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New York, NY 10075
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Skarstedt was founded in 1994 by Per Skarstedt to present a program of museum-level exhibitions by contemporary European and American artists. Recognized for its critically acclaimed historical exhibitions, Skarstedt works closely with artists and estates to re-unite seminal bodies of work and offer focused surveys of pivotal moments in the history of twentieth-century art. Representing some of the most celebrated artists of their generations, Skarstedt also mounts ground-breaking exhibitions of new work, which continue to challenge the boundaries of contemporary identity.

Skarstedt is committed to supporting and advancing the legacy of leading international artists by showcasing their work across its gallery spaces in New York, London, and Paris. The gallery works with the following artists and artists’ estates: Francis Bacon, Cristina BanBan, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Chamberlain, George Condo, Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Günther Förg, Alberto Giacometti, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Chantal Joffe, Hans Josephsohn, KAWS, Mike Kelley, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Juan Muñoz, Albert Oehlen, Marco Pariani, Steven Parrino, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, David Salle, Thomas Schütte, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Andy Warhol, Rebecca Warren, Sue Williams, Christopher Wool, and The Estate Martin Kippenberger in collaboration with Galerie Gisela Capitain Cologne.

 

 
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Past Exhibitions

Chantal Joffe

Chantal Joffe: My dearest dust



May 8, 2024 - June 15, 2024
Skarstedt is pleased to announce Chantal Joffe: My dearest dust. The show will mark Joffe’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery, and her first solo show in New York since 2017. In My dearest dust, Joffe presents a group of large new paintings. Having painted herself and her daughter Esme for much of her career, these are mostly self-portraits. Something has shifted in these new paintings—there is a rawness and urgency, a frenzy of paint in a new palette of yellow and blue. As Olivia Laing says in her catalogue essay, Giallo: “For two decades, Chantal Joffe has painted herself and her daughter Esme, a dyad of two faces, two bodies in tight domestic proximity. But now a rupture has occurred, the inevitable dislocation that takes place in homes across the world. The child leaves, the mother stays behind. You wouldn’t file a missing person’s report, but there’s an absence all the same.” In these paintings Joffe is seen in the bath, in the kitchen, in bed, sometimes crumpled asleep or deep in thought. Esme is still present, and Richard, her partner, appears asleep in bed, almost lost in a yellow duvet, one big arm exposed. The homage to Philip Guston is acknowledged by the title, Richard in Bed (for P.G.). The sequence of self-portraits also references Guston’s famous bed paintings, which Joffe was inspired by seeing at Tate Modern last winter. The title My dearest dust was suggested to Joffe by Esme, a reference to all the loss the family have experienced and to the dustiness of their home. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with a text by Olivia Laing.

Eric Fischl

Hotel Stories



March 14, 2024 - May 4, 2024
Skarstedt is delighted to announce an exhibition of nine new paintings by Eric Fischl, which will be on view in the New York gallery from 14 March – 4 May 2024. The exhibition will mark the debut of his new series, titled Hotel Stories. Hotel rooms take on an array of meanings, associations, and possibilities for each of their inhabitants. For some, they feel personal and cozy, like a safe haven. For others, they’re simply a space to put their things. They can be sites of nefarious, taboo activity; a blank slate on which to place romantic ideals; or even spaces of extreme isolation and sadness. A wide range of events take place in these rooms that are not what the they supposedly promise, and Fischl explores each one of these potential outcomes in this new body of work, a perfectly fresh continuation of the ideas that have haunted his paintings for so many years.

Georg Baselitz, Georg Condo, Eric Fischl, Hans Josephsohn, KAWS, Richard Prince, David Salle, Christopher Wool

Baselitz, Condo, Fischl, Josephsohn, KAWS, Prince, Salle, Wool



February 2, 2024 - March 9, 2024

Eric Fischl

Eric Fischl: Towards the End of an Astonishing Beauty: An Elegy to Sag Harbor, and Thus America



September 14, 2022 - August 29, 2022
An exhibition on new paintings by Eric Fischl.

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon: Faces & Figures



May 4, 2022 - June 11, 2022