Originally opened in 1988,[3] the gallery's current space was designed in 1994 by architect John Pawson.

[13] The gallery also takes on new artists, and presented its first solo exhibitions by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain in 2023,[14] Nathalie Du Pasquier and Zhou Li in 2022,[15][16] and Gerard Byrne in 2018.

[17] Curated group exhibitions have included "HERE COMES LOVE" (2023),[8] "Face to Face" (2018) (curated by Hendrik Driesson, founding director of De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art),[18] "Architecture Schmarchitecture" (2003) (with Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Roger Hiorns, Jim Lambie, Sarah Morris and Thomas Scheibitz),[19] and "Newfound Landscape" (1998) (with Uta Barth, Oliver Boberg, Walter Niedermayer, and Esko Manniko).

[citation needed] In 2019, the gallery organised Shadowplay with Willie Doherty, Aleana Egan, Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, and Callum Innes.

[21] Other invited artists, exhibited at the gallery, have included Andy Warhol, Hiroshi Sugimoto,[22] Richard Hamilton, Francesco Clemente, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and A.R.