Barbara Gross Galerie

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What`s on in Munich with pictures or without pictures

The Barbara Gross Gallery was founded in 1988 in Munich and to this day occupies the same early 20th century building at the Thierschplatz, between the Haus der Kunst and Maximilianstrasse.

From the beginning, the gallery was devoted to presenting outstanding female artists who, in those days, were largely underrepresented in both the art market and museums. Today the gallery is an important platform for female artists in Europe. We have been instrumental in organizing many museum exhibitions and have made significant contributions to establishing art by women artists in the public consciousness. Louise Bourgeois , Nancy Spero ,Maria Lassnig, Kiki Smith , Ana Mendieta , Jana Sterbak , and Eva Hesse are some of the artists Barbara Gross introduced for the first time to Germany. At the same time, the Barbara Gross Gallery is dedicated to presenting political, socially critical, and conceptual art by artists such as Leon Golub , Boris Mikhailov or Rémy Zaugg .

Besides these classic positions, the gallery represents a new generation of artists who have expanded these types of artistic concepts with contemporary techniques and content, such as Katharina Grosse (murals) and Karin Sander , Michaela Melián , Alicia Framis and Zheng Guogu (sculpture and installation).

Even in its early phase, the gallery specialized in photography and new media by including such artists as VALIE EXPORT and James Welling . This part of the program has continually expanded to feature artists such as Beate Gütschow (computer generated photography), João Penalva, and Tamara Grcic (video and photography) or Qiu Anxiong and Tobias Yves Zintel (video and installation).

It is especially important to us that we not only show independent positions and

varying styles, but that the gallery is committed to represent the artists over a long period of time.