Galerie Bernd Kugler was founded in 1997 in Innsbruck. At the beginning the gallery focused on exhibiting works by Austrian artists and trading of Modern Art (especially works on paper of German Expressionism).
In the following years, the gallery cooperated with Michael Werner and Galerie Sabine Knust to host a number of exhibitions, which featured the works of Eugène Leroy, Per Kirkeby and Georg Baselitz.

Since hosting the first solo exhibition of Andrè Butzer in 2004, Galerie Bernd Kugler has established itself as an art venue for young contemporary internationally relevant artists. The gallery presents solo exhibitions every two years, which are accompanied by exhibitions hosting two artists not permanently represented at the gallery’s program.

So far the gallery participated in the following art fairs: Arco Madrid, Art Forum Berlin, Art Brussels and Art Basel (Art Statement 2009).