About Anna Kustera Gallery

Anna Kustera, a born-and-bred New Yorker whose eponymous contemporary art gallery is located in the heart of Chelsea, operates with a clear manifesto based on her three decades-worth of experience in the art, music and media worlds. Kustera rejects the notion of merely showing artists randomly in a space. Instead, she views her gallery as a brand whose mission is to explore the nexus between art, music, retail, and the zeitgeist through exhibitions that challenge and sometimes transgress the gallery-as-white-cube concept. She has turned her space into a black-market pop-up store; a club; even a karaoke lounge--all the while deploying serious and reknowned contemporary artists to create these environments in an effort to restore a New York, rock-and-roll edge to an increasingly gentrified and commodified art scene.