About Stefan Stux Gallery

Originally founded twenty-five years ago in 1980 by Stefan and Linda Stux, Stux Gallery first established its international profile in 1986 at its New York space on Spring Street in SoHo.  The gallery’s success was recognized early on, with enthusiastic reviews of its emerging artists in the national and international art press, receiving the New York Times’ year-end “Best of New York.”  In this early phase of the gallery, the program emphasized development and promotion of gifted young artists (including by now internationally famous artists Vik Muniz, Fabian Marcaccio, Andres Serrano, and Doug and Mike Starn, among others), whose work shared an interest in challenging the boundaries of genre and medium, often with a deeply conceptual bent, always with an aesthetically rewarding engagement with the material and formal presence of the work.

Moving to Chelsea early on in 1996, Stux Gallery continued this distinctive aesthetic program, introducing noteworthy artists such as Inka Essenhigh to the international art scene.  More recently, the gallery has begun to represent additional mid-career and senior artists, such as Dennis Oppenheim, one of the original founders of Land art, Julian Stanczak, one of the originators of Optical art, Orlan, a world-renowned French performance artist, and more recently Shimon Okshteyn, known for his monumental and meticulously executed graphite on canvas drawings and sculptures of ordinary objects.

This has been balanced with ongoing interest in discovering exciting young talent working in a variety of media.  In painting, this work ranges from Heide Trepanier’s graphically rendered, biomorphic drips, to Anna Jóelsdóttir’s disjunctively layered stripes, stenciled shapes, and ink smudges, to James Busby’s innovative, sculptural explorations in obsessively built-up layers of gesso and Kosyo’s oversized silicone macabre skulls, to Thordis Adelsteinsdóttir’s flattened, psychologically charged iconic representations and Nicola Verlato’s fantastic contemporary realism. The gallery’s historical connections to photography are underscored by Ruud van Empel’s uncanny, digitally manipulated images, Iké Udé’s post-Warholian, cross-culturally ironic productions, Manabu Yamanka’s stark black-and-white photographs of the elderly and infirm, and Markus Wetzel’s distinctive, digitally invented utopian seascapes, which are printed by photographic means.

The aesthetic vision that binds this broad array of artists together has more to do with their deep intelligence and commitment to innovation and conceptual art, than any particular formal characteristics.  The goal of the gallery is, ultimately, to present challenging work that rewards complex, multifaceted consideration by the viewer. The Gallery has fostered international relationships and collaborations over the years with an array of international galleries, such as Krinzinger Gallery (Vienna), Micheline Swajcer Gallery (Antwerp), Mayor Rowan Gallery (London), Seibu Gallery (Tokyo/Oasaka), Pilar Parra (Madrid), Jacob Karpio (Costa Rica) and many others.


Two years ago the Gallery yet again moved it’s location, this time to a newly refurbished, ground floor space on 25th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea, in a 4,000 sq. ft. space at the epicenter of New York’s gallery scene. The Stux Gallery exhibition program takes full advantage of this location, presenting the work of its artists in its prominent, expansive space. Within the last few years an ambitious video and film program has been introduced into the gallery.  We have exhibited approximately 30 different film and video artists during this period with a recent solo exhibition by Martha Colburn (USA), who was recently featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.  The Stux Gallery is pleased to be adding to the Gallery this year, as senior Gallery artists, Tracey Moffatt (USA/Australia) and Kuno Gonschior (Germany).