The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office have officially deemed a group of artworks — supplied by Long Island dealer Glafira Rosales and sold by the now defunct Knoedler Gallery to various clients — as fakes. Rosales, who was arrested in May and charged with wire fraud and money laundering, is being held in a Manhattan jail without bail. Last week, prosecutors added to the charges, unsealing a seven-count indictment. In part, it read, “the painting Rosales sold were fake, that is not by the hand of the artists that she represented them to be; Rosales knew that the paintings were counterfeit and that the statements she made about their provenance were false.”

Rosales’s attorney, Anastasios Sarikas, declined comment. She was arraigned on July 19 and pleaded not guilty to the charges. The next scheduled conference is on October 1.

A key question in the Knoedler affair is now who gets to determine that the works in question are, indeed, fake. And, BLOUIN ARTINFO has learned that in the case of one of the defendants at least, challenging this determination is an emerging strategy.

How has the case about the fakes been made so far? Roughly half-a-dozen multimillion-dollar lawsuits have been filed against parties including Rosales, Knoedler, and its former president Ann Freedman, who handled the sales of most of the works in question. The lawsuits all note that (using the words of the FBI indictment), “the purported Swiss client on whose behalf [Rosales] purported to sell most of the paintings to the Manhattan galleries never existed.” Many of the plaintiffs further relied on scientific analysis carried out by highly esteemed forensic conservator James Martin, whose Williamstown, Mass.-business Orion Analytical, “investigates the structure and chemical composition of materials comprising cultural property,” according to the company’s website.

In all of the related cases, albeit with some variation on each work, Martin found inconsistencies between the supposed dates the paintings were created and the materials used to create them. For instance, in examining a purported untitled 1950 Jackson Pollock painting that a collector paid $17 million for, Orion’s report noted that “analysis of materials used to create [the work]… revealed physical evidence that certain materials are inconsistent with and evidently irreconcilable with the claimed attributes that Jackson Pollock painted in 1950 — or any other date.” The case was settled on confidential terms late last year.

Another $25-million lawsuit over an allegedly fake Rothko, brought by former Gucci executive Domenico de Sole, his wife Eleanor, and their daughter Laura, included a forensic report from Orion in which Martin wrote: “In spite of the signature ‘MARK ROTHKO,’ and date ‘1956,’ materials and techniques used to create the Painting are inconsistent and irreconcilable with the claim that Untitled was painted by Mark Rothko…in 1956 or any other date.”

A more recent suit was brought last month by collector John Howard over a $3.5-million work purportedly by Willem de Kooning, purchased in 2007. The painting was found to contain “one or more materials that are not found in works of art created at the time that Knoedler and Freedman represented that the work was created…contains materials that are found in other forgeries sold by Knoedler…and contains one or more materials that were not commercially available at the time that Knoedler and Freedman represented the work was created.” 

For her part, Freedman has frequently pointed out that paint producers often gave paints to artists to experiment with before they were commercially available. But many observers are skeptical that this could be the case with so many paintings. 

Martin declined to comment on whether he has conducted scientific analysis of any of the works on behalf of the FBI or the U.S. Attorney’s office, citing “confidential aspects of the lawsuits [and] criminal investigations.” But it’s hard to imagine he has not weighed in. According to the Orion website, Martin “has assisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 1994, and taught paint analysis and infrared spectroscopy at the FBI Counter-terrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit between 2002 and 2008.”

(When asked about their methods of determining fakes, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan said that it doesn’t comment on ongoing investigations. The FBI press office had not returned a request for comment at press time.) 

In what is likely to surprise many art world experts, the attorney for Ann Freedman plans to challenge Orion’s findings in court. “Our experts are presently analyzing the works, but one thing is already clear: Orion’s expert reports are not worth the paper they’re written on. Because of their fundamental flaws, no Orion report should be admitted into evidence in any of the Knoedler cases,” Nicholas Gravante Jr., of Boies, Schiller & Flexner wrote in an emailed statement. He declined, however, to identify which experts he and Freedman have enlisted to examine the works.

Further, says Gravante, “If the works are proven to be forgeries, Ann Freedman is a victim. She believed in these works, obtained affirmations of their authenticity from the foremost experts in the world, purchased three of the works for her private art collection, and expended significant resources researching them.”

Compared to its international counterparts, the Brazilian art scene remains small. But a just-released study on the Brazilian contemporary art market makes the case that it is a vibrant, expanding scene, and offers some data points to back this up.

Latitude, which was formed in 2007, defines itself as a platform for Brazilian art galleries abroad. The organization has just released its second annual study, conducted by researcher Dr. Ana Leticia Fialho, and focusing on data from a group of galleries; a modest 44 were analyzed this year, though that improves on the 32 galleries surveyed by Latitude last year. The results, the report claims, “prove that Brazil is a competitive player in the international art market with sales that do not show signs of slowing.” 

Among the headline findings: Within Brazil, 81 percent of the surveyed galleries reported growth in their business over the past year, with the average growth rate standing at a healthy 22.5 percent. The number of galleries in business is also on the rise: half of the galleries in Latitude were created since 2000, another 11 were created since 2010 — and the number continues to rise.

Export sales in 2012 were $27 million (the number is based on a separate government survey of 52 galleries), up more than $8 million from the previous year, and an increase of roughly 350 percent since 2007. Latitude's researchers said the main destinations of exports were the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, France, and Hong Kong. The largest growth was in exports to the U.K., where demand grew 200 percent by value between 2011 and 2012.

While the majority of sales reported by the Brazilian galleries were done in the gallery space, the study also underscores the importance of participation in Brazilian and international art fairs. The Sao Paulo-based SP-Arte was identified as the fair where Brazilian galleries sold the most work, followed by Art Basel Miami Beach, which was the top-selling international fair.

To coincide with the report, Latitude also launched a new website (www.latitudebrasil.org) as a resource for information about international and local projects featuring Brazilian participants. The project, which currently has 47 primary market galleries, located in five Brazilian states, is a partnership between Apex-Brasil (the country’s trade and investment promotion agency), and the Brazilian Association of ContemporaryArt (ABACT). 

Cultural life is heating up in the Hamptons. Art Southampton welcomed thousands to its VIP opening Thursday night.

Following the success of its inaugural edition, the fair took on an even bigger space near the mouth of the Hamptons, the tony villages that comprise Long Island’s east end. 

“The fair has doubled in size, and more importantly, it’s much more international,” says Nick Korniloff, the director of Art Southampton as well as its much bigger parent in Florida, the 23-year-old Art Miami.

This year, the fair is presenting eleven countries outside the U.S., with 21 of its participating galleries coming in from abroad. 

Korniloff says Art Miami created Art Southampton after determining there was an underserviced market for “true investment-quality works of art” in the area.

Proceeds from the fair will benefit the Southampton Hospital. Many exhibitors have chosen to donate 5 percent of the sales of the works to the hospital. 

Blouin ARTINFO spoke with Korniloff Thursday night, as well as gallerists Wilhem Grusdat from Munich’s Galeria Terminus, Ryan Ross of East Hampton’s Gallery Valentine and Dutch artist Marcelo Segall, represented by Amsterdam’s Leslie Smith Gallery.

SHANGHART
Shanghai and Beijing, China; Singapore
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: MadeIn Company, Sun Xun, Tang Maohong, Yang Fudong, Zhang Ding

Lorenz Helbling, Founder and Director

What was your biggest show of the past year?

In 2012, ShanghART organized 26 exhibitions, plus 12 art fairs, which we often curate as exhibitions. Some exhibitions were international, like “Place of Residence,” which included artists from Brazil, and some were curated by young artists, like “EDIT: Image Fetish and Phobia” and “Distance Produces Beauty,” while most of our exhibitions were solo shows. Looking at size, “Yang Fudong: Close to the Sea & The Revival of the Snake” in our Beijing space and [our collaborator ARTMIA’s] space was probably the biggest, and Zhang Enli’s “Part,” the opening exhibition of our Singapore space, was the smallest.

How has the gallery changed since its founding?

The gallery has been changing all the time—exhibitions, art and artists, ways to do things, etc. At the same time, strangely, we have quite a lot of continuity, with many artists we have been cooperating with for 10 or more years, and we moved only twice in 17 years.

What are your plans for the next five years?

Looking and changing, adapting.

What’s your favorite place to eat near the gallery?

Bandu Music here in M50.

What emerging artist are you excited about?

Zhang Ding, Shao Yi, Shi Qing, Huang Kui, and, of course, Sun Xun—if he is not already “too emerged.”

PEKIN FINE ARTS
Beijing and Hong Kong, China
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Hong Hao, Lin Tianmiao, Liu Zheng, Miao Xiaochun, Zhang Dali

Meg Maggio, Owner and Director

What was your biggest show of the past year?

The Luo Mingjun solo exhibition; the Nashun Nashunbatu solo exhibition; solo exhibitions with photographer Martin Parr, Wassink Lundgren, and John Clang; Bai Yiluo’s second solo exhibition at Pékin Fine Arts; Chen Shaoxiong and Liu Ding’s “Project Without Space #6”; and Chen Shaoxiong’s “Air - Dry History”—the Hong Kong inaugural exhibition. All important!

How has the gallery changed since its founding?

Since its founding in 2005,
Pékin Fine Arts has expanded to open a second gallery space in Hong Kong’s Wong Chuk Hang area and continues to expand its artist cooperation and exhibit programming.

What are your plans for the next five years?

Keep growing!

What’s your favorite place to eat near the gallery?

In Beijing’s Caochangdi district, Fodder Factory. In Beijing 798, At Café. In Hong Kong, GCX Italian café in One Island South, next to our gallery in Wong Chuk Hang.

What emerging artists are you excited about?

Fang Lu, Liu Fuchun, Liu Di, Yang Dongxue, Xie Qi, Huang Yuxing, Kata Legrady (Hungary), John Clang (Singapore).

CHAMBERS FINE ART
Beijing, China; New York, U.S.
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Feng Mengbo, Hong Hao, Qiu Zhijie, Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen

Christopher Mao, Founder And Director

What was your biggest show of the past year?

“Painting Is Collecting,” a three-part exhibition spread over 2012, starting in Beijing, continuing to Hong Kong, and finishing in New York. This ambitious body of work, which took two years to create, was Guo Hongwei’s second solo exhibition with Chambers. During Guo Hongwei’s first trip to New York City, in 2010, he spent time examining the collections at the Museum of Natural History and realized that the way rocks, plants, and animal specimens are collected and examined by scientists is very similar to the way he studies the objects he paints. This realization gave him a new perspective for looking at watercolors.

How has the gallery changed since its founding?

Since the gallery was founded in New York City in 2000, we have opened a second gallery in Beijing, as well as Artfarm, an exhibition/storage space designed by Ai Weiwei in Salt Point, New York. In addition, we are now participating at various art fairs, which was not part of our practice a few years ago.

What are your plans for the next five years?

We would like to extend our collaborations with other art institutions. For example, we are currently working with the Philadelphia Art Alliance to organize a Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen exhibition in Philadelphia in August. We are also collaborating with the Mindspring Foundation on a special project for Wu Jian’an.

What’s your favorite place to eat near the gallery?

My favorite place near the New York gallery is Cookshop. In Beijing, I enjoy having home-cooked meals in the loft on the second floor of the gallery.

What emerging artist are you excited about?

Zhao Zhao and Guo Hongwei.

ARGENTINA

BRAGA MENENDEZ
Buenos Aires
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Javier Barilaro, Eduardo Capilla, Sibyl Cohen, Edgardo Gimenez, Sebastiano Mauri, Claudia Mazzucchelli, Miguel Mitlag, Rafael Gonzalez Moreno, Andrés Sobrino, Chino Soria, Laura Spivak, Lorena Ventimiglia, Rob Verf, Juan Andrés Videla

PRAXIS INTERNATIONAL ART
Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York, U.S.
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Arturo Aguiar, Sol Aramendi, María Berrio, Julián Brangold, Daniel Callori, Darlene Charneco, Priscila De Carvalho, Tulio de Sagastizabal, Inés Drangosch, Ana Eckell, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Margarita García Faure, Ignacio Iturria, Andrea Juan, Martín La Rosa, Federico Lanzi, Elena Nieves, Esteban Pastorino, Romina Salem, María Santi, Agustín Sirai, Augusto Zanela

BRAZIL

A GENTIL CARIOCA
Rio de Janeiro
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: José Bento, Carlos Bunga, Evandro Machado, Matias Mesquita, Rodrigo Torres

Located in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood that hosts the largest outdoor market in Latin America, A Gentil Carioca was founded in 2003 by artists Marcio Botner, Laura Lima, and Ernesto Neto. Shows from the last year include “Sensor,” featuring collages by Brazilian artist Rodrigo Torres, as well as “Under Construction,” a multimedia installation of works by Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga. Another highlight was the eighth edition of “Abre Alas,” a project staged every year on the eve of carnival, in which the gallery features work by unestablished artists from all over Brazil.

ANITA SCHWARTZ GALERIA DE ARTE
Rio de Janeiro
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Niúra Bellavinha, Ana Holck, Maria Lynch, Ivens Machado, Antonio Manuel, Wagner Morales, Abraham Palatnik, Wanda Pimentel, Nuno Ramos, Estela Sokol, Gustavo Speridião, Angelo Venosa, Daisy Xavier, Carlos Zilio

CARBONO GALERIA
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Waltercio Caldas, Carlito Carvalhosa, Marcos Chaves, Antonio Dias, Iole de Freitas, Artur Lescher, Paulo Pasta, Caio Reisewitz, Jose Resende, Sergio Sister, Edgard de Souza, Angelo Venosa, Laura Vinci

CASA TRIANGULO
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Daniel Acosta, Albano Afonso, assume vivid astro focus, Eduardo Berliner, Flávio Cerqueira, Alex Cerveny, Sandra Cinto, Yuri Firmeza, Vânia Mignone, Valdirlei Dias Nunes, Nazareth Pacheco, Mariana Palma, Joana Vasconcelos, Marcia Xavier

GALERIA FORTES VILACA
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Barrão,
Leda Catunda, 
José Damasceno, Iran do Espírito Santo, Lucia Laguna, Jac Leirner, Rodrigo Matheus, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Rivane Neuenschwander, Damián Ortega, Sara Ramo, Marina Rheingantz, Adriana Varejão, Erika Verzutti, Luiz Zerbini

GALERIA LEME
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: AVPD, David Batchelor, Luiz Braga, Sebastiaan Bremer, Felipe Cama, Paulo Climachauska, Ana Elisa Egreja, Sandra Gamarra, Candida Höfer, Mariana Manhães, Milton Marques, Flavia Metzler, Marcia de Moraes, Marcelo Moscheta, Patricia Osses, Mauro Piva

GALERIA LUISA STRINA
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Caetano de Almeida, Tonico Lemos Auad, Laura Belém, Alexandre da Cunha, Marcius Galan, Carlos Garaicoa, Fernanda Gomes, Laura Lima, Renata Lucas, Antonio Manuel, Marepe, Cildo Meireles, Pedro Motta, Edgard de Souza

GALERIA MARILIA RAZUK
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: José Bechara, Debora Bolsoni, Cabelo, Amilcar de Castro, Claudio Cretti, Mariana Galender, Raquel Garbelotti, Hilal Sami Hilal, Vanderlei Lopes, Germana Monte-Mór, José Resende, Mariana Serri, Wagner Malta Tavares, Marina Weffort

GALERIA MILLAN
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Rodrigo Andrade, Artur Barrio, Lenora de Barros, Rodrigo Bivar, Tatiana Blass, Sofia Borges, Felipe Cohen, Nelson Felix, Anna Maria Maiolino, Rubens Mano, Lais Myrrha, Emmanuel Nassar, Paulo Pasta, Thiago Rocha Pitta

GALERIA NARA ROESLER
São Paulo, Brazil
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Antonio Dias, Cao Guimarães, Vik Muniz, Abraham Palatnik, Hélio Oiticica

GALERIA RAQUEL ARNAUD
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Waltercio Caldas, Carla Chaim, Sérvulo Esmeraldo, Célia Euvaldo, Carlos Fajardo, Daniel Feingold, Romulo Fialdini, Iole de Freitas, Marco Giannotti, Geórgia Kyriakakis, Cassio Michalany, Maria-Carmen Perlingeiro, Arthur Luiz Piza, Carlos Zilio

GALERIA VERMELHO
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Jonathas de Andrade, Dora Longo Bahia, Rodrigo Braga, Leya Mira Brander, Cadu, Chelpa Ferro, Carmela Gross, Clara Ianni, André Komatsu, João Loureiro, Cinthia Marcelle, Rosângela Rennó, Nicolás Robbio, Daniel Senise, Ana Maria Tavares

LUCIANA BRITO GALERIA
São Paulo
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Marina Abramović, Lucas Bambozzi, Fabiana de Barros & Michel Favre, Geraldo de Barros, Ricardo Basbaum, Rafael Carneiro, Saint Clair Cemin, Waldemar Cordeiro, Rochelle Costi, Leandro Erlich, Paula Garcia, Gaspar Gasparian, Alex Katz, Anthony McCall, Mônica Nador, Liliana Porter, Tobias Putrih, Caio Reisewitz, Eder Santos, Regina Silveira, Tiago Tebet, Héctor Zamora

YBACATU
Curitiba
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Claudio Alvarez, Marcus Andre, Ligia Borba, Sebastiaan Bremer, Alex Cabral, Fernando Cardoso, Alex Flemming, Rogerio Ghomes, João Loureiro, Fernanda Magalhães, Marta Nevez, Yiftah Peled, Isaque Pinheiro, Sonia Navarro, C.L. Salvaro, Washington Silvera, Tatiana Stropp

ISRAEL

DVIR GALLERY
Tel Aviv
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Miroslaw Balka, Mircea Cantor, Latifa Echakhch, Ariel Schlesinger, Miri Segal

When Dvir Intrator set up
his gallery in 1982, his mission was to support the careers
 of Israeli artists at home and abroad. Now spread across two spaces in Tel Aviv, Israel’s leading gallery also facilitates projects with overseas
 artists as part of its residency program, created more 
than a decade ago. Last year Dvir hosted the first solo show by New York–based artist Tavares Strachan, featuring work that’s showing at the 2013 Venice Biennale under the aegis of the Bahamas pavilion. “Je suis innocent,” a 2012 survey show of work by Adel Abdessemed at Paris’s Centre Pompidou, attests to the gallery’s efforts to promote its artists beyond the region.

NOGA GALLERY
Tel Aviv
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Lea Avital, Joshua Borkovsky, Ori Gersht, Talia Keinan, Jossef Krispel, Oren Ben Moreh, Orit Raff, Alexandra Zuckerman

SOMMER CONTEMPORARY
Tel Aviv
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Boyan, Michal Helfman, Gregor Hildebrandt, Ugo Rondinone, Christoph Ruckhaeberle, Netally Schlosser, Guy Zagursky, Thomas Zipp

LEBANON

SFEIR-SEMLER GALLERY
Beirut, Lebanon; Hamburg, Germany
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hans Haacke, Sol LeWitt, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Wael Shawky

After founding her gallery in 1985 in the German town of Kiel, Andree Sfeir-Semler decided she needed a bigger audience for her minimalist and conceptual artists. That led her to Hamburg, and in 2005 she opened what is likely the Middle East’s largest commercial art space, in Beirut. Recent highlights include Walid Raad and Gabriel Kuri’s Beirut exhibitions.

SAUDI ARABIA

LAM ART GALLERY
Riyadh
Focus: Middle Eastern contemporary
Artists: Mohammed Farea, Fahad Al-Gethami, Corrine Martin, Hussein Al-Mohasen, Bassem Al-sharqi, Talal Al Zeid, Camille Zakharia

TURKEY

GALERI NON
Istanbul
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Meriç Algün Ringborg, Gökçen Cabadan, Asli Cavusoglu, Annika Eriksson, Extrastruggle, Sefer Memisoglu, Erdem Tasdelen, Günes Terkol

RAMPA GALLERY
Istanbul
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Nevin Aladag, Hüseyin
 Bahri Alptekin, Vahap Avsar,
 Ergin Cavusoglu, Cengiz Cekil, Inci
 Furni, Leyla Gediz, Hatice Güleryüz,
 Selma Gürbüz, Nilbar Güres, Bengü Karaduman, Servet Koçyisit, Ahmet Oran, Güçlü Oztekin, Erinç Seymen

One of the biggest galleries in Istanbul, Arif Suyabatmaz and Leyla Tara Suyabatmaz’s endeavor is situated among the newly renovated Akaretler Row Houses in the glitzy Besiktas district of Istanbul. Rampa’s 900-square-meter space holds large-scale installations; another room is designated for special projects. Both serve as venues to promote Turkish artists and have hosted works by Servet Koçyigit and Inci Furni.

RODEO GALLERY
Istanbul
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Mark Aerial Waller, Emre Hüner, Iman Issa, Gülsün Karamustafa, Ian Law, Shahryar Nashat, Eftihis Patsourakis, James Richards

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

AYYAM GALLERY
Dubai, U.A.E.; Damascus, Syria; Beirut, Lebanon; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; London, U.K.
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Sadik Alfraji, Safwan Dahoul, Samia Halaby, Nadim Karam, Afshin Pirhashemi, Khaled Takreti

Despite its international expansion, Ayyam Gallery’s main ambitions are fostering a contemporary art scene in Syria and, more recently, globally promoting talent from the broader Middle East region. Cousins Khaled and Hisham Samawi first set up shop in Damascus in 2006 and later opened spaces in Beirut and Dubai. This year, Ayyam extended its presence to London with a show by Nadim Karam, and also
 to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a show of work by Mohannad Orabi. With the ongoing conflict in Syria, the gallery has converted its Damascus space into a studio 
and sanctuary for artists.

CARBON 12
Dubai
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: André Butzer, Gil Heitor Cortesão, Ghazel, Sara Rahbar, Anahita Razmi

In the words of founders Kourosh Nouri and Nadine Knotzer, Carbon 12’s emphasis has remained “firmly global” since the gallery’s inception in 2008. The pair was among the first in Dubai to set up a decidedly international platform, introducing the region to worldwide trends and encouraging artistic exchange. With over 34 exhibitions to date, Nouri and Knotzer have assembled an impressive roster of artists who have exhibited in museum shows at institutions like the Palais de Tokyo and Centre Pompidou in Paris and Australia’s Queensland Art Gallery. Recent highlights at Carbon 12 include Olaf Breuning’s Middle Eastern debut and the first commercial show by Anahita Razmi, who will also be showing at the 55th Venice Biennale.

GALLERY ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE
Dubai
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Lara Baladi, Shadi Ghadirian, Nargess Hashemi, Aisha Khalid, Idris Khan

Committed to supporting up-and-coming as well as established talents from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, directors Isabelle van den Eynde and Barrak Alzaid have zealously promoted emerging figures such as Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian and Lebanese-Egyptian artist Lara Baladi. Rokni Haerizadeh, an Iranian painter also backed by the gallery, has been selected to participate in the 2013 Carnegie International, a contemporary art exhibition in Pittsburgh showcasing 35 artists from around the world, and Mohammed Kazem, another artist in the Van den Eynde stable, is representing the U.A.E. at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

GREEN ART GALLERY
Dubai
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Shadi Habib Allah, Kamrooz Aram, Seher Shah, Hale Tenger, Alessandro
 Balteo Yazbeck

With a focus on Arab talent, Green Art Gallery has been dedicated to nurturing the careers 
of U.A.E. artists—including established players like Fateh Moudarres and Ismail Fattah—since founder Mayla Atassi opened its doors 
in 1995. When Yasmin Atassi came on as director in 2010, the gallery moved to a 3,000-square-foot warehouse space on Alserkal Avenue and revamped its curatorial vision to consciously present more ambitious projects. Last year the gallery welcomed New York–based artist Seher Shah and Venezuelan artist Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck into its fold.

GREY NOISE
Dubai
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Fahd Burki, Ehsan ul Haq, Mehreen Murtaza, Iqra Tanveer, Michael John Whelan

Before relocating from Lahore, Pakistan, to Dubai in 2012, Umer Butt’s gallery had already established itself as 
a venue for conceptual art from South Asia and Europe. Despite the migration, the focus has remained on promoting conceptually provocative and experimental art in the Middle East. Standout shows from the past year include “Understanding Magnetism,” Michael John Whelan’s Middle Eastern debut, and a retrospective of Iranian-born, Australia-based artist Hossein Valamanesh’s work, another first for the region.

THE THIRD LINE
Dubai, U.A.E.; Doha, Qatar
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Arwa Abouon, Rana Begum, Hassan Hajjaj, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Huda Lutfi

Sunny Rahbar, Omar Ghobash, and Claudia Cellini set up the Third Line in the Al Quoz 3 area of Dubai in early 2005 and recently opened a second space
 in Doha, Qatar, spreading the gallery’s influence across the region. In addition to its commercial programming, the Third Line has established not-for-profit programs that promote and support Arab literature, contemporary Middle Eastern crafts, and Arab filmmaking. Last year’s highlights include the Middle Eastern debuts of Ebtisam Abdulaziz and Maha Saab, and new work by Hayv Kahraman.

SOUTH AFRICA

BAILEY SEIPPEL GALLERY
Johannesburg
Focus: African photography
Artists: Bob Gosani, Ranjith Kally, GR Naidoo, Cedric Nunn, Sam Nzima, Paul Weinberg, Bailey’s African History Archive

DAVID KRUT PROJECTS
Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa; New York, U.S.
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Faith47, Frank Auerbach, Ryan Arenson, Bruce Backhouse, Willem Boshoff, Marlene Dumas, Johan Engels, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, William Kentridge, Maja Maljevic, Chris Ofili, Julian Opie, Luc Tuymans

EVERARD READ
Johannesburg
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Paul Augustinus, Wayne Cahill Barker, Sidney Beck, Francki Burger, Phillemon Hlungwani, Carl Jeppe, Dylan Lewis, Paula Louw, Anton Momberg, 
Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, Adrian Steirn, Irma Stern

GALLERY MOMO
Johannesburg
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Faisal Abdu’Allah, Sammy Baloji, Patricia Driscoll, Dumile Feni, Ayana V. Jackson, Theresa-Anne Mackintosh, Aïda Muluneh, Rodney Place, Lyndi Sales, Mary Sibande, Ransome Stanley, Andrew Tshabangu

GOODMAN GALLERY
Johannesburg and Cape Town
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Ghada Amer, Candice Breitz, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Kendell Geers, David Goldblatt, William Kentridge, Hank Willis Thomas

ROOKE GALLERY
Johannesburg
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Roger Ballen, the Bang Bang
 Club, Zander Blom, i-jusi, Stefan Krynauw, Frank Marshall, Garth Meyer

STEVENSON GALLERY
Cape Town and Johannesburg
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Zander Blom, Wim Botha, Meschac Gaba, Ian Grose, Pieter Hugo, Zanele Muholi, Hylton Nel, Odili Donald Odita, Deborah Poynton, Jo Ratcliffe, Viviane Sassen, Penny Siopis, Frohawk Two Feathers, Kemang Wa Lehulere

Michael Stevenson opened his eponymous gallery in Cape Town in 2003. Following a merger with Johannesburg-based gallerist David Brodie, the gallery was relaunched in 2008 as simply Stevenson, with a focus on the work of South African artists. Important shows of the last year include a presentation of new paintings by Zander Blom and the first solo exhibition of works by photographer Guy Tillim in Johannesburg in a decade.

AUSTRALIA

ANNA PAPPAS GALLERY
Melbourne
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Ewen Coates, Paolo Consorti, Sue Dodd, Michaela Gleave, Sam Grigorian, Ernesto Rios

ANNA SCHWARTZ GALLERY
Melbourne and Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Ian Burns, Daniel Crooks, Dale Frank, Shaun Gladwell, Antony Gormley, Clement Meadmore, Angelica Mesiti, Mike Parr, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Daniel von Sturmer

AUSTRALIAN GALLERIES
Melbourne and Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: George Baldessin, G.W. Bot, Arthur Boyd, Jasper Knight, Kerrie Lester, Kevin Mortensen, Sidney Nolan, Rodney Pople, Jeffrey Smart

CHARLES NODRUM GALLERY
Melbourne
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Andrew Christofides, Mark Galea, James Gleeson, Peter Kaiser, Ruark Lewis, Elwyn Lynn, Paul Partos, Edwin Tanner

CONNY DIETZSCHOLD GALLERY
Sydney, Australia; Cologne, Germany
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Victor Bonato, Markus Baldegger, Chun Kwang Young, Craig Easton, Franz Ehmann, Carlos Estrada-Vega, Pollyxenia Joannou, Geoff Kleem, Liang Quan

DIANNE TANZER GALLERY + PROJECTS
Melbourne
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Roy Ananda, Michael Cook, Marian Drew, Juan Ford, Neil Haddon, Izabela Pluta, Victoria Reichelt, Yhonnie Scarce

GREENAWAY ART GALLERY
Adelaide, Australia; Berlin, Germany
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Peter Atkins, Mat Collishaw, Adam Cullen, Ariel Hassan, Paul Hoban, Nasim Nasr, Deborah Paauwe, Santiago Sierra, Darren Siwes, Jenny Watson

IAIN DAWSON GALLERY
Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Liam Benson, Seth Birchall, Minka Gillian, Lucas Grogan, Celia Gullett, Tim Roodenrys, Kevin Tran

MARTIN BROWNE CONTEMPORARY
Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Giles Alexander, Peter Atkins, Andrew Browne, Michael Cusack, Paul Dibble, Troy Emery, Brent Harris, Linde Ivimey, Tim Maguire, Baden Pailthorpe, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, Guan Wei

MCLEMOI GALLERY
Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Daniel Arsham, Rhonda Dee, Friends With You, Luis Gispert, Sarah Harvie, Guy Martin, Diego Singh, Alexandra Standen

MICHAEL REID
Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Jason Benjamin, Marc Blake, Kim Buck, Julie Dowling, Marian Drew, Stephen Hart, Danie Mellor, Catherine Nelson, Deborah Paauwe, Freddie Timms, Samuel Tupou, Regina Wilson

NELLIE CASTAN GALLERY
Melbourne
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Annette Bezor, Chris Bond, Bindi Cole, Wayne Eager, Prudence Flint, Marc Freeman, Pei Pei He, Gordon Hookey, Deborah Paauwe, Polixeni Papapetrou, David Ray, Darren Siwes, Darren Wardle

NEON PARC
Melbourne
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Dan Arps, Janet Beckhouse, Damiano Bertoli, Trevelyan Clay, Julian Dashper, Irene Hanenbergh, Katherine Huang, Josey Kidd Crowe, the Kingpins, Paul Knight, James Lynch, Rob McLeish, Viv Miller, Elizabeth Newman, Elizabeth Pulie, Noël Skrzypczak, John Spiteri

OLSEN IRWIN
Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Stephen Bird, Peter Booth, Paul Davies, Tamara Dean, Nicholas Harding, Amanda Marburg, Prue Venables

PHILIP BACON GALLERIES
Brisbane
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Charles Blackman, Robert Brownhall, Peter Churcher, Ray Crooke, Lawrence Daws, Donald Friend, William Robinson, Margaret Olley Estate, Garry Shead, Jeffrey Smart, Tim Storrier, Gordon Shepherdson, Fred Williams Estate

ROSLYN OXLEY9
Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Hany Armanious, Daniel Boyd, Yayoi Kusama, Tracey Moffatt, David Noonan

For the last three decades, Roslyn Oxley9 has championed the work of Australian artists internationally, bringing to prominence talents such as Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, and David Noonan. Established in 1982, the gallery maintains a focus on the Asia-Pacific region with an emphasis on artists from Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Memorable shows from the past year include new hyperreal sculptures and a new video by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini, as well as a multifaceted installation by Noonan.

SAVILL GALLERIES
Sydney
Focus: Australian paintings
Artists: Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, Leonard French, James Gleeson, Sidney Nolan, Margaret
Olley, John Olsen, Tim Storrier, Brett Whiteley, Fred Williams Estate

STILLS GALLERY
Sydney
Focus: Contemporary photography and multimedia art
Artists: Pat Brassington, Brenda L Croft, Ian Dodd, Merilyn Fairskye, Anne Ferran, Petrina Hicks, Ricky Maynard, Anne Noble, Polixeni Papapetrou, Michael Riley, Justine Varga

SULLIVAN + STRUMPF FINE ART
Sydney
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Tony Albert, Sydney Ball, Penny Byrne, Marc de Jong, eX de Medici, Juan Ford, Sam Jinks, Joanna Lamb, Sam Leach, Laith McGregor, Darren Sylvester, TextaQueen

TOLARNO GALLERIES
Melbourne
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Brook Andrew, Benjamin Armstrong, Peter Atkins, Martin Bell, Andrew Browne, Louise Hearman, Peter Hennessey, Bill Henson, Brendan Huntley, Tim Johnson, Anastasia Klose, Rosemary Laing, Tim Maguire, Patricia Piccinini, Ben Quilty, Caroline Rothwell, Judy Watson

NEW ZEALAND

HOPKINSON CUNDY
Auckland
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Nick Austin, Andrew Barber, Fiona Connor, Daniel Malone, Nicholas Mangan, Tahi Moore, Peter Robinson

MICHAEL LETT
Auckland
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Hany Armanious, Steve Carr, Shane Cotton, Simon Denny, Michael Parekowhai, Sriwhana Spong

STARKWHITE
Auckland
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Billy Apple®, Martin Basher,
Phil Dadson, Alicia Frankovich, Glen Hayward, Jin Jiangbo, Jae Hoon Lee, Seung Yul Oh, Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Clinton Watkins

AUSTRIA

ARTELIER CONTEMPORARY
Graz
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Vito Acconci, John Armleder, John Baldessari, Thomas Bayrle, Cosima von Bonin, Monica Bonvicini, Günther Förg, Kendell Geers, Thilo Heinzmann, Leiko Ikemura, Louise Lawler, Jonathan Monk, Matt Mullican, Tobias Rehberger, Kiki Smith, Franz West

CHARIM WIEN
Vienna
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Maja Bajević, Ivan Bazak, Erwin Bohatsch, VALIE EXPORT, Dorothee Golz, Stephan Huber, Franziska Klotz, Roberta Lima, Robert Muntean, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Christoph Schlingensief, Wolfgang Wirth, Jens Wolf, Qiu Zhijie, Ralf Ziervogel

CHRISTINE KOENIG GALERIE

Vienna
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Ai Weiwei, Pierre Bismuth, Jimmie Durham, David Goldblatt, Leon Golub, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Rebecca Horn, Cameron Jamie, Pierre Klossowski, Jannis Kounellis, Vicken Parsons, Gerhard Rühm, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Juergen Teller

GALERIE ANDREAS HUBER

Vienna
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Kaucyila Brooke, Josef Dabernig, Carola Dertnig, Volker Eichelmann, Judith Hopf, Leopold Kessler, Daniel Lergon, Michael Part, Dan Rees, Florian Schmidt

GALERIE ELISABETH & KLAUS THOMAN
Vienna and Innsbruck
Focus: Postwar and contemporary

Artists: Siegfried Anzinger, John Armleder, Erwin Bohatsch, Julia Bornefeld, Herbert Brandl, Carmen Brucic, Clegg & Guttmann, Gunter Damisch, Günther Förg, Johanna Freise, Christoph Hinterhuber, Jürgen Klauke, Jannis Kounellis, Hermann Nitsch, Antonio Ortega, Tal R, Paul Thuile, Franz West

GALERIE KRINZINGER
Vienna
Focus: Performance art
Artists: Kader Attia, Gottfried Bechtold, Günter Brus, Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, Erik van Lieshout, Jonathan Meese, Werner Reiterer, Nancy Rubins, Eva Schlegel, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Mithu Sen, Frank Thiel, Gavin Turk, Martin Walde, Mark Wallinger, Thomas Zipp

GALERIE MARTIN JANDA

Vienna
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Benjamin Butler, Adriana Czernin, Svenja Deininger, Milena Dragicevic, Werner Feiersinger, Jan Merta, Roman Ondák, Allen Ruppersberg, Joe Scanlan, Gabriel Sierra, Roman Signer, Mladen Stilinović, Adrien Tirtiaux, Johannes Vogl, Corinne Wasmuht

GALERIE NACHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWAELDER
Vienna
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Michal Budny, Heinrich Dunst, Bernard Frize, Katharina Grosse, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Imi Knoebel, Daniel Knorr, Lee Ufan, Isa Melsheimer, Manfred Pernice, Karin Sander, Adrian Schiess, Jessica Stockholder, Christoph Weber

GEORG KARGL
Vienna
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Richard Artschwager, Carol Bove, Martin Dammann, Mark Dion, Agnes Fuchs, Bernhard Leitner, Thomas Locher, David Maljkovic, Jan Mancuska, Matt Mullican, Raymond Pettibon, Markus Schinwald, Rudolf Stingel, Rosemarie Trockel, John Waters, Cerith Wyn Evans, Richard Zeiss

KNOLL GALERIE
Vienna, Austria; Budapest, Hungary
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: AES+F, Akos Birkás, Blue Noses, Ivica Capan, Tony Cragg, Luca Göbölyös, Paul Horn, Mara Mattuschka, Meldibekov and Oris, Csaba Nemes, Natalia Nikitin, Jan van der Pol, Wilhelm Scherübl, Patrick Schmierer

BELGIUM

XAVIER HUFKENS
Brussels
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: David Altmejd, Daniel Buren, Thierry De Cordier, Michel François, Antony Gormley

In 1987 Xavier Hufkens set up shop in an unrenovated warehouse in the South Station neighborhood of Brussels. Since then, his gallery has grown in size and stature, moving to a 19th-century town house on Rue Saint-Georges in 1992 and adding a second space on the same street earlier this year. The gallery has 
a well-groomed stable of established Belgian and international artists. Thierry De Cordier made a rare appearance in 2011 for an exhibition of nine paintings, and this year, six of his paintings will
 be shown with a Richard Serra sculpture at the Massimiliano Gioni–curated Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

ZENO X GALLERY
Antwerp
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Michaël Borremans, Raoul De Keyser, Marlene Dumas, Mark Manders & Jack Whitten, Luc Tuymans

Frank and Elaine Demaegd started Zeno X in Antwerp South in 1981 with a roster of contemporary artists whose careers the gallery has continued to foster, including Luc Tuymans, Michaël Borremans, Mark Manders, Marlene Dumas, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. More recently, the gallery has added young German artist Grace Schwindt to its rolls. A satellite space, Zeno X Storage, opened its doors in the Borgerhout district in 2002; this year, the directors expanded that space in a renovation by Belgian architects Coussée & Goris, making it their primary location.

ELAINE LEVY PROJECT
Brussels
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Steven Baelen, Elena Damiani, Rainer Ganahl, goldiechiari, Bernard Guerbadot, Patrick Guns, Irwin, Jean-­Xavier Renaud, Eleonore Saintagnan, Bret Slater, Francisco Valdes, Philippe van Wolputte

GALERIE ALBERT BARONIAN
Brussels
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Thomas Bogaert, David Brognon
 & Stéphanie Rollin, Marie José Burki, Robert Crumb, Robert Devriendt, Gilbert & George, Olaf Holzapfel, Fiona Mackay, Florian Maier­-Aichen, Benoit Platéus, Eric Poitevin, Ry Rocklen, Yvan Salomone, Charles Sandison, Bruno Serralongue, Helmut Stallaerts, Achraf Touloub, Stanley Whitney, Gilberto Zorio

GALERIE CATHERINE BASTIDE

Brussels
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Jacques André, David Colosi, Sarah Crowner, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Geert Goiris, Tom Holmes, T. Kelly Mason, Marianne Mueller, William Pope. L, Ola Rindal, Josh Smith, Valerie Snobeck, Catherine Sullivan, Janaina Tschäpe, Kelley Walker

GALERIE RODOLPHE JANSSEN

Brussels
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: David 
Adamo, Davide Balula, Marcel Berlanger, Walead Beshty, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Lynne Cohen, Tim Davis, Jürgen Drescher, Kendell Geers, Sean Landers, Chris Martin, Adam McEwen, Sam Moyer, Mrzyk & Moriceau, Sam Samore, Stephen Shore, Betty Tompkins, Banks Violette

GUY PIETERS GALLERY
Knokke-Heist and Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium; Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Focus: Modern and contemporary
Artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Alexander Calder, Cesar, John Chamberlain, Edgar Degas, Wim Delvoye, Jim Dine, Jan Fabre, Gilbert & George, Robert Indiana, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Frank Stella, Jeff Wall, Tom Wesselmann

JAN MOT
Brussels, Belgium; Mexico City, Mexico
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Sven Augustijnen, Pierre Bismuth, Manon de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Mario Garcia Torres, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Joachim Koester, David Lamelas, Sharon Lockhart, Tino Sehgal, Philippe Thomas, Tris Vonna-Michell, Ian Wilson

MEESSEN DE CLERCQ
Brussels
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Ignasi Aballi, Jorge Méndez Blake, Jordi Colomer, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Claudio Parmiggiani, Bruno Perramant, Evariste Richer, Fabrice Samyn, José María Sicilia, Thu Van Tran, Leon Vranken

OFFICE BAROQUE GALLERY

Antwerp
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Michel Auder, Aaron Bobrow, Matthew Brannon, Neil Campbell, Mathew Cerletty, David Diao, Tamar Halpern, Owen Land, Leigh Ledare, Kirsten Pieroth, Davis Rhodes, Margaret Salmon, Daniel Sinsel, B. Wurtz

TIM VAN 
LAERE GALLERY
Antwerp
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Atelier Van Lieshout, Victoria Civera, Ellen de Meutter, Armen Eloyan, Gelitin, Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck, Adam Janes, Tomasz Kowalski, Edward Lipski, Faris McReynolds, Jonathan Meese, Paula Mueller, Nicolas Provost, Peter Rogiers, Serse, Ed Templeton, Juan Usle, Rinus van de Velde, Aaron van Erp, Patrick Vanden Eynde, Benjamin Verdonck, Franz West

VEDOVI GALLERY
Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France
Focus: Modern and contemporary

Artists: Josef Albers, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Alexander Calder, Enrico Castellani, Maurizio Cattelan, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Keith Haring, Yves Klein, Steve Parrino, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Ed Ruscha, Pierre Soulages, Rudolf Stingel, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool

CZECH REPUBLIC

HUNT KASTNER
Prague
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Josef Bolf, Viktor Kopasz, Eva Kotátková, Alena Kotzmannová, Dominik Lang, Daniel Pitín, Jan Serych, Jirí Skála, Michaela Thelenová, Jirí Thyn, Tomás Vanek

JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY
Prague, Czech Republic; Berlin, Germany
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Stefan à Wengen, Siah Armajani, Adela Babanova, Rafal Bujnowski, Tony Cragg, Andrej Dubravsky, Petra Feriancova, Dan Graham, Jan Kotik, Maki Na Kamura, Marketa Othova, Miroslav Tichy, Katerina Vincourova, Jan Vytiska

DENMARK

DAVID RISLEY GALLERY
Copenhagen
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: James Aldridge, Anna Bjerger, Dexter Dalwood, Graham Dolphin, Helen Frik, James Hyde, Thomas Hylander, Henry Krokatsis, Robert McNally, Charlie Roberts, Michael Simpson, Charlie Woolley

GALLERI BO BJERGGAARD
Copenhagen
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Anna Barriball, Georg Baselitz, Peter Linde Busk, A K Dolven, Helmut Federle, Federico Herrero, Per Bak Jensen, Per Kirkeby, John Kørner, Jannis Kounellis, Jonathan Meese, Sigmar Polke, Tal R, Daniel Richter, Eva Schlegel, Erik Steffensen, Eve Sussman, Erwin Wurm

GALLERI SUSANNE OTTESEN
Copenhagen
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Martin Erik Andersen, Stig Brøgger, Morten Buch, Richard Deacon, Andreas Eriksson, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Ian McKeever, Per Mølgaard, Kehnet Nielsen, Jesper Rasmussen, Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Marijke van Warmerdam, Lawrence Weiner, Emil Westman Hertz, Troels Wörsel

IMO PROJECTS
Copenhagen
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Maiken Bent, Jan S. Hansen, A Kassen, Torben Ribe

MARTIN ASBÆK GALLERY
Copenhagen
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Tjorg Douglas Beer, Niels Bonde, Elina Brotherus, Jesper Carlsen, Catherine Raben Davidsen, Sabine Dehnel, Berta Fischer, Nicolai Howalt, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Robert Jacobsen, Astrid Kruse Jensen, Søren Martinsen, Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Matt Saunders, Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Clare Woods

V1 GALLERY
Copenhagen
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Katherine Bernhardt, Thomas Campbell, Troels Carlsen, Asger Carlsen, Richard Colman, John Copeland, Shepard Fairey, Hesselholdt & Mejlvang, Jacob Holdt, Peter Funch, Carl Krull, Anika Lori, Wes Lang, Ari Marcopoulos, Geoff McFetridge, Julie Nord, Stephen Powers, Andrew Schoultz, Søren Solkær Starbird

FINLAND

GALERIE FORSBLOM
Helsinki
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Mark Francis, Ryan McGinness, Tony Oursler, Julian Schnabel, Donald Sultan

After opening in 1977, Kaj Forsblom’s gallery quickly made its mark internationally with a monumental survey show of Picasso in 1979. Kaj and his son Frej now run the gallery, and the program has changed to solely contemporary art. Both Finnish and international artists are shown, often simultaneously, thanks to the gallery’s dual Gluckman Mayner–designed exhibition spaces. Highlights from the last year include Jason Martin’s “Folie à deux” and a series of design exhibitions in cooperation with Helsinki’s selection as the 2012 World Design Capital.

GALERIE ANHAVA
Helsinki
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Tor Arne, Pamela Brandt, A K Dolven, Jani Hänninen, Timo Heino, Antti Laitinen, Joseph James, Matti Kujasalo, Marika Mäkelä, Grönlund-Nisunen, Jorma Puranen, Janne Räisänen, Mari Sunna, Anna Tuori, Santeri Tuori

FRANCE

AIR DE PARIS
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Guy de Cointet, Trisha Donnelly, Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno, Allen Ruppersberg

Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino founded Air de Paris in Nice in 1990, but moved the gallery to its namesake city, Paris, just four years later. Their first exhibition, “Les ateliers du paradis,” with Pierre Joseph, Philippe Perrin, and Philippe Parreno, helped launch the careers of a new generation of French artists. Last year the gallery staged a historical exhibition of works on paper by French-born, Los Angeles–based performance artist Guy de Cointet (often called the Duchamp of L.A.) from his 1973 series “Cizeghoh Tur NDJMB.”

ALMINE RECH
Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: James Turrell, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Ugo Rondinone, Taryn Simon

In 1997 Almine Rech found a home for her gallery in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, and she has continued to expand ever since. In 2007 she opened a space in Brussels, and this year the original gallery moved to a new address in the Marais. Specializing in conceptual and minimalist art, the gallery represents different generations of artists. Recent exhibition highlights include a 2011 Richard Prince show and a 2012 Jeff Koons exhibition, both in Brussels.

GALERIE DANIEL TEMPLON
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Anthony Caro, Larry Bell, Jim Dine, Tunga, Julião Sarmento

One of the oldest fixtures on Paris’s contemporary art scene, the gallery was founded on Rue Bonaparte in 1966 by a 21-year-old Daniel Templon. Since then, the operation has moved to Rue Beaubourg and produced more than 400 exhibitions, including shows by seminal artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Dan Flavin, Keith Haring, Donald Judd, and Ellsworth Kelly. Impasse Beaubourg, a second venue dedicated to experimental installations opened in 2007, proving the gallery’s commitment to emerging talents like Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota, in addition to established figures like Valerio Adami and Jim Dine.

KAMEL MENNOUR
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Daniel Buren, Huang
 Yong Ping, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, Gina Pane

Since opening in 1999 on Rue Mazarine in Paris, Kamel Mennour’s eponymous venture has represented a lineup of artists spanning both the historic, such as Yona Friedman and François Morellet, and the up-and-coming, like Camille Henrot and Latifa Echakhch, and has mounted notable historical surveys, including “Photo-souvenir,” a 2010 exhibition of works by Daniel Buren and Alberto Giacometti made between 1964 and 1966. The gallery has also drawn big international names to Paris for shows like Anish Kapoor’s “Almost Nothing,” in 2011, and Huang Yong Ping’s “Bucharach,” in 2012.

XIPPAS
Paris, France; Athens, Greece; Geneva, Switzerland; Montevideo and Punta Del Este, Uruguay
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Farah Atassi, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Vik Muniz, Philippe Ramette, Takis

Greek national Renos Xippas, nephew of gallerist Alexander Iolas, opened a place of his own in 1990 in Paris’s Marais district with an exhibition of works by Greek sculptor and kinetic artist Takis. Since then, his gallery has only grown. In addition to its locations in Greece, Switzerland, and Uruguay, the gallery occupies an 800-square-meter space in Paris (one of the city’s largest) and in 2005 opened La Réserve—an even bigger experimental space in the Parisian suburb of Pacy-sur-Eure—with an inaugural exhibition of works by Vik Muniz, who is solely represented by Xippas in Europe.

ART: CONCEPT
Paris, France
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Martine Abbaléa, Jeremy Deller, Geert Goiris, Phillipe Perrot, Alexandre Singh

BALICE HERTLING
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Neil Beloufa, Kerstin Brätsch, Isabelle Cornaro, Mary Beth Edelson, Luca Frei, Nikolas Gambaroff, Alexander May, Charles Mayton, Greg Parma Smith, Reto Pulfer, Samuel Richardot, Oscar Tuazon, Stephen Willats

CHEZ VALENTIN
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Pierre Ardouvin, Cécile Bart, Eric Baudart, Etienne Bossut, David Douard, Luca Francesconi, Babak Ghazi, Dominique Ghesquière, Aloïs Godinat, Laurent Grasso, George Henry Longly, Andrew Mania, Nicolas Moulin, Anne Neukamp, David Renggli, Joe Scanlan, Veit Stratmann, Niels Trannois, Donelle Woolford

GALERIE AGNES MONPLAISIR
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Hermann Albert, Olga de Amaral, Girolamo Ciulla, Daniel Hourdé, Do König Vassilakis, Igor Mitoraj, Candida Romero, Todd & Fitch, Manuela Zervudachi

GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL

Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Tarek Atoui, Claire Fontaine, Fabrice Gygi, Mona Hatoum, Jean-Luc Moulène, Melik Ohanian, Gabriel Orozco, Anri Sala, Alain Séchas, Sean Snyder, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Wang Bing, Heimo Zobernig

GALERIE FRANK ELBAZ
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Davide Balula, Jesus Alberto Benitez, Wallace Berman, Julije Knifer, Justine Kurland, Rainier Lericolais, Mangelos, Ari Marcopoulos, Kaz Oshiro, Gyan Panchal, Bernard Piffaretti, Meredyth Sparks, Blair Thurman, Josip Vaništa

GALERIE JOCELYN WOLFF

Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: William Anastasi, Zbyněk Baladrán, Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Valérie Favre, Gregory Forstner, Prinz Gholam, Guillaume Leblon, Isa Melsheimer, Ulrich Polster, Hans Schabus, Francisco Tropa, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Franz Erhard Walther, Christoph Weber

GALERIE LAURENT GODIN

Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Scoli Acosta, Vincent Beaurin, Peter Buggenhout, Hsia-Fei Chang, Claude Closky, Liz Cohen, Delphine Coindet, Philippe Durand, Sven ’t Jolle, David Kramer, Gonzalo Lebrija, Marilyn Minter, Aleksandra Mir, Vincent Olinet, Mika Rottenberg

GALERIE MICHEL REIN
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Saâdane
 Afif, Maria Thereza Alves, Maja Bajevic, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Jordi Colomer, Jimmie Durham, Didier Faustino, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dora Garcia, Mathew Hale, Christian Hidaka, Jean-Charles Hue, Armand Jalut, Yuri Leiderman, Didier Marcel, Stefan Nikolaev, ORLAN

GALERIE NATHALIE OBADIA

Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Mequitta Ahuja, Huma Bhabha, Rina Banerjee, Martin Barré, Carole Benzaken, Guillaume Bresson, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Flexner, Rokni Haerizadeh, Shirley Jaffe, Youssef Nabil, Frank Nitsche, Manuel Ocampo, Albert Oehlen, Chloe Piene, Pascal Pinaud, Agnès Varda, Joana Vasconcelos

GALERIE NELSON-FREEMAN

Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: David Adamo, Silvia Bächli, Joseph Bartscherer, Marie José Burki, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ernst Caramelle, Mel Bochner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou (Estate), Josephine Halvorson, Alex Hay, Ken Lum, Matt Mullican, Eric Poitevin, Charlotte Posenenske (Estate), Fred Sandback (Estate), Anne-Marie Schneider, Thomas Schütte, Lucy Skaer

GALERIE PERROTIN
Paris, France; Hong Kong, China; New York, U.S.
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, JR, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Othoniel

GALERIE POLARIS
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Philip Akkerman, Eric Aupol, Bart Baele, Yto Barrada, Mari Bastashevski, Monika Brandmeier, Matthias Bruggmann, Antonio Caballero, John Casey, Stéphane Couturier, Gerardo Custance, Odile Decq, Simon Faithfull, Speedy Graphito, Patrick Guns, Louis Heilbronn

GB AGENCY
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Mac Adams, Robert Breer, Elina Brotherus, Omer Fast, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Deimantas Narkevicius, Roman Ondák, Dominique Petitgand, Pratchaya Phinthong, Pia Rönicke, Yann Sérandour

GEORGES-PHILIPPE & NATHALIE VALLOIS
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Boris Achour, Pilar Albarracín, Gilles Barbier, Julien Berthier, Julien Bismuth, Mike Bouchet, Alain Bublex, Massimo Furlan, Taro Izumi, Richard Jackson, Adam Janes, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Martin Kersels, Paul Kos, Paul McCarthy, Joachim Mogarra, Arnold Odermatt, Henrique Oliveira

IN SITU/FABIENNE LECLERC

Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil, Andrea Blum, Lynne Cohen, Patrick Corillon, Martin Dammann, Damien Deroubaix, Mark Dion, Meschac Gaba, Subodh Gupta, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Joreige & Hadjithomas, Florence Paradeis, Bruno Perramant, Laurent Tixador, Patrick Tosani

JGM. GALERIE
Paris
Focus: Contemporary and design

Artists: Mohamed El Baz, Jean-François Fourtou, Zaha Hadid, Edi Hila, Donald Judd, Peter Kogler, Claude Lalanne, Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Marta Pan, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Ricardo Rendon, Laurie Simmons, Keith Sonnier, Fred Wilson, Rob Wynne, Li Yongbin

JOUSSE ENTREPRISE
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Atelier Van Lieshout, Louidgi Beltrame, Frank Breuer, Florence Doléac, Clarisse Hahn, Richard Kern, Martin Le Chevalier, Philippe Meste, Ariane Michel, Matthew Darbyshire, Perfect House, Julien Prévieux, Julia Rometti & Victor Costales, Kishin Shinoyama, SUPERFLEX

LOEVENBRUCK
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Cristian Andersen, Virginie Barré, Alain Declercq, Robert Devriendt, Dewar & Gicquel, Blaise Drummond, Jean Dupuy, Gaillard & Claude, F. Giraud & R. Siboni, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Lang/Baumann, Edouard Levé, Philippe Mayaux, Gabor Osz, Bruno Peinado, Werner Reiterer, Alina Szapocznikow, Morgane Tschiember

MFC-MICHELE DIDIER
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Dennis Adams, Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Peter Downsbrough, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Leigh Ledare, Christian Marclay, Allan McCollum, Robert Morris, Jonathan Monk, Antonio Muntadas, Philippe Parreno, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Allen Ruppersberg, Jim Shaw

POLKA GALERIE
Paris
Focus: Postwar photography

Artists: Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Stefano De Luigi, Elliott Erwitt, Joakim Eskildsen, Stanley Greene, Alexander Gronsky, Philippe Guionie, Françoise Huguier, William Klein, Ethan Levitas, Daido Moriyama, Jean-Marie Périer, Marc Riboud, Sebastião Salgado, Toshio Shibata

PRAZ-DELAVALLADE
Paris
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Amy Bessone, Philippe Decrauzat, Sam Durant, Thomas Fougeirol, Gabriel Hartley, Julian Hoeber, Jim Isermann, Joel Kyack, Nathan Mabry, John Miller, Adi Nes, Robyn O’Neil, Amy O’Neill, Mai-Thu Perret, Dario Robleto, Ry Rocklen, Antoine Roegiers, Brett Cody Rogers, Analia Saban, Erik Schmidt, Jim Shaw, Marnie Weber, Johannes Wohnseifer

THADDAEUS ROPAC GALLERY
Paris, France; Salzburg, Austria
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Cory Arcangel, Joseph Beuys, Lee Bul, Anselm Kiefer, Lawrence Weiner

TORNABUONI ART GALLERY

Paris
Focus: Modern and contemporary

Artists: Valerio Adami, Karel Appel, Arman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vanessa Beecroft, Alighiero e Boetti, Fernando Botero, Georges Braque, Alberto Burri, Maurizio Cattelan, Christo, Tony Cragg, Giorgio de Chirico, Gino De Dominicis, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Keith Haring, Hans Hartung, Wassily Kandinsky, Jiri Kolar, Jannis Kounellis

YVON LAMBERT
Paris, France
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Robert Barry, Jenny Holzer, Joan Jonas, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler

GERMANY

CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown, Jonathan Meese, Tal R, Gert & Uwe Tobias

Founded in 1992 in Charlottenburg by Bruno Brunnet, Nicole Hackert, and Philipp Haverkampf, CFA moved to Mitte in ’96 and finally to a David Chipperfield–designed space where it now resides across from Museum Island in Berlin. The gallery fields some of Berlin’s most ambitious exhibitions, such as Gert & Uwe Tobias’s recent show, curated for Dresden’s Kupferstichkabinett and later brought to the Berlin gallery space. The past year also saw the Bruce High Quality Foundation join the gallery’s stable.

ESTHER SCHIPPER
Berlin, Germany
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Thomas Demand, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Ugo Rondinone, Tomás Saraceno

GALERIE BUCHHOLZ
Cologne and Berlin, Germany
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Cosima von Bonin, Isa Genzken, Cerith Wyn Evans, Wolfgang Tillmans, Danh Vo

Despite its two locations in Cologne and a Berlin outpost opened on Fasanenstrasse in 2008, understatement is an overriding doctrine for co-owners Daniel Buchholz and Christopher Müller. Hallmark exhibitions such as Isa Genzken’s 10th show, “Early Works,” marking 25 years of collaboration this past winter, and Danh Vo’s collaboration with Julie Ault and Heinz Peter Knes in homage to Martin Wong, have ensured that in both cities Buchholz will be a name to reckon with for years to come.

NEUGERRIEMSCHNEIDER
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Ai Weiwei, Pawel Althamer, Olafur Eliasson, Isa Genzken, Elizabeth Peyton

Consistently at the forefront of Berlin’s contemporary art scene, founders Tim Neuger and Burkhard Riemschneider possess
a focus that never wavers from the artists themselves. Many now-ubiquitous names such as Franz Ackermann, Tobias Rehberger, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Sharon Lockhart practically grew up alongside the gallery, which opened in 1994 with a show of Jorge Pardo. Still without a website and housed in a relatively small space, much of the gallery’s attention is
on institutional exhibitions these days. Things in Berlin haven’t suffered in the process however, with high points from the past year like Isa Genzken and Billy Childish’s double bill during Gallery Weekend and Olafur Eliasson’s “Volcanoes and Shelters” last fall.

ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES

Berlin, Germany; Beijing, China
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Per Adolfsen, Chen Guangwu, Heri Dono, Sven Drühl, Gregor Gaida, Ik-Joong Kang, Anna Kott, David Link, Lu Hao, Lu Song, Miao Xiaochun, Heribert C. Ottersbach, Chiharu Shiota, Luzia Simons, Micha Ullman, Wang Shugang, Michael Wesely, Yang Shaobin, Yin Xiuzhen, Zhang Hui, Zhao Zhao

ANDREAS GRIMM
Munich
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Katarina Burin, Damien Cadio, Andreas Chwatal, Nana Dix, Jeff Grant, Leonhard Hurzlmeier, Paul Kennedy, Bjørn Melhus, Peter Riss, Stefan Sandner, Matt Saunders, Felix Schramm, Katharina Sieverding, Lisa Tan, Cornelius Völker, Björn Wallbaum

AUREL SCHEIBLER
Berlin
Focus: Postwar and contemporary

Artists: Wolfgang Betke, Tom Chamberlain, Neil Gall, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Alice Neel, Thomas Rentmeister, Curt Stenvert, David Schutter, Gavin Turk, Alessandro Twombly, Christoph Wedding, Erwin Wurm

BQ
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Dirk Bell, Alexandra Bircken, Carina Brandes, Matti Braun, Owen Gump, Andrew Kerr, KRIWET, Friedrich Kunath, Bojan Sarcević, David Shrigley, Marcus Steinweg, Reinhard Voigt, Richard Wright

BUCHMANN GALERIE
Berlin, Germany; Lugano, Switzerland
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Anna & Bernhard Blume, Daniel Buren, Jim Butler, Lawrence Carroll, John Chamberlain, Tony Cragg, Sean Dawson, Zaha Hadid, Dennis Hollingsworth, Raffi Kalenderian, Wolfgang Laib, Tatsuo Miyajima, Arnold Odermatt, Bettina Pousttchi, Sergio Pergo, Fiona Rae, William Tucker, Lawrence Weiner, Clare Woods

CAPITAIN PETZEL
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Karla Black, Troy Brauntuch, Wade Guyton, Uwe Henneken, Diango Hernandez, Maria Lassnig, Robert Longo, Sarah Morris, Joyce Pensato, Peter Piller, Stephen Prina, Blake Rayne, Amy Sillman, Christiana Soulou, John Stezaker, Kelley Walker

CARLIER | GEBAUER
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Ernesto Caivano, Michel François, Paul Graham, Asta Gröting, Tomasz Kowalski, Julie Mehretu, Kirsi Mikkola, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Jean­Luc Moulène, Andreas Mühe, Paul Pfeiffer, Erik Schmidt, Thomas Schütte, Mark Wallinger, Emily Wardill

DANIEL BLAU
Munich, Germany; London, U.K.
Focus: Postwar
Artists: Georg Baselitz, Chuck Close, Roger Fenton, Lucian Freud, Gustave Le Gray, Anselm Kiefer, Per Kirkeby, Eugene Leroy, Markus Lüpertz, Matt Mullican, Charles Nègre, Georges Poulet, Marc Quinn, Andy Warhol

GALERIE BARBARA THUMM

Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Jo Baer, Fiona Banner, Fernando Bryce, Teresa Burga, Jota Castro, Martin Dammann, Diango Hernández, Valérie Favre, Christian Hoischen, Anna K.E., Johnny Miller, Mariele Neudecker, Anna Oppermann, Chloe Piene

GALERIE BARBARA WEISS

Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Thomas Bayrle, Geta Bratescu, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Maria Eichhorn, Nicole Eisenman, Harun Farocki, Berta Fischer, Laura Horelli, Jonathan Horowitz, Boris Mikhailov, John Miller, Rebecca Morris, Collier Schorr, Andreas Siekmann, Suse Weber

GALERIE CRONE
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Norbert Bisky, Marc Bronner, Hanne Darboven, Monika Grzymala, Harald Hermann, Bernd Koberling, Daniel Megerle, Peter Miller, Adrien Missika, Marcel Odenbach, Jerszy Seymour, Rosemarie Trockel

GALERIE EIGEN + ART
Berlin and Leipzig, Germany
Focus: Contemporary

Artists: Martin Eder, Carsten Nicolai, Neo Rauch, David Schnell, Matthias Weischer

GALERIE GISELA CAPITAIN
Cologne
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Karla Black, Günther Förg, Anna Gaskell, Wade Guyton, Uwe Henneken, Marcel Odenbach, Albert Oehlen, Jorge Pardo, Seth Price, Monika Sosnowska, Franz West, Johannes Wohnseifer, Christopher Wool

GALERIE GUIDO W. BAUDACH

Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: André Butzer, Björn Dahlem, Thilo Heinzmann, Thomas Helbig, Andy Hope 1930, Rashid Johnson, Jürgen Klauke, Erwin Kneihsl, Erik van Lieshout, Bjarne Melgaard, Aïda Ruilova, Markus Selg

GALERIE KAMM
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Kate Davis, Amy Granat, Charlie Hammond, Lorna Macintyre, Michele di Menna, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Pavel Pepperstein, Bernd Ribbeck, Albrecht Schäfer

GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE
Cologne, Germany; Paris, France; St. Moritz, Switzerland
Focus: Postwar and Contemporary
Artists: Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Jannis Kounellis, Cy Twombly

GALERIE MAX HETZLER
Berlin, Germany
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Beatriz Milhazes, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool

GALERIE NEU
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin, Bernadette Corporation, Cerith Wyn Evans, Claire Fontaine, Florian Hecker, Karl Holmqvist, Sergej Jensen, Kitty Kraus, Klara Liden, Birgit Megerle, Manfred Pernice, Gedi Sibony, Andreas Slominski, Francesco Vezzoli

GALERIE THOMAS
Munich
Focus: Modern and German Expressionism
Artists: Josef Albers, Ernst Barlach, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Eduardo Chillida, Wim Delvoye, Jim Dine, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Georg Kolbe, August Macke, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Pablo Picasso, Otto Piene, Gerhard Richter, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Egon Schiele, Richard Tuttle

GALERIE THOMAS SCHULTE
Berlin, Germany
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Alice Aycock, Richard Deacon, Alfredo Jaar, Stephen Willats, Robert Wilson

JABLONKA GALERIE
Cologne
Focus: Postwar and contemporary

Artists: Nobuyoshi Araki, Miquel Barceló, Francesco Clemente, Will Cotton, Eric Fischl, Alex Katz, Mike Kelley, David LaChapelle, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Andreas Slominski, Philip Taaffe, Andy Warhol, Terry Winters

JOHANN KOENIG
Berlin, Germany
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Tue Greenfort, Katharina Grosse, Jeppe Hein, Michael Sailstorfer, Corinne Wasmuht

JOHNEN GALERIE
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Stephan Balkenhol, Roger Ballen, Stefan Bertalan, Martin Boyce, Martin Creed, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ryan Gander, Francesco Gennari, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Martin Honert, Roman Ondák, Thomas Ruff, Anri Sala, Wilhelm Sasnal, Tino Sehgal, Jeff Wall

KLOSTERFELDE
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Matthew Antezzo, John Bock, Hanne Darboven, Lara Favaretto, Ulrike Heise, Christian Jankowski, Edward Krasinski, Ulrike Kuschel, Armin Linke, Matt Mullican, Lisa Oppenheim, Dan Peterman, Steven Pippin, Michael Snow, Vibeke Tandberg, Jorinde Voigt

KONRAD FISCHER GALERIE

Dusseldorf and Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Carl Andre, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Daniel Buren, Nina Canell, Tony Cragg, Gilbert & George, On Kawara, Wolfgang Laib, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Charlotte Posenenske, Thomas Ruff, Gregor Schneider

KEWENIG GALERIE
Berlin, Germany; Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Bert de Beul, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Marcel Broodthaers, Astrid Colomar, Elger Esser, Seydou Keïta, Jannis Kounellis, Hendrik Krawen, Bertrand Lavier, Pavel Pepperstein, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Marcelo Viquez, Peter Wüthrich, Ralf Ziervogel

MD72
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Karl Holmqvist, David Adamo, Florian Hecker, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Nick Mauss, Tom Burr, Danh Vo, Heinz Peter Knes, Manfred Pernice, Jana Euler, Michael Callies, Sergej Jensen

MICHAEL WERNER GALLERY
Trebbin and Cologne, Germany; New York, U.S.; London, U.K.
Focus: Postwar and contemporary

Artists: Georg Baselitz, Marcel Broodthaers, Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Ernst Wilhelm Nay

PERES PROJECTS
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Dan Attoe, Joe Bradley, Jeff Elrod, Mark Flood, Leo Gabin, Dorothy Iannone, Alex Israel, Antonio Ballester Moreno, Kirstine Roepstorff, David Ostowski, Dash Snow, Dean Sameshima, Marinella Senatore, Mark Titchner

SIES + HÖKE
Düsseldorf
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Abel Auer, Uta Barth, Gianni Caravaggio, Etienne Chambaud, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Björn Dahlem, Hansjoerg Dobliar, Marcel Dzama, Federico Herrero, Kris Martin, Jonathan Meese, Damien Roach, Neal Tait, Markus Vater, Sam Windett

TANYA LEIGHTON GALLERY

Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Ayreen Anastas & Rene Galbri, Pavel Büchler, Alejandro Cesarco, David Diao, Aleksandra Domanović, Sean Edwards, Aurélien Gamboni, Sharon Hayes, Sanya Kantarovsky, David Levine, Enzo Mari, Bruce McLean, Lucas Ospina, Dan Rees, John Smith

WIEN LUKATSCH
Berlin
Focus: Contemporary
Artists: Nina Canell, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mariana Castillo Deball, Jimmie Durham, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Luca Frei, Arthur Köpcke, Dave McKenzie, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Peter Piller, Thomas Ravens, Dieter Roth, Tomas Schmit, Ingrid Wiener, Haegue Yang

Art dealer Michael Lieberman has joined Chelsea gallery Marianne Boesky as senior director of sales, a position he will take up September 9. The news comes shortly after the announcement in June that he and his wife Jesse Washburne-Harris were closing Harris Lieberman, the gallery they ran together for eight years.

After earning a degree from Sotheby’s Institute, Lieberman began his career at Gagosian Gallery, which he joined in 1999 and where he and Washburne-Harris first met. He then moved on to Lombard-Freid Gallery as a director. In 2005, he and Washburne-Harris set up their own space where they put on clever exhibitions by emerging artists and invited guest curators to organize shows. They took part in art fairs like Art Basel Miami Beach and Liste, in Basel, Switzerland and represented artists Karl Haendel, Julia Dault, Rebecca Morris, and Thomas Zipp, who had a project at Palazzo Rossini at this year’s Venice Biennale. In July, Harris moved to Metro Pictures, where she is a director. It was only a matter of time before Lieberman himself made his next move. We caught up with the art dealer to see what he has in store in his new role.

Who are some artists you’re looking forward to working with at Marianne Boesky? 

One of the things I have always respected most about Marianne's gallery is the breadth of her program. I am looking forward to becoming more intimately acquainted with all of her artists' work. In the past years, I have followed the work of Jay Heikes, Donald Moffett, William J. O'Brien, and Anthony Pearson.

You’ve had your own gallery since 2005. What are some of the benefits to working for a gallery that’s not your own? What are some of the adjustments you’re going to have to make?  

Marianne has a more established gallery than we had. With that comes the benefits of a larger staff and more resources. I am excited to have the freedom to focus on the parts of the business that I enjoy the most.

Will there be a significant difference in your day-to-day routine? You worked with your wife at Harris Lieberman for eight years. Do you miss working together?  

I don't think there will be a tremendous difference. At this moment, Jessie and I are happy just being husband and wife again.

How did the experience of running your own gallery prepare you for your current role at Boesky?  

This position feels like a logical extension of everything I did running Harris Lieberman. However, I am looking forward to being able to focus more on everything I love about working in a gallery without the stress and often daily distractions of running a small business.

To what extent do you keep in touch with the artists you worked with at Harris Lieberman? 

Over the past few months I have stayed in close contact with many of the artists we represented. It's important for me to continue to know what they are up to. 

Have they found good homes or updated you on what they've done?

It's still early. I know a number of them have had conversations with other galleries. Jessie and I feel a large responsibility to make sure they all find good new gallery relationships.

London dealer Simon Lee has announced the opening of a showroom in New York City. The modestly-sized venue will open on the Upper East Side this October and will be run by Manuela Mozo, formerly of Metro Pictures.

“I envisage it as being more like a sort of a communal living room than a gallery,” the gallerist told BLOUIN ARTINFO UK. “We won’t ever be doing any exhibitions, but it would be a place where curators and museum people could meet artists, see things — so we can just service that side of our business.”

Simon Lee represents many artists based in the city part- or full-time, including Mel Bochner, George Condo, Sherrie Levine, and Christopher Wool.

“We realize we are there a lot because we have probably 8 or 10 artists working in New York now,” Lee continued. “So it works in both directions: us having good connections with our artists who are on the ground there, and it can be a point of access for our artists in Europe who don’t necessarily have representation in the States.”

The New York office is Lee’s second venture abroad. Last year, the dealer launched his gallery’s first foreign branch, in Hong Kong — an enterprise that has grown significantly since then.

But the dealer is clear that this U.S. outpost, which will be located on the 2nd floor at 26 East 64th Street, isn’t the forerunner of a fully-fledged New York gallery in the future. “I don’t think that it’s a step in that direction, and that’s not necessarily the ambition of the gallery,” he explained. “The ambition of the gallery is just to provide a good service for our artists in terms of being their agent.”

Super model Kate Moss poses for photographers at Christie's Auction House in London as an exclusive collection celebrating her career is set to go under the hammer.

A modern muse, Moss has graced the cover of endless magazines and now she's being honored with an art sale entitled "A Celebration of Kate Moss".

Some works such as Allen Jones’ "Body Armour" piece, which sees Moss covered in gold, was commissioned specially for the sale, while other images are high quality prints of some of Moss' most iconic photo shoots - such 1993's picture for Calvin Klein’s Obsession perfume campaign.

The auction will take place in London September 25.

A painting that sat for six decades in a Norwegian industrialist's attic after he was told it was a fake Van Gogh was pronounced the real thing Monday, making it the first full-size canvas by the tortured Dutch artist to be discovered since 1928.

Experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam authenticated the 1888 landscape "Sunset at Montmajour" with the help of Vincent Van Gogh's letters, chemical analysis of the pigments and X-rays of the canvas.

Museum director Axel Rueger, at an unveiling ceremony, called the discovery a "once-in-a-lifetime experience."

"This is a great painting from what many see as the high point of his artistic achievement, his period in Arles, in southern France," Rueger said. "In the same period, he painted works such as 'Sunflowers,''The Yellow House' and 'The Bedroom.'"

Museum officials would not identify the owner who brought the artwork to them in 2011 to be authenticated. Van Goghpaintings are among the most valuable in the world, fetching tens of millions of dollars on the rare occasions one is sold at auction.

The artwork will be on display at the museum beginning September 24.

The roughly 37-by-29-inch "Sunset at Montmajour" depicts a dry landscape of twisting oak trees, bushes and sky, and was done during the period when Van Gogh was increasingly adopting the thick "impasto" brush strokes that became typical of his work in the final years of his short life.

It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because he described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he had painted it the previous day — July 4, 1888.

"At sunset I was on a stony heath where very small, twisted oaks grow, in the background a ruin on the hill and wheat fields in the valley," Van Gogh wrote. "It was romantic. ... The sun was pouring its very yellow rays over the bushes and the ground, absolutely a shower of gold."

But then Van Gogh confessed that the painting was "well below what I'd wished to do." Later he sent it to Theo to keep.

Van Gogh struggled with bouts of mental distress throughout his life and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1890. He sold only one painting during his lifetime.

According to a reconstruction published in The Burlington Magazine by three researchers, the painting was recorded as number 180 in Theo's collection and given the title "Sun Setting at Arles." It was sold to French art dealer Maurice Fabre in 1901.

Fabre never recorded selling the work, and the painting disappeared from history until it reappeared in 1970 in the estate of Norwegian industrialist Christian Nicolai Mustad.

The Mustad family said Mustad purchased it in 1908 as a young man in one of his first forays into art collecting, but was soon told by the French ambassador to Sweden that it was a fake. Embarrassed, Mustad banished it to the attic.

After Mustad's death in 1970, the distinguished art dealer Daniel Wildenstein said he thought the painting was a fakeVan Gogh or possibly the work of a lesser-known German painter, and it was sold to a collector. The museum would not say who bought it or whether it had been resold since then.

In 1991, the museum declined to authenticate the painting when whoever owned it at the time brought it to them.

"That may be a painful admission, given that the same museum is now attributing it to Van Gogh, but it is understandable," since experts had no information about what the painting depicted, the Burlington Magazine article said.

Teio Meedendorp, one of three experts who worked on the project, said his predecessors might also have been confused because the painting was done at a "transitional" moment in Van Gogh's style.

"From then on, Van Gogh increasingly felt the need to paint with more and more impasto and more and more layers," he said.

Among other reasons experts had their doubts: The painting was unsigned. Parts of the foreground were not "as well-observed as usual," the researchers said. And part of the right side of the painting used a different style of brush strokes.

But when the museum took a fresh look at the work in 2011, its experts had the advantage of a new compendium of allVan Gogh's letters, and they were able to identify for the first time the exact location "Sunset" depicts: Montmajour hill, near Arles. The ruins of Montmajour abbey can be seen in the background.

Van Gogh mentioned the painting in two other letters the same summer.

The number 180 on the back of the canvas was an important clue, and new chemical analysis techniques showed the pigments were identical to others Van Gogh used on his palette at Arles.

Also, an X-ray examination of the canvas showed it was of the same type Van Gogh used on other paintings from the period.

Meedendorp said "Sunset" belongs "to a special group of experimental works that Van Gogh at times esteemed of lesser value than we tend to do nowadays."

He said it's not impossible another unknown or lost Van Gogh could be found someday. The artist is believed to have completed more than 800 works. While he destroyed some when he wasn't satisfied with the results, the whereabouts of others that are mentioned in his letters or early catalogs of his work are unknown.

The Van Gogh Museum houses 140 Van Gogh paintings and receives more than a million visitors a year.

Saatchi Online, a platform launched by the famed London gallery in 2006, is getting into the advice business: It is offering would-be collectors a free downloadable e-book entitled “How to Collect Emerging Art in 7 Easy Steps,” penned by Rebecca Wilson, a director of the gallery and curator of the online platform. As one might expect from any endeavor connected with savvy collector Charles Saatchi, the brief, 24-page primer offers tips on how to collect work by relative unknowns. The specifics range from the helpful and insightful to the inane and obvious, with thinly veiled (if unintentionally humorous) plugs for the site’s featured artists.

The text describes Saatchi Online as “a place for first-time buyers and serious collectors alike…[that] makes it easy for anyone to purchase art,” adding the following offer: “we’ll deliver it directly from the artist to you, anywhere in the world.” In fact, the famed art site spun off as a separate enterprise back in 2010, funded by venture capital. It is now based in Los Angeles, not London, and has been offering sales for the past 18 months. That makes Saatchi Online just one of several large websites making a play in the art e-commerce realm, along with Artsy, Paddle8, and — the latest major contender to enter the game — retailing behemoth Amazon.

Wilson, who says that over 5,000 collectors have already downloaded the e-book, told ARTINFO that Saatchi Online is different from other art sales websites because it brokers connections between artists and collectors, so that people can buy directly from artists, straight from their studios. Saatchi Online takes 30 percent commission, and artists get 70 percent. Collectors pay for shipping, as is standard practice in the art world. Insurance is covered by Saatchi Online.

In contrast, she says, other sites “are mirroring what already exists in the real world — they act as brokers between collectors with big budgets and blue chip galleries.” Wilson also leads an art advisory program, affording collectors the opportunity to work with a curator and get advice and proposals about works to buy. There is no charge for the service, but the collector must have a minimum budget of $2,500.

As for that e-book, it starts out by giving a brief history of art collecting through the ages and assures buyers off the bat, “you don’t have to be a Rockefeller to buy art.” It offers examples of collectors on opposite ends of the spectrum: the Medici family (“huge patrons of the arts during the Renaissance”) on the one hand, and the low-key — albeit now-legendary — New York collectors Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, a postal clerk and a librarian respectively, on the other. “This kind of passion — even obsession — is not unusual in the art world,” according to the book. “Charles Saatchi, whose mission to support emerging artists carries on today through Saatchi Online, has been visiting galleries, artists’ studios and out-of-the-way warehouses every week for the last 30 years and his curiosity in young, emerging artists has not dwindled.”

Unlike most other sources offering tips about art collecting, the guide doesn’t shy away from the potential monetary rewards. The final chapter, “Art as an Investment,” advises the reader to “buy what you love,” but adds, “If the investment side of buying art is an area that you want to consider then buying works by emerging artists is probably the best place to start.” It goes on to plug several award-winning Saatchi Online artists as good bets.

Noting that Saatchi was among the earliest buyers of work by now multi-million dollar artist Peter Doig, Wilson writes, “it's an exciting thought to imagine that the work you are buying could be by a future art star — even the next Peter Doig — and that you got their [sic] first.”

In this week's GALLERY NIGHT, since it's the start of the fall art season and there were so many gallery openings to choose from, we decided to focus on a group show.

The Sean Kelly Gallery is hosting an exhibition called “'Pataphysics”.  Pataphysics, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is "the branch of philosophy that deals with an imaginary realm additional to metaphysics".  The show brings together an eclectic group of artists, including the Creative Destruction Consultancy, Paul Etienne Lincoln and Iran do Espírito, many of whom present works that are often irreverent and lighthearted utilizing some absurdist objects and a variety of media to communicate their message. 

“'Pataphysics: A Theoretical Exhibition”is on display at the Sean Kelly Gallery in the Chelsea gallery district through October 19.

Los Angeles-based gallery Blum and Poe is set to open shop in New York — but it won’t just be another “big box situation,” according to Tim Blum. Unlike its sprawling 21,000-square-foot “mothership” space in L.A., this one will be a more focused affair.

“I’m not simply trying to carry the whole program into another city,” he said. “It will be something a little more mannered, thoughtful, and methodical.” He describes the opening, along with his soon-to-open Tokyo gallery, as a more organic extension of the L.A. program, “a couple of arms extending off this body, one to Asia, and one to the East Coast.”

While he wouldn’t go into specifics about the soon-to-open New York space, he did say that news about it was imminent. In June, he told the Art Newspaper that he was looking for townhouse with a “good parlour floor” for exhibitions, and news about his preference for the Upper East Side has been percolating. “One of the reasons we wanted to go there,” he said about the Upper East Side, “is because of the history and the general seriousness of the neighborhood.”

Blum and Poe New York will focus for the most part on its post-war Japanese program, beginning with the Mono-ha group, which the gallery featured in its biggest exhibition to date in L.A. last year “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” “There’s another major post-war exhibition that we’re doing late next year, so aspects of that will also come into play,” he said.

The gallery has a number of Japanese artists on their roster. Quite a few, like those with the Mono-ha movement including Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga, Susumu Koshimizu, and Kōji Enokura are lesser known in the States, and have no representation in New York, despite having been responsible for transforming Japanese art in the '60s and '70s.

Still, many other of Blum and Poe’s artists already have good representation in New York. Yoshitomo Nara is with Pace, Sharon Lockhart is with Gladstone Gallery, and Takashi Murakami is with Gagosian and Emanuel Perrotin, another new addition to the New York landscape. How will that play out?

“There are really no rules,” said Blum. “But there’s a kind of ethical code, especially amongst those who work closely together. We’ve got plenty of work to do with artists who are not represented there. So that’s been the gist of it and the thing that’s catapulted it into being.”

With artists who are already represented in New York, this will mean specific projects (“say, if it’s a painter, then maybe a show of drawings, not of paintings,” said Blum), and historical shows. He also foresees the possibility of teaming up with another gallery for a collaborative show if there's an aspect of the artist's practice that needs more space or to augment an exhibition. Last year he partnered with Gladstone, which presented “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha” after it closed at Blum & Poe. “That’s the best scenario,” he said.

But he won’t be asking his artists to transfer their allegiances to Blum and Poe exclusively. “We’re not of the mindset, the Hauser & Wirth mentality, where it’s all or nothing. Their artists have to go all in. Or, nothing. This is an attitude that we’re not interested in.”

You’re more likely riding a horse than in a car if you need to refuel at the corner of 24^th Street and 10^th Avenue in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. A former Getty gas station has been purchased and is slated for a new high-rise condominium project. But during the transition, an eye-catching public art project has sprouted up to the delight of passersby. Mounted around the gas pumps are actual rolling hills of grass and perched upon them — 25 epoxy and bronze sheep created by the late Francois Xavier Lalanne. And what barn scene wouldn’t be complete without a white picket fence?

Michael Shvo, founder of Shvo Real Estate, has partnered with some galleries in the area, including Paul Kasmin, to put up public installations during the condo construction process. “The Sheep Station” was the first to open Tuesday. The sheep will continue grazing on the pump-punctuated grassy knoll  through October 20.  You can see what everyone is saying about the installtion at the Twitter hashtag  #GettyStation.

LONDON – How you see Idris Khan’s work has a lot to do with where you stand. Like his meticulously layered composite photographic works, this new set of black paintings and drawings shimmer with radial forms from a distance, but up close reveal the painstaking process of layering and detailing that went into their production.

Using tonal variations of black, Khan stamps tiny lines of text in layer upon layer to build up constellations of words into ethereal shapes. In building this form, the layered words of course cancel each other out, and up close it’s hard not to strain to see what each line actually says as they run into each other and become abstract.

Blouin ARTINFO visited Khan at his studio in the lead up to his show and again at Victoria Miro Gallery, where work was underway on a monumental wall drawing made up of thousands of stamps. Khan explained how he made the transition from digital work to painting by hand onto the surface, while retaining his interest in repetition, layering and obfuscation.

"Idris Khan | Beyond the Black" will be at Victoria Miro until November 9.