The exact date that New York became the perceived centre of the Western art world is debatable. Some say it was in the early 1940s—during World War II—when a number of European artists immigrated to the United States. Others argue that

Andrew Kreps Gallery was founded in New York in 1996. Widening its original focus on emerging American artists, the program shortly thereafter expanded to include international artists, many of whom had their first exhibitions in the United States or

First established in Zurich in 2008, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie now operates out of a space in the heart of Basel, presenting international contemporary art. Opening with an exhibition of new works by well-known American contemporary Minimalist /

The Axel Vervoordt Company and Axel Vervoordt Gallery are located at a site known as Kanaal–a converted industrial distillery that has become a cultural and residential community. Boris Vervoordt created the Axel Vervoordt Gallery

  Established in 2001 by Bruce Silverstein and situated on the third floor of a building on West 20th Street in New York ’s Chelsea art district, Bruce Silverstein Gallery specialises in exploring and expanding knowledge of

The gallery was founded in 1975 by Elena and Felix Buchmann in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Between 1983 and 1998 the gallery was located in Basel next to the Museum of Contemporary Art; today it has two branches in Agra/Lugano

Operating in three spaces across New York and Beijing, for the past two decades Chambers Fine Art has presented a range of contemporary Chinese artistic practices, contributing to the visibility and popularity of avant-garde Chinese art

Gagosian is a global network of art galleries specializing in modern and contemporary art with seventeen exhibition spaces worldwide.

Galeria Nara Roesler is a leading Brazilian contemporary art gallery, representing seminal Brazilian and international artists who emerged in the 1950s as well as preeminent mid-career and emerging artists who dialogue with the currents put forth by

Galerie EIGEN + ART represents established and young artists working in a wide range of media such as film/video, photography, installation, painting and sculpture including conceptual art and performance in both locations: Leipzig and Berlin. The

Galerie Krinzinger was founded in 1971. Since then at least 400 solo, group and topic shows have been organised. The main issue of the gallery program results on one side from international performance art and body related art (Chris Burden,

Since it was established in 1991, Galerie Thomas Schulte’s ongoing focus has been placed on nurturing, supporting, and sustaining outstanding and inspiring artistic positions in international conceptual art spanning from the 1960’s to

Founded in 1998, Ingleby Gallery maintains an ambitious program of exhibitions and off-site projects by established and emerging artists. Over the past 14 years, it has secured a reputation as one of the country’s leading private galleries,

Mazzoleni was founded in Turin in 1986 and opened a Mayfair-based London gallery in October 2014. Over the past three decades Mazzoleni has organised solo and group exhibitions of more than 150 prominent Italian and international artists from across

Paragon Press was launched in 1986 and has since published over 100 projects involving some of the most renowned contemporary artists. The artists are selected by Charles Booth-Clibborn, founder of Paragon and are invited to create a project in the

Sean Kelly Gallery was founded by its British-born owner in 1991 and operated privately in SoHo until 1995 when its first public space opened at 43 Mercer Street. During these formative years, it established a reputation for diverse, intellectually

Founded in London in 2002, Simon Lee Gallery represents artists of diverse generations whose practices explore a wide range of media, from sculpture and painting to video and photography, and who share a broad interest in an exploration of the

Tang Contemporary Art was established in 1997 in Bangkok, later establishing galleries in Beijing and most recently Hong Kong. Tang Contemporary Art is fully committed to producing critical projects and exhibitions to promote Contemporary Chinese

Since Victoria Miro founded her eponymous gallery in Cork Street, Mayfair, in 1985, the gallery has grown to represent over 40 artists and estates. With a reputation for presenting ground-breaking artworks from around the world, Victoria Miro has

In 1981, Frank and Eliane Demaegd founded Zeno X Gallery in an old 20 th century town house at the Antwerp South district. Six years later, they enlarged the existing exhibition space by combining it with the adjoining building. In 2002 a second

Mark Manders, born 1968 in Volkel (NL), lives and works in Ronse (BE). Although time and place-related references appear to be irrelevant in Manders' work, there is one year that is often being referred to: 1986. This is the year in which Manders

Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistani national, born in Lahore.  Working in drawing, painting, animation, installation, and video, Sikander’s work employs ideas that are often subversive and polemical in nature.  Her process-based work is

Born in Palo Alto California in 1980, Hugo McCloud is one of the most prolific young artists working today. Self-taught with a background in industrial design, McCloud's practice is unrestricted by classical, academic tenets. Drawing inspiration

Dawoud Bey, based in Chicago, was born in 1953 in Queens, New York. Celebrated for his rich, psychologically compelling portraits, Bey explores in his work a range of formal and material methodologies to create images and projects that connect

Alex Hubbard is a New York based artist who works in painting and video. The use of the two media – in itself an unusual combination - is, for him, inextricably linked. Hubbard’s videos take the question of how the mark ing abstract

The interdisciplinary practice of Donna Huanca (b. 1980, Chicago, IL) evolves across painting, sculpture, performance, choreography, video and sound, crafting a unique visual language based in collaboration and innovation. At the very heart of her

Imbued with an appearance of scientific rationality, Conrad Shawcross's sculptures explore subjects that lie on the borders of geometry and philosophy, physics and metaphysics. Attracted by failed quests for knowledge in the past, he often

McGill is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York who creates ambitious, large-scale, site-specific art projects, and works in a variety of media, including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, light, and immersive installation.

Rodney Graham pulls at the threads of cultural and intellectual history through photography, film, music, performance and painting. He presents cyclical narratives that pop with puns and references to literature and philosophy, from Lewis Carroll to

In Alicja Kwade 's sculptural installations, commonplace items from rocks to household appliances are repurposed as players in whimsical illusions that challenge our perception of time, space, and systems of value. Through her use of such

Andrea Bowers lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Bowers received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1992. Over the last twenty-three years, she has built an international reputation for her drawings, videos, and installations,

One of the few female figures of the influential Gutai Art Association, Yuko Nasaka is a leading Japanese avantgarde artist. She is known for her minimalist, concentric circular compositions that are luminous and rich in texture. Born in Osaka in

Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá explores how time and urban identities are imprinted on architecture through paintings, prints, and large-scale painted murals that combine elements of graffiti, calligraphy, Abstract Expressionism, and collage. He

Awol Erizku is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York. His primary media are photography, sculpture and video installation, using a wide variety of found materials, including, basketball hoops, VHS tapes and textile. He also uses his

Hank Willis Thomas's practice is deeply concerned with American media systems and their relationship to identity and race relations. Drawing heavily from popular culture, Thomas dissects the commodification of the Black body, particularly its

Born in 1944 in New York City, Joel Sternfeld earned a BA in Art from Dartmouth College in 1965. Sternfeld began taking photographs in 1970 having studied the colour theory of artists Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. Early work included street

The social dynamics of the urban space and systems of time and space in a transnational perspective is at the heart of the multi-facetted work of German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi. Her large-scale site-specific interventions in public space

Jason Martin is a contemporary British artist known for his monochromatic abstract paintings and mixed-media works that engage with a range of materials and techniques to explore the physical properties of the medium of paint in contemporary art.

Guo Hongwei is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his exploration of the paint medium—notably in oil and watercolour—that produces a versatile range of textures, from hazy to precise reproductions of objects both artificial and

Song Hongquan grew up as the son of a noted stone carver in the most celebrated stone-carving district of China, Quyang County, famed for 2000 years for its marble, granite and jade. The artist has never had formal instruction in carving; he says he

FU XIAOTONG (b. 1976) is a graduate of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, after which she completed her postgraduate studies in the Department of Experimental Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA). In her recent series of works on

Cui Fei (b. in Jinan, China) received her BFA from the China Academy of Fine Arts and her MFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Cui's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Princeton

This is my hope—that I always get somewhere that I can’t find otherwise. Always try to find new ways. An unknown landscape. This is a very poetic effort. I think you often go into the fog and feel your way through. —Rudolf Polanszky Rudolf

Raul Mourão is renowned for his multimedia production, composed of drawings, prints, paintings, photographs, videos, sculptures, installations and performances, in which his gaze is always permeated by a critical sense of humour about the urban

The artist get to the prominence as from her participation in the emblematic group exhibition Como vai você, Geração 80?, at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (EAV Parque Lage), Rio de Janeiro, in 1984. Like many of her colleagues of the

Vik Muniz is best known for his works made from everyday materials such as string, garbage, chocolate syrup and dirt. He engages in the referential potential of these surprising mediums by assembling works that incorporate their subject matter into

Rana Begum is an Anglo-Bangladeshi contemporary artist who experiments with the boundaries between painting, design, and architecture. She is influenced by both Minimalism and her childhood experiences of Islam and Islamic art and architecture. Born

One of the leading German artists of the post-war period, Imi Knoebel's wide-ranging and rigorous oeuvre incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, projections and installation. Born as Klaus Wolf Knoebel in Dessau in 1940 he studied

Angela Bulloch is interested in systems that structure social behaviour. Her functional sculptures, light and sound works play with the ways in which we construct and interpret different types of information, be it related to art, literature,