Founded in 1991 and directed by Marie-Blanche Carlier and Ulrich Gebauer the gallery promotes international contemporary art and currently represents over 30 international artists. The program veers towards aesthetic and conceptual research in the fields of sculpture, installation, film, photography, painting, and drawing.
Rather than following a specific theoretical framework the gallery offers their artists a professional space to experiment. This allows for an antithetical spectrum of positions to be shown and gives the program its independent profile.
The gallery has proven to be a key platform for the artists’ development by producing crucial exhibitions for their career, amongst others the participations of several artists of the gallery in documenta Kassel (Cecilia Edefalk, Michel François, Thomas Schütte, Julie Mehretu) and representation of National Pavilions at the Venice Biennial (Michel François (Belgium, 1999), Mark Wallinger (United Kingdom, 2001), Aernout Mik (Netherlands, 2007), Laure Prouvost (France, 2019).
Gallery artists' prestigious awards and nominations:
2018 Julie Mehretu, New York Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership
2018 Oscar Muñoz, The Hasselblad International Award for Photography
2017 Caroline Mesquita, 19th Prize Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
2017 Richard Mosse, Prix Pictet
2017 Iman Issa, Preis der Nationalgalerie / Shortlist
2017 Iman Issa, Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Fine Arts
2015 Maria Taniguchi, Hugo Boss Asian Art Award
2014 Richard Mosse, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
2013 Laure Prouvost, Turner Prize
2011 Guillaume Leblon, Prix Marcel Duchamp
2012 Paul Graham, The Hasselblad International Award for Photography
2009 Paul Graham, Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
2007 Mark Wallinger, Tuner Prize
2005 Aernout Mik, Blue Orange Prize / Shortlist
2005 Thomas Schütte, Goldener Löwe Venice Biennial
2005 Julie Mehretu, Macarthur Fellow
2002 Aernout Mik, Dutch National Heineken Art Prize