An open marriage
Bradford has left Sikkema Jenkins and White Cube (C51) and is now exclusively represented by Hauser & Wirth (B7). Ruby has left Hauser & Wirth, but is still represented by a network of galleries including Sprüth Magers (C9), Gagosian Gallery (B60) and Xavier Hufkens (B44). Gates is now showing only with White Cube, which has also signed Etel Adnan and Michael Armitage. Abdessemed no longer works with David Zwirner (C50), and Nicole Eisenman has left Koenig & Clinton to join Anton Kern Gallery (C5).
Brown, who recently ended a 15-year relationship with Gagosian, has a show at Maccarone in New York (until 20 June) and is working with Thomas Dane Gallery in London, but has no plans for permanent representation. “Being with a gallery is like a marriage, so there doesn’t seem to be any reason to leap into another marriage straight away,” she told New York magazine.
“It’s not unusual for artists to have crossover representation in one city, where you maybe work with two galleries,” says the artist Michael Elmgreen. Elmgreen & Dragset are represented at the fair by Galerie Perrotin (C25), Massimo De Carlo (B1) and Victoria Miro (B3).
The artists’ show at Perrotin (Past Tomorrow, until 23 May) is their first in New York for ten years. Elmgreen tells us that they are speaking to “a few American galleries” about further US representation, adding that Perrotin is amenable to a more open relationship—but collectors should not expect an announcement soon. “We don’t jump on board very easily,” Elmgreen says. “Our work demands a certain kind of gallerist, so we try for a long time to scare people away. If that doesn’t happen, we surrender and say OK, let’s play.”