PARIS.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko announced the opening of a project space in Paris. This marks the first international expansion of Andréhn-Schiptjenko outside of Sweden and the space will serve to expand the gallery’s international scope and to accommodate collaborations and multidisciplinary projects.

The Project Space will be located at 10, rue Sainte-Anastase in the Marais district. Paris has an exceptional historical importance for the arts, and its relevance as a hub for the international contemporary art community is continuously evolving and growing.

The inaugural exhibition will be Origin of the World by British artist Linder, opening on May 24. Linder is well known to the French audience by virtue of her solo-exhibition Linder: Femme/Objet at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris in 2013.

Linder will be followed by Brad Kahlhamer (US) and Elisabeth Frieberg (SE) later in the year.

The gallery also announced that Andréhn-Schiptjenko has been invited to do a series of exhibitions at the Institut suédois in Paris. The series will start in October 2019 with a solo-exhibition by Santiago Mostyn, followed by Theresa Traore Dahlberg and Annika Larsson.

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The founding of Andréhn-Schiptjenko in 1991 marked the start of a new generation of galleries in Scandinavia. Andréhn-Schiptjenko has consistently been committed to working on an international arena and to the long-term representation of emerging and established contemporary international artists from all over the world working with painting, sculpture, photography and video, as well as installation-based and site-specific work.

The gallery has organized and curated exhibitions that have become seminal in the Nordic context, successfully launching the careers of Scandinavian artists such as Gunnel Wåhlstrand, Per B Sundberg, Matts Leiderstam and Cajsa von Zeipel, and giving artists such as Uta Barth, José León Cerrillo, Ridley Howard, Tony Matelli, Nandipha Mntambo and Xavier Veilhan their first European or Scandinavian one-person exhibition. In recent years the gallery programme has expanded to exhibiting work by deceased artists Francesca Woodman and Siri Derkert, successfully renewing critical and public interest in their work.

Having established itself as one of the leading galleries in Scandinavia the gallery enjoys privileged relationships with museums and collectors. The gallery recently moved to a new space in the centre of Stockholm and as way of expanding the gallery’s international scope and to accommodate for collaborative and multidisciplinary projects the gallery now opens a project space in Paris.

Andréhn-Schiptjenko has for more than two decades participated in international art fairs – Art Basel, Independent New York and Brussels, CHART Copenhagen, Material Art Fair Mexico City and most recently FIAC Paris. It is owned and directed by Ciléne Andréhn and Marina Schiptjenko, who are both active in the art world beyond their own gallery, as selection committee-members of art fairs and board members of institutions and the Swedish National Gallery Association.