Marian Goodman Gallery, the 57th Street stalwart that has taken the entire Grosvenor Building on Broadway and Walker, will open its new flagship on Oct. 26, the gallery partners announced.

The inaugural show will be a group exhibition “highlighting the intellectual and creative affinities that have defined the gallery’s program for over 40 years.” (The gallery opened in 1977, so 47 years to be precise.) There will be new commissions and installations as well as activations, performance and moving image presentations.

“With its flexibility of space and prominence of location in Tribeca, the new gallery enables our artists to continue to innovate and inspire, as we extend our program and engage an ever-broader public,” managing partner Rose Lord said in a press release.

Image courtesy of studioMDA

On view through December 21, 2024, the exhibition will include work by: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Giovanni Anselmo, Leonor Antunes, Nairy Baghramian, Lothar Baumgarten, Dara Birnbaum, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Boyd, Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, James Coleman, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Rineke Dijkstra, Cerith Wyn Evans, Andrea Fraser, Bernard Frize, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Cristina Iglesias, Amar Kanwar, An-My Lê, Steve McQueen, Julie Mehretu, Annette Messager, Delcy Morelos, Sabine Moritz, Maria Nordman, Gabriel Orozco, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Edi Rama, Anri Sala, Matt Saunders, Tino Sehgal, Paul Sietsema, Robert Smithson, Ettore Spalletti, Tavares Strachan, Thomas Struth, Niele Toroni, Adrián Villar Rojas, Danh Vo, James Welling, and Yang Fudong.

The building is five floors and 30,000 square feet, and was scheduled pre-pandemic to be Highcourt, a private club. Marian Goodman took the lease in February 2023, and the Tribeca design firm studioMDA, which has done the majority of galleries in the burgeoning Tribeca Gallery District, is renovating the space. (I toured it in fall 2019, when it was first under construction. It’s remarkable.) See Tom Miller’s history of the building here. 

Marian Goodman Gallery also opened a Los Angeles location last fall. Goodman herself is still the founding partner and CEO.

Just to give you a sense of the raw materials in there, these are my photos from 2019, when I toured the building for what was to be the social club Highcourt. Beautiful.