About

From its origins in Cologne, Sprüth Magers has evolved into an international art gallery dedicated to exhibiting the very best in groundbreaking postwar and contemporary art. The gallery now operates four locations in Berlin Mitte, London’s Mayfair, the Miracle Mile in Los Angeles and Manhattan, New York, while maintaining offices in Cologne, Hong Kong, Beijing and Seoul. Known for its artist-focused and curatorially rigorous approach, the gallery has cultivated close and cooperative relationships with museums and curators around the globe for over four decades.

In 1983, Monika Sprüth Gallery opened with an exhibition of paintings by Andreas Schulze, which was soon followed by exhibitions of Rosemarie Trockel and Peter Fischli David Weiss. Over the next few years, George Condo, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, and Cindy Sherman all showed at the gallery, artists who remain central to Sprüth Magers’ program to this day. In 1991, Philomene Magers opened her eponymous gallery in Bonn, relocating it to Cologne in 1992. Early shows included Ad Reinhardt’s Black Paintings, Robert Morris’ felt pieces, and John Baldessari’s photographs and text paintings from the 1960s. The two galleries merged into a single entity in 1998 and, in 2000, a Munich space opened with Ed Ruscha’s exhibition Gunpowder and Stains.

Sprüth Magers opened a location in London in the early 2000s, inaugurating the current site on Grafton Street with a show of new photographs by Andreas Gursky in 2007. A year later, the gallery established its flagship space in a former dance hall in Berlin Mitte, with a debut exhibition of work by Thomas Scheibitz and Condo. In 2016, Sprüth Magers established a presence in the United States, launching its Los Angeles location on Wilshire Boulevard with new works by Baldessari. The gallery opened its most recent space in 2022, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, with an exhibition of Baldessari’s rarely seen preparatory maquettes.

Today, Sprüth Magers represents over seventy artists and estates. While continuing to work with mid-career artists such as Anne Imhof, Sterling Ruby, and Kara Walker, the gallery regularly broadens its program with up-and-coming younger voices, including Oliver Bak, Mire Lee, Gala Porras-Kim, Martine Syms, and Nora Turato. The program is rounded off with longstanding, influential artists such as Richard Artschwager, Reinhard Mucha, Bridget Riley, and Frank Stella, alongside the estates of Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Hanne Darboven, Otto Piene, and Kaari Upson, among many others.