Overview
- Effective in February, Michael Werner will run Galerie Michael Werner in Berlin while Gordon VeneKlasen launches an eponymous international gallery.
- VeneKlasen will assume the former Michael Werner Gallery spaces in New York, London, and Los Angeles.
- The dealers said they will continue to work together on select artist projects and on museum exhibitions featuring historical artists represented by Michael Werner.
- Neither party has disclosed how the artist roster will be allocated between the two operations.
- VeneKlasen joined the gallery in 1990, became a partner in 2005, and led expansions to London in 2012 and Los Angeles in 2024, while Werner’s gallery lineage traces to Werner & Katz in 1963 and Galerie Michael Werner in 1969.