Tempo Gallery and Galerie Judin have introduced they’re because of open a brand new joint gallery in a restored Nineteen Fifties petrol station in Berlin on 1 Might. With house for the 2 galleries to take turns in mounting exhibitions, the premises may even embody a café and bookshop operated by the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit.
The petrol station was left deserted for 20 years earlier than Galerie Judin, whose major premises are based mostly close by within the former printing facility of the Berlin each day Tagesspiegel newspaper, took it on as a renovation mission in 2005. From 2022 to November final yr, 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 yr on the new location, which may even home the corporate’s workplaces.
“Berlin has lengthy stood out as one of many world’s most important centres for creative innovation, attracting a few of the most forward-thinking artists, curators, and collectors,” Attanasio says. “We now have 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 might be open on Sundays. It’s positioned in Potsdamer Strasse, not removed from the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Kulturforum, a district that over the previous couple of many years 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 neighborhood was the first motivator” in Tempo’s determination to broaden within the German capital, Attanasio says, “the VAT discount has undoubtedly performed a optimistic function 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 stated they’d suffered a drawback relative to opponents in different nations below the earlier charge.
The inaugural present within the new house might be offered by each galleries, in response to a press launch. Particulars might be introduced nearer to the opening date.
