Sprüth Magers is a commercial art gallery owned by Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, with spaces in London, Berlin, Los Angeles and offices in Cologne, Hong Kong, New York and Seoul. The gallery represents over sixty artists and estates, including John Baldessari, George Condo, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, David Ostrowski, and Rosemarie Trockel. History In February 1983, Monika Sprüth opened her first gallery in Cologne with a focus on female artists. Emblematic of this perspective is Sprüth's publishing venture Eau de Cologne: an "effervescent, shape-shifting magazine, featuring almost exclusively women artists and art practitioners – which she published, with accompanying exhibitions, three times between 1985 and 1989". Combining theoretical discourse with visual practice, Eau de Cologne "gave artists such as Trockel, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Cindy Sherman, and Louise Lawler a European venue to pursue their own self-making and critical empowerment". The first two editions in 1985 and 1987 were edited solely by Sprüth and featured early work by Sherman and Kruger as cover art. While Sprüth's interest and belief in the influence of women was a notable aspect of her gallery, she also had an important role in developing the early careers of such artists as conceptualists Peter Fischli & David Weiss, photographers Andreas Gursky and Thomas Demand, and painters Andreas Schulze, George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, and Thomas Scheibitz. All of these artists are still represented by Sprüth and Magers more than thirty-five years later. It was also in Cologne that Philomene Magers opened her gallery in 1991, with a focus primarily on post-war figures including Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin, Ad Reinhardt, John Baldessari, Richard Artschwager, and Ed Ruscha. Sprüth and Magers cooperated for many years before their complementary programmes and shared interests led them to run the galleries together since 1998. As J.S. Marcus writes in an Art + Auction article from 2009, this convergence created "a powerhouse on the European art scene. Serving as a primary gallery for some of the world's most important artists – including the German photographers Andreas Gursky and Thomas Demand and the American artists Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer – Sprüth Magers symbolized Cologne's importance as an art center". In 2015 Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers were placed at number 13 in ArtReview's "Power 100" list of the 100 most influential people in the contemporary art world. The gallery constantly expands its roster