John Beasley Greene Egypt and Algeria

Robert Koch Gallery celebrates 40 year anniversary!

January 25, 2020

The Robert Koch Gallery’s 2019-2020 season celebrates our 40 year anniversary with exhibitions that reflect the breadth of work the gallery has exhibited and acquired during the gallery’s history. Our fall exhibition New Bauhaus in America commemorates the 100 year anniversary of the founding of the original Bauhaus school in Germany and is an example of our commitment to the avant-garde which emanated out of Europe. Italian futurism, the inceptive avant-garde movement included work by the Bragaglia brothers. The gallery currently has two exceptionally rare and significant Bragaglia photographs from 1911 and 1913 on loan to SFMOMA for their exhibition, Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes.

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New Bauhaus monograph

Robert Koch publishes New Bauhaus in America monograph

November 22, 2019

This small edition publication accompanies our current New Bauhaus in America exhibition, which is on view at the gallery through the end of November, 2019. The catalog features works included in the exhibition including works by György Kepes + László Moholy-Nagy, Arthur Siegel, M. Halberstadt, and Henry Holmes Smith with Introduction by Leland Rice.

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MIchael Wolf portrait

Gallery artist Michael Wolf passes away at age of 64

May 2, 2019

It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected death of our longtime friend and gallery artist Michael Wolf, recognized for his work on life in cities, who passed away last Thursday at the age of 64 in his home in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong.

The Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, was the first gallery to represent Michael Wolf, and did so exclusively for many years, presenting Wolf’s first exhibition of his breakthrough project Architecture of Density in 2005 and later the first gallery exhibition of Transparent City in 2008. Our gallery is honored to have mounted twelve exhibitions of his work.

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Armory Show 2019

Robert Koch Gallery selected by Artsy as one of the best booths at The Armory Show 2019

March 9, 2019

In the first half of the 20th century, Hungarian artists living in their country and as expats abroad redefined what photography and images could do. László Moholy-Nagy, arguably the best known of the group, produced striking photograms, a term that he coined. The last-known photogram by the influential Bauhaus instructor, made in 1946, is on view here (and on offer for $75,000). It’s a gorgeous, supremely modern work that seems to foretell complex grayscale experiments by contemporary artists like Avery K. Singer.

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Michael Wolf Bottrop-Ebel 76 exhibition opens at The Josef Albers Museum in Germany

February 22, 2019

Michael Wolf’s Bottrop-Ebel 76 exhibition opens at The Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop, Germany on February 24, 2019, and runs through May 19, 2019. The 1976 series focuses on life in a small coal mining village in the Ruhr District of Germany.

Chris Dorley-Brown The Corners

Gallery artist Chris Dorley-Brown’s The Corners honored with the 2018 British Book Design and Production Award

November 27, 2018

The Corners, the newest monograph by gallery artist Chris Dorley-Brown, has been honored with the 2018 British Book Design and Production Award in the Photography Book category. The Corners is published by Hoxton Mini Press, London, with design by Friederike Huber.

Brian Ulrich

Brian Ulrich’s work included in This Land exhibition at Pier 24 and featured in New York Times

September 7, 2018

This Land focuses on work made throughout the United States within the past decade. The photographers assembled here examine aspects of the country’s current social climate, from the mundane to the politicized. This Land will be on view through March 31, 2019 at Pier 24 located on San Francisco’s Embarcadero.

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Edward Burtynsky highly anticipated Anthropocene exhibition and monograph

August 30, 2018

This Fall the Robert Koch Gallery will exhibit Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s highly anticipated Anthropocene project, his seventh exhibition at the gallery since 1999. Five years in the making, Anthropocene presents powerful and poignant works by Burtynsky mapping the impact of human intervention on Planet Earth. Anthropocene will be exhibited concurrent to the release of the artist’s sixth Steidl monograph of the same title, and his film collaboration with filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier; in conjunction with two museum exhibitions, one at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the other at the National Gallery of Canada.

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Karine Laval Poolscapes

Steidl releases Karine Laval Poolscapes monograph

August 30, 2018

Poolscapes brings together two bodies of work―The Pool (2002–2005) and Poolscapes (2009–2012)―by French-born, Brooklyn-based photographer Karine Laval, both focusing on the motif of the swimming pool. Presenting public pools in urban and natural environments throughout Europe and private pools in the US in two distinct sections, the book is arranged chronologically and shows an evolution in tone and depth, from the photographic to the painterly.

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Michael Eastman Buenos Aires

Now representing Michael Eastman

August 30, 2018

Robert Koch is pleased to announce representation of Michael Eastman. Eastman has spent five decades documenting interiors and facades in cities as diverse as Havana, Paris, Rome, and New Orleans, producing photographs unified by their visual precision, monumentality, and painterly use of color.

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Tamas Dezso Notes for an Epilogue

Tamas Dezso acquired by the George Eastman Museum

August 30, 2018

The gallery is proud to announce that the George Eastman Museum has acquired a print of The Flooded Village of Geamana (Geamana, Central Romania), 2011 by Hungarian gallery artist Tamas Dezso with the generous assistance of a gallery client and donor.

Tamas Dezso’s work has been exhibited worldwide, including the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art; FOAM Photo Museum, Amsterdam; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia; and the Helsinki Photography Biennial, Helsinki, Finland. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde magazine and Harpers magazine, and many other publications. Tamas Dezso was nominated for the 2012 Prix Pictet award. Dezso’s monograph, Notes for an Epilogue was published by Hatje Cantz in 2015.

Lauren Greenfield Generation Wealth

Lauren Greenfield Generation Wealth featured in New York Times

August 30, 2018

Lauren Greenfield was recently featured in The New York Times for her new film and monograph Generation Wealth, a multi-media retrospective exhibition spanning 25-years of the artist’s career which includes exhibitions at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles; The International Center of Photography, New York; and the Fotomuseum Den Haag, Netherlands. The exhibitions are accompanied by a 500-page monograph published by Phaidon, along with a feature award winning documentary film shown at Sundance this year.

Trent Davis Bailey

Trent Davis Bailey featured in California Sunday Magazine

January 31, 2018

California Magazine’s story A Kingdom from Dust  featured photographs by gallery artist Trent Davis Bailey.

Bailey received his MFA at the California College of the Arts, and received his BFA in Photography and BA in Art History from the University of Colorado at Boulder. The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago recently awarded Trent Davis Bailey the 2015 Snider Prize.

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Alex Webb La Calle Errand and Epiphany

Alex Webb: La Calle featured in the New York Times, New Yorker and Wallpaper

September 2, 2017

Alex Webb: La Calle is currently on view at the gallery through February 25, 2017 and has recently been featured by: The New York Times, The New Yorker and Wallpaper Magazine.

The accompanying monograph Alex Webb: La Calle, Photographs from Mexico, which was co-published by Aperture and Televisa Foundation, is available signed through the gallery.

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MIchael Wolf installation view

Michael Wolf Life in Cities retrospective opens at the Rencontres d’Arles

June 16, 2017

We are pleased to announce that gallery artist Michael Wolf’s traveling retrospective Life in Cities opens at the Rencontres d’Arles on July 3rd, 2017, and will be on view through August 27, 2017. The exhibition will travel to international institutions and is accompanied with a monograph of the same title.

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Michael Wolf Transparent City

Photofairs San Francisco 2017

January 27, 2017

Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to be participating in the inaugural edition of PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco, the new boutique fair presenting cutting edge, contemporary photography on a global scale where international galleries from 14 countries will present works for sale in a highly curated environment.

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Josh Begley Best of Luck with the Wall

Josh Begley: Artist’s film premieres in San Francisco

January 25, 2017

Gallery artist Josh Begley’s short film Best of Luck With the Wall premiered at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco on November 5th, 2016. The film was executive produced by the Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras, and is made from 200,000 satellite images downloaded from Google Maps. You can view the film here.

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Rachelle Bussières abstract art lumen print

Rachelle Bussières selected for Banff Center of the Arts Residency

January 25, 2017

Gallery artist Rachelle Bussièreswas selected for a 2017 residency at the Banff Center from March 6 to March 31, 2017. She is also the recipient of the 2015 Graduate Fellowship Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, California. Robert Koch Gallery exhibited Strata, her ignaural solo gallery exhibition in July of 2016.

Ljbubodrag Andric Visible Cities

Ljubodrag Andric: new monograph release + exhibition at the Triennale di Milano

January 25, 2017

Ljubodrag Andric: Works 2008-2016 will be on view through September 23, 2017 at the Triennale di Milano. Ljubodrag Andric: Consonanze was exhibited at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice in the later part of 2016.

The monograph Ljubodrag Andric: Works 2008-2016 was published this year by Skira and features a selection of over 100 photographs, featuring Andric’s distinctive painterly vision of architectural sites and facades.

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Steve Fitch Motels

Steve Fitch new monograph release + exhibition at Multimedia Art Museum Moscow

January 25, 2017

Steve Fitch: American Motel Signs 1980-2008 has recently been released by The Velvet Cell, London England in a limited edition of 500. Photographed over 28 years, American Motel Signs is a unique insight into one of the most fascinating aspects of American roadside culture.

Steve Fitch’s exhibition Western Landmarks was on view at the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow April 15 through June 16th, 2016. Steve Fitch traveled to Moscow in April for the opening and lectured at the museum.