ThisThat Gallery was founded in 2023 as a nomadic exhibition program running parallel to Weiden Space, curating exhibitions in a variety of venues, demonstrating a flexible curatorial approach and an independent critical perspective, in August 2024 the gallery moved into its permanent space at Hansaallee 22 in Düsseldorf, where Rita McBride, a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, had been working in her studio. Düsseldorf, the studio of Rita McBride, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf.

Run by the curatorial team Li/Yang, ThisThat Gallery is grounded in an international art context, with its main exhibition space in Germany and a research office in China. The gallery is committed to building a critical and original dialogue between different artistic veins and systems of thought, focusing on the experimental practice of contemporary art in the fields of concept, materiality, and interdisciplinarity.

ThisThat Gallery's curatorial strategy runs in two directions: on the one hand, the gallery focuses on conceptual art and minimalist creations, exploring the conceptual boundaries of art through the re-interpretation of form and meaning; on the other hand, the gallery actively supports cross-disciplinary projects and promotes the intersection and mutual intervention between art and architecture, philosophy, social theory, and other fields. The gallery serves as a platform for emerging artists to display their experimental works. Still, it is also committed to rediscovering and reexamining artistic practices that have been neglected or marginalized in the global context.

In the face of the rapid transformation of contemporary art institutions and cultural structures, ThisThat Gallery not only fulfills its exhibition function but also regards academic research as one of its core responsibilities. We regularly curate exhibitions with historical and theoretical depth, aiming to bring different cultural, disciplinary, and geographical perspectives into critical discussion through rigorous curatorial practice. Each year, the gallery devotes one-third of its exhibition time to projects of academic significance and collaborates with various art institutions to engage in dialogue and reflection on an international scale.

ThisThat Gallery focuses on the promotion of contemporary art in the European and East Asian art systems in the collision of ideas and conceptual transformation, through a flexible and in-depth curatorial model, redefining the gallery's function and responsibility in the contemporary art system.