Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
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The Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac was founded in 1983 and has specialized in European and North American contemporary art.
Today the gallery’s headquarters are housed in the magnificent Villa Kast on Salzburg
’s Mirabellplatz. In 1990, a gallery featuring over 600m2 of exhibition space was opened in Paris
. In April 2007, a new 200m2 drawings space was inaugurated above the existing gallery. The Paris gallery, located next to the Picasso Museum in the Marais district, now stretches over three floors. In March 2010, an exhibition of recent works by Imi Knoebel
opened in the new 400m2 space, HALLE, which is situated in the northern district of Salzburg.
The gallery organizes extensive solo and group exhibitions, often accompanied by comprehensive publications, not only in its own premises, but also in collaboration with major international museums and other non-commercial art institutions.
The Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is present at all major contemporary art fairs including, the Armory Show in New York, the Art Basel fairs in both Basel and Miami, Frieze in London and the FIAC in Paris.
The gallery also acts as a consultant to major museums and public institutions and as advisor for private and corporate collections.
Today the gallery’s headquarters are housed in the magnificent Villa Kast on Salzburg
Salzburg
-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...
’s Mirabellplatz. In 1990, a gallery featuring over 600m2 of exhibition space was opened in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. In April 2007, a new 200m2 drawings space was inaugurated above the existing gallery. The Paris gallery, located next to the Picasso Museum in the Marais district, now stretches over three floors. In March 2010, an exhibition of recent works by Imi Knoebel
Imi Knoebel
Imi Knoebel, born Klaus Wolf Knoebel , is a German artist. He is known primarily for his minimalist and abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," are a recurring technique he employs, along with his regular use of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue...
opened in the new 400m2 space, HALLE, which is situated in the northern district of Salzburg.
The gallery organizes extensive solo and group exhibitions, often accompanied by comprehensive publications, not only in its own premises, but also in collaboration with major international museums and other non-commercial art institutions.
The Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is present at all major contemporary art fairs including, the Armory Show in New York, the Art Basel fairs in both Basel and Miami, Frieze in London and the FIAC in Paris.
The gallery also acts as a consultant to major museums and public institutions and as advisor for private and corporate collections.
A selection of gallery artists
- Art & LanguageArt & LanguageArt & Language is a shifting collaboration among conceptual artists that has undergone many changes since its inception in the late 1960s. Their early work, as well as their journal Art-Language, first published in 1969, is regarded as an important influence on much conceptual art both in the...
- Cory ArcangelCory ArcangelCory Arcangel is a Brooklyn, New York artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance,, and video game modifications, for which he is perhaps best known...
- Donald BaechlerDonald BaechlerDonald Baechler is an American artist. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1974–77, and Cooper Union from 1977-78. Dissatisfied with New York City, he proceeded to the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Bildende Künste Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany."At Cooper Union I met...
- Jules de BalincourtJules de BalincourtJules de Balincourt is a French painter. He was educated at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco receiving a BFA in ceramics and went on to study at the Hunter College, New York graduating in 2005 with an MFA. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York...
- Georg BaselitzGeorg BaselitzGeorg Baselitz is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany...
- Lee BulLee BulLee Bul is one of the most prominent contemporary artists to have emerged from Asia in the 1990s.In 1999, she came to prominence when she represented Korea in the Venice Biennale.- Education :...
- Francesco ClementeFrancesco ClementeFrancesco Clemente is an Italian and American contemporary artist. Influenced by thinkers as diverse as Gregory Bateson, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, and J Krishnamurti, the art of Francesco Clemente is inclusive and nomadic, crossing many borders, intellectual and geographical.Dividing his time...
- Tony CraggTony CraggTony Cragg is a British visual artist specialized in sculpture. He is currently the director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.-Early life:Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949...
- Richard Deacon
- Barry FlanaganBarry FlanaganBarry Flanagan RA OBE was a Welsh sculptor, best known for his bronze statues of hares.-Biography:Barry Flanagan was born in Prestatyn, North Wales. He studied at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts before going on to St. Martin's School of Art in London in 1964. Flanagan graduated in 1966 and...
- Sylvie FleurySylvie FleurySylvie Fleury is a Swiss contemporary pop artist employing sculpture, mixed media. Her work addresses the issues of shopping, and the paradigm of the new age. Born 1961, Geneva...
- Gilbert & George
- Antony GormleyAntony GormleyAntony Mark David Gormley OBE RA is a British sculptor. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in the North of England, commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site...
- Wang GuangyiWang GuangyiWang Guangyi , is a Chinese artist known for being the leader of the New Art Movement circles that erupted out of China after 1989 and for his Great Criticism series of paintings, using the images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution and contemporary brand names from western advertising...
- Peter HalleyPeter Halley-Early Life and Career:Halley first came to prominence as a result of the geometric paintings rendered in intense day-glo colours that he produced in the early 1980s. His practice as an artist is usually associated with minimalism, neo-geo, and neo-conceptualism...
- Alex KatzAlex KatzAlex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...
- Anselm KieferAnselm KieferAnselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...
- Imi KnoebelImi KnoebelImi Knoebel, born Klaus Wolf Knoebel , is a German artist. He is known primarily for his minimalist and abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," are a recurring technique he employs, along with his regular use of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue...
- Terence KohTerence KohTerence Koh is a Canadian artist. Koh creates handmade books and zines, prints, photographs, sculptures, performances, and installations. Much of his diverse work involves queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities. Koh has also worked under the alias "asianpunkboy", though it appears that name...
- Wolfgang LaibWolfgang LaibWolfgang Laib is a German conceptual artist working predominantly with natural materials.-Biography:Laib studied medicine in the 1970s in Tübingen...
- Jonathan LaskerJonathan LaskerJonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....
- The Estate of Robert MapplethorpeRobert MapplethorpeRobert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...
- Jason MartinJason MartinJason Martin is a musician from Southern California. He is best known as a member of the indie rock band Starflyer 59, one of the first bands to sign with Tooth & Nail Records....
- Jonathan MeeseJonathan MeeseJonathan Meese is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. His works include collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, "De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr...
- Mimmo PaladinoMimmo PaladinoMimmo Paladino is an Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker.-Paintings and drawing:Mimmo Paladino was born Domenico Paladino in Paduli, Campania, southern Italy...
- Jack PiersonJack PiersonJack Pierson is a photographer and an artist. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books...
- Marc QuinnMarc QuinnMarc Quinn is a British artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs . He is known for Alison Lapper Pregnant , Self , and Garden .He is one of the Young British...
- Arnulf RainerArnulf RainerArnulf Rainer , is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art.In his early years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism...
- Tom SachsTom SachsTom Sachs may refer to:*Tom Sachs *Tom Sachs , movie producer, credits include The Lady Vanishes and The Horror of Frankenstein...
- David SalleDavid SalleDavid Salle is an American painter who helped define postmodern sensibility by combining figuration with a varied pictorial language of multi-imagery...
- SturtevantSturtevantSturtevant may refer to:* Albert D. Sturtevant , American naval officer* Alfred Sturtevant , American geneticist* Butler Sturtevant , American landscape architect...
- Philip TaaffePhilip TaaffePhilip Taaffe is an American artistTaaffe was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and studied at the Cooper Union in New York, gaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1977....
- Banks VioletteBanks Violette-Biography:Violette was born in Ithaca, New York and studied at the School of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University in 2000.-Work:...
- The Estate of Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
- Lawrence WeinerLawrence WeinerLawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...
External links
- Thaddaeus Ropac, Dealer for Baselitz, Kiefer, Gilbert & George and Cragg (The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2011)
- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac official website
- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - contact - location
- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris - EVENE
- GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC | Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard
- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris 3e Art culture paris,art culture
- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Gallery homepage at artnet.com
- Erwin Wurm "Yes Biological" — Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac — Exposition — Slash Paris
- Georg BASELITZ « Monumental sculptures, paintings and aquarelles », galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (exposition du 24 avril au 29 mai 2010)
- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac : Fine Arts Gallery Salzburg
- Salzburg's Tourist Information Centre on Thaddaeus Ropac
- Le Figaro - Guide Arts / Expositions - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
- artalog.net- L'actualité des galeries d'Art - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac