Almine Rech opened its doors on April 1st, 1997 in the 13th arrondissement in Paris. The gallery was founded on a minimal and conceptual axis. In addition to its stable of internationally recognized, mid-career and emerging artists, it has always been the gallery's mission to continually seek out and include new artists in its program. The gallery has held longstanding relationships with artists like John McCracken and James Turrell and has since started working with and representing artists such as John M Armleder, Alex Israel, Julian Schnabel, Karel Appel, Antoni Tàpies, De Wain Valentine and Tom Wesselmann, among others. In 2006 the gallery moved to a larger two-floor space in the Marais district and in 2008 inaugurated a second 1,000 square meter exhibition space in Brussels. In March 2013, Almine Rech launched its new Paris space at 64 rue de Turenne. In June 2014, Almine Rech opened a gallery in London on Savile Row, Mayfair. In October 2016, the gallery moved from Savile Row to a larger space on Grosvenor Hill, Mayfair. The 400 square meter gallery opened with a solo exhibition by Jeff Koons. Almine Rech also opened in Manhattan's Upper East Side — the gallery's first exhibition space in the US — at the end of October 2016. The New York gallery's inaugurating exhibition was 'Calder and Picasso'. In 2019, Almine Rech expanded to Asia opening a new space in Shanghai, opposite the acclaimed Rockbund Art Museum, with an exhibition titled 'Approaches to Abstraction’. The exhibition was realized in conjunction with the show 'Abstraction(s)’ curated by the gallery at the Song Art Museum, Beijing.