David Zwirner is one of the leading contemporary art galleries in the world, with locations in New York, London, Paris, and Hong Kong. The gallery represents an incredible range of 21st-century and contemporary international artists and estates, from the European masters of the past century and American Minimalists to internationally renowned artists. David Zwirner is noted for its challenging and forward-thinking exhibitions, showcasing works across a variety of media and genres.
Read MoreDavid Zwirner first opened its doors at 43 Green Street in SoHo New York, in 1993, with a solo presentation of works by the late Austrian artist Franz West. In 2002, Zwirner moved his gallery to West 19th Street in Chelsea. The gallery now has three locations in New York (525 West 19th Street; 537 West 20th Street; 34 East 69th Street), with outposts in London’s Mayfair district (since 2012) and Hong Kong (since 2018). In September 2017, David Zwirner also launched David Zwirner Online, the gallery’s online sales channel. In October 2019, David Zwirner opened its first Paris gallery, and will be followed by a new gallery in New York at 540 West 21st Street in the fall of 2021. This space will be the first commercial gallery designed by Renzo Piano.
In addition to the gallery program, David Zwirner operates David Zwirner Books, the gallery’s publishing arm that launched in 2014, and the podcast Dialogues, which premiered season one in 2018 and debuted season two in the fall of 2019.
Ocula Insight Portia Zvavahera's Painted Dreams By Stephanie Bailey, London Portia Zvavahera presents a new series of paintings in Ndakavata pasi ndikamutswa nekuti anonditsigira, the artist's first solo show in Europe at David Zwirner in London.
Ocula News What Sold for Over $1 Million at Art Basel Online? London, 23 June 2020 Prices didn't reach the heights of the physical fair in 2019, but over a dozen works exceeded the million dollar mark.
Ocula Insight Art Basel Viewing Rooms: Advisory Highlights By Ocula Art Advisory, Basel Lucia Laguna, Paisagem n. 122 (2020) at Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel In Lucia Laguna's 'Paisagem' (Landscapes) series we see the blending of exterior and interior worlds, with Brazil's abundant vegetation on full display. Plants and flowers rendered in bright tones are set against a rough, grid-like structure that suggests architectural...
Ocula News Galleries Augment Basel Online With Clicks-and-Mortar Exhibitions Berlin, 16 June 2020 In Berlin, where the pandemic permits, digital viewing rooms are being remade offline. Elsewhere, galleries are mounting ever richer online presentations.
Related Press Living in the World of Art GERMANTOWN, New York — In his article "Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting" (Art News, March 1965), Philip Guston wrote: 'He is so remote from other masters; without their "completeness" of personality. A different fervor, grave and delicate, moves in the daylight of his pictures. Without our familiar...
Related Press Turner Prize Nominees Consider the Injustices Brought About by Borders 14 November 2019, Hyperallergic MARGATE, England — Every year the Turner Prize judges trawl through dozens of exhibitions around the world to find new and fresh voices in contemporary art. The four nominees are then presented in a group show, and part-way through a winner is announced and awarded the £25,000 (~$32,000) prize. If the Turner Prize tries to capture the...
Related Press 10 Hong Kong Art Exhibitions To See In November 2019 5 November 2019, Hong Kong Tatler Sinuous sculptures crafted from steel, post-WWII abstract paintings and celebrity portraits by Annie Leibovitz are just a few of the highlights of this month's exhibitions
Related Press Paper work – the British Museum shows off its collection of contemporary drawings 4 November 2019, Apollo Magazine Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter. These may not be names that spring to mind when you think of the British Museum, but they all have work filed away in its extensive archive of prints and drawings. 'Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now' lifts a lid on a lesser-known collection at a museum renowned...
Related Video & Audio Episode 15 | Thom Browne and Michael Glover 12 December 2019, David Zwirner The codpiece—a fashion curio, yes, but one whose padded cup runneth over as a conversation piece. The designer Thom Browne, whose collections have featured codpieces over the years, and the writer Michael Glover, who just published an unlikely and hilarious history of the codpiece in art, talk male vanity, gender fluidity, camp, Catholicism...
Related Video & Audio Episode 14 | Eileen Myles and Flavin Judd 6 December 2019, David Zwirner When Donald Judd moved to the desert town of Marfa, in the 1970s, it was ranch country—and offered limitless space to work. In recent years, before it became an oasis of Instagram clout, Eileen Myles bought what they say is 'the last cheap house in Marfa.'
Related Video & Audio Episode 13 | Oscar Murillo and Charles Henry Rowel 21 November 2019, David Zwirner This episode pairs artist Oscar Murillo with the editor Charles Henry Rowell for a conversation about class, race, art, and the African cultural diaspora that is one part history lesson and one part personal history
Related Video & Audio Episode 12 | The Yayoi Kusama Phenomenon 13 November 2019, David Zwirner This episode is all about Yayoi Kusama and art in the Instagram age. JiaJia Fei, a digital guru for institutions like the Jewish Museum and the Guggenheim, and Christian Luiten, founder of the popular digital art platform Avant Arte, come together to talk authenticity vs. influence, high vs. low, art vs. accessibility, narrative vs....
