Matthew Brown Inaugurates New York Gallery with TARWUK

Advised by veteran gallerist Jeffrey Deitch over coffee in 2019, Matthew Brown, at just 23, opened his first gallery down the road from Deitch on North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood.

A second space across the street popped up shortly after as his tightly curated, and now highly coveted, programme grew to include the likes of Sedrick Chisom, Sasha Gordon, and Kenturah Davis.⁠

Now, the young gallerist set his sights further afield, 390 Broadway to be precise, on the ground floor of a building that formerly housed Jasmin Tsou’s JTT.

The new venture opens with Good night, Ernst Toller! (29 April–15 June 2024), a solo exhibition by TARWUK, the artistic collaboration of Ivana Vukšić (b. 1981, Dubrovnik, Croatia) and Bruno Pogacnik Tremow (b. 1981, Zagreb).

An ode to the 20th-century German playwright Ernst Toller, the exhibition features new paintings, and sculptures that document the artists’ recent explorations in theatre and performance.

The opening marks the second collaboration between TARWUK and Brown, following the artists’ 2021 exhibition A Musical Score at the End of the World.

On reports of a recent wave of New York gallery closures, namely Tribeca’s Denny Gallery and Chinatown’s Foxy Production, Matthew Brown is bucking the trend—expanding his scope to include a Manhattan space when perhaps others, for various reasons, are shying away.

Main image: TARWUK, MRTISKLAAH.selcatceps dem- mir-dlog hguorht maelg stekcos- eye sih dna ,lluks a sah eh daeh a fo daetsnI_ (2024). Acrylic, oil, pastel and pencil on canvas. 243.8 x 182.9 cm. Courtesy Matthew Brown. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio.