Max Hetzler

Galerie Max Hetzler is a global contemporary art gallery representing nearly sixty artists across six spaces in Berlin, Paris and London, with an exhibition space and artist residency in Marfa. Established in Stuttgart in 1974, in its early years the gallery championed the generation of influential German artists emerging at the time including Albert Oehlen, Günther Förg and Martin Kippenberger and their international counterparts Christopher Wool, Jeff Koons, Robert Gober and Cady Noland amongst others. Over several decades, Galerie Max Hetzler has expanded, having worked with nearly 175 artists and representing a strong core of leading international artists and supporting the legacy of several estates. The gallery’s programme is conceived as a fruitful dialogue between established artists and younger generations; representing a constantly evolving discourse.

Everything began in Stuttgart in 1974 when Max Hetzler opened the Hetzler + Keller gallery, inaugurating his programme with artists from the Rhineland and Stuttgart. The gallery moved frequently – simultaneously or successively occupying several premises. Soon, Hetzler began to bring European and then international artists to Stuttgart, among them Donald Judd and Richard Long, as well as Arte Povera.