Carlos Jacanamijoy, Auca hijo del viento, 2024, Painting, 170 × 140 cm

Courtesy: Almine Rech and Carlos Jacanamijoy

Almine Rech opened her first gallery with an associate in the Marais in Paris in November 1989, presenting an exhibition centered on a James Turrell’s ‘Space Division’ light piece. Since 1995, Almine Rech has continuously served as the sole director of the gallery.

In addition to long-standing relationships with artists such as Joseph Kosuth, James Turrell, and De Wain Valentine, Almine Rech works with young artists such as Farah Atassi, Oliver Beer, Genieve Figgis, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, George Rouy, Emma Stern, Claire Tabouret, Genesis Tramaine, Amanda Wall and Chloe Wise to name a few, alongside established artists and Estates, such as Karel Appel, Alexander Calder, Ha Chong-Hyun, Günther Förg, Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Antoni Tàpies, Mai-Thu, Richard Prince and Tom Wesselmann.

In addition to its plethora of internationally recognised, mid-career and emerging artists, it has always been Almine Rech’s mission to continually seek out and include new artists in its program, opening especially to painters. In April 1997, the gallery relocated to a larger space in the 13th arrondissement in Paris and first presented a solo show by John McCracken, followed by James Turrell’s ‘‘Wedgework Milkrun III’, which is now part of the Aarhus Museum Collection.

Throughout the years, Almine Rech has expanded its spaces throughout Europe, United Kingdom, United States and Asia. The relocation of the initial gallery in Paris to the Marais opened in 2006 with a group exhibition curated by French fashion designer and photographer Hedi Slimane. In the subsequent years new gallery spaces opened in Brussels, London, New York, and Shanghai. The inaugural exhibition in New York showcased works ofAlexander Calder and Pablo Picasso. A second space opened in Paris on Avenue Matignon (with a further expansion of the space in 2022), as well as two venues in Gstaad and the Principality of Monaco in 2023 and a second New York gallery in Tribeca, due to open in the third quarter of 2023.