The Breuer Building. Photo by Stefan Ruiz
The fair's first edition at Sotheby’s landmark Madison Avenue home will feature an expanded roster of international galleries
This September's edition of Independent 20th Century will bring exhibitors and collectors together at Sotheby’s Breuer Building on Madison Avenue, marking the first such collaboration between a commercial art fair and a major auction house. The new venue will allow the fair to host more than double the number of exhibitors from last year.
Moving from Casa Cipriani in the Financial District, where the fair has been staged since the inaugural edition in 2022, to the Modernist landmark on the Upper East Side will allow the event to grow significantly. This year, 56 exhibitors will take part, a 75% increase compared to previous years, when the number of stands never exceeded more than 32 galleries.
Of those exhibitors, 33 are new to the fair, including an influx of international blue-chip dealers like Hauser & Wirth, which will present a stand dedicated to the Swiss artist and healer Emma Kunz; Thaddaeus Ropac, which will show work by the German artistic polymath Oskar Schlemmer; Sprüth Magers, which will show 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. Other first-time participants include Esther Schipper, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Berry Campbell, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Gallery Wendi Norris and Olney Gleason.
– Carlie Porterfield, The Artnewspaper
June 10, 2026