Galerie Perrotin

Galerie Perrotin
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Name	Galerie Perrotin
Founder	Emmanuel Perrotin
Established	1990
Locations	Paris; New York; Hong Kong; Seoul; Tokyo; Shanghai; Los Angeles

Galerie Perrotin is a contemporary art gallery founded in 1990 by Emmanuel Perrotin that operates internationally with exhibition spaces in several major cities. The gallery represents a roster of contemporary artists and has organized exhibitions, fairs, and collaborations with museums and institutions across Europe, Asia, and North America. Perrotin has played a role in the careers of artists who have shown alongside institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, and Palais de Tokyo.

History

Perrotin opened in Paris in 1990, contemporaneous with developments at institutions like Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'Orsay, Fondation Cartier, and Musée national d'art moderne. Early activities intersected with curatorial networks around figures associated with FIAC, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze London, and Documenta. Expansion followed patterns seen in galleries such as Gagosian Gallery, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, White Cube, David Zwirner, and Hauser & Wirth with openings in cities linked to global art markets like Hong Kong, New York City, and Tokyo. The gallery’s growth mirrored institutional collaborations involving curators from Tate Modern, MoMA PS1, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Musée Picasso. Perrotin's trajectory intersected with art-world figures connected to auctions at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips as well as programming at biennials such as the Venice Biennale, São Paulo Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale.

Locations and Spaces

Gallery spaces have been established in global art centers, often in neighborhoods associated with institutions like Le Marais, SoHo, Chelsea (Manhattan), Shibuya, Gangnam District, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Pudong. The gallery’s Paris venue is situated within networks that include Musée Picasso, Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, Institut du Monde Arabe, and La Fondation Louis Vuitton. New York operations have engaged with proximate institutions such as Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and New Museum. Asian locations connect to regional organizations like Hong Kong Arts Centre, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Shanghai Museum, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and Mori Art Museum. Exhibition design and architecture sometimes reference practices linked to studios of architects and designers associated with OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, Tadao Ando, and Renzo Piano.

Artists and Exhibitions

Perrotin’s roster and exhibition program have included artists who have also collaborated with institutions such as Yves Klein-related foundations, representatives of movements connected to Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei, and Marina Abramović. The gallery has exhibited work by artists whose careers intersect with collections at Musée d'Orsay, Tate Modern, MoMA, Guggenheim Bilbao, Centre Pompidou, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Solo and group shows frequently precede or follow institutional exhibitions at venues like Palais de Tokyo, Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, The Broad, and Brooklyn Museum. Perrotin has mounted presentations that engage practices associated with artists who show alongside Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anish Kapoor, Doris Salcedo, Jenny Holzer, Dan Flavin, Brice Marden, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Elmgreen & Dragset, Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Pipilotti Rist, Elmgreen & Dragset, Cildo Meireles, Julian Schnabel, Richard Prince, Tracey Emin, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Raqib Shaw, Olafur Eliasson.

Market Influence and Sales

The gallery participates in major art fairs including Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, TEFAF, and Art Cologne, engaging collectors who also acquire through auction houses such as Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips. Market visibility has been amplified by placements in museum collections at MoMA, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and LACMA. Perrotin’s commercial strategies echo practices associated with global dealers like Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Iwan Wirth, Emmanuel Perrotin, Hauser & Wirth, and Marian Goodman and operate within regulatory and tax environments in jurisdictions such as France, United States, United Kingdom, China, and Japan. Secondary market sales of represented artists have appeared in catalogs and auction reports that reference market indices tracked by publications like Artforum, ArtReview, The Art Newspaper, and ARTnews.

Criticism and Controversies

Critical discussion around the gallery mirrors debates involving institutions and figures such as Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, and Sotheby's concerning market influence, curatorial ethics, and commercial practices. Controversies have arisen in the broader field over provenance issues similar to disputes reported at Christie's and Sotheby's and ethical questions debated in forums associated with The Art Newspaper, Artforum, ARTnews, Artnet, and Hyperallergic. Public debates have intersected with policy discussions at municipal and national levels involving bodies like Ministry of Culture (France), New York State Attorney General, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Seoul Museum of Art, and regulatory frameworks in European Union cultural policy. Critics and defenders cite comparative cases involving collectors, dealers, and institutions connected to François Pinault, Eli Broad, Peggy Guggenheim, Charles Saatchi, and Saatchi Gallery.

Category:Contemporary art galleries