Galerie Metro opened in April 2007 on Brunnenstrasse in Berlin Mitte. The gallery is run by Kai Schupke, former director of the art association “NewYorkRioTokyo”. The artists of the gallery were originally recruited from the exhibition programme of this association, whose focus lay on conceptual approaches in the fields of video and installation. The name of the gallery has been chosen with reference to the commercial realignment and alludes to the motto of the homonymous wholesaler chain: “cash and carry”. Thus the name “Metro” refers to the reflection of the relation between art and market and the position of our gallery within the art system in the broadest sense as one common denominator.