This September’s version of Unbiased twentieth Century will convey exhibitors and collectors collectively at Sotheby’s Breuer Constructing on Madison Avenue, marking the primary such collaboration between a business artwork honest and a significant public sale home. The brand new venue will enable the honest to host greater than double the variety of exhibitors from final yr.
The Breuer Constructing, which opened in 1966 and was designed by the Modernist architect Marcel Breuer, was constructed to accommodate the Whitney Museum of American Artwork. After that establishment relocated to the Meatpacking District in 2015, the constructing housed a short lived outpost of the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork and, subsequently, offered exhibition house for the Frick Assortment whereas that museum’s Gilded-Age residence underwent a five-year renovation. In 2023, Sotheby’s introduced it could purchase the storied constructing for a reported $100m.
“Unbiased twentieth Century on the Breuer demonstrates the present’s distinctive means to convey an artist’s imaginative and prescient from the fashionable period to life in a historic architectural and partnership setting—leading to a brand new cultural dialog that breaks with aesthetic and market norms,” Elizabeth Dee, Unbiased’s founder, mentioned in an announcement.
Joel Sternfeld’s New York Metropolis (#1) (1976) Courtesy of Rodder and Unbiased
A press launch asserting the exhibitors on the upcoming honest describes the partnership between Unbiased and Sotheby’s as motivated by a shared want to foster connections between galleries, collectors and the higher public, by combining the honest’s curatorial chops with Sotheby’s information and platform.
“Sotheby’s is delighted to collaborate with Unbiased to push past the standard boundaries of the artwork world in ways in which have interaction collectors, gallerists and artwork lovers alike,” Charles Stewart, Sotheby’s chief govt, mentioned in an announcement.
Shifting from Casa Cipriani within the Monetary District, the place the honest has been staged because the inaugural version in 2022, to the Modernist landmark on the Higher East Facet will enable the occasion to develop considerably. This yr, 56 exhibitors will participate, a 75% enhance in comparison with earlier years, when the variety of stands by no means exceeded greater than 32 galleries.
Of these exhibitors, 33 are new to the honest, together with an inflow of worldwide blue-chip sellers like Hauser & Wirth, which can current a stand devoted to the Swiss artist and healer Emma Kunz; Thaddaeus Ropac, which can present work by the German creative polymath Oskar Schlemmer; Sprüth Magers, which can present works by Jenny Holzer and Marian Goodman, devoting its presentation to banners from the limited-edition fabric-based studio The Betsy Ross Flag and Banner Co and Multiples Inc. Different first-time members embrace Esther Schipper, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Berry Campbell, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Gallery Wendi Norris and Olney Gleason.
Set up view of the 1971 Andy Warhol exhibit on the Breuer when it was residence to the Whitney Museum of American Artwork. Photograph by Geoffrey Clements, Art work © 2026 The Andy Warhol Basis for the Visible Arts, Inc.
This yr’s honest can even characteristic a stronger presence of Latin American galleries. Exhibitors Galatea, Gomide&Co and Nara Roesler all have areas in São Paulo, whereas Instituto de Visión and Leon Tovar Gallery have been each based in Bogotá.
Returning galleries embrace Luxembourg + Co, Nahmad Up to date, Salon 94, Richard Saltoun, Hollis Taggart, Weinstein Gallery and James Fuentes. Individuals who took half in 2025 however won’t return for the 2026 version embrace Sea View from Los Angeles, Cristin Tierney Gallery from New York and Tureen from Dallas.
True to Unbiased twentieth Century’s popularity for curatorial ambition and rigour, round 80% of stands at September’s honest will characteristic a solo or dual-artist presentation. This targeted method the honest’s devotion to neglected artists and underappreciated our bodies of works by well-known artists from the earlier century; its sister honest Unbiased, held within the spring, focuses on modern artwork.
Together with the brand new location, Unbiased twentieth Century’s dates can even shift again by three weeks, happening from 24 September to 27 September. The brand new dates line up with different expos within the metropolis, together with The Armory Present and Spring Break.
