[4] Schipper gained her first professional experience as an assistant at the Monika Sprüth Gallery in Cologne in 1983/84.
[6][7][8] From 2010 until 2017, the gallery was located in a 500 m2 (5,400 sq ft) space in the former offices of architect Arno Brandlhuber in Berlin's Tiergarten district.
[11] In 2017, Esther Schipper moved to a 5,800 sq ft (540 m2) space located inside a former printing facility and warehouse for the local Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel on Potsdamer Strasse; the space was designed by Selldorf Architects.
[15] Since 2022, the gallery has been operating second location in Paris and a third showroom in a four-story building in Seoul's Itaewon neighbourhood, designed by StudioMDA.
[19] Esther Schipper represents several living artists, including: In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including: Schipper lives in Mitte, Berlin, with her partner Florian Wojnar and their two children.