GROUP EXHIBITION

From July 12–31, 2021, Esther Schipper will present a special exhibition entitled En la casa de Marquès [Inside Marquès House], held at Casa Museo Can Marquès, the former residence of Martí Marquès Marquès, a 19^thcentury bourgeois who settled in this house in 1901 after returning from Puerto Rico. Located on Carrer de CanAnglada, between the cathedral and the city hall, the house dates back to the 14^th century.

The exhibition will take place on the main floor of the house and will feature an exceptional selection of new and major works by 24 artists of the gallery, including installations, sculptures, paintings, photographs, and works onpaper.

With works by: Rosa Barba, Stefan Bertalan, Martin Boyce, Sarah Buckner, Angela Bulloch, Etienne Chambaud, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Ceal Floyer, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Francesco Gennari, Liam Gillick, DominiqueGonzalez-Foerster, Rodney Graham, Ann Veronica Janssens, Gabriel Kuri, Isa Melsheimer, Florin Mitroi, RomanOndak, Ugo Rondinone, Anri Sala, Karin Sander, Julia Scher, and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.

The architecture of Casa Museo Can Marquès has undergone several transformations over time. Although the entrance hall is baroque, one of the dominant styles is neoclassical, with some peculiarities such as—amongothers—the elliptical shape of the chapel and of one of the main rooms, an unusual configuration for a privateMajorcan residence from that period.

Some of the major transformations were introduced by Martí Marquès Marquès at the beginning of the 20^th century. The renovation was carried out by the architect Francesc Roca Simó, author of some of the mostrelevant examples of Art Nouveau in Palma. Following the latest advances in terms of domestic hygiene, RocaSimó covered the walls of the kitchen—which has remained in the same location since the Middle Ages—withwhite tiles. Roca Simó also introduced examples of Art Nouveau into the house, such as the dining room andthe stone and wrought iron staircase.

Esther Schipper was founded in 1989 in Cologne. The gallery is especially known for exhibiting and finding markets for ephemeral and time-based conceptual projects and for the longstanding and continuouscollaborations with its artists, whose work spans across a wide spectrum of practices.

After opening a project space in Berlin in 1995, the gallery moved its entire operations to the German Capital in 1997. In Spring 2017, the gallery inaugurated its new much larger premises to accommodate the demands of thewide range of exhibition practices in its steadily growing program of internationally recognised artists. Currentlythe gallery represents 44 artists and estates