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The Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac was founded in 1983[1] and has specialized in European and North American contemporary art. Today the gallery’s headquarters are housed in the Villa Kast on Salzburg’s Mirabellplatz. In 1990, a gallery featuring over 600m2 of exhibition space was opened in Paris. In April 2007, a new 200m2 drawings space was inaugurated above the existing gallery. The Paris gallery, located next to the Musée Picasso in the Marais district, now stretches over three floors. In March 2010, an exhibition of recent works by Imi Knoebel opened in the new 400m2 space, HALLE, which is situated in the northern district of Salzburg.
The gallery organizes extensive solo and group exhibitions, often accompanied by comprehensive publications, not only in its own premises, but also in collaboration with major international museums and other non-commercial art institutions. Between 2005 and 2011, in partnership with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Ropac asked Hedi Slimane, Robert Wilson, and Sofia Coppola to act as guest curators and to select a series of the foundation's images for three gallery shows.[2] The Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is present at all major contemporary art fairs including, the Armory Show in New York, the Art Basel fairs in both Basel and Miami, Frieze Art Fair in London and the FIAC in Paris.
The gallery also acts as a consultant to major museums and public institutions and as advisor for private and corporate collections. Among its clients are Frieder Burda, Reinhold Würth, Heinz Essl, François Pinault, Bernard Arnault, Antoine de Galbert, Jean-Marc Salomon, and Gloria von Thurn und Taxis.[3]