Thaddaeus Ropac are a group of galleries founded in 1981 by the Austrian gallerist

Thaddaeus Ropac Thaddaeus Ropac (born 16 January 1960) is an Austrian gallerist specializing in international contemporary art. He founded the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in 1981, and represents today more than 60 artists with his galleries in Salzburg (Austria), Pari ...

and has since specialized in International Contemporary Art. The group has galleries in

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Marais,

Pantin,

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and

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History

Lienz and Salzburg

The gallery was founded 1981 as "''Galerie Thaddäus J. Ropač/ Edition Rotha''" in

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, Austria. It opened a gallery in

in 1983, first located at the ''Kaigasse 40'', and then moved to Villa Kast in 1989, a 19th-century townhouse in Mirabell Garden. In March 2010, the gallery opened its "''Salzburg Halle''", an additional exhibition space within an industrial building close to the city centre of Salzburg.

Paris

In 1990, Thaddaeus Ropac opened his primary Paris space in the Le Marais quarter. The Pantin location opened in October 2012.

London

Thaddaeus Ropac opened a gallery branch in the Ely House in Mayfair, London, in Spring 2017.

Seoul

In mid-2021, Thaddaeus Ropac announced plans to open a new space in

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’s Hannam-dong district.

Work and current exhibitions

Since 2005, in partnership with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Ropac asked Hedi Slimane, Robert Wilson, Sofia Coppola and

Isabelle Huppert Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (; born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Described as "one of the best actresses in the world", she is known for her portrayals of cold and disdainful characters devoid of morality. She is the recipient of sev ...

to act as guest curators and to select a series of the foundation's images for several gallery shows.

A selection of current gallery artists

Cory Arcangel Cory Arcangel (born May 25, 1978) is an American post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance art, and video game modifications, for which he is best known. Arcangel often uses the ...

Jules de Balincourt Jules de Balincourt (born 1972) is a French-born American contemporary artist, based in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his abstract, atmospheric paintings, with saturated colors, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Biogra ...

Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the ...

Lee Bul Lee Bul ( ko, 이불, born in Yeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea in 1964) is a contemporary sculpture and installation artist who appeared on the art scene in the late 1980s. Her work questions patriarchal authority and the marginalization of ...

(since 2007) *

Tony Cragg Sir Anthony Douglas Cragg (born Liverpool 9 April 1949) is an Anglo-German sculptor, resident in Wuppertal, Germany since 1977. Early life and training Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool."Tony Cragg." ''Contemporary Artists''. Farmington Hills, ...

* Richard Deacon *

Valie Export Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist. She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work. Her artistic work also includes video installations, computer an ...

(since 2017) * Sylvie Fleury *

Gilbert & George Gilbert Prousch, sometimes referred to as Gilbert Proesch (born 17 September 1943 in San Martin de Tor, Italy), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942 in Plymouth, United Kingdom), are two artists who work together as the collaborative art du ...

Adrian Ghenie Adrian Ghenie (; born 13 August 1977 in Baia Mare) is a contemporary Romanian painter, who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Early life and education The son of a dentist, he studied fine arts at the Arts and Crafts School in Baia Mare betwee ...

(since 2015) *

Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pla ...

Alex Katz Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Early life and career Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who ha ...

Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan hav ...

Imi Knoebel Imi Knoebel (/i:mi: kno:ʊbəl/) (born Klaus Wolf Knoebel; 1940) is a German artist. Knoebel is known for his minimalist, abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," are a recurring technique he employs, along with his ...

Wolfgang Laib Wolfgang Laib (born 25 March 1950 in Metzingen, Germany) is a German artist, predominantly known as a sculptor. He lives and works in a small village in southern Germany, maintaining studios in New York City, New York and South India. His work has ...

* Jonathan Lasker * Jason Martin *

Jonathan Meese Jonathan Meese (born January 23, 1970 in Tokyo) is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's (often multi-media) works include paintings, collages, drawings and writing. He also d ...

* Ron Mueck (since 2020) * Jack Pierson *

Arnulf Rainer Arnulf Rainer (born 8 December 1929) is an Austrian painter noted for his abstract informal art. Rainer was born in Baden, Austria. During his early years, Rainer was influenced by Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the ''Hundsgruppe'' (''dog gro ...

* Tom Sachs * David Salle * Banks Violette * Lawrence Weiner * Erwin Wurm In addition to living artists, Thaddaeus Ropac also handles the estates of the following: * Joseph Beuys (since 2018) * Rosemarie Castoro (since 2019) * Donald Judd (since 2018)Claire Selvin (November 2, 2018)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Now Represents Judd Foundation in Europe
'' ARTnews''. *

Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-p ...

Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

(since 2015) * James Rosenquist (since 2017) * Sturtevant *

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

External links

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Thaddaeus Ropac, Dealer for Baselitz, Kiefer, Gilbert & George and Cragg (The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2011)Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris - EVENEGALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC , Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard
* ttp://www.artnet.com/gallery/909/galerie-thaddaeus-ropac.html Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Gallery homepage at artnet.combr>Erwin Wurm "Yes Biological" — Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac — Exposition — Slash Paris
* ttp://www.visit-salzburg.net/sights/galerie-thaddaeus-ropac.htm Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac : Fine Arts Gallery Salzburgbr>Salzburg's Tourist Information Centre on Thaddaeus RopacLe Figaro - Guide Arts / Expositions - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropacartalog.net- L'actualité des galeries d'Art - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

References

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