The Pace CEO (and, until he formed in December a ‘round table’ of the six most senior directors to lead the business, president too) has long been a forthright press presence. Marking the announcement of a new Tokyo gallery, opening in 2024 in the city’s new ‘modern urban village’ Azabudai Hills, Glimcher admitted this Asian expansion makes up for the loss of their Beijing gallery in 2019 and the unpopularity of the Hong Kong space with artists. ‘Life’s too short to go somewhere and make all this investment and huge effort and then the next day someone says, “The rules just changed”. Japan and Korea, the rules do not change,’ he told Japan Times. Pace will newly represent Lawrence Weiner’s estate in Asia, as well as those of Yoo Youngkuk (in tandem with PKM Gallery), John Wesley, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen internationally. The very-much-alive Grada Kilomba (who has just cocurated the Bienal de São Paulo), Pam Evelyn (Pace’s youngest artist) and Alicja Kwade also joined. Pace opened an office in Berlin too, the gallery’s first presence in the EU post-Brexit.
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