Esther Schipper
Esther Schipper (* 1963 in Taipei , Taiwan ) is a German gallery owner for contemporary art . She lives and works in Berlin .
Life
Schipper was born as the daughter of the Dutch sinologist Kristofer Schipper and the art historian Wendela Schipper-Gorter and grew up in Paris. After graduating from high school, she moved to Cologne, where she worked in an Ostasiatika art house and gained her first experience in Monika Sprüth's gallery . She then took up postgraduate studies at the Ecole du Magasin in Grenoble . Already in this curator school she made friends with the artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Philippe Parreno , whom she would later represent in her own gallery. This was followed by an internship at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, which was then headed by Nicholas Serota .
gallery
She founded her gallery in Cologne in 1989. After the gallery opened a project space in Berlin in 1995, it moved entirely to Berlin in 1997. After stops at Auguststraße 91, Linienstraße 85 and Schöneberger Ufer 65, the gallery moved to a new building at Potsdamer Straße 81e in spring 2017, which has also housed a bookstore since 2018. Esther Schipper currently represents 42 artists, a. a. Liam Gillick , Dominique Gonzales-Foerster , Thomas Demand , Pierre Huyghe , Philippe Parreno .
She is co-founder of Berlin's Gallery Weekend .
Web links
- Birgit Sonna: Fear-free in the global ocean of art Esther Schipper has been in the business for over 25 years and is always surprising, even for the initiated . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from June 12, 2015
- Lydia Schmid: gallery owner's apartment The secret of perfect living is storage space . In Die Welt on May 9, 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ The Gallery. Retrieved March 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Lydia Schmid: This is how the Berlin gallery owner Esther Schipper lives . May 9, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed March 22, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schipper, Esther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gallery owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Taipei |