Karsten Schubert

Schubert was a trustee of SPACE, London. He was also a faculty member of the Fine Arts programme, for 2015-2016, at the British School at Rome

In 2015, Schubert was diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer. In July 2019, he died aged 57 after a long battle with the disease.

Before opening his own gallery, Schubert worked at the Lisson Gallery – which, as he was later to say, “was where British art of the 80s happened”.

In 2007, the company moved to premises on Golden Square in Soho then, in January 2014 moved to Lexington Street, Soho. That same year, Schubert co-organised an exhibition of Bridget Riley’s work at David Zwirner Gallery in London.

Rachel Whiteread's 1996 departure from the gallery (to Anthony d'Offay) triggered a reorientation of Schubert's activities. He became a private artists' representative and art dealer working with a select number of artists of whose art he particularly liked, most famously Bridget Riley.

In 1995 Charles Asprey, Thomas Dane and Schubert established Ridinghouse. The publishes primary documents, art historical research, first monographs, anthologies of interviews and writings and editions. The organisation has expanded since 2004 and produces 14-16 publications a year.

His 1988 group show of Ian Davenport, Gary Hume and Michael Landy was one of the first commercial gallery shows of artists that would later come to be known as Young British Artists (YBA). The gallery quickly came to represent many of the YBA artists and several non-British artists.

Schubert ran Karsten Schubert Limited, initially in collaboration, and with the backing of, Richard Salmon, from 1986 to 1991.

Karsten Schubert (12 August 1961 – 30 July 2019) was a German art dealer and publisher working in London.