BLUM to Open New Tribeca Gallery

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BLUM founder Tim Blum announced the gallery’s name change this week with plans to open a new, larger space in Tribeca.

‘It’s a major moment in the gallery’s history, in my personal history, my family’s, and our collective future,’ said Blum.

The New York gallery at 9 White Street will open in the spring of 2024 with a survey of Japanese art from the 1960s to the present, spread across the two-storey, 6,200-square-foot space.

The show, which will mark the gallery’s 30th anniversary since opening in Los Angeles, will feature works by prominent artists of the Gutai, Mono-ha, and Superflat movements—movement’s Blum & Poe helped to introduce to U.S. audiences over the decades.

Mika Yoshitake, the curator behind recent shows of Yoshitomo Nara at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021) and Yayoi Kusama at Hong Kong’s M+ and Guggenheim Bilbao (2022–23), will co-curate the show with Blum.

BLUM’s name change comes two months after co-founder Jeff Poe announced his departure from the business.

Poe said he would follow ‘a simpler and more fluid path’ in his work going forward.

Blum stated that the next chapter of BLUM’s story would ‘unveil new relationships with artists’ and new publishing initiatives.—[O]

Main image: BLUM's Tribeca gallery at 9 White Street, New York.