Esther Schipper (born 1963) is a German art dealer and gallerist.

Early life

Schipper is the daughter of Dutch sinologist

Kristofer Schipper Kristofer Marinus Schipper (23 October 1934 – 18 February 2021), also known as Rik Schipper and by his Chinese name Shi Zhouren (), was a Dutch sinologist. He was a professor of Oriental studies at Leiden University, appointed there in 1993. Sc ...

. She was born in

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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
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Die Welt ''Die Welt'' ("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE. ''Die Welt'' is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group. Its leading competitors are the ''Frankfurter Allg ...

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Career

Schipper opened her first gallery in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

in 1989. Between 1990 and 1992, Schipper and Daniel Buchholz also operated Buchholz & Schipper, a shop specializing in multiples. 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’ business sides; 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
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ARTnews ''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countri ...

''. In 2017, Esther Schipper moved to a space located inside a former printing facility and warehouse for the local Berlin newspaper ''

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'' on Potsdamer Strasse; the space was designed by Selldorf Architects. In 2021, the gallery opened temporary spaces in

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Zhongshan District, Taipei Zhongshan District ( Chinese: 中山區) is an administrative district of Taipei City, named after Sun Yat-sen, better known in Chinese as "Sun Zhongshan". Economy In the 1970s, the district was recognized as the center of the city's tour ...

() and the

Tianjin Free-Trade Zone Tianjin Free-Trade Zone (Tianjin FTZ, colloquially known as 天津自由贸易区/天津自贸区 in Chinese), officially China (Tianjin) Pilot Free-Trade Zone () is a free-trade zone in Tianjin, China. It is the only free-trade zone in North Chin ...

. Esther Schipper represents several living artists, including

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Thomas Demand Thomas Cyrill Demand (born 1964) is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. Demand had his first solo exhibition at Tanit Galerie in Munich ...

,Laurie Rojas (June 2, 2015)
Berlin galleries join forces to stay in the game
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Simon Fujiwara Simon Fujiwara (born 10 September 1982 in Harrow, United Kingdom) is a British/Japanese artist. His works range from paintings and photographs to installations, film and sculptures. They are shown all around the world, for example in the Tate Mo ...

(since 2018),

Ryan Gander Ryan Gander OBE RA (born 1976) is a British artist. Gander is a wheelchair user who does not identify as being disabled. He explains: "I don't even feel disabled. I've spent my whole life trying not to be disabled, so I don't want to be labe ...

Rodney Graham William Rodney Graham (January 16, 1949 – October 22, 2022) was a Canadian visual artist and musician. He was closely associated with the Vancouver School. Early life Graham was born in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on January 16, 1949. ...

(since 2015), Gabriel Kuri,

Anri Sala Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video. Life and career Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Pari ...

(since 2015),

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(since 2015),

Ann Veronica Janssens Ann Veronica Janssens is a Belgian contemporary visual artist born in 1956 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Her work is an invitation to ephemeral experiences, which are at times delirious or vertiginou ...

, and

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (born 1977) is an artist living in Rio de Janeiro. He has used several techniques and materials, and is interested in nature and climate crisis as a field of research and work. His work has been presented in several bienn ...

(since 2015). Schipper has been a member of the

Art Basel Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned and managed, international art fair staged annually in Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach; Hong Kong and from 2022, Paris. Art Basel works in collaboration with the host city's local institutions to help ...

art fair's selection committee.Philippe Regnier (June 1, 1997)
Basel beckons: from Bacon to Warhol, the cream of twentieth-century art on view
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Personal life

Schipper lives in

Mitte Mitte () is the first and most central borough of Berlin. The borough consists of six sub-entities: Mitte proper, Gesundbrunnen, Hansaviertel, Moabit, Tiergarten and Wedding. It is one of the two boroughs (the other being Friedrichshain-Kreuzb ...

, Berlin, with her partner Florian Wojnar and their two children.

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