Galerie Judin

About the Gallery
Galerie Judin was established in 2003 in Zurich, the hometown of Juerg Judin. In 2008, it relocated to the rougher but artistically much more vibrant Berlin and took on the former printing facility of the Tagesspiegel in Potsdamer Straße in 2011 – at the time, a daring move. The neighborhood has since evolved into the undisputed heart of Berlin's art scene, just a stone's throw from the Neue Nationalgalerie and the future “Berlin Modern”. The nine-meter-high, daylight-flooded halls are considered one of the most beautiful exhibition venues in the city. In 2007, the gallery acquired an abandoned 1950s gas station, which it restored and expanded with great care, and which became a crucial part of its social DNA. From 2022 to 2024, it served as the home for a temporary museum dedicated to George Grosz, the great Berlin artist, receiving much international praise. Since 2015, Juerg Judin shares the responsibility for the gallery's artistic and commercial advancement with art historian Pay Matthis Karstens, who in 2024 became co-owner. From the start, the two partners bonded over a shared passion for books and art historical curiosity. This has led to them taking on the responsibility for three catalogues raisonnés and the management of two estates. In May 2025, Galerie Judin and New York's Pace Gallery jointly opened an exhibition space in the converted gas station and its garden, in which they will take turns presenting artists from their respective programs.

About the Presentation
Galerie Judin will present work by Ian Davis in a solo presentation at Independent. In highly narrative, darkly humorous and downright surreal settings, Davis chronicles moments of human gatherings, often immediately before or after an event, usually a disaster of sorts. The presentation will include one of the artist's largest paintings to date: a monumental, post-apocalyptic mining landscape. This recurring theme in Davis’s practice depicts men engaged in seemingly nonsensical pursuits, subtly alluding to the overexploitation of natural resources. The artist was included in the first part of the 18th Istanbul Biennial titled The Three-Legged Cat (2025).