TEFAF Maastricht 2026

Opening hours

11 am - 7 pm
 

Early Access

Thursday, March 12, 2026
Friday, March 13, 2026
 

Public Days

Saturday, March 14 - Thursday, March 19, 2026

On the occasion of TEFAF Maastricht 2026, Galerie Karsten Greve presents a landmark selection from its historically grounded yet contemporarily expanded artistic repertoire. At its core are artists who have shaped the gallery’s program since its earliest years, including Cy Twombly, Louise Bourgeois, and John Chamberlain. Twombly’s poetic visual language, hovering between script and gesture, Bourgeois’ emotionally and existentially charged sculpture, and Chamberlain’s dynamic abstractions from industrial materials exemplify seminal contributions to the development of the international avant-garde. In dialogue with these positions are major representatives of Modernism and the European avant-garde: Lovis Corinth with his expressive late work, Louis Soutter and his singular pictorial universe bordering on Art Brut, and Wols as a pioneer of Art Informel. With Giorgio Morandi, whose contemplative still lifes articulate a distinctive visual language, Pierre Soulages, master of a painterly practice exploring light emerging from black, and David Smith, whose spray works on paper reveal a frequently overlooked facet of his sculptural oeuvre, the spectrum expands to encompass key positions of the 20th century. The works of Kathleen Jacobs and Georgia Russell extend the selection into a contemporary discourse. Through the precise cutting and layering of materials such as organza, Russell creates richly layered compositions. Jacobs translates nature into a poetic sensibility, transforming the structures of trees and traces of weather into a refined calligraphy of nature. In this way, the gallery’s programmatic approach is consistently advanced through a compelling dialogue between tradition and the present.