Galerie Michael Werner

The Galerie Michael Werner is a German art gallery. It was started in Cologne, in Nordrhein-Westfalen in western Germany, in 1969 by Michael Werner, who had taken over the Galerie Hake there.[1]:505 Werner showed work by post-War German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, A.R. Penck and Sigmar Polke.[2]

Galerie Michael Werner
Gertrudenstraße 24–28, Cologne
Predecessor
  • Werner & Katz
  • Galerie Hake
Formation1969 (1969)
Purposeart gallery
HeadquartersGertrudenstraße 24
Location
Coordinates50.9381°N 6.9458°E / 50.9381; 6.9458
Key people
  • Michael Werner
  • Gordon VeneKlasen
Websitemichaelwerner.com

A branch was opened in New York City in 1990, in a house on East 77th Street formerly used by Leo Castelli, and re-designed by Annabelle Selldorf.[2] A London branch opened in 2012 in Upper Brook Street, Mayfair; the first show was of work by Peter Doig.[3]:7 A space was opened in Basel, in Switzerland, in 2015.[4]

In 2017 the gallery collaborated with a Brazilian gallery, Mendes Wood DM, to open Hic Svnt Dracones, a project space on East 66th Street in New York.[5]

In 2017 Michael Werner became a chevalier of the Legion of Honour, in recognition of his contributions to French culture, which included the donation of 130 artworks to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.[6]

References
  1. Carl Andreas Abel, Karl Ruhrberg (1989). Zeitzeichen: Stationen bildender Kunst in Nordrhein-Westfalen (in German). Köln: DuMont. ISBN 9783770123148.
  2. Christopher Bagley (January 2013). The Artist Whisperer. W. Condé Nast. Archived 17 January 2014.
  3. Cristina Ruiz (October 11, 2012). Capital gains. The Art Newspaper.
  4. Johannes Wendland (11 January 2016). Galerist Michael Werner: Kein Rückzug aus Deutschland (in German). Handelsblatt. Accessed February 2018.
  5. Sara Roffino (August 28, 2017). São Paulo gallerist Luciana Brito is the latest Brazilian to launch a New York space. The Art Newspaper. Archived 30 August 2017.
  6. "Michael Werner Awarded France's Legion of Honor". artnet News. February 22, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
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