Marian Goodman Gallery will open in Tribeca subsequent yr after spending almost 5 a long time in Midtown Manhattan, making it the newest of dozens of galleries to go downtown to the fashionable neighbourhood.
The gallery, which represents artists comparable to Nan Goldin and William Kentridge, introduced Thursday (23 February) that it’s going to take over the historic Grosvenor Constructing, a five-story former warehouse at 385 Broadway between White and Walker streets. A Marian Goodman spokesperson says the brand new house will characteristic 30,000 sq. ft over two flooring of open galleries, together with viewing rooms, places of work, storage, a library and an archive. The constructing will bear a renovation by StudioMDA previous to the transfer, and the gallery expects to open within the new location in mid-2023.
“We’ve lengthy thought of a doable transfer downtown,” gallery president Philipp Kaiser says in an announcement. “The chance to maneuver into this historic constructing in Tribeca, with its flexibility of house, its mild and engagement with lifetime of town, was a vital issue … in advancing the gallery’s international profile and presence.”
Marian Goodman Gallery will proceed operations out of its location at 57th Avenue till mid-2024, the gallery mentioned.
A rendering of the long run Marian Goodman Gallery constructing in Tribeca. StudioMDA
The announcement of Marian Goodman’s transfer downtown got here simply two days after longtime Chelsea gallery Alexander Grey Associates introduced it’s going to relocate to the identical Tribeca block, simply throughout the road. Alexander Grey Associates, which has spent 17 years in Chelsea, expects to maneuver into 384 Broadway by early subsequent yr after a renovation, additionally designed by StudioMDA.
Alexander Grey Associates was represented by Redwood Property Group’s Jonathan Travis, who has brokered offers for brand spanking new areas in Tribeca for a lot of different artwork galleries.
Marian Goodman Gallery and Alexander Grey Associates will probably be becoming a member of a handful of different galleries on that very same block of Broadway, together with Andrew Kreps, PPOW, JTT, HB381 and Tempo’s downtown outpost 125 Newbury. New York galleries have been flocking to Tribeca—brief for “Triangle Under Canal Avenue”—because the late 2010s, looking for inexpensive industrial areas. The pattern accelerated after the onset of Covid-19, as sellers took benefit of pandemic actual property offers.
Final yr, Timothy Taylor introduced it could transfer its New York outpost from Chelsea to Tribeca in 2023. Different Tribeca newcomers to Tribeca embody David Zwirner, The Gap and James Cohan.
One of many first galleries to maneuver into the realm from Chelsea, Postmasters, closed its Tribeca house final yr after shedding a authorized battle with its landlords over rental funds. The gallery had been situated in Tribeca since 2013 and now operates as a nomadic house.
