Thaddaeus Ropac

About Thaddaeus Ropac

Thaddaeus Ropac (1960) is an internationally renowned gallerist. He is the owner of the eponymous gallery in Salzburg and Paris.

During a visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Thaddaeus Ropac discovered his passion for art early on as a student. In the early 1980s, he completed an internship with Joseph Beuys and became acquainted in New York with then-emerging young artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

In 1983, at the age of 23, Thaddaeus Ropac founded his first gallery specializing in contemporary European and North American art in Salzburg. Seven years later, he opened another gallery under his name in Paris, near the Picasso Museum and the Centre Pompidou, which includes an exhibition space of 800 square meters and now spans four floors. In 2012, the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery adapted additional exhibition spaces of over 4700 square meters in an eight-part building complex in the Pantin district in the northeast of Paris to showcase monumental art.

The Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery represents a wide range of established internationally recognized artists, promotes a selection of young emerging artists, continuously organizes solo and group exhibitions with accompanying publications in collaboration with internationally active curators, and cooperates with international museums and art institutions. The gallery is represented at all leading international fairs for contemporary art in Europe, America, Asia, and the Arab world.

In his knowledgeable lectures, Thaddaeus Ropac entertainingly discusses general aspects of the international art market, contemporary art, art collecting, building corporate collections, and collaborations with museums. The British magazine Art Review named him one of the leading blue-chip gallerists in Europe in 2009. He lives in Salzburg, Paris, and New York.