Sarah Miltenberger joins Galerie Eva Presenhuber as Sales Director & Artist Liaison

July 14, 2026

Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Miltenberger as Director Sales & Artist Liaison.

Miltenberger brings extensive experience across the international art market, with a career spanning both the gallery and auction sectors. After over a decade in senior roles at internationally renowned galleries Eigen + Art, carlier | gebauer, and König Galerie, she most recently held a leadership position for over 6 years at the leading international auction house Grisebach in Berlin.

Joining as Sales Director & Artist Liaison at Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich marks a return to the gallery sector, where she will support the gallery’s artists, strengthen relationships with collectors worldwide, and contribute to the gallery’s continued international development.

“My career has given me the opportunity to experience the art market from multiple perspectives. Working in both international galleries and the auction world has shaped not only my understanding of primary and secondary markets, but also of the long-term development of artists’ careers and collections. I have long admired Eva Presenhuber for her exceptional program and enduring commitment to her artists. I look forward to joining her gallery and contributing my experience while building lasting relationships with artists, collectors, and colleagues alike.” – Sarah Miltenberger

Mai 36 Galerie announces representation of Leon Xu

July 9, 2026

Mai 36 Galerie is pleased to announce the representation of Leon Xu (*1995, Zhongshan, China, lives and works in New York).

Leon Xu’s work explores the boundaries between memory, identity, and place. Drawing on his background as a Chinese-born immigrant in the United States, Xu creates paintings which engage with themes of cultural displacement, emotional residue, and the tension between visibility and obscurity.

Leon Xu’s paintings dwell on peripheral beauty - the overlooked moments that pass at the edge of attention: flowers from a corner bodega, sunlight on a windshield, a neon sign at night.

Rendered in soft palettes and layered textures, these scenes carry a cinematic quality, at once deeply personal and universally familiar. Xu’s practice resists rigid narrative. These are not scenes from one life, but moments anyone might recognize. His paintings ask to be felt rather than deciphered. Suspended between joy and melancholy, desire and loss, Xu’s work returns our attention to the present, to a beauty that so often goes unnoticed until it is nearly gone.

Leon Xu was born in 1995 in Zongshan, China, and raised in San Francisco. He studied Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania and Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has presented solo exhibitions at Helena Anrather (New York), Whaam! (New York), and Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich) as well as group shows with Olney Gleason (New York), Perrotin (New York), Karma (New York) and Setareh (London).

photo: Sirui Ma

Galerie Lelong now represents Magnus Plessen

July 8, 2026

Galerie Lelong is pleased to announce the representation of Magnus Plessen.

Born in Hamburg in 1967, Magnus Plessen lives and works in Berlin. A self-taught artist, he pursued photography and filmmaking before dedicating himself fully to painting in 1999.

Plessen’s multidisciplinary background continues to inform a distinctive painterly practice that explores the porous boundary between abstraction and figuration. Through fragmented representations, dynamic compositions, and an expressive use of paint, he creates works that challenge conventional notions of space and perception, resulting in images that are characterized by their materiality and emotional complexity.

Plessen’s work was presented at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). It has been exhibited in numerous international museum exhibitions and is held by major public institutions such as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Rose Art Museum (Waltham).

It is also included in prominent private collections including the De la Cruz Collection (Miami), the Fundación Amparo y Manuel (Mexico City), the Goetz Collection (Munich), the Rachofsky Collection (Dallas) and the Rubell Collection (Miami). Since 2019, he has been Professor of Painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe.

Magnus Plessen is also represented by Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich), Konrad Fischer Galerie (Düsseldorf, Berlin), Wentrup (Berlin), and White Cube (London, Paris, Honk-Kong, New York). His first solo exhibition with Galerie Lelong will open in Paris on October 19, 2026.

photo: © Kristin Krause

Almine Rech announces collaboration with Consejo Leonora Carrington

June 15, 2026

Almine Rech is honored to announce an exclusive collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington in France. The gallery will collaborate with rossogranada, the exclusive representative of the Consejo Leonora Carrington, whose mission is to preserve and promote the work of the internationally renowned artist.

The gallery will debut bronze sculptures by Carrington from 2010 at Art Basel, Switzerland, this June. This inaugural presentation will be followed by a solo exhibition of the artist's work at Almine Rech Paris, Turenne, in September. Organized in collaboration with the Consejo Leonora Carrington and rossogranada, the exhibition will bring together the wide range of mediums Carrington explored throughout her career, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, tapestry, and writings.

"Our program recognizes the importance of women artists, and Leonora Carrington emerged as a natural choice. Although she occupies a leading position within the Surrealist movement, her work has only recently received the recognition it deserves. I am particularly drawn to Carrington’s extraordinary talent as both a painter and a sculptor, as well as to her audacity and courage. She worked freely between mediums throughout her life, from paper and canvas to tapestry, poetry, ceramics, wood, and bronze.

Surrealism, which emerged alongside the development of psychoanalysis, first found expression in literature and the visual arts in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. Yet much older works can be connected to it, and its influence continues to extend into the present and future, making it timeless. The first feminist movements also emerged in Europe and the United States during the same period; however, as Leonora Carrington often suggested, there was still a long way to go. Carrington famously rejected the role often imposed upon women in the arts, declaring, "I didn't have time to be anyone's muse. I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist." (1)

During the last 17 years of her life, Carrington turned masterfully to bronze, creating molds that were cast into sculptures, masks, and figures she had depicted throughout her life in her paintings and drawings—notably creatures inspired by Greek mythology, Celtic art, and fairy tales… La Hija del Minotauro is a magnificent example. Created in bronze in 2010, it originated from the painting And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur, from 1953, now in the collection of the MoMA."

- Almine Rech

(1) Leonora Carrington in Juliette Pozzo, Leonora Carrington, Carnet d'exposition, Coédition Découvertes Gallimard / GrandPalaisRmnÉditions, 2026

photo: © Photoshot / TopFoto

Almine Rech now represents Keita Morimoto in New York and Paris

June 4, 2026

Almine Rech is pleased to announce the representation of Keita Morimoto in New York and Paris, alongside a series of recent institutional acquisitions of the artist’s work.

Following his inaugural solo exhibition with Almine Rech New York in 2025, Morimoto’s work will be presented by the gallery at Art Basel in Switzerland this June, ahead of a solo exhibition at Almine Rech Paris in 2027.

"I have long been intrigued by the scenes depicted in Keita’s paintings, which are invariably set at night. Illuminated by the glow of the contemporary city, his figures belong to a generation born in the 1990s. They are part of an urban youth that discovers a sense of freedom after dark. Light has been a central subject for several artists from earlier generations represented by the gallery, and Keita brings a singular vision to it, one deeply rooted in the realities of the present day and conveyed through an exceptional command of painting."
— Almine Rech

Keita Morimoto (born 1990, Osaka, Japan) engages deeply with the techniques and themes of Baroque lighting, early 20th-century American Realism, and pre-modern Genre Painting. By referencing these historical movements, he reimagines contemporary urban life, transforming ordinary streets into extraordinary narratives. Through the symbolic use of light, he merges its sacred and natural connotations with the stark realities of consumerism and industrial culture, creating works that resonate with both historical depth and modern complexity.

photo: Haruta

David Zwirner now represents the Robert Therrien Estate

May 6, 2026

David Zwirner has announced exclusive global representation of the Robert Therrien Estate. Therrien’s work was recently celebrated in the largest museum exhibition of his work to date at The Broad in Los Angeles (22 November 2025 - 5 April 2026). The exhibition featured more than one hundred and twenty works spanning five decades.

Robert Therrien worked across a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, photography, drawing, and installation. Over the course of five decades, he developed an array of motifs based on memory, distinguishing his carefully constructed imagery through a deeply imaginative sensibility, at once familiar and out of reach, allowing for multivalent, open-ended narratives to unfold. The artist submitted everyday objects and forms to a process of abstraction before bringing them back into focus in a new way, or—as in later works—enlarged objects such as tables, chairs, and stacked plates to an uncanny scale. Therrien emerged in Los Angeles in the 1970s, part of a generation of artists who were countering the detachment of the minimal and conceptual works coming out of New York with an accessible, distinctly West Coast vernacular.

Robert Therrien (1947–2019) was born in Chicago. He studied photography and printmaking at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara before earning a graduate degree at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1974. The artist remained in Los Angeles for the next forty-five years as an active member of the Southern California art scene.

photo: Leo Holub

George Herms (1935-2026)

May 5, 2026

L.A. Louver has announced the death of artist George Herms, who passed away last week at the age of 90.

Born in Woodland, CA in 1935, Herms moved to Los Angeles in 1955 when he was twenty years old. He took up residence in Topanga Canyon and soon fell in with the community of Beat poets, artists, and musicians, including Wallace Berman, Bob Alexander and others. These artists would become among Herms’s closest friends and collaborators.

In the late 1950s, Herms began his life-long devotion to assemblage. Poet Michael McClure later described Herms as “someone who is near saintly in his care for the objects that are put together.” The materials selected by Herms were almost always used and worn, embedded with the evidence of age and the patina of personal or shared histories. Through the combination of these remnants, Herms created objects representative of treasured moments, places, people or events, including The Alcove of Beginnings (1979, LACMA), The Berman Peace (1986, Walker Art Center), and The Librarian (1960, Norton-Simon Museum).

George Herms was one of the first artists to exhibit at L.A. Louver, with the solo exhibition George Herms: Works of Assemblage (1976). Over the years, he presented five solo exhibitions and took part in numerous group shows at the gallery. Additionally, in June 1992, coinciding with the exhibition Poem Makers: Wallace Berman, George Herms, and Jess, L.A. Louver published the facsimile edition of Wallace Berman’s Semina journal. George Herms—who aided Wallace and Shirley Berman with the original publication of the journal—oversaw each part of the facsimile printing process to ensure highest quality and veracity to the original journals.

Throughout his nine decades, George Herms worked across sculpture, paintings, prints, installation, and performance. He had notable retrospectives at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (1979) and The Santa Monica Museum of Art (2005, curated by Walter Hopps). He was awarded three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (1968, 1977, 1984); the Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture (1983-84); and the prestigious Prix de Rome Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (1982-83). His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Menil Collection (Houston, TX); the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, CA); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA).

photo: Sue Henger