New York’s Salon 94, a contemporary art gallery founded by Jeanne Greenberg Rohaytn in 2003, will open a branch in Paris, Artnews reports. The new space, occupying a compact 323 square feet at 30 Galerie de Montpensier across from the Jardin du Palais Royal, will open on October 18 with an exhibition of work by mixed-media collage artist Deborah Roberts.
The opening of the new gallery comes after a period of research on the part of Salon 94, which has mounted several exhibitions near the Palais Royal in the past few years.
“Paris has been wonderful,” Greenberg Rohatyn told Artnews. “They came, they looked very carefully, they bought. So, the test worked for us.”
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Greenberg Rohatyn noted that the gallery’s “intimate” Paris digs, which are visible from the street, were a throwback to Salon 94’s days on Manhattan’s Bowery some fifteen years ago. The gallery’s New York flagship has been located on the Upper East Side since 2014, in a set of historic buildings that together comprising some 17,500 square feet, and that formerly housed the National Academy Museum.
The Paris gallery’s small size will allow for flexibility, said Greenberg Rohatyn, noting that it could take up to two years to plan and mount an exhibition at the New York gallery. “We wanted to have an exhibition space that allowed us and the artists to react quickly—and it could almost function like a teaser for New York for a larger show later,” she said.
Among the artists Salon 94 currently represents are sculptors Leilah Babirye and Raven Halfmoon, photographer and performance artist Lyle Ashton Harris, painter Deborah Kass, and painter and photographer Deborah Minter. Programming for the Paris branch beyond the Roberts show has not yet been revealed, but, according to Greenberg Rohatyn, at least one of the gallery’s artists has already inquired about exhibiting there.