Category: Gallerists
Nationality: German
Last Year: Reentry (87, as Sprüth Magers Lee, in 2005)
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers have been powerful forces in the artworld for more than 20 years. First opening separate galleries in Cologne, they became successful promoting the work of artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer, and later John Baldessari and Andreas Gursky. After combining forces in the late 1990s, their business has expanded, taking in a gallery in London and a museum-scale space in Berlin. Successful recent shows include the European debut of Sherman’s latest series and a Fischli /Weiss show before that, while gallery artists Baldessari and Thomas Demand are currently enjoying solo shows at Tate Modern and the Neue Nationalgalerie, respectively.