The Wide White Space Gallery was founded by Anny De Decker and Bernd Lohaus, a former student of Joseph Beuys, in Antwerp in 1966 and was managed by them both until it closed in 1976. Through its close collaboration with such artists as Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Lawrence Weiner, Carl Andre, Daniel Buren and Panamarenko, the Wide White Space Gallery became one of Europe's leading avant-garde galleries within the short space of only ten years. Wide White Space was one of the first galleries to register the shifts within the art world and to provide them with a platform. In so doing, Anny De Decker and Bernd Lohaus were not only instrumental in making collectors, critics, museums and the members of the public appreciative of the new way in which artists were attempting to come to terms with reality but also contributed to a fundamental change in mentality towards contemporary art, its recognition, acceptance, and appreciation. This publication contains interviews with Anny De Decker and Bernd Lohaus; with the artists Lawrence Weiner and Daniel Buren; with Johannes Cladders, the former director of the Abteiberg Museum in Monchengladbach; and with the collectors Martin Visser and Isi Fiszman. It gives a complete account of the Wide White Space exhibitions and, as such, constitutes an historical survey of contemporary art with special reference to its reception. It lists, for example, all the works shown at each exhibition, with all relevant particulars, and also supplements this information with, amongst other things, references to contemporary reviews, details and/or illustrations of the invitation cards and posters, and photos of the exhibition openings.