{"id":218538,"date":"2025-10-22T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218538\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:09:11","slug":"galerie-pia-francesca-announces-that-it-is-shuttering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218538\/","title":{"rendered":"Galerie Pia Francesca Announces That It is Shuttering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGalerie Francesca Pia, which was originally founded in the Swiss city of Bern in 1990 by the eponymous dealer, has announced that it is calling time at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery, a regular presence at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/art-basel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_art-basel\" data-tag=\"art-basel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Art Basel<\/a> (24 times), relocated to a larger space in Zurich in 2007 before moving to the city\u2019s L\u00f6wenbr\u00e4ukunst-Areal district in 2012 alongside Kunsthalle Z\u00fcrich, Migros Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwartskunst, and Hauser &amp; Wirth. In 2023, Galerie Francesca Pia set up shop in its current location on Limmatstrasse 270.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo mark the closing of our final exhibition with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/wade-guyton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wade-guyton\" data-tag=\"wade-guyton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wade Guyton<\/a>, we warmly invite you to a finissage ap\u00e9ro this Saturday, October 25 from 5 pm. The artist will be present!,\u201d the gallery posted on Tuesday, signing off: \u201cFrancesca Pia and the gallery team.\u201d Pia was among the first dealers to represent American artist Guyton.<\/p>\n<p>She grew up in the countryside outside Bern and has represented artists including Hans-Peter Feldmann, Josef Strau, and Mai-Thu Perret. Pia told Independent Magazine in 2020 that she never set out to start a gallery. \u201cI was asked by friends to do it,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd in a way, it was both euphoric and difficult in that moment. I had all these artists around that I liked but I knew that I couldn\u2019t show them all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dealer joins what is a growing list of prominent gallerists to call it quits this year. They include Tim Blum, Adam Lindemann, and Oliver Babin, while other operations are scaling back, such as Pace, Almine Rech, and Kasmin Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve gone through so many crises,\u201d Pia told Independent Magazine. \u201cBut as artists, we have to continue what we\u2019re doing. We\u2019ll always find new ideas.\u201d\u00a0 However, it looks like the gallery is finally out of ideas as the ongoing market downturn refuses to let up.<\/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\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ROBERT-NEWLAND_Portrait-Square-1080x1080-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Portrait of a smiling white man wearing glasses.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe gallery did not reply to a request for comment from ARTnews by time of publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galerie Francesca Pia, which was originally founded in the Swiss city of Bern in 1990 by the eponymous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[26602,6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55,93512],"class_list":{"0":"post-218538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-basel","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-wade-guyton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}