of artists, more recently with younger artists such as Pamela Rosenkranz, David Ostrowski, Kaari Upson and Cao Fei, as well as the estates of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Craig Kauffman, Otto Piene and Hanne Darboven. The intention of the gallery is to show the artists who have a long-term cultural significance. Therefore, KRAFTWERK was included in the gallery program, with their importance for music history and visual understanding. Following their initial merger, Sprüth Magers expanded further with a gallery space in Munich and a London gallery in 2003, located on Berkeley Street in Mayfair first and on Grafton Street since 2007. The latest expansion of Sprüth Magers is an office in Seoul. Locations Sprüth Magers has galleries in Berlin, Los Angeles and London as well as offices in Cologne, Hong Kong, and Seoul. In 2007, Sprüth Magers London moved to a new Mayfair location on Grafton Street where it remains. The gallery was named by a 2008 Evening Standard article as one of the "London Galleries to Watch". As author Ben Lewis describes, "With its 19th century carved wood and glass façade, Sprüth Magers gets my vote for the most beautiful gallery in London. This, the London outpost of Germany's leading blue-chip contemporary art gallery, has only been open in its present form for a year, and brings the rigour of German taste in international conceptual artists, photographers and new generation painters to London". Central among the gallery's locations is the Berlin space, which opened in October 2008 and is located in the heart of the Mitte district a block away from, "the city's premier non-commercial venue for emerging artists". Drawn to Berlin by its lively artistic discourse, multiculturalism and geographical location at the heart of Europe, Sprüth Magers' relocation is both a sign of and a contributing factor to Berlin's ascent as a site of "art-world significance often compared to New York's in the '70s". For, as Axel Lapp states in an article from Art Review, Sprüth Magers Berlin is "not so much a gallery as a museum space in a former dancehall on Oranienburger Strasse". Its inaugural show "sculptures by the local Dresden-born artist Thomas Scheibitz, known for his colorful assemblages" and an exhibition by American artist George Condo. In 2016, Sprüth Magers opened a U.S. location in Los Angeles with new work by American Conceptual artist John Baldesssari, a 14,000-square-foot, two-storey space designed by West Coast architects