Grimm gallery is expanding with a new headquarters in Amsterdam and launching an artist residency at Château Val Croissant in Provence, France. The Amsterdam space, a larger ground-floor canal house in the city center, will open in September with a show by Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet. Founder Jorg Grimm also recently expanded his London gallery to a Victorian storefront in St. James and maintains spaces in New York. The residency, inspired by the Santa Maddalena Foundation, will offer a home-away-from-home for artists, writers, and curators, with families welcome.
This expansion matters because it defies a broader trend of gallery closures and market contraction, with Tiwani Contemporary, Templon, and Pace among those recently cutting back. Grimm's deliberate, artist-centric growth strategy—opening galleries where his artists live rather than chasing collectors—positions the gallery as a model for sustainable practice in a tightening market. The residency further deepens artist relationships and could attract emerging talent, reinforcing Amsterdam's role as a viable art hub with strong postgraduate academies and collector base.