Esther Schipper (born 1963) is a German art dealer and gallerist.
Early life
Schipper is the daughter of Dutch sinologist
Kristofer Schipper.
She was born in
Taiwan
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and lived there until the age of seven. She later grew up in Paris.
[Tim Ackermann (April 23, 2011)]
Mitten im jungen Galerienkiez
'' Die Welt''.
Career
Schipper gained her first professional experience as an assistant at the
Monika Sprüth Gallery in Cologne in 1983/84.
Schipper opened her first gallery in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...
in 1989.
Between 1990 and 1992, Schipper and
Daniel Buchholz also operated Buchholz & Schipper, a shop specializing in
multiples. In cooperation with Michael Krome, the gallery operated under the name Schipper & Krome between 1994 and 2004.
In 1995, Schipper opened a project space in Berlin, and moved all of its operations there in 1997.
From 2010 until 2017, the gallery was located in a space in the former offices of architect Arno Brandlhuber in Berlin's
Tiergarten district.
Following negotiations launched in 2014, Schipper acquired the majority shareholding in Jörg Johnen GmbH in 2015 and then took over both galleries' sites; the Johnen location eventually closed.
[Sarah Douglas (December 17, 2020)]
In Making Gavin Brown a Partner, Barbara Gladstone Is Betting That You Can Get Big and Still Think Small
'' ARTnews''.
In 2017, Esther Schipper moved to a space located inside a former printing facility and warehouse for the local Berlin newspaper ''
Der Tagesspiegel'' on Potsdamer Strasse; the space was designed by
Selldorf Architects. In 2021, the gallery had temporary spaces in
Palma de Mallorca
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Zhongshan District, Taipei () and the
Tianjin Free-Trade Zone. Since 2022, the gallery has been operating second location in Paris and a third showroom in a four-story building in Seoul's
Itaewon neighbourhood, designed by
StudioMDA.
In addition to her work as a gallerist, Schipper was a member of the
Art Basel art fair's selection committee for ten years and later joined the selection committee of
Frieze Art Fair in New York. She was also one of the co-founders of Berlin's annual Gallery Weekend.
[Rose-Maria Gropp (28 April 2010)]
Gallery Weekend in Berlin: Die Stadt, die Kunst und die Karawane
'' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''.
Artists
Esther Schipper represents several living artists, including:
In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including:
*
Rodney Graham (since 2015)
Personal life
Schipper lives in
Mitte, Berlin, with her partner Florian Wojnar and their two children.
References
External links
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Living people
German art dealers
1963 births