{"id":169522,"date":"2025-12-01T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169522\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:44:11","slug":"dealers-michael-werner-and-gordon-veneklasen-end-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169522\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealers Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen End Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMichael Werner, the founder of his eponymous gallery, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/gordon-veneklasen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gordon-veneklasen\" data-tag=\"gordon-veneklasen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon VeneKlasen<\/a>, a longtime partner of that gallery, will dissolve their partnership at the beginning of next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAfter 35 years of collaboration, Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen announce their separation as partners in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/michael-werner-gallery\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-werner-gallery\" data-tag=\"michael-werner-gallery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Werner Gallery<\/a>,\u201d Werner and VeneKlasen said in a joint statement to ARTnews. \u201cMichael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen will continue to collaborate on select artist projects, and museum exhibitions of the historical artists that Michael Werner represents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jar_Armory_090524_515.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees of the Armory Show's preview day shuffle around the booths in the Javits Center.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe two dealers will continue on in separate ventures. Werner will continue to operate Galerie Michael Werner in Berlin. VeneKlasen will launch an international gallery, to be called VeneKlasen; he will take over the gallery\u2019s current locations in New York, London, and Los Angeles. These changes will go into effect in February, and VeneKlasen will announce his program early next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWerner launched Werner &amp; Katz gallery in Berlin in 1963 before starting Galerie Michael Werner in Cologne in 1969. (The latter location closed in 2022.) VeneKlasen joined Michael Werner Gallery in 1990; the gallery\u2019s New York space opened that year. He became a partner in the enterprise in 2005, and he was the driving force behind the gallery\u2019s expansions to London in 2012 and LA in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMichael Werner Galley has long been known for its program of German painters, including Georg Baselitz, J\u00f6rg Immendorff, Markus L\u00fcpertz, A. R. Penck, and Sigmar Polke. The gallery also represents 20th-century artists like Marcel Broodthaers and James Lee Byars, as well as ones that are currently active, including Issy Wood, Sanya Kantarovsky, Raphaela Simon, and Florian Krewer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFor 23 years, Werner represented Peter Doig, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2023\/02\/15\/peter-doig-leaves-international-dealer-michael-werner-after-23-years\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">departed<\/a> the gallery in 2023. The two dealers did not announce which artists they will represent in their new ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Werner, the founder of his eponymous gallery, and Gordon VeneKlasen, a longtime partner of that gallery, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,93821,61,60,12583],"class_list":{"0":"post-169522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gordon-veneklasen","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-michael-werner-gallery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}