Kewenig was founded in 1986 as Jule Kewenig Galerie, based in Haus Bitz in Frechen near Cologne. After more than 25 years in the Rhineland the gallery is now located in Berlin. In September 2013 Kewenig inaugurated the new gallery building in Brüderstr. 10, the second oldest town house of Berlin on the museum island in Berlin-Mitte, built in 1688. A historic electric power transformation substation in Berlin-Moabit was reconverted to the schaulager and warehouse of the gallery. In 2004, a second gallery was opened in a 13th century chapel in Palma de Mallorca.

The primary focus of Kewenig is international contemporary art since the 1960s, whereby the artistic dialogue between various generations and cultures plays a substantial role.

The works of artists such as Marcel Broodthaers, Imi Knoebel and Bertrand Lavier and deal conceptually with art and the mechanisms of the artworld. On the other hand, artists such as Christian Boltanski and Hanne Darboven address the issue of history and the passing of time. Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov and Pavel Pepperstein reflect each in their own way on the content of art within the context of failed political utopias. Nature in the broadest sense is the subject of the works of Arte Povera artists such as Giovanni Anselmo, Mario Merz and Jannis Kounellis.

Among the younger representatives of the gallery is German artist Elger Esser, whose interest in historical landscapes bundles the tonality of colours and the sfumato of humid air, lending him the reputation of the romantic among photographers of the Düsseldorf School. German artist Ralf Ziervogel started his cooperation with the gallery in December 2012 with extensive wall drawings in the entire Oratorio de Sant Feliu, the gallery's exhibition space in Palma de Mallorca. His delicate drawings have been called a „theatre of brutality" and pose awkward questions, scratching at the belief in the concept of individuality.

Korean artist Kimsooja, who follows traces of migration through performance art, video and photography, and the Chilean drawer Sandra Vásquez de la Horra with her unique tecnique of sealing her excessive, often ironic and surreal drawings dealing with the human dramas around religion, fear and death with a layer of wax. Leiko Ikemura, Japanese artist that lives and works in Berlin, created an extensive range of works, developing an extraordinary metaphorical language through cosmic landscapes and depictions of indistinct and timeless female figures. In his genre-crossing works, Marcelo Viquez is questioning the contradictions of society from a point of view of an "inmigrant-outsider".

Giovanni Anselmo (Italian, geb. 1934)
Ivan Bazak (Ukrainian, geb. 1980)
Bert de Beul (Belgian, geb. 1961)
Christian Boltanski (French, geb. 1944)
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (Ivorian, 1921 - 2014)
Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924 - 1976)
James Lee Byars (American, 1932 - 1997)
Pedro Cabrita Reis (Portuguese, geb. 1956)
Hanne Darboven (German, 1941 - 2009)
Wim Delvoye (Belgian, geb. 1965)
Elger Esser (German, geb. 1967)
Ian Hamilton Finlay (British, geb. 1925)
Leiko Ikemura (Japanese, geb. 1951)
Jörg Immendorff (German, 1945 - 2007)
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (Russian)
Seydou Keïta (Malian, 1923 - 2001)
Kimsooja (Korean, geb. 1957)
Imi Knoebel (German, geb. 1940)
Bernd Koberling (German, geb. 1938)
Jannis Kounellis (Greek, geb. 1936)
Hendrik Krawen (German, geb. 1963)
Bertrand Lavier (French, geb. 1949)
Mario Merz (Italian, 1925 - 2003)
Panamarenko (Belgian, geb. 1940)
A.R. Penck (German, geb. 1939)
Pavel Pepperstein (Russian, geb. 1966)
Victor Pivovarov (Russian, geb. 1937)
Bernardí Roig (Spanish, geb. 1965)
Ulrich Rückriem (German, geb. 1938)
Sean Scully (American/Irish, geb. 1945)