Michael Werner Gallery is opening new spaces in Los Angeles and Athens in May, adding to its locations in Berlin, New York and London. The Los Angeles gallery will be in a former nail salon off Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and comes with a “beautiful courtyard garden”, says gallery co-owner Gordon VeneKlasen.
Courtney Treut, most recently at Sean Kelly in LA, has been hired as director, while programming for the courtyard will be organised by LA gallerist Hannah Hoffman.
The LA gallery opens with a pairing of 19th-century French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes with recent work by German painter Markus Lüpertz. As VeneKlasen says, “It’s an unusual show for LA”, where Puvis de Chavannes in particular is not that well known.
In Athens, the gallery opens with three exhibition rooms in an apartment near the Museum of Cycladic Art.
