Eva Presenhuber is an Austria-born, Zürich-based art dealer, owner of

Galerie Eva Presenhuber Galerie Eva Presenhuber is a contemporary art gallery, owned by Eva Presenhuber, with locations in Zurich, Switzerland (since 2003) and Vienna (since 2022). Eva Presenhuber founded Galerie Eva Presenhuber in October 2003 in Zurich, with an inaug ...

, based in

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, Switzerland and a second space in New York City.

Career

In 1989, Presenhuber became director of Galerie Walcheturm, a non-profit exhibition space in Zürich, which she transformed into a respected program showcasing Swiss artists such as Fischli Weiss and

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. Presenhuber also gave international artists such as Sue Williams, Douglas Gordon, and Angela Bulloch their first gallery exhibitions in Switzerland. In 1996, Presenhuber founded LISTE art fair alongside Peter Kilchmann and Peter Bläuer, as she felt Basel needed a younger fair to run parallel to Art Basel. After a five year long partnership with

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, Presenhuber founded her own company,

, which opened with a Verne Dawson exhibition in October 2003. After several years exhibiting in the Löwenbräu Areal, Presenhuber opened a secondary space in the Diagonal building at the former Maag Areal. The new gallery – designed by Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler architects – opened with a major exhibition by Austrian artist

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in April 2011, and was Presenhuber's only Zürich location from late 2017 to early 2020. In 2014, ''

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'' named her in their "Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world". Presenhuber has a reputation for museum-calibre exhibitions and art fair booths, and she was on the Art Basel selection committee for several years. In Spring 2017, Presenhuber opened an exhibition space in New York, with an inaugural show by Austrian painter Tobias Pils. In June 2020, Eva Presenhuber opened a second location in Zurich at Waldmannstrasse 6. In April 2022, Eva Presenhuber expanded further by opening a gallery in Vienna. The gallery presents artists including

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, Joe Bradley,

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and Wyatt Kahn.

References

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