Category: Gallerist
Nationality: Danish
Last Year: New
With a lineup of artists that mixes local superstars such as Jeppe Hein and Elmgreen & Dragset with international names such as Douglas Gordon, Daniel Buren and Richard Tuttle, Wallner (who opened his gallery in 1993) is a gallerist who thinks big. Bigger, indeed, than the business of simply selling art. In September Wallner moved his gallery into a Carlsberg truck depot, together with fellow gallerist Nils Stærk, an artist-run space (initiated by Wallner) called IMO and a space for graduate students of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, as part of an attempt to generate a new arts district in Copenhagen (and take advantage of 800 square metres of exhibition space). What’s next? He’s working on plans to set up a  kunsthalle, of course.