Contemporary Fine Arts | CFA

The gallery was founded in 1992 in Berlin, where it now resides in a 19th-century apartment house on two floors – a white cube–style storefront window on the ground floor and a salon-like space on the first floor. In 2023, Contemporary Fine Arts expanded to Switzerland and opened its first dependence in Basel’s Totengässlein. The gallery launched and co-launched the careers of artists like Cecily Brown, Sarah Lucas, Raymond Pettibon, Dana Schutz, and Dash Snow. While a couple of younger artists like Maja Ruznic, Emily Mae Smith, Tobias Spichtig, Angelika Loderer, Eliza Douglas, and Travis MacDonald have joined the roster recently, the gallery is also known for exhibiting established artists like Georg Baselitz and Leiko Ikemura. CFA also represents the estates of Christa Dichgans and Norbert Schwontkowski. Over the years, the gallery has staged museum-quality exhibitions, including Max Beckmann in Dialogue with Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya and Dana Schutz, Kids, Café Pittoresque, and Hommage à Georg Baselitz, the latter marking the artist’s 80th birthday. Contemporary Fine Arts regularly publishes exhibition catalogues to accompany its shows.