Elga Wimmer
Artistic Director

In the late 1970s, my work in the fashion industry took me to Asia, which opened up the world of art to me. Visiting museums, galleries, temples, historic sites, I acquired an avid taste for other cultures. Once I arrived in New York in the late ‘80s, I soon became fully involved in the vibrant art scene, first by working with galleries and private dealers, and finally, in 1992, by opening my own gallery. My institutional activity began in 2004, when I became a guest curator at the Borusan Sanat museum in Istanbul, followed by several exhibitions created in collaboration with Berta Sichel, Head of the Video and Film Department of the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid. It was then that I developed what is still my preferred professional approach, mixing culturally diverse artists who have a common thread of expression. Now I am fully involved with curatorial projects and consulting with museums (chief curator Chelsea Art Museum 2004 – 2011), foundations, and private collections. Among my most notable international shows were “Double Vision,” PhotoEspana VI, Madrid, 2003 (Zhang Huan, Isaac Julien, Justine Kurland, et al.); “We Are the World,” Chelsea Art Museum, 2004, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, 2005 (Lee Mingwei, Mika Rottenberg, Olga Kisseleva, et al.); “Body and Soul: Performance Art Past and Present,” collateral show of the Venice Biennale, 2017, (Derrick Adams, VALIE EXPORT, ORLAN, Golden Lion recipient Carolee Scheemann, et al.).