Tempo Gallery and Galerie Judin have introduced they’re as a consequence of open a brand new gallery in a restored Fifties petrol station in Berlin on 1 Could. With area for the 2 galleries to take turns in mounting exhibitions, the premises may also embrace a café and bookshop headed by the publishing group Die Zeit.
The petrol station was left deserted for 20 years earlier than Galerie Judin, whose predominant premises are primarily based close by within the former printing facility of the Berlin each day Tagesspiegel newspaper, took it on as a renovation venture in 2005. From 2022 to November final 12 months, it housed a museum dedicated to the German artist George Grosz.
Tempo has seven different galleries worldwide—in New York, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, Geneva, Tokyo and Seoul. It has operated an workplace in Berlin, led by Laura Attanasio, since 2023. The gallery plans to mount two exhibitions a 12 months on the new location, which may also home the corporate’s workplaces.
“Berlin has lengthy stood out as one of many world’s most important centres for inventive innovation, attracting among the most forward-thinking artists, curators, and collectors,” Attanasio says. “We’ve got nice confidence within the metropolis and the broader German market as key drivers of creativity and cultural dialogue, which is why we established a everlasting presence right here in 2023.”
Unusually for Germany, the brand new gallery can be open on Sundays. It’s situated in Potsdamer Strasse, not removed from the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Kulturforum, a district that over the previous couple of a long time has grow to be an art-market hub, residence to greater than a dozen galleries, together with Esther Schipper and Hua Worldwide.
“Whereas Berlin’s artistic group was the first motivator” in Tempo’s determination to increase within the German capital, Attanasio says, “the VAT discount has undoubtedly performed a optimistic position in reinforcing our determination.”
The German authorities diminished value-added tax for artwork gross sales to 7% from 19% with impact in January, assembly a long-standing demand from sellers who mentioned that they had suffered an obstacle relative to opponents in different nations underneath the earlier price.
The inaugural present within the new area can be offered by each galleries, in line with a press launch. Particulars can be introduced nearer to the opening date.
