Gerhardt Braun Gallery opened its Madrid location in 2022 at Claudio Coello 72, ten years after German gallery owner Gerhardt Braun opened his first gallery in Palma. The Madrid program features artists with whom he also works in Mallorca, as well as exhibitions conceived specifically for this location. It is currently presenting “Color Cosmos,” a solo exhibition by German sculptor Willi Siber featuring works made of wood, steel, and resins, finished with colored lacquers.
Gallery Profile
Gerhardt Braun opened his first gallery in Palma in late 2012. He moved to Mallorca from Cologne after working in fields related to art, design, fashion, and interior design. His first project in Palma was a concept store that brought together designer furniture, art, and fashion. Braun explained that the gallery project later emerged from that experience.
The first location was at 10 Sant Feliu Street, in the historic center of Palma. The building is a former palatial residence known as Ses Carasses, which was rebuilt in the early 17th century after being acquired by the Genoese jurist Joan Francesc Pavesi. It has four floors and several exhibition rooms. The Gerhardt Braun Gallery opened there with a solo exhibition by the Bulgarian artist Hristina Milanova.
The gallery subsequently moved into other locations in Sant Feliu. Currently, its website lists, in addition to the Art Palace at number 10, spaces at numbers 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, along with the Art Lab at Can Salas and a space on Frederic Chopin Square. Some of these locations serve as exhibition spaces, while others are used for specific projects.
Madrid opened ten years after the opening of the Palma location. The Gerhardt Braun Gallery inaugurated its space at Claudio Coello 72 on September 8, 2022, with *No Limits featuring Volar*by Leon Löwentraut. The German artist, born in Kaiserslautern in 1998, presented paintings, charcoal drawings, and sculptures alongside *Volar*, an installation developed with students from the Virtual Design program at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern. The exhibition remained open through February 2023.
Since then, Claudio Coello has served as the Madrid headquarters for a project whose activities continue to be centered in Mallorca as well. The same artists may be featured in different locations within the gallery, although exhibitions are curated specifically for each space.
Program
Why Go
Francesca Martí (Sóller, Mallorca, 1957) exhibited at the Madrid gallery from February through June 2026 with Resilience. Martí has been working for decades with painting, drawing, photography, video, and installation. In Madrid, she presented recent works alongside the video installation that gave the exhibition its title, created in collaboration with Rohan Marley. The project emerged after the two met in New York and addressed a shared life experience: Martí and Marley both lost their parents when they were nine years old. The performance that served as the basis for the video was filmed in Mallorca.
In June, the gallery replaced that solo exhibition with Echoes of Summer, a group exhibition that remained on view until early September. Among the participants was Maxim Wakultschik (Belarus, 1973), an artist trained at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Part of his work consists of small painted pieces assembled to form images that change depending on the viewer’s position. Wakultschik participated in the Madrid exhibition before presenting a solo show in Münster and attending The Armory Show in New York in September 2026.
Also participating was Leon Löwentraut (Kaiserslautern, 1998), the artist with whom Gerhardt Braun had opened the Madrid gallery four years earlier. Löwentraut works primarily with painting and has maintained a consistent presence in the gallery’s program since the opening on Claudio Coello Street. In Echoes of Summer , he exhibited again at the Madrid location following the solo exhibition that had opened the space in 2022.
What to Expect
Color Cosmos is currently on view at the Gerhardt Braun Gallery in Madrid. It is a solo exhibition by Willi Siber, a German artist born in 1949 who began his training by studying art history in Stuttgart and later studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in the same city. Since the late 1970s, he has been working from his studios in Eberhardzell-Dietenwengen and Reutlingen, in Baden-Württemberg.
Siber draws on materials typical of sculpture. Wood appears cut, assembled, and covered with layers of color; in other works, he uses steel, epoxy resins, or polyurethane. The surfaces may be finished with high-gloss lacquers. In some pieces, this treatment eliminates the material’s original appearance: a work constructed of wood may feature a continuous, polished surface in which neither the grain nor the joints are visible.
On the walls of Claudio Coello, there are reliefs composed of repeated elements and individual pieces constructed from curved shapes. Other works feature metal structures coated with lacquer. Color covers the surface of the objects, and the glossy finishes produce different reflections depending on the lighting and the angle from which they are viewed.
Siber has been using these procedures for years. Tafelobjekt, a 2016 work documented by Art Madrid, is made of metal, epoxy, and polyurethane and measures 116 by 104 centimeters. Wood covered with resins and lacquers also appears in earlier works. *Color Cosmos* brings together recent works within that body of work. The exhibition opened on September 10, coinciding with Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend 2026.
Represented Artists
What to Do Nearby
Just a few minutes from Claudio Coello is the Juan March Foundation, located at Castelló 77. The institution opened its Madrid headquarters in 1975 and maintains an exhibition program dedicated to modern and contemporary art, as well as concerts, lectures, and research activities. Its library houses specialized collections on contemporary Spanish art, music, and theater.
At 12 Jorge Juan Street is La Máquina Jorge Juan, a restaurant that opened in 1982 and is one of the historic establishments of the La Máquina group. The menu focuses on Spanish cuisine, fish, seafood, and rice dishes.
In the same area, Casa Dani, located in the Mercado de la Paz (Ayala 28B), has been in business since 1991. The restaurant is especially known for its potato omelet and serves breakfast and lunch inside the market.
For books, Antonio Machado has one of his bookstores at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, a bit further from Claudio Coello but accessible from the Salamanca neighborhood. For a closer option, it’s a good idea to check which bookstores are currently open in the immediate area before publishing this entry, since several establishments in the area have changed addresses in recent years.
