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Zwirner Expands the Mothership

With a new 19th Street space and growing office imprint on 20th, David Zwirner is expanding his claim on Chelsea and offering a glimpse of his global ambitions. Two new shows—the elusive, devastating Michael Armitage, and a group exhibition of ’90s phenoms—mark the occasion.

David Zwirner
Each new show is an opportunity for the sales force to initiate or extend conversations with collectors. In that sense, this isn’t Zwirner launching a new expansion so much as the gallery finally achieving the footprint it has both wanted and needed since before the pandemic. Photo: Christina Horsten/picture alliance/Getty Images
Marion Maneker
May 9, 2025

At the beginning of this marathon week for the art world, which already seems like a long time ago, I was leaving a press preview when I ran into an important art advisor—the kind of person nobody says no to—who mentioned having just seen the Michael Armitage show at David Zwirner’s new 19th Street gallery. Armitage has near-mythical status in the art market as a painter whose work is extremely hard to acquire. I asked the advisor how the show was. Really great, he replied, before adding with a look of rare despondency for an advisor with such clout: “I just hope I can get a painting. They want to place them all with museums first.”