Galerie Karsten Greve 4.02

Galerie Karsten Greve is a leading gallery for postwar and contemporary art with locations in Cologne, Paris and St.Moritz.

Karsten Greve opened the first of his own galleries in 1973 in Cologne, debuting with a solo exhibition by Yves Klein. He opened his other European galleries in Paris in 1989 and in St. Moritz in 1999.

During more than 40 successful years as an international art dealer, Karsten Greve contributed significantly to the worldwide recognition of artists like Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Lucio Fontana, Gotthard Graubner, Jannis Kounellis, Fausto Melotti, Pierre Soulages, Piero Manzoni and Cy Twombly; his intimate face-to-face contact with artists providing the basis for the quality of the gallery’s program.
Defined by the international avant-garde after 1945, it has come to include artists like Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, Louis Soutter, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Wols. In addition to these highly acclaimed artistic positions, the gallery also represents contemporary artists like Norbert Prangenberg, Paco Knöller and Leiko Ikemura, as well as photographers Sally Mann, Mimmo Jodice, Robert Polidori and Lynn Davis. The program is continuously expanded to include rising young artists like Georgia Russell, Claire Morgan, Gideon Rubin, Ding Yi, Raúl Illarramendi and Sergio Vega.
The gallery's program is characterized by a high diversity of artistic genres represented these belonging to the classic media painting, drawing and graphic arts, sculpture and installation as well as photography.
The gallery releases catalogue editions and other publications complimenting its program.