do you end a typical workday?
At Salon Ardalio, our nearby cantina,
having a drink with one or many of the
gallery artists.
From humble, decidedly DIY beginnings, Kurimanzutto
has grown into a powerhouse gallery in Mexico. We
spoke to cofounder José Kuri on how the space came to
represent a who’s who of internationally renowned
talent, including Adrián Villar Rojas, Danh Vo, Abraham
Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Orozco, Monika Sosnowska,
and Sarah Lucas.
How did you get your start in the art world,
and what eventually inspired you to open your
own gallery?
I have always been exposed to art. My older brother
[Gabriel Kuri] decided he wanted be an artist at a very
young age, so I grew up in that atmosphere, with
plenty of friends in common.
[Cofounder and wife] Mónica Manzutto came into my
life later on; she had fresh eyes for everything and we
decided to open the gallery. We were both studying in
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What’s a place in Mexico City—art-related or
other—that you would suggest a first-time visitor
check out?
Museo Anahuacalli. It is the modern-day version of a
pyramid, designed by Diego Rivera and completed after
his death. It was meant to house his studio and his
pre-Columbian ceramics collection. It’s a hidden jewel.
Can you tell us a bit about some of the artwork
in your own collection—the pieces you live with on
a daily basis?
We have many artworks from the gallery’s artists, and
DIEGO PEREZ AND KURIMANZUTTO
KURIMANZUTTO | MEXICO CITY
Do you find that there is a shared
spirit or ambition, however broad,
among the artists you work with?
Absolutely. The gallery is a family, and it could not
exist without a shared vision of the world. As much as
we may work as individuals and with artists who
have their own unique careers and projects, the feelings
and ideals we share are the motor that keeps us
going together.
Gabriel Kuri
Installation view
of this please,
2010,in the
group show
“XYLAÑYNU: Taller
de los viernes,”
2016.
BELOW:
Installation view
of “XYLAÑYNU:
Taller de los
viernes,” 2016.
we like to contrast them with more historical works: our
beloved André Cadere stick alongside a beautiful
Metaesquema by Hélio Oiticica, and a late 1950s mask
by Mexican Estridentista artist Germán Cueto (Mónica
gave it to me as a birthday present). We also have
photographs by Armando Salas Portugal and a
vignette by Mexican modernist artist-anthropologist
Miguel Covarrubias, depicting a Balinese woman.
BOTH IMAGES: OMAR LUIS OLGUIN
Looking back at the past year, what’s one gallery
exhibition that you’re especially proud of?
The “Taller de los viernes” (Friday workshop)
exhibition, curated by Guillermo Santamarina. This
show brought together the work of Abraham
Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega, Dr. Lakra, Gabriel Kuri,
and Gabriel Orozco. I met many of those artists
through my brother back in the late 1980s, and it’s
amazing that we still enjoy and have fun working
together, after almost 30 years.
What projects do you have planned in the
near future?
Parallel to the gallery program, we have a billboard
exhibition space called Sonora 128 that we
inaugurated in March with Wolfgang Tillmans.
Upcoming projects will be authored by Antonio Caro,
a legendary Colombian artist, and (I hope)
Patti Smith. Also, we have an exhibition coming up
in an old cantina with photographs by Japanese
artist Nobuyoshi Araki.
Let’s say I’m a young collector who has earmarked
around $5,000 for a single, modest acquisition in
2016. Without knowing my hypothetical tastes, of
course, are there any works in this price range
toward which you might steer me?
It is not at all a modest amount, and it can be a very
powerful sum if it’s well spent. Rather than give
a name, I would recommend you try to believe in that
impulse, in your intuition. Do not buy a piece because
it is a must-have, or what one ought to buy, but
because you are following a well-informed, studied gut
feeling. Trust your instinct. MP
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ARTISTS:
Enrico Castellani,
Estate of Yves Klein,
Pierre Soulages,
Frank Stella, Pat Steir
ARTISTS:
London; Geneva
Tamy Ben-Tor, Jon Rafman,
Ry Rocklen, Brad Troemel,
Artie Vierkant
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
dominique-levy.com
info@dominique-levy.com
+1 212 772 2004
2015
2011
Rashid Johnson, Mary
Weatherford, Jonas Wood
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
ESTABLISHED:
Brussels
2003
Edwynn Houk and
Julie Castellano
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
c-l-e-a-r-i-n-g.com
+1 718 456 0396
davidkordanskygallery.com
info@davidkordanskygal
lery.com
+1 323 935 3030
Diane Arbus, Robert Frank,
Dorothea Lange, Annie
Leibovitz, Herb Ritts
LEADERSHIP:
DAVID ZWIRNER
New York
feuermesler.com
info@feuermesler.com
+1 212 989 7700
FORUM GALLERY
New York and Beverly Hills
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Robert Fishko and
Cheryl Fishko
ARTISTS:
1980
Steven Assael, Linden
Frederick, Alan Magee,
Odd Nerdrum,
Laura Ziegler
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
ESTABLISHED:
Zurich
1961
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
forumgallery.com
gallery@forumgallery.com
+1 212 355 4545
ESTABLISHED:
Carla Chammas,
Richard Desroche,
Glenn McMillan
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
houkgallery.com
info@houkgallery.com
+1 212 750 7070
Tonico Lemos Auad, Ori Gersht,
Joana Hadjithomas &
Khalil Joreige, Tom LaDuke,
Melissa McGill
R. Crumb, Dan Flavin,
Isa Genzken, Sherrie Levine,
Yayoi Kusama
ELIZABETH DEE
New York
FRAENKEL GALLERY
San Francisco
ESTABLISHED:
1993
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
1990
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Elizabeth Dee
CONTACT:
London
ARTISTS:
Jeffrey Fraenkel and
Frish Brandt
crggallery.com
info@crggallery.com
+1 212 229 2766
CONTACT:
Mark Barrow, Philippe
Decrauzat, Leo Gabin, John
Giorno, Julia Wachtel
CRISTIN TIERNEY
New York
David Zwirner
ESTABLISHED:
davidzwirner.com
info@davidzwirner.com
+1 212 727 2070
DC MOORE GALLERY
New York
LEADERSHIP:
Cristin Tierney
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Bridget Moore
Melanie Baker, Janet Biggs,
Alois Kronschlaeger, Jean Shin,
Francisco Ugarte
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
Mel Bochner, Lee Friedlander,
Nan Goldin, Christian Marclay,
Hiroshi Sugimoto
2002
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
1979
elizabethdee.com
info@elizabethdee.com
+1 212 924 7545
CONTACT:
EMERSON DORSCH
Miami
fraenkelgallery.com
mail@fraenkelgallery.com
+1 415 981 2661
FREIGHT + VOLUME
New York
2010
Romare Bearden,
harle
r hfield
Robert De Niro Sr.,
Carrie Moyer, George Tooker
ESTABLISHED:
Brook Dorsch and
Tyler Emerson-Dorsch
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
cristintierney.com
info@cristintierney.com
+1 212 594 0550
1995
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
CONTACT:
Rene Barge, Jenny Brillhart,
Felecia Chizuko Carlisle,
Clifton Childree,
Elisabeth Condon
Erik den Breejen,
Samuel Jablon, Michael
Scoggins, Jennifer Sullivan,
Maria Walker
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2000
2005
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
dorschgallery.com
info@emersondorsch.com
+1 305 576 1278
freightandvolume.com
info@freightandvolume.com
+1 212 691 7700
ESTABLISHED:
DAVID KORDANSKY GALLERY
Los Angeles
LEADERSHIP:
dcmooregallery.com
info@dcmooregallery.com
+1 212 247 2111
DOMINIQUE LEVY GALLERY
New York
David Kordansky
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ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Aaron Curry, Sam Gilliam,
Dominique Lévy
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Nick Lawrence
AMY DOUGLAS AND JACK HANLEY GALLERY, NEW YORK
CRG GALLERY
New York
Zach Feuer and Joel Mesler
2012
EDWYNN HOUK
GALLERY
New York
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Amy Douglas
Installation
view of
the 2016 show
“The Art of
Salmagundi,”
at Jack Hanley
Gallery,
New York.
FEUER/MESLER
New York
FRIEDMAN BENDA
New York
GLADSTONE GALLERY
New York
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Marc Benda and Jennifer Olshin
Barbara Gladstone
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Hiram Butler
Campana Brothers,
Wendell Castle, Joris Laarman,
Nendo, Marcel Wanders
ARTISTS:
2007
ESTABLISHED:
Jennifer Bartlett, Forrest
e
i
h reenfield
Sanders, Kate Shepherd, Robert
Wilson
theholenyc.com
poke@theholenyc.com
+1 212 466 1100
ESTABLISHED:
Allora & Calzadilla,
Matthew Barney,
Carroll Dunham, Sarah Lucas,
Elizabeth Peyton
CONTACT:
1980
ESTABLISHED:
friedmanbenda.com
gallery@friedmanbenda.com
+1 212 239 8700
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
1984
LEADERSHIP:
Brussels
CONTACT:
Honor Fraser
CONTACT:
hirambutler.com
info@hirambutler.com
+1 713 863 7097
ARTISTS:
HIRSCHL & ADLER
MODERN
New York
ESTABLISHED:
HALF GALLERY
New York
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami,
Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra,
Rudolf Stingel
Bill Powers
Shelley Farmer
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
Genieve Figgis,
Daniel Heidkamp
1980
ESTABLISHED:
Frederick Brosen, Douglas
Cooper, Diana Horowitz, Stone
Roberts, Amy Weiskopf
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
2008
ESTABLISHED:
London; Paris; Rome; Geneva;
Athens; Hong Kong
CONTACT:
1981
LEADERSHIP:
halfgallery.com
info@halfgallery.com
+1 212 744 0151
CONTACT:
Leisa Austin
hirschlandadler.com
modern@hirschlandadler.com
+1 212 535 8810
ARTISTS:
GAGOSIAN GALLERY
New York, Beverly Hills, and
San Francisco
LEADERSHIP:
gladstonegallery.com
info@gladstonegallery.com
+1 212 206 7606
HIRAM BUTLER
GALLERY
Houston
Vanessa Prager,
Holton Rower, Eric Yahnker
ESTABLISHED:
2010
Jeremy Blake, Rosson Crow,
KAWS, Robert Lazzarini,
Erik Parker
2006
CONTACT:
Larry Gagosian
CONTACT:
gagosian.com
newyork@gagosian.com
+1 212 744 2313
GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE
New York
HIGHER PICTURES
New York
HONOR FRASER
Los Angeles
honorfraser.com
info@honorfraser.com
+1 310 837 0191
THE HOLE
New York
IMAGO
GALLERIES
Palm Desert
Eric Fischl, Peter Halley,
Rachel Lee Hovnanian,
Vik Muniz,
William Wegman
ESTABLISHED:
1991
LEADERSHIP:
Kim Bourus
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Kathy Grayson
Gavin Brown
Joshua Citarella,
Jessica Eaton,
K8 Hardy, Kate Steciw,
Letha Wilson
ARTISTS:
imagogalleries.com
info@imagogalleries.com
+1 760 776 9890
ARTISTS:
Thomas Bayrle, Martin Creed,
Alex Israel, Laura Owens,
Rirkrit Tiravanija
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2007
1994
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
higherpictures.com
fi e higher i re
+1 212 249 6100
gavinbrown.biz
gallery@gavinbrown.biz
+1 212 627 5258
GAVLAK
Palm Beach and Los Angeles
Jim Joe, Taylor McKimens,
Ian James and
Katie Shapiro
Installation view
of the 2016
exhibition“Infinite
Regress,”at
LTD Los Angeles.
HILL GALLERY
Birmingham, Michigan
LEADERSHIP:
Sarah Gavlak
Timothy Hill and
Pamela Hill
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Lisa Anne Auerbach, Andrew
Brischler, Simone Leigh, Betty
Tompkins, T.J. Wilcox
Alice Aycock, Andy
Goldsworthy, Mary Heilmann,
Ken Price
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2005
1981
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
gavlakgallery.com
info@gavlakgallery.com
+1 323 467 5700
hillgallery.com
info@hillgallery.com
+1 248 540 9288
LTD LOS ANGELES
LEADERSHIP:
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I realize I am in a very privileged position, and I do not
take that lightly. I consistently advocate for my artists,
and it can be years before the reward or acclaim comes.
As artists grow, the challenge can be when to say
no, when to filter opportunities so as not to overexpose
or overcommit. Maintaining integrity is paramount.
Who’s someone you’ve worked with since the
beginning of his or her career?
Toyin Ojih Odutola came to us after Hank Willis
Thomas did a studio visit with her while she was still
in graduate school. This was in 2011, and since then
we have helped build her career and have watched
it evolve tremendously in a very short period of time.
In the last few years, Odutola has had solo exhibitions
at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, and her
work has entered the collections of the Whitney, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Museum
of African Art in Washington, D.C., among others.
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY | NEW YORK
Founded in Washington, D.C., in 1984, Jack Shainman
Gallery soon relocated to New York’s East Village.
A jump to SoHo and then to Chelsea followed, with an
expansion in 2013 that included a second Chelsea
location as well as a satellite in an old schoolhouse
in Kinderhook, New York. Known for a particular focus
on artists from Africa and its diaspora, the gallery’s
roster includes El Anatsui, Carrie Mae Weems, and
Nick Cave. We spoke to Shainman about creating new
markets, and sustaining them for more than 30 years.
You’ve worked with many of your artists since very
early in their careers. How do you handle their
professional evolution?
It is very rewarding to work long-term with artists. To
understand an artist’s practice so deeply is incredible.
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FROM LEFT: BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY; JACKIE NICKERSON
To what do you attribute the growing market for
and museum interest in artists from Africa and
of African descent? I’m not sure I can speak to the origins or enormity
of that trend. Everything is certainly becoming more
global, and the art world is not immune. From the
beginning, Claude Simard—my partner in the gallery
and cofounder—and I were adamant about finding
art that was unlike anything else being exhibited
in New York, and part of
that happened to be artists
working in Africa or of African descent. The work was
overlooked for so long, and
I have been advocating for a
more inclusive art world for
decades. Needless to say,
I’m very pleased this work
is finally getting its due.
BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS AND JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY
What was the most
popular show at the
gallery this past year?
Barkley L. Hendricks’s
exhibition this spring
received a tremendous
response—critically and
attendance-wise. The
politics are definitely a
draw, the way he’s inserted
himself into this contested
climate, but much more
than that is his position as
an under-recognized
master of the highest order.
At his best, Hendricks
has the sensitivity of a
Renaissance painter; the
magnificent detail and
chiaroscuro in Manhattan
Memo, for example,
combines his acerbic wit
with a command of painterly technique. I am
glad a new generation is
rediscovering him. His
work is urgently necessary
now more than ever.
Where do you see more potential for growth?
I think this emphasis on African artists—while ultimately well intentioned, as a sort of corrective to the
canon—can also be problematic. Many of my artists
feel that the label of “black artist” is limiting and holds
them back from being considered on artistic merit. It is
of course important to have discussions about diversity,
but if artists of African descent are constantly being
questioned about race, we’re not getting anywhere.
Which of the gallery’s artists should we watch in
the year to come?
Needless to say, the Kerry James Marshall retrospective
at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which
will travel to the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will be a mustsee. Nick Cave will also be opening a major exhibition
at Mass MOCA in October. He is always an ambitious
artist, but for this show he’s really going above and
beyond. I don’t want to say too much because it’s really
shaping up to be an experiential installation, but the
idea centers around what it would be like to be inside
one of his sound suits. Finally, in April 2017 we will
open our first exhibition with Becky Suss, with whom
we just started working. MP
Barkley L.
Hendricks
Icon for My Man
Superman
(Superman never
saved any
black people—
Bobby Seale),
detail, 2009.
Pigment on
archival paper,
14 x 11 in.
OPPOSITE, FAR LEFT:
Photo Bloke,
2016. Oil and
acrylic on linen,
72 x 48 in.
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JACK HANLEY GALLERY
New York
Milhazes, Yinka Shonibare,
Fred Tomaselli
JESSICA SILVERMAN
San Francisco
KM FINE ARTS
Chicago and Los Angeles
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
1999
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Jack Hanley
CONTACT:
Jessica Silverman
Ana Hollinger
ARTISTS:
jamescohan.com
info@jamescohan.com
+1 212 714 9500
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Christopher Badger,
Luke Butler, Hayal Pozanti,
Ian Wallace, Nicole Wermers
JAMES FUENTES
New York
ESTABLISHED:
Ramsey Dau,
Carole Feuerman,
Eric Fischl, Gary Lang,
Francine Turk
2008
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
2006
jessicasilvermangallery.com
info@jessicasilvermangal
lery.com
+1 415 255 9508
CONTACT:
JOHN BERGGRUEN
GALLERY
San Francisco
KOHN GALLERY
Los Angeles
ESTABLISHED:
1987
CONTACT:
jackhanley.com
info@jackhanley.com
+1 646 918 6824
JACK SHAINMAN
GALLERY
New York
LEADERSHIP:
James Fuentes
ARTISTS:
Joshua Abelow, Lizzi Bougatsos,
Jonas Mekas, Amalia Ulman,
Jannis Varelas
ESTABLISHED:
2007
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Jack Shainman
jamesfuentes.com
info@jamesfuentes.com
+1 212 577 1201
ARTISTS:
El Anatsui, Nick Cave, Titus
Kaphar, Kerry James Marshall,
Carrie Mae Weems
ESTABLISHED:
1984
JAMES COHAN
GALLERY
New York
Eddie Martinez
Installation view of
the 2016 show
“Salmon Eye,”
at Mitchell-Innes &
Nash, New York.
Michael Kohn and
Samantha Glaser
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Diana Al-Hadid, Tauba
Auerbach, Los Carpinteros,
George Condo,
Helen Frankenthaler
Lita Albuquerque, Larry Bell,
Will Cotton, Ryan McGinness,
Fred Tomaselli
ESTABLISHED:
1985
LEADERSHIP:
1970
CONTACT:
Jane Lombard
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
berggruen.com
info@berggruen.com
+1 415 781 4629
kohngallery.com
samantha@kohngallery.com
+1 323 461 3311
JANE LOMBARD
GALLERY
New York
Squeak Carnwath,
Sarah Dwyer, Lee Kit, Michael
Rakowitz, Nina Yuen
ESTABLISHED:
2015
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
James Cohan
janelombardgallery.com
info@janelombardgallery.com
+1 212 967 8040
ARTISTS:
Omer Fast, Byron Kim, Beatriz
LEADERSHIP:
John Berggruen
CONTACT:
jackshainman.com
info@jackshainman.com
+1 212 645 1701
finear
in
finear
+1 310 854 0540
LEADERSHIP:
THE JOURNAL GALLERY
New York
ESTABLISHED:
L.A. LOUVER
Los Angeles
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Julia Dippelhofer and
Michael Nevin
ARTISTS:
Graham Collins, Peter Demos,
Kika Karadi, Agathe Snow,
Chris Succo
Peter Goulds, Kimberly Davis,
Elizabeth East
ARTISTS:
Mark di Suvero, David Hockney,
Leon Kossoff, Alice Neel,
Fred Williams
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
1975
2004
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
lalouver.com
info@lalouver.com
+1 310 822 4955
thejournalinc.com
info@thejournalinc.com
+1 718 218 7148
KAVI GUPTA
Chicago
LEHMANN MAUPIN
New York
LEADERSHIP:
Kavi Gupta
Rachel Lehmann and
David Maupin
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
McArthur Binion, Glenn Kaino,
Scott Reeder, Jessica
Stockholder, Mickalene Thomas
Kader Attia, Tracey Emin,
Teresita Fernández, Do Ho Suh,
Mickalene Thomas
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2002
1996
CONTACT:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
kavigupta.com
info@kavigupta.com
+1 312 432 0708
Hong Kong
LEADERSHIP:
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EDDIE MARTINEZ AND MITCHELL-INNES & NASH, NEW YORK
Alain Biltereyst, Elizabeth
Jaeger, Margaret Lee,
Marie Lorenz, Alicia McCarthy
info@lehmannmaupin.com
+1 212 255 2923
LISA COOLEY
New York
LEADERSHIP:
Lisa Cooley
ARTISTS:
Alice Channer, Josh Faught,
Lucy Kim, Scott Reeder,
Ben Vida
ESTABLISHED:
2008
CONTACT:
lisa-cooley.com
frontdesk@lisa-cooley.com
+1 212 680 0564
LOCKS GALLERY
Philadelphia
LEADERSHIP:
Sueyun Locks
ARTISTS:
Lynda Benglis, Alexander
Calder, Ellen Harvey, Louise
Nevelson, Pat Steir
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
LTD LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
2009
Marc Selwyn
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
ARTISTS:
Nancy Grossman, Channing
Hansen, Matt Lipps, Kristen
Morgin, William Wegman
1968
LEADERSHIP:
London
locksgallery.com
info@locksgallery.com
+1 215 629 1000
Shirley Morales
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
luxembourgdayan.com
info@luxembourgdayan.com
+1 212 452 4646
Alex Becerra, Gerald Davis,
Debora Delmar, Johan
Grimonprez, Amalia Ulman
ESTABLISHED:
2010
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Rhonda Long-Sharp and
Nicole M.L. Sharp
ARTISTS:
ltdlosangeles.com
ltd@ltdlosangeles.com
+1 323 378 6842
Robert Indiana, Gino Miles,
David Spiller, Andy Warhol,
Thalen & Thalen
LUHRING AUGUSTINE
New York
2003
ar el nfinear
in
ar el nfinear
+1 310 277 9953
LEADERSHIP:
Isaac Lyles and
Alexandra King-Lyles
MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY
New York
Phillip Birch, Chris Hood,
Mira Schor, Davina Semo
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
Eija-Liisa Ahtila,
John Baldessari, Tony Cragg,
Annette Messager, Anri Sala
LEADERSHIP:
2015
CONTACT:
Roland Augustine and
Lawrence Luhring
CONTACT:
LORA REYNOLDS
GALLERY
Austin
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
LYLES & KING
New York
2006
longsharpgallery.com
info@longsharpgallery.com
+1 866 370 1601
ARTISTS:
Tunga, Ragnar Kjartansson,
Pipilotti Rist,
Christopher Wool, Rachel
Whiteread
lylesandking.com
gallery@lylesandking.com
+1 646 484 5478
Marian Goodman
ESTABLISHED:
1977
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
MADISON GALLERY
San Diego
ESTABLISHED:
Paris; London
CONTACT:
mariangoodman.com
goodman@mariangoodman.com
+1 212 977 7160
1985
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Lorna York and Erin Pierro
Lora Reynolds
luhringaugustine.com
info@luhringaugustine.com
+1 212 206 9100
ARTISTS:
Donald Martiny,
Robert Montgomery, Udo Nöger,
RETNA,James Verbicky
MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY
New York
LUXEMBOURG & DAYAN
New York
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
2001
Marianne Boesky
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
madisongalleries.com
info@madisongalleries.com
+1 858 459 0836
Diana Al-Hadid, Thornton Dial,
Barnaby Furnas,
Donald Moffett, John Waters
ARTISTS:
Carl Hammoud, Teresa
Hubbard / Alexander Birchler,
Roy McMakin, Jason
Middlebrook, Arlene Shechet
ESTABLISHED:
2005
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Daniella Luxembourg and
Amalia Dayan
lorareynolds.com
Amy Bennett
Time Speeds Up,
2015, at Richard
Heller Gallery,
Santa Monica.
Oil on canvas,
32 x 57 in.
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
ALAN SHAFFER, AMY BENNETT, AND RICHARD HELLER GALLERY, SANTA MONICA
Carl Andre, Jean Arp, Dan
Colen, Ed Ruscha, Cy Twombly
CONTACT:
LONG-SHARP GALLERY
Indianapolis and New York
MARC SELWYN FINE ART
Beverly Hills
info@lorareynolds.com
+1 512 215 4965
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OVERDUIN & CO. | LOS ANGELES
Lisa Overduin
Coming up on its 10-year anniversary, Hollywood
gallery Overduin & Co. has stayed put through
numerous changes in the geography (and density) of
the Los Angeles art world. Owner Lisa Overduin—a
former director at Angeleno mainstay Regen Projects
and a longtime West Coast resident—oversees a
program that balances experimentation with a keen
intelligence; artists on her roster
include Merlin Carpenter, Haim
Steinbach, Math Bass, and Sergei
Tcherepnin, and this fall she
will stage solo presentations by
Erika Vogt and Blake Rayne. We
spoke to Overduin about sticking it
out on Sunset Boulevard and
L.A.’s broadening art audience.
You’ve run a gallery in L.A. for
more than a decade at this
point. What are you especially
drawn to in the Los Angeles
art scene? What are some of the
shifts that you’ve observed
during that time?
I opened the gallery in Hollywood
because I wanted the space to be a
part of the everyday fabric of the
city. I liked that it was originally a shop and that you
could walk to the record store or the movies from there.
When we launched, there weren’t really any galleries
in the neighborhood, so when people came to the space
it was really because they wanted to see that specific
show. The area was a lot rougher when we first opened,
and our part of it reminded me of Ed Ruscha’s book
Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Developers had not
yet gotten to our side of Sunset. It had a feeling that
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Tell us a bit about the origins
of your gallery.
It opened in 2007 with a show by
Tony Conrad. We presented
Beholden to Victory, a video that
Tony made with Mike Kelley.
Visitors were asked to choose
to be military or civilian, and we
photographed each to make
badges to wear in the installation.
At the time, the gallery was a
single 1939 storefront on Sunset
Boulevard. The building is part of
the Crossroads of the World complex.
Over the years, we’ve expanded
into the three adjoining storefronts.
OV E R D U I N & C O .
was very specific to L.A.: endless strip malls. The
Crossroads was actually the first mall on the West
Coast. The original owners went around the world in a
boat for their honeymoon and came back and built the
complex. The central building is shaped like a boat, and
there’s a little Bavaria, a Moroccan building, etc. There
are so many great stories around every corner. Man Ray
had a studio nearby, and Kenneth Anger lives a few
blocks away.
What do you make of recent publicity given to the
New York-to-L.A. art world migration? Has it had
an impact on your artists, community, or collector
base in any measurable way?
There is a long history of galleries opening an L.A.
branch for a few years. I think this seems to happen in
cycles. I do think there is something important about
a gallery as an entity that is very specific to the city
it’s in. Sometimes the satellite gallery works and really
adds to the conversation, and other times it feels like
a crude export of wares. Many new interesting artist-
run spaces have opened up as well. There are also
a number of collectors setting up homes in Los
Angeles and spending the summer or winter here now,
and it’s wonderful to have an expanded audience
in town. L.A. used to be more isolated, and there was
something nice about that, actually. The art schools
were very dominant, and the artists were really
each other’s main audience and support. The hyperprofessionalization of artists can be sad. But I
think you just engage with what is important to you
and support those situations.
Merlin
Carpenter
Installation view
of “Decades”
at Overduin &
Co., 2014.
Aside from your gallery, of course, what are some
of your favorite local spots?
Baroo is my latest obsession. The most amazing
fermented foods!
If you could add any work to your personal
collection, what would it be?
The Toulouse-Lautrec tambourine at the Art Institute
of Chicago. I’d just borrow it for a while. MP
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ARTISTS:
Johnson Chang
He Wei, Nabuqi, Qin Yifeng,
Ren Han, Zhang Shujian
ARTISTS:
2008
Qiu Zhijie, Wang Dongling,
Wu Shanzhuan, Xu Longsen,
Yeh Wei-li
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
c-spacebeijing.com
info@c-spacebeijing.com
+86 10 5127 3248
1983
ESTABLISHED:
DE SARTHE GALLERY
Hong Kong and Beijing
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
hanart.com
hanart@hanart.com
+852 2526 9019
KARIN WEBER GALLERY
Hong Kong
Pascal and Sylvie de Sarthe
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Lin Jingjing, Ma Sibo,
Wang Guofeng, Wang Xin,
Zhou Wendou
Karin Weber
1977
ina
hh l Mi hal Ma
Ravi Mandlik, Udo Nöger,
Wang Gang
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
desarthe.com
hongkong@desarthe.com
+852 2167 8896
1999
ESTABLISHED:
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ARTISTS:
CONTACT:
karinwebergallery.com
SUKI SEOKYEONG KANG, PEARL LAM GALLERIES, HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI
LEADERSHIP:
art@karinwebergallery.com
+852 2544 5004
M97 GALLERY
Shanghai
LEO GALLERY
Shanghai and Hong Kong
LEADERSHIP:
Steven Harris
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Leo Li and
Vincent Chan
Adou, Han Lei, Luo Dan,
Shao Wenhuan, Wang Ningde
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
2006
Cai Zhisong, Li Yiwen,
Jorge Mayet, Alec Von Bargen,
Zhang Jianjun
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
m97gallery.com
info@m97gallery.com
+86 21 6266 1597
2008
CONTACT:
leogallery.com.cn
shanghai@leogallery.com.cn
+86 21 5465 8785
MAGICIAN SPACE
Beijing
LEADERSHIP:
Qu Kejie
LEO XU
PROJECTS
Shanghai
ARTISTS:
Li Jinghu, Liu Ren, Tang
Yongxiang, Wu Chen,
Yao Qingmei
Carlos Rolón (Dzine)
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Han Qing, Jiang Weitao,
Li Xiaofeng, Tan Ping,
Zhang Zhaohui
Leo Xu
2008
Singapore
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
1991
Guo Hongwei, Gabriel
Lester, Michael Lin,
Liu Shiyuan, Apichatpong
Weerasethakul
magician-space.com
info@magician-space.com
+86 10 5978 9635
pearllam.com
info@pearllamgalleries.com
+852 2522 1428
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
OSAGE GALLERY
Hong Kong
PEKIN FINE ARTS
Beijing and Hong Kong
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Au Hoi Lam, Leung Mee Ping, Ma
Shuqing, Wilson Shieh, Sara Tse
Meg Maggio
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
Aniwar Mamat, Chen
Shaoxiong, Xu Zhenbang,
Zhang Dali, Zhang Xiaotao
Zhang Li
2011
1992
LINE GALLERY
Beijing
ARTISTS:
Liu Bing, Qu Fengguo,
Wang Mai, Yan Shilin,
Yin Zhaoyang
ESTABLISHED:
2004
CONTACT:
osagegallery.com
info@osagegallery.com
+852 2793 4817
PARA SITE
Hong Kong
ARTISTS:
2005
Feng Mengbo, Michael Lin,
Lin ilin M
fi e
Tan Dun
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
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in
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+86 10 5127 3220
2004
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
shanghaigalleryofart.com
gr@on-the-bund.com
+8 21 6321 5757
2006
PLATFORM CHINA
Beijing and Hong Kong
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
line-gallery.com
art@line-gallery.com
+86 10 5975 6999
Leung Chi-wo, Leung Mee-ping,
Patrick Lee, Phoebe Man Chingying, Sara Wong Chi-hang,
Tsang Tak-ping, Lisa Cheung
LONG MARCH SPACE
Beijing
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
1996
Bi Jianye, Fu Jingyan, Huang
Liang, Jia Aili, Jin Shan
Lorenz Helbling
ESTABLISHED:
Birdhead, Ding Yi,
Xu Zhen (MadeIn),
Yang Fudong,
Zhang Enli
CONTACT:
FABIEN CHARUAU AND CHATTERJEE & LAL, MUMBAI
redgategallery.com
brian@redgategallery.com
+86 10 6525 1005
SHANGHAI
GALLERY OF ART
Shanghai
CONTACT:
leoxuprojects.com
info@leoxuprojects.com
+86 21 3461 1245
ARTISTS:
para-site.org.hk
info@para-site.org.hk
+852 2517 4620
Chen Chieh-jen, Guo Fengyi,
Hu Xiangqian, Ran Huang,
Tianzhuo Chen
PEARL LAM GALLERIES
Hong Kong and Shanghai
LEADERSHIP:
Lu Jie
Fabien Charuau
Installation view
of the 2015 show
“A Thousand
Kisses Deep,”at
Chatterjee & Lal,
Mumbai.
SHANGHART
Shanghai and Beijing
LEADERSHIP:
Sun Ning and Chen Haitao
2005
CONTACT:
platformchina.org
info@platformchina.org
+86 10 5762 6068
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
1996
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
2002
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Pearl Lam
longmarchspace.com
lm@longmarchspace.com
+86 10 5978 9768
ARTISTS:
Boo Junfeng, André Kneib,
Antony Micallef, Ben Quilty,
RED GATE GALLERY
Beijing
LEADERSHIP:
Brian Wallace
Singapore
CONTACT:
shanghartgallery.com
info@shanghartgallery.com
+86 21 6359 3923
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Mathieu Borysevicz
BANK | SHANGHAI
American-born curator, critic, and artist Mathieu
Borysevicz launched MAB Society, a curatorial and
consultancy firm, in 2012. A fortuitous move from its
office space the following year led him to Shanghai’s
historic Bund district, where he reopened in a former
bank building. Thus, Bank, MABSociety’s commercial
venture, was born. In mid June, however, Bank was
evicted on short notice due to new government policies.
At press time, Borysevicz was hopeful that a new
permanent home for the gallery would be found.
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You show a mix of Chinese and Western artists.
What is the market like for Western artists in China?
We exhibit non-Chinese artists’ work because we are
interested in all art, not just art made in China. We also
actively chart the possibility of a meaningful discourse
between Chinese art and the rest of the world, and vice
versa. Selling is another matter. Certainly, there are
Chinese collectors buying Western art, but often these
are name-brand artists bought from blue-chip galleries.
We have shown and sold some very name-brand Western artists but found that the sophisticated Chinese
collector wants more than just to buy something meaningful and worthwhile. They are seduced by the
lifestyle of contemporary art; they use art as a way to
travel to fairs, studios, galleries; join exclusive parties;
drink fine wine; meet famous people. We are focused
on the program, the epistemological aspects of the
trade, if such a thing exists. So selling is more of
an obstacle.
MABSOCIETY
You were involved with contemporary art in the
region long before you opened your own space.
What ultimately inspired you to launch MABSociety
and, later, the Bank?
MAB Society was a natural outcome of my independent
activities at the time. I had just left as director of
Shanghai Gallery of Art and was doing a mishmash of
writing, publishing, consulting, and independent
curatorial projects. I conceived of MAB Society as a way
to tie all these activities together in a neat little
bundle. It was also a way to appear bigger than just
me, my laptop, and my diligent assistant, Sophie.
When I was at the gallery, I realized that an art space
is the sum of its attendant members: its artists,
audience, collectors, media, etc.—in effect, it is a
society. Everyone is equally important to the system.
Bank was the gallery space. After a year of working
out of a 25th-floor office, MAB Society lost its lease
and, while looking around for a new one, miraculously
landed at the dilapidated but extremely charming
Bank Union Building, circa 1925. I had no intention of
opening a gallery, but the space beckoned us to do
so. Initially, we thought of ourselves as “post-gallery”
or “curatorial studio,” but then we kind of started to
behave like a conventional gallery.
ALL IMAGES: ALEX WANG
Are there any developments in the Shanghai
art scene that are especially promising to you?
Where do you see potential for growth?
Over the last five years or so, Shanghai
has seen a flurry of new private museums,
coupled with a trio of new international
art fairs and the rise of a tight-knit group
of young collectors—not to mention
new galleries like ours, Leo Xu Projects,
and Antenna Space. These have certainly
lifted Shanghai into the international
spotlight and are giving Beijing a run for
its money as the capital for contemporary
art in China. However, it is the influx
of young artists and art workers that is
really changing the landscape in a fundamental way. Shanghai has no prestigious
art academy and is more expensive than
other cities in China, so it has always
lacked the ability to attract young artists,
but now that is changing. Both affordable
studios and the escape from Beijing’s
pollution have brought a bunch of artists
and art workers to Shanghai. This will
change the scene from the bottom up.
FROM TOP:
Zheng
Haozhong
Installation view
of “Lee Cha,”
2016.
Jin Shan
Installation
view of “Divine
Ruse,” 2015.
Installation view
of the group
show “Daily
Formalism,”
2016.
What was coming up when Bank was evicted?
We have shows scheduled up through the end of next
year and do intend to realize them. In July we planned
to have Lin Ke, a wonder kid whose video and
installation work is so dumb that it’s supersmart. At
the same time, in our project room we were to have a
solo by painter Xinyi Cheng, who’s currently at the
Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. In September we would
have had Patty Chang, making her solo debut in China
with a research-based project in greater Asia. In
November we were planning a show by New York–based
Austin Lee, whose funky paintings, sculptures, and
animations were recently seen at the M Woods museum
in Beijing. And in the project room, we’d have had
Nabuqi, a Mongolian sculptor whose work is quite
traditional. We were also spearheading a big Marina
Abramović exhibition for autumn 2017 at the Power
Station of Art and working on some other institutional
exchange projects through MAB Society. MP
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SPACE STATION
Beijing
LEADERSHIP:
Fu Xiaodong
ARTISTS:
Dong Dawei, Double Fly Art
Center, Shang Chengxiang,
Yang Fan, Zhang Bofu
ESTABLISHED:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
Bangkok
2001
1993
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
tangcontemporary.com
info@tangcontemporary.com
+86 10 5978 9610
yangallery.com
yanart@netvigator.com
+852 2139 2345
New York
THREE SHADOWS
PHOTOGRAPHY ART CENTRE
Beijing
INDIA
dagmodern.com
delhi@dagmodern.com
+91 11 4600 5300
AKAR PRAKAR GALLERY
Calcutta, Jaipur, and New Delhi
EXPERIMENTER
Calcutta
2009
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
space-station-art.com
info@spacestationart.com
+86 10 5978 9671
RongRong and inri
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Reena Lath
Prateek Raja
Feng Yan, Liu Zheng, Mo Yi,
Zhang Jin, Zhang Kechun
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
2007
Jayashree Chakravarty,
Ganesh Haloi, Somnath Hore,
Manish Pushkale, S.H. Raza
Bani Abidi, Rathin Barman,
Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Naeem
Mohaiemen, Praneet Soi
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
threeshadows.cn
info@threeshadows.cn
+86 10 6432 2663
2003
2009
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
akarprakar.com
info@akarprakar.com
+91 98 3032 8558
experimenter.in
info@experimenter.in
+91 33 4001 2289
CHATTERJEE & LAL
Mumbai
GALERIE MIRCHANDANI +
STEINREUCKE
Mumbai
STAR GALLERY
Beijing
LEADERSHIP:
Fang Fang
ARTISTS:
Chen Ke, Jin Ningning,
Jin Nü, Jü Ting, Gao Yu
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
VITAMIN CREATIVE SPACE
Guangzhou
2005
N.N.Rimzon
Installation view
of Forest at
Night, 2015, in
the artist’s 2016
exhibition
“Forest of the
Living Divine,” at
Talwar Gallery
in New Delhi.
Fiberglass, resin,
and granite dust,
117½ in. high.
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
stargallery.cn
info@stargallery.cn
+86 10 6418 9591
Hu Fang and Zhang Wei
TANG
CONTEMPORARY ART
Beijing and Hong Kong
LEADERSHIP:
Zheng Lin
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Olafur Eliasson, Firenze Lai,
Lee Kit, Danh Vo, Ming Wong
Mortimer Chatterjee and
Tara Lal
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
2002
Minam Apang, Ashish
Avikunthak, Fabien Charuau,
Amshu Chukki, Chinmoyi Patel
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2003
2006
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
chatterjeeandlal.com
info@chatterjeeandlal.com
+91 22 2202 3787
galeriems.com
info@galeriems.com
+91 22 2202 3434
CHEMOULD PRESCOTT ROAD
Mumbai
GALLERY ESPACE
New Delhi
Gao Ludi, He Xiangyu,
Li Liao, Li Shurui,
Liu Wentao
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Shireen Ghandy
Renu Modi
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
N.S. Harsha, Shezad Dawood,
Jitish Kallat, Vivan Sundaram,
Tallur L.N.
Zarina Hashmi, Chitra Ganesh,
G.R. Iranna, Avishek Sen,
Paula Sengupta
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2003
1989
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
gallerychemould.com
art@gallerychemould.com
+91 22 2200 0211
galleryespace.com
art@galleryespace.com
+91 11 2692 3287
DAG MODERN
New Delhi and Mumbai
GALLERY MASKARA
Mumbai
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Fang Xiang,
Liang Liqiang,
Wang Huaiqing,
Wu Guanzhong,
Bob Yan
Ashish Anand
Abhay Maskara
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Nandalal Bose, M.F. Husain,
S.H. Raza, F.N. Souza,
Rabindranath Tagore
Avantika Bawa, Priyanka
Choudhary, Meenakshi
Sengupta, Shine Shivan,
CONTACT:
vitamincreativespace.com
mail@vitamincreativespace.com
+86 20 8429 6760
ARTISTS:
Li Hui, Lin Yilin, Yang Yong,
Wang Yuyang, Weng Fen
WHITE SPACE BEIJING
Beijing
ESTABLISHED:
1997
LEADERSHIP:
Usha Mirchandani and
Ranjana Steinruecke
Tanya Goel, Sosa Joseph, Gieve
Patel, Manish Nai, C.K. Rajan
LEADERSHIP:
Yuan Tian and
Di Zhang
2004
CONTACT:
whitespace-beijing.com
info@whitespace-bei
jing.com
+86 10 84562054
YAN GALLERY
Hong Kong
LEADERSHIP:
Fong Yuk Yan
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N.N. RIMZON AND TALWAR GALLERY, NEW DELHI
ARTISTS:
T. Venkanna
2008
Aisha Khalid, Imran
Qureshi, Raqs Media
Collective
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
gallerymaskara.com
info@gallerymaskara.com
+91 22 2202 3056
1997
ESTABLISHED:
GALLERYSKE
Bengaluru and New Delhi
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
naturemorte.com
info@naturemorte.com
+91 11 4174 0215
PHOTOINK
New Delhi
Sunitha Kumar Emmart
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Sheela Gowda, Bharti Kher,
Prabhavathi Meppayil,
Sudarshan Shetty,
Mariam Suhail
Devika Daulet-Singh
ARTISTS:
2003
Roger Ballen, Manuel
Bougot, Anita Khemka,
Dhruv Malhotra,
Martin Parr
CONTACT:
ESTABLISHED:
gallleryske.com
post@galleryske.com
+91 80 4112 0873
2001
ESTABLISHED:
THE GUILD
ART GALLERY
Alibaug
CONTACT:
photoink.net
gallery@photoink.net
+91 11 2689 7722
JAPAN
ESTABLISHED:
ARATANIURANO
GALLERY
Tokyo
2007
PROJECT 88
Mumbai
LEADERSHIP:
Shalini Sawhney
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Sree Goswami
Navjot Altaf, Sudhir
Patwardhan, Rakhi Peswani,
K.P. Reji, T.V. Santhosh
ARTISTS:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
talwargallery.com
tg@talwargallery.com
+91 11 4605 0307
Mutsumi Urano
ESTABLISHED:
1997
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
2006
guildindia.com
teamattheguild@gmail.com
+91 22 2288 0195
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
project88.in
contact@project88.in
+91 22 2281 0066
Arun Vadehra
SAKSHI GALLERY
Mumbai
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Yusuke Asai, Takahiro Iwasaki,
Toshiyuki Konishi, Tadasu
Takamine, Motonao Takasaki
VADEHRA
ART GALLERY
New Delhi
ESTABLISHED:
2007
CONTACT:
arataniurano.com
info@arataniurano.com
+81 03 5422 8320
ARTISTS:
Rameshwar Broota, Nalini
Malani, Tyeb Mehta,
Gulammohammed Sheikh,
Arpita Singh
EITOEIKO
Tokyo
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
Amrita Jhaveri and
Priya Jhaveri
LEADERSHIP:
1987
Ei Kibukawa
Geetha Mehra
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Rana Begum, Simryn Gill,
Ali Kazim, Yamini Nayar,
Anwar Jalal Shemza
Manjunath Kamath, Surendran
Nair, Julian Opie, Valay Shende,
Vivek Vilasini
vadehraart.com
art@vadehraart.com
+91 11 2462 2545
Junta Egawa, Ken Matsumura,
Nipporini, Megumi Takasugi,
Yuki Yoshida
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2010
1984
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
jhavericontemporary.com
info@jhavericontempo
rary.com
+91 22 2369 3639
sakshigallery.com
enquiry@sakshigallery.com
+91 22 6610 3424
NATURE MORTE
New Delhi
TALWAR GALLERY
New Delhi
ESTABLISHED:
VOLTE GALLERY
Mumbai
2009
CONTACT:
eitoeiko.com
ei@eitoeiko.com
+81 03 6873 3830
LEADERSHIP:
Tushar Jiwarajka
ARTISTS:
Sheba Chhachhi, Ranbir
Kaleka, William Kentridge,
Nalini Malani, James Turrell
G/P GALLERY
Tokyo
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
2009
Shigeo Goto
LEADERSHIP:
Deepak Talwar
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
Peter Nagy and Aparajita Jain
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Alwar Balasubramaniam,
Allan deSouza, Rummana
volte.in
info@volte.in
+91 22 4096 3300
Yuko Amano, Kenta Cobayashi,
Nerhol, Norihito Ogata,
Viviane Sassen
Anita Dube, Arun Kumar HG,
Kohei Nawa
Exhibition view
of the 2015 show
“Force,”at Scai
the Bathhouse,
Tokyo.
New York
Mahesh Baliga, Neha Choksi,
Shreyas Karle, Huma Mulji,
the Otolith Group
JHAVERI CONTEMPORARY
Mumbai
NOBUTADA OMOTE AND KOHEI NAWA
Hussain, Nasreen Mohamedi,
Ranjani Shettar
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ESTABLISHED:
2007
CONTACT:
takeninagawa.com
info@takeninagawa.com
+81 03 5571 5844
TOKYO GALLERY + BTAP
Tokyo
LEADERSHIP:
Yukihito Tabata
ARTISTS:
Cai Guoqiang, Takeshi Hayashi,
Lee Ufan, Miki Taira, Xu Bing
ESTABLISHED:
1950
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Beijing
CONTACT:
tokyo-gallery.com
info@tokyo-gallery.com
+81 03 3571 1808
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
2008
O Jun, Aida Makoto, Ikeda
Manabu, Aoyama Satoru,
Amano Yoshitaka
CONTACT:
gptokyo.jp
info@gptokyo.jp
+81 03 5422 9331
GALLERY KOYANAGI
Tokyo
LEADERSHIP:
Atsuko Koyanagi
Shugo Satani
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Tomio Koyama
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Yukio Fujimoto, Leiko Ikemura,
Aki Kondo, Lee Kit,
Tomoko Yoneda
ARTISTS:
Singapore
CONTACT:
mizuma-art.co.jp
gallery@mizuma-art.co.jp
+81 03 3268 2500
NANZUKA
Tokyo
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
1995
Shinji Nanzuka
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
gallerykoyanagi.com
mail@gallerykoyanagi.com
+81 03 3561 1896
Misako and Jeffrey Rosen
ESTABLISHED:
Katsuyo Aoki, Stephan
Balkenhol, Benjamin Butler,
Varda Caivano, Atsushi Fukui
2000
ESTABLISHED:
CONTACT:
1996
shugoarts.com
info@shugoarts.com
+81 03 6453 8296
CONTACT:
tomiokoyamagallery.com
info@tomiokoyamagallery.com
+81 03 6434 7225
TAKA ISHII
GALLERY
Tokyo
WAKO WORKS OF ART
Tokyo
Yuji Honbori, Hajime Sorayama,
Keiichi Tanaami, Harumi
Yamaguchi, Yuichi Yokoyama
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Takayuki Ishii
Kiyoshi Wako
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
2005
Ei Arakawa, Koji Enokura,
Shinpei Kusanagi, Taro
Shinoda, Hirofumi Toyama
Miriam Cahn, Noritoshi
Hirakawa, Joan Jonas,
Takeshi Masada, Nana Yokoi
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
1994
1992
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
CONTACT:
New York
wako-art.jp
info@wako-art.jp
+81 03 6447 1820
CONTACT:
nug.jp
info@nug.jp
+81 03 3400 0075
ARTISTS:
Kaoru Arima, Naotaka Hiro,
Mie Morimoto, Yuki Okumura,
Trevor Shimizu
SCAI THE BATHHOUSE
Tokyo
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
2006
Masami Shiraishi
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
misakoandrosen.jp
gallery@misakoandrosen.jp
+81 03 6915 2763
Genpei Akasegawa, Darren
Almond, Toshikatsu Endo,
Jeppe Hein, Lee Ufan
TAKE NINAGAWA
Tokyo
ESTABLISHED:
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
1993
Atsuko Ninagawa
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
scaithebathhouse.com
info@scaithebathhouse.com
+81 03 3821 1144
Ryoko Aoki, Taro Izumi,
Shinro Ohtake, Aki Sasamoto,
Tsuruko Yamazaki
Yayoi Deki, Erina Matsui,
Tsukasa Ohtake, Naohiro
Ukawa, Kenji Yanobe
MIZUMA ARTGALLERY
Tokyo
LEADERSHIP:
Sueo Mizuma
90
LEADERSHIP:
1994
Michaël Borremans,Marlene
Dumas, Thomas Ruff,
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tabaimo
LEADERSHIP:
TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY
Tokyo
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
MISAKO & ROSEN
Tokyo
SHUGOARTS
Tokyo
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Tokyo
LEADERSHIP:
Yuko Yamamoto
ESTABLISHED:
2004
FOST GALLERY, SINGAPORE
Installation view
of the 2015
group exhibition
“Echoes of
Anticipation,”
at Fost Gallery,
Singapore.
Zuyoung Chung, Mook Han,
Ai Weiwei, Kijong Zin
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Tokyo
IPRECIATION
Singapore
LEADERSHIP:
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Yuka Tsuruno
Helina Chan
ARTISTS:
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Maiko Kasai, Mamoru,
Manika Nagare, Tomomi Nitta,
Yu Yasuda
lfi
aldi elia r a i
Budi Ubrux, Doris Wong Wai
Yin, Chris Yap
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Byung-Hyun Chon, Sung-Wook
Do, Nam-Pyo Kim, Marc Quinn,
Hwan-Kwon Yi
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e en n ar i
r n i
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SINGAPORE
OTA FINE ARTS
Singapore
ESTABLISHED:
1970
CONTACT:
galleryhyundai.com
mail@galleryhyundai.com
+82 02 2287 3500
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
Angeline Chan and
Benjamin Hampe
Ay Tjoe Christine, Tomoko
Kashiki, Zai Kuning, Yayoi
Kusama, Nobuaki Takekawa
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ESTABLISHED:
1982
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PKM GALLERY
Seoul
Jung Yong Lee
1983
ganaart.com
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+82 02 720 1020
Park Kyung-mee
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2001
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LEADERSHIP:
Hidenori Ota
Jae-Eun Choi,
Ha Chong-Hyun,
Gimhongsok, Kimsooja,
Choong-Hyun Roh
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GANA ART
Seoul
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Singapore
ARTISTS:
HAKGOJAE
GALLERY
Seoul
PYO GALLERY
Seoul
LEADERSHIP:
Si Jae Byun, Belinda Fox,
Dawn Ng, Ruben Pang,
Khairullah Rahim
ESTABLISHED:
Chan-Kyu Woo
1994
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Mi-sun Pyo
ESTABLISHED:
Tokyo
Hwan Cho, Hyun Chung, Tim
Eitel, Lee Ufan, Mari Kim
2010
CONTACT:
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in
afinear
+65 6694 3071
1988
Ouhi Cha, Chong-Hyun Ha,
Minyoung Park,
Keun-Byung Yook,
Sungfeel Yun
chanhampegalleries.com
+65 6338 1962
FOST GALLERY
Singapore
LEADERSHIP:
Stephanie Fong
SOUTH KOREA
ARARIO
GALLERY
Seoul and Cheonan
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
Cheng Ran, Osang Gwon,
eraldine a ier
hei a a
Yuan Yuan
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fostgallery.com
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+65 6694 3080
hakgojae.com
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+82 02 7201 5246
ESTABLISHED:
1981
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
KUKJE GALLERY
Seoul
LEADERSHIP:
Song-Ming Ang,
Heman Chong, John Clang,
Luke Heng, Jimmy Ong
2006
CONTACT:
ARTISTS:
Hyun-Sook Lee
Beijing; Los Angeles
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+82 02 543 7337
A 2016 group
exhibition at
iPreciation,
Singapore,
featuring works by
Luke Heng,Boo
Sze Yang,and
Hilmi Johandi.
Chang-il Kim
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
2002
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Shanghai
IKKAN ART
INTERNATIONAL GALLERY
Singapore
CONTACT:
arariogallery.com
info@arariogallery.com
+82 02 541 5701
LEADERSHIP:
IPRECIATION, SINGAPORE
Ikkan Sanada
ARTISTS:
GALLERY HYUNDAI
Seoul
H. Hugh Miller, Sherman Ong,
Mikito Ozeki, Naoko Tosa,
Morimura Yasumasa
LEADERSHIP:
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ARTISTS:
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Kwang-Ho Cheong,
Cho Jeong Yeol
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Melbourne
ANNA PAPPAS GALLERY
Melbourne
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Geoff Newton
Anna Pappas
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Jayne Dyer, Joanna Logue,
Simon MacEwan, Marc
Standing, Karyn Taylor
Damiano Bertoli, Dale
Frank, Paul Knight,
Viv Miller,
Stuart Ringholt
ESTABLISHED:
ESTABLISHED:
2003
2006
CONTACT:
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+61 3 9521 7300
neonparc.com.au
info@neonparc.com.au
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OLSEN IRWIN
Sydney
ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY
Melbourne
LEADERSHIP:
Anna Schwartz
Rex Irwin and
Tim Olsen
ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Lida Abdul, Lauren Brincat,
Callum Morton, Rose Nolan,
Yin Xiuzhen
ESTABLISHED:
1982
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annaschwartzgallery.com
mail@annaschwartzgallery
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AUSTRALIAN GALLERIES
Sydney and Melbourne
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ARTISTS:
ARTISTS:
Juz Kitson, Christian Lock,
Noel McKenna, Deborah
Paauwe, Jenny Watson
Brent Harris, Ildiko Kovacs,
Fiona Lowry, Tim Maguire,
Guan Wei
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1991
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greenaway.com.au
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+61 8 8362 6354
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.com
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JAN MANTON ART
Brisbane
Stuart Purves
NOEL MCKENNA AND GREENAWAY ART GALLERY, ADELAIDE
George Byrne,
Jan Frank, Cherry
Hood, Guy Maestri, Paul Ryan
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Sue Anderson, Graeme
Drendel, Stu James, Terry
Matassoni, Michael Snape
Jan Manton
2002
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PHILIP BACON
GALLERIES
Brisbane
LEADERSHIP:
MICHAEL REID
Sydney and
Murrurundi
Philip Bacon
ARTISTS:
LEADERSHIP:
Michael Reid
ESTABLISHED:
1956
Keith Burt, Nadine Cameron,
Miles Hall, Jumaadi,
Paul Snell
Peter Boggs, Kirsten Coelho,
Vera Möller, John Olsen,
Tim Storrier
ARTISTS:
1974
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Matt Coyle, Yanni Floros,
Petrina Hicks, Catherine
Nelson, Joan Ross
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+61 7 3358 3555
ESTABLISHED:
2006
GREENAWAY ART GALLERY
Adelaide
MARTIN BROWNE
CONTEMPORARY
Sydney
LEADERSHIP:
LEADERSHIP:
Paul Greenaway
Martin Browne
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Berlin
CONTACT:
michaelreid.com.au
info@michaelreid.com.au
+61 2 8353 3500
ROSLYN OXLEY9
Sydney
LEADERSHIP:
Roslyn Oxley and Tony Oxley
Noel McKenna
Wharf, Palm
Beach, 2016, at
Greenaway Art
Gallery, Adelaide.
Oil on canvas,
39¼ x 39¼ in.
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TOLARNO GALLERIES
Melbourne
LEADERSHIP:
Jan Minchin
ARTISTS:
Bill Henson, Rosemary Laing,
Riley Payne, Patricia Piccinini,
Ben Quilty
ESTABLISHED:
1967
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mail@tolarnogalleries.com
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HOPKINSON MOSSMAN
Auckland
LEADERSHIP:
Danae Mossman and Sarah
Hopkinson
ARTISTS:
Fiona Connor, Oscar Enberg,
Milli Jannides, Oliver Perkins,
Peter Robinson
ESTABLISHED:
2010
CONTACT:
hopkinsonmossman.com
info@hopkinsonmossman.com
+64 9 358 0855
ARTISTS:
Fiona Hall, Bill Henson,
Isaac Julien, Tracey Moffatt,
David Noonan
ESTABLISHED:
Cressida Campbell,
Graham Fletcher,
Kirra Jamison, Danie Mellor,
Judith Wright
Irene Sutton
LEADERSHIP:
1982
ESTABLISHED:
ARTISTS:
Michael Lett and Andrew Thomas
CONTACT:
2006
ARTISTS:
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CONTACT:
Catherine Bell, Gordon Bennett,
Elizabeth Gower,
Helga Groves
John Meade
ESTABLISHED:
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2006
2003
CONTACT:
CONTACT:
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+61 3 9416 0727
michaellett.com
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+64 9 309 7848
SARAH COTTIER GALLERY
Sydney
LEADERSHIP:
Sarah Cottier and Ashley Barber
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.com.au
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+61 3 9421 0857
SULLIVAN+STRUMPF
Sydney
LEADERSHIP:
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Karen Black, Arie Hellendoorn,
Sam Jinks, Marc de Jong,
Liam O’Brien
Dianne Tanzer, Nicola Stein,
and Jemma Clark
Dominic Feuchs and
John McCormack
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Britt Salt
Martin Basher, Rebecca
Baumann, Daniel Crooks, Fiona
Pardington, Michael Zavros
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2012
2003
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+61 3 9417 7172
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contact@starkwhite.co.nz
+64 9 307 0703
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+61 2 9356 3305
SOPHIE GANNON
Melbourne
LEADERSHIP:
Sophie Gannon
Hany Armanious, Simon Denny,
Jacqueline Fraser, Michael
Parekowhai, Sriwhana Spong
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STARKWHITE
Auckland
Julie Fragar, Haines &
Hinterding, Jamie North,
Elizabeth Pulie,
Jonathan Zawada
1993
MICHAEL LETT GALLERY
Auckland
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Established in 1993, the gallery opened its first brick-and-mortar location in Sydney’s Inner West after its
founder started dabbling in the art fair circuit. Cottier, who runs the gallery with Ashley Barber, her partner and
codirector, first signed sculptor and installation artist Hany Armanious and has grown the roster to 30 primarily
Australian artists. Running the gamut from emerging to established artists, they include the likes of Simon
Denny, Tony Schwensen, Haines & Hinterding, Julie Fragar, and Sandra Selig. Cottier spoke about how the
gallery has evolved alongside the city’s flourishing cultural scene.
Sarah Cottier and Ashley Barber
Can you identify any significant changes
in programming or direction over the years?
The first 10 years of the gallery’s life were spent
representing a small group of artists, our generational
peers, and attending many international art fairs
(Basel, Armory in New York, ARCO Madrid). We have
since wearied of art fair culture and in the last
decade have focused on the local scene, developing a
group of younger artists within the gallery as well.
What is the art scene like in Sydney?
The gallery has operated out of four very different
spaces. The first two were in Newtown and Redfern,
areas west of the city center that have begun only
recently to become gentrified. As a result, we were
very used to operating as a destination gallery.
This isolation provided a certain liberty, and it was
nice to be located close to where our artists lived
and had studios. The last two gallery locations have
been in Paddington, in the eastern suburbs of Sydney,
an area that has operated as a gallery precinct
since the 1960s. Because of Sydney’s development
around the meandering geography of the harbor,
various art centers have developed in distinct
suburban pockets. Having a car is essential to being
a good art acolyte in Sydney! Being located in
Paddington means that we are close to our clients
who can visit us as part of a larger gallery crawl.
What should a visitor to Sydney be sure not to miss?
Apart from visiting the Art Gallery of New South Wales
and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, one
should be sure to visit Artspace in Woolloomooloo;
the commercial galleries Minerva and the Commercial;
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Has the artistic climate changed over time?
Australia has always had a very well-informed and
active artist scene. In some respects, its ingenuity and
originality have developed as a result of our relative
geographic isolation. The Australian art audience,
however, has been a slowly building creature. Over the
last 20 years, we have witnessed the evolution of
what is now a sophisticated group of collectors with
an inquiring, international outlook.
JAMIE NORTH AND SARAH COTTIER GALLERY
and artist-run spaces Alaska and First Draft. Obvious
beachgoing aside, under-sung spots include harborside
beach Nielsen Park and, for the adventurous, the Royal
National Park, an hour’s train ride south. Eating is
important, and Sydney doesn’t disappoint: 10 William
Street is a favorite of ours.
Is there a prevailing sensibility or aesthetic in the
work of the artists you represent?
The recipe is difficult to distill. There are varying
considerations with every artist. Drive and an unwavering commitment are prevailing factors, along with
the facility to surprise and annoy. A little frisson goes
a long way.
What do you have coming up?
September is the beginning of spring in Australia,
and to coincide with the seasonal spirit of renewal we
are staging an exhibition of Jamie North’s extraordinary
concrete sculptures. He uses the by-products of
industry to create large, preemptively ruinous concrete
forms that are then planted with a variety of indigenous Australian plant species that, over time, performatively interact with the obdurate forms. October will
see an exhibition of new work by Todd McMillan—
whose romantic use of the cyanotype process will this
time address the magic of the aurora borealis—and
Koji Ryui, whose poetic assemblages of found objects
will occupy our second gallery. All sorts of other interesting activities are taking place with the gallery
artists over the next few months: Haines & Hinterding
will be sending a camera 20 kilometers high to record
the sounds and sights at the edge of space, and painter
Huseyin Sami will be producing a spectacular light
treatment for the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art for Sydney’s 2016 Vivid festival. MP
Jamie North
Installation view
of “innerouter,”
2013.
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Tel Aviv
Yael Bartana, Guy
Ben-Ner, Tom Burr,
Karl Haendel,
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Abdulaziz Ashour,
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Aras Seddigh
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ESTABLISHED:
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CARBON 12, DUBAI
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Tel Aviv
PI ARTWORKS
Istanbul
CONTACT:
carbon12dubai.com
info@carbon12dubai.com
+971 4 340 6016
LEADERSHIP:
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n arinia
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1995
CONTACT:
gagallery.com
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+971 4 346 9305
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1998
Isabelle van den Eynde
GREY NOISE
Dubai
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
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Nezaket Ekici, Susan Hefuna,
Tayeba Begum Lipi, Gülay
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London
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piartworks.com
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Dubai
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+971 4 323 5052
2008
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Dubai
Ma la
2010
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greynoise.org
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+971 4 379 0764
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LEADERSHIP:
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Dubai
LEADERSHIP:
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RAMPA ISTANBUL
Istanbul
ARTISTS:
Maliheh nan
arhad hrarnia adia
aa i Lin e a il aha
hah
r
an
ESTABLISHED:
GALLERY ISABELLE
VAN DEN EYNDE
Dubai
ARTISTS:
ra ar gedi
aa l ha i i
e
illia
La rie and
2005
CONTACT:
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Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Installation view
of Which Sun
Gazed Down on
Your Last Dream?,
2016,at Rampa
Istanbul.
rampaistanbul.com
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+90 212 327 0800
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EMIRATES
AYYAM GALLERY
Dubai
LEADERSHIP:
Ead Samawi
ARTISTS:
adi
ai h l ra i a
a
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a an ah l
Samia Halaby, Rula Halawani
ESTABLISHED:
2006
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Beirut
CONTACT:
CHROMA, ERGIN CAVUSOGLU, AND RAMPA ISTANBUL
ayyamgallery.com
dubai@ayyamgallery.com
+971 4 323 6242
CARBON 12
Dubai
LEADERSHIP:
Nadine Knotzer and
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ARTISTS:
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er il ei r r e
ara ah ar nahi a a i
ESTABLISHED:
2008
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Marwan
Rechmaoui
Installation view
of Blazon, 2015.
Embroidery and
appliqué on
420 textile flags,
laser cut brass on
59 stainless
steel shields.
SFEIR-SEMLER GALLERY | BEIRUT, LEBANON, AND HAMBURG, GERMANY
Based in Germany since the mid 1980s, with a second location founded in Beirut in 2005, Sfeir-Semler is known for its strong roster of
contemporary artists from the Arab world—as well as showing a handful of European and American Conceptualists—including Walid
Raad, Yto Barrada, Mounira Al Solh, Hans Haacke, Khalil Rabah, Rayyane Tabet, and Robert Barry. We spoke with Andrée Sfeir-Semler
about the roles of the gallery’s two spaces and how political shifts in Lebanon have affected the Beirut contemporary art scene.
How did Sfeir-Semler’s Beirut space come to be?
The gallery first opened in 1985, in Kiel, Germany, and
we moved to Hamburg in 1998. At the beginning of the
2000s, we started working with a new generation of
artists from the Arab world, such as Walid Raad, Akram
Zaatari, Rabih Mroué, and Marwan Rechmaoui, who
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had just emerged from the civil war in Lebanon. It was
a time when Beirut was booming: The Lebanese who
left during the war were coming back, everyone was
investing in the city, the budding art scene was taking
shape. It was then that we decided to open a space
in Beirut. It would be the first gallery of this scale—the
FROM LEFT: O. PASCHEIT; MARWAN RECHMAOUI AND SFEIR-SEMLER GALLERY
Andrée Sfeir-Semler
our embassy. It is also our general
quarters for practical issues, like
customs, storage, communication,
travel, and transport.
What are some of the common
threads among the artists
you represent?
What I look for are subtle yet very
powerful messages. All our artists
have a conceptual approach, and
they are not decorative. They usually
aren’t very easy to place, but they
have stories to tell, or an element,
a shape, or a color to show in a very
thoughtful, very complex way. Tell me a bit about the contemporary art scene in Beirut. What
are some of your favorite spaces or
local artists? It’s nothing like it was 10 years
ago. So many initiatives have
excelled and changed so much in
the city. Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
Art Center, Metropolis, and
98 Weeks have programs that, at
long last, make contemporary
art accessible. And the city is
responding! I try to attend as many
exhibitions and art activities in
Beirut as possible. I do many studio
visits, and I’ll follow the work
of artists in the area closely before
taking some of them on board.
first white cube to show contemporary art in the whole
region. We opened in April 2005, just two months after
the assassination of Prime Minister Hariri and the
“Cedar Revolution” changed everything in the country.
Around 1,800 people attended the opening!
You have locations in both Beirut and Hamburg.
What’s the relationship between the two spaces?
Bridging East and West is always a very complicated
balance. We do the same program in both places for
different reasons: In Hamburg and at international art
fairs, we introduce contemporary Arab art to a Western
public, and in Beirut, we mirror what is happening
locally. While Beirut is our soil, we need Hamburg as
What do you like to do in the city
that’s not art-related?
Meeting with friends. Having a
drink and some fish after a refreshing swim at Sporting
Club Beach.
Can you tell us a bit about the work in your
personal collection?
In fact, I am not a collector: I am more an agent to my
artists. I am more keen on placing the works in important
museum collections than on keeping them. I collect
the leftovers from my own artists that no one wants!
What upcoming exhibitions do you have planned?
Our next show in Beirut is with Haig Aivazian. In
Hamburg, we are opening a show with Mounira Al Solh
in early September, followed by Etel Adnan. MP
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BEST GALLERIES
AFRICA
GHANA
Zanele Muholi
Installation view of
Somnyama Ngonyama,
2016, at Stevenson’s
Johannesburg gallery.
GALLERY 1957
Accra
LEADERSHIP:
Marwan Zakhem
ARTISTS:
Serge Attukwei Clottey,
Elisabeth Efua Sutherland,
Yaw Owusu, Zohra Opoku,
Jeremiah Quarshie
ESTABLISHED:
2016
CONTACT:
gallery1957.com
info@gallery1957.com
+233 30 396 7575
NIGERIA
OMENKA GALLERY
Lagos
LEADERSHIP:
Oliver Enwonwu
ARTISTS:
Duke Asidere, Nnenna Okore,
Cedric Nunn, Chibuike Uzoma,
Dominique Zinkpè
ESTABLISHED:
info-jhb@davidkrut.com
+27 11 447 0627
2003
CONTACT:
omenkagallery.com
info@omenkagallery.com
+234 818 455 3331
STEVENSON, JOHANNESBURG AND CAPE TOWN
SOUTH AFRICA
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Monna Mokoena
goodman-gallery.com
jhb@goodman-gallery.com
+27 11 788 1113
ARTISTS:
EVERARD READ/CIRCA
Johannesburg and Cape Town
Roger Ballen, Florine
Demosthene, Kimathi Donkor,
Ayana Jackson, Mary Sibande
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
Mark Read, Charles Shields,
Georgie Shields
2003
CONTACT:
LEADERSHIP:
ARTISTS:
gallerymomo.com
karen@gallerymomo.com
+27 11 327 3247
Federica Angelucci,
Joost Bosland, David Brodie,
Andrew da Conceicao,
Darren Levy, Sophie Perryer,
Michael Stevenson
DAVID KRUT PROJECTS
Johannesburg and Cape Town
Deborah Bell, Ricky Dyaloyi,
Dylan Lewis, John Meyer,
Lionel Smit
LEADERSHIP:
ESTABLISHED:
Miranda Leighfield
1913
ARTISTS:
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
Marlene Dumas, William
Kentridge, Luc Tuymans,
Carrie Moyer, Maja Maljević
London
LEADERSHIP:
CONTACT:
Liza Essers
everard-read-capetown.co.za
ctgallery@everard.co.za
+27 21 418 4527
ARTISTS:
ESTABLISHED:
2000
INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS:
New York
CONTACT:
davidkrut.com
GALLERY MOMO
Johannesburg and Cape Town
GOODMAN GALLERY
Johannesburg and Cape Town
2008
ARTISTS:
Nicholas Hlobo, Kemang Wa
Lehulere, Moshekwa Langa,
Zanele Muholi,
Serge Alain Nitegeka
Kudzanai Chiurai,
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze,
Sue Williamson,
Alfredo Jaar, Ghada Amer
ESTABLISHED:
STEVENSON
Johannesburg and Cape Town
ESTABLISHED:
2003
CONTACT:
stevenson.info
info@stevenson.info
+27 21 462 1500
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GALLERY 1957 | ACCRA, GHANA
Launched earlier this year by Lebanese-born construction-industry heavyweight Marwan Zakhem, Gallery 1957 is striving to provide
a forum for Ghanaian artists to show (and sell) their work in their home country. Sited in the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, the
gallery represents local artists like experimental photographer Zohra Opoku and sculptor Serge Attukwei Clottey, known for cutting
and combining everyday objects into lush tapestries. We spoke with Zakhem about his mission.
appreciative of art, and while for now there are only
a handful of established collectors, naturally as the
scene evolves, there will be more people who wish to
start. I am a strong believer that the best markets are
where there is a local appreciation and the gallery aims
to play a role in helping develop this. We saw a lot of
interest from Ghanaians in collecting Clottey’s work,
and that was encouraging. It is our ambition to cultivate
and grow this collecting community over time.
How did you get your start in the art world, and
what inspired you to open your own gallery?
I started buying art when I moved to Africa 15 years ago
for my work. As a collector, you can’t help but become
more interested in visual arts and the process of making
art. I began building relationships with artists, and it
was at that point that I started thinking about taking the
next step. I decided to found the gallery to support,
complement, and highlight the art scene that already
exists in Ghana. Many of the artists the gallery is
working with have become increasingly visible on the
institutional circuits of museums and biennials but
do not have gallery representation at home.
Can you explain a bit about the significance of the
gallery’s name?
It is named for the year Ghana gained independence
from colonial rule. In choosing a name, I wanted something powerful and easily identifiable with Ghanaian
history and culture.
It seems that your major focus is to provide a way
for collectors in Ghana to begin acquiring work
made by artists from Ghana, rather than having
those artists selling work primarily abroad or on
the international art fair circuit. How would you
describe the collecting community in Ghana itself?
I think community is the right word. There is a
community of people who are highly interested in and
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Can you tell us about some of the work
in your personal collection? What would be a
dream acquisition?
My collection includes works by Ablade Glover,
Kofi Agorsor, Hakajaka, Krotteh Teteh, and Jimoh
Buraimoh, as well as the younger artists like Serge
Attukwei Clottey, Zohra Opoku, Ibrahim Mahama,
Yaw Owusu, and Quarshie. If I had to choose one
acquisition, I would settle for Monet’s “Water Lilies”
series. I first saw the exhibition in the Musée de
l’Orangerie in Paris in 2011, and it was stunning.
I remember being completely mesmerized by these
large landscapes that adorned the walls of the
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Marwan Zakhem
What other resources or venues currently exist for
the artistic community in Ghana?
We have a highly respected art school in Kumasi, Ghana’s
second city, at the Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology (known as KNUST), renowned
for producing ambitious artists such as Ibrahim
Mahama, Ablade Glover, and El Anatsui. Gallery 1957
artists Yaw Owusu and Jeremiah Quarshie studied
there, and some very interesting performance artists
are currently at the school, like Bernard Akoi-Jackson.
We work with Ano, a cultural research initiative
founded by our creative director, Nana Oforiatta Ayim;
our opening exhibition by Clottey, “My Mother’s
Wardrobe,” was a result of his residency there.
Through Ano, Ayim has explored ideas of narratives
and identity, aiming to challenge current historiographies as well as transform social contexts while
theorizing about art from Africa within Africa.
Also, the Nubuke Foundation is one of the most
important organizations in the city and promotes
Ghanaian visual arts and other forms of culture. They
are very nurturing of young artists and have a real
spirit of collaboration, often working with other
organizations, like KNUST and the University of Ghana. two elliptical-shaped rooms that housed them. That is
what great art can do to you. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: THREE IMAGES, SERGE ATTUKWEI CLOTTEY, GOLOKAL, AND GALLERY 1957; JEREMIAH QUARSHIE AND GALLERY 1957
When’s a good time to visit Ghana?
In August we have an annual street art festival, Chale
Wote, that takes over the Accra neighborhood of
Jamestown with art, music, dance, and performances,
organized by Accra dot Alt. Around 200 artists take
part, and more than 10,000 people attend. This really
is something special, and it’s worth visiting Ghana
specifically for this event.
Art from Africa has been on the ascendant as of
late—for example, the “Focus: African Perspectives”
section at the 2016 Armory Show in New York.
Are there any other international developments in
this regard that have inspired you?
The curatorial rewiring of contemporary African art
on a global scale has been happening for several
decades now. As it should be, we now increasingly
see artists from Africa
presented alongside the
work of their international
peers, and they are no
longer defined just by their
continent but by the
quality of their work.
Okwui Enwezor’s Venice
Biennale last year
was inspiring, as was
Koyo Kouoh’s edition of
EVA International in Ireland.
Obviously, the art fair 1:54,
initiated by Touria El
Glaoui in 2013 in London and now
also taking place in New York, has
also been successful in exposing the
works of the continent. I would,
however, like to see something like
1:54 not only in London and America,
but also on the African continent.
It is important that we get the
art world to the places where
these artists gain their inspiration.
exciting, emotive, and often experimental. Beyond that,
we’re seeing that most of the young artists use their art
as a platform to raise awareness of social and political
issues that currently exist in their communities.
What exhibitions do you have coming up?
We have a solo exhibition by painter Jeremiah Quarshie,
“Yellow is the Colour of Water.” He makes large-scale
hyperrealistic portraits that bring some of the social and
political issues facing Ghana to the fore. Then performance artist Elisabeth Efua Sutherland will show with us
following a residency with Ano. We will be exhibiting in
early October at 1:54 in London. I am also looking forward
to mounting a show of new paintings by Victor Butler.
Serge Attukwei Clottey is working on a project and
performance to draw attention to the pollution in the Korle
Lagoon in Accra; both Clottey
and Sutherland will be performing at the Chale Wote
festival in late August. MP
CLOCKWISE FROM
TOP LEFT:
Serge Attukwei
Clottey
Two images from
a performance
with GoLokal,
2016.
Installation
view of Clottey’s
“My Mother’s
Wardrobe,” 2016.
Jeremiah
Quarshie
A painting from
the“Yellow is
the Colour of
Water” series.
Acrylic on canvas,
60 x 47½ in.
Is there a prevailing spirit or
aesthetic that, in your mind,
unites some of the work currently
being produced in Ghana?
There are some very talented artists
in Ghana whose work embraces
a freedom of self-expression and
reflects the society of our time.
The work being created here is very
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