ART COLOGNE: 1 – 5 November 2006: 40th International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art

Photo: Koelnmesse
ART COLOGNE: 1 – 5 November 2006
40th International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art
Open daily 12 noon – 8 p.m.
AXA Art Professional Preview:
31 Oct 2006, 12 noon – 5 p.m.
Vernissage: 31 Oct 2006, 5 – 9 p.m.
For further details go to: http://www.artcologne.com
ART COLOGNE celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2006, but the
anniversary event will be the last edition of the Fair to be held in
the autumn. From 2007, the Fair will be held in the spring. The 40th
International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art runs from 1 to 5
November 2006. Its format will be slimmer, with the number of
exhibitors in the traditional sections reduced to 190. Over 400
applications were submitted for this year’s ART COLOGNE. The successful
applicants were chosen by the ART COLOGNE Selection Committee.
Stringent selection criteria were applied. The following international
galleries have been chosen:
Galerie Altair, Palma de Mallorca; Galeria Altxerri, San Sebastian; ART
AFFAIRS Gallery, Amsterdam; Art Seasons, Singapore; Aussereuropäische
Kunst Dierking, Cologne; Galerie Baer, Dresden; Gallery N. von Bartha,
London; Baukunst Galerie, Cologne; Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld; Beck
& Eggeling, Düsseldorf; Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Viersen /
Cologne; Galerie Renate Bender, Munich; Galerie Bergner + Job, Mainz;
Gallery Bhak, Seoul; Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich; Galleri Bo
Bjerggaard, Copenhagen; Galerie Boisserée, Cologne; Galerie Peter
Borchardt, Hamburg; Ben Brown Fine Arts, London; Projektraum Viktor
Bucher, Vienna; Buchmann Galerie, Berlin; Galerie Bugdahn + Kaimer,
Düsseldorf; Luis Campana Galerie, Cologne; Galeria Ferran Cano, Palma
de Mallorca; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Charim Galerie, Vienna;
Chosun Gallery, Seoul; Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam; Galerie Conrads,
Düsseldorf; Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf; Galerie Crone, Berlin;
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem; Die G
alerie, Frankfurt/Main; Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney; D N A,
Berlin; Galerie Elke Dröscher, Hamburg; Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt,
Madrid; Elahe Gallery, Tehran; Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna; Galerie
Fahnemann, Berlin; Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen; lukasfeichtner
galerie, Vienna; Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne; Galeria
Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca; Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition,
Berlin; Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki; Galerie SixFriedrichLisaUngar,
Munich; Galerie Moderne – Silkeborg, Silkeborg; Klemens Gasser &
Tanja Grunert, New York; Galeria Gentili, Montecatini Terme; Galerie
Annie Gentils, Antwerp; Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek GmbH, Düsseldorf;
Galeria Pablo Goebel Fine Arts, Mexico; Bärbel Grässlin,
Frankfurt/Main; Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne; van der grinten
galerie, Cologne; Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich; Grossetti Arte
Contemporanea, Milan; Galerie Haas, Zürich / Berlin; Hachmeister
Galerie, Münster; Hammelehle + Ahrens, Cologne; Häusler Contemporary,
Munich; Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart; Galerie Rolf Hengesbach,
Cologne; Galerie Marianne Hennemann, Bonn; Galerie Henze &
Ketterer, Wichtrach/Berne; Herrmann + Wagner, Berlin; Galerie Kai
Hilgemann, Berlin; Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna; Galerie Hoffmann,
Friedberg; Galerie Hohenlohe, Vienna; Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne;
Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt/Main; Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna; Galerie
Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne; Juliana Gallery, Seoul; Galleri K,
Oslo; mike karstens graphics, Münster; Galerie Jule Kewenig, Palma de
Mallorca; Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim; Galerie Koch, Hanover;
Galerie Dorothea v. d. Koelen, Mainz; Christine König Galerie, Vienna;
Leo Koenig, Inc., New York; Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne; Galerie
Kugler, Innsbruck; Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp; L.A. Galerie,
Frankfurt/Main / Beijing; Galerie Lahumière, Paris; Galerie Löhrl,
Mönchengladbach; Galerie Marie-José van de Loo, Munich; Diana
Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami; Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf; Galeria
Maior, Pollenca; manus presse, Stuttgart; Galerie Brigitte March,
Stuttgart;Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona; Galerie Maulberger, Munich;
Mario Mauroner, Vienna; Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid; Galerie Hans
Mayer, Düsseldorf; Mirko Mayer Galerie/m-projects, Cologne; Hubertus
Melsheimer, Cologne; Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe; Galerie
Mezzanin, Vienna; Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart; Galerie nächst St.
Stephan, Vienna; Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne / Berlin; Galerie
Neher, Essen; Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid; Galerie Georg
Nothelfer, Berlin; Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich;
Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin / Beijing; Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam;
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne; Oriol Galeria d’Art, Barcelona; The
Paragon Press, London; Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul; Pilar Parra &
Romero, Madrid; Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca; Galerie Karl
Pfefferle, Munich; photonet, Wiesbaden; Galerij Guy Pieters,
Knokke-Heist; POLIGRAFA Obra Grafica, Barcelona; Pyo Gallery, Seoul;
Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne; Galerie Michel Rein, Paris; Galerie
Remmert & Barth, Düsseldorf; Galerie J.-L. + T. Richard, Paris;
Galerie Rieder, Munich; Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf; J.P.
Ritsch-Fisch Galerie, Strasbourg; Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York;
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne / Madrid; Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt /
Frankfurt/Main; Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt/Main; Kenny Schachter ROVE,
London; Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem;
Ruzicska – Galerie, Salzburg; RUZICSKA / WEISS, Düsseldorf; Galerie RX,
Paris; Sala Maior, Porto; Galerie Salis + Vertes, Salzburg; Galerie
Scheffel, Bad Homburg v.d.H.; Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin; Galerie
Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau; Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf; Schönewald Fine
Arts, Düsseldorf; Galerie Willy Schoots, Eindhoven; Galerie Schübbe
Projekt, Düsseldorf; Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin; Galerie
Schwarzer, Düsseldorf; Sejul Gallery, Seoul; Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg / Beirut; Gallery Shilla, Daegu; Galerie Sho Contemporary Art,
Tokyo; Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf; Galerie Simonis, Düsseldorf;
Galerie Sollertis, Toulouse; Springer + Winckler Galerie, Berlin;
Galerie Springmann, Freiburg; Sprüth / Magers, Cologne / Munich;
Edition Staeck, Heidelberg; Galerie Steinek, Vienna; Stills Gallery,
Paddington; Storms Galerie, Munich; Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf;
Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart; Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prague; Galerie
Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf; Galerie Terminus, Munich; Galerie E. & K.
Thoman, Innsbruck; Galerie Thomas, Munich; Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf,
Frankfurt / Berlin; Galleria Torbandena, Trieste; Torch Gallery,
Amsterdam; TZR Galerie für Bildende Kunst, Bochum; Galerie Utermann,
Dortmund; Vanguardia, Bilbao; Völcker + Freunde Galerie, Berlin;
Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf; VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam; edith wahlandt
galerie, Stuttgart; Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf; Galerie
Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe; Wetterling Gallery,
Stockholm; Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris; Galerie Susanne Zander,
Cologne; Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne.
An independent panel of experts has selected twenty-five promising young galleries for the ’New Contemporaries’ programme.
Sponsored by SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse Köln/Bonn, the programme
supports young galleries and helps to ease their entry into the art
market. The galleries selected are:
Allsopp Contemporary, London; Aschenbach + Hofland Galleries,
Amsterdam; Galeria Jean Brolly, Paris; Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin;
Galerie Asim Chughtai, Berlin; Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim;
Figge / von Rosen Galerie, Cologne; Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle;
Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna; Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt/Main;
Knäpper + Baumgarten, Stockholm; layr:wuestenhagen, Vienna; Motive
Gallery, Amsterdam; Véronique Nosbaum Galerie, Contern; Galerie Rupert
Pfab, Düsseldorf; Program - Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw; Galerie Schleicher
+ Lange, Paris; Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne; Sixtyseven Gallery,
New York; Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main, Galerie Olaf Stüber,
Berlin; VAN HORN, Düsseldorf; Vartai Gallery, Vilnius; Wandergalerie,
Munich; Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt/Main.
‘New Talents’, the ART COLOGNE sponsorship programme for young
artists, was set up in 1980. This year, twenty-three young artists have
been selected. ART COLOGNE 2006 also sees the launch of a new programme
titled ‘Hidden Treasures’. This introduces five artists in solo
shows on 40 square metre stands. The programme offers a platform to
artists who have their niche in art history but are currently neglected
or undervalued by the market, despite the fact that their work is held
in museums and private collections. The artists selected should be aged
over forty, if still alive. Their work should demonstrate that it has
had a major influence on younger generations of artists. ‘Hidden
Treasures’ is designed to attract the interest of collectors, curators,
museum experts and art-market newcomers. The programme offers
opportunities for collectors to buy works of solid value at reasonable
prices. It is a totally new concept unrivalled in the international art
fair world
. The ART COLOGNE Selection Committee will be launching the ‘Hidden
Treasures’ programme with the work of the following artists:
William N. Copley (Schönewald Fine Arts), Klaus vom Bruch (Galerie
nächst St. Stephan), Valie Export (Charim Galerie), Fred Sandback
(Margarete Roeder Gallery), Auguste Herbin (Galerie Lahumière), and
Paco Knöller (Galerie Karsten Greve).
‘Open Space’, the innovative exhibition programme launched in
2005, is – like the ‘Hidden Treasures’ programme – another unique
feature of ART COLOGNE. In an open-plan exhibition area, leading
international galleries will be showing work by forty artists. ‘Open
Space’ is a curated project with all the features of a sales
exhibition. The list of exhibitors will be published in early October.
ART COLOGNE and the City of Cologne will be hosting a wide range of
special shows. In addition, an exciting programme of major museum
exhibitions in the cities of Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Duisburg,
Frankfurt/Main, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mönchengladbach, Neuss and
Wuppertal will add to the ART COLOGNE experience.
For further details go to: http://www.artcologne.com
ART COLOGNE:
1 – 5 November 2006
Open daily 12 noon – 8 p.m.
AXA Art Professional Preview: 31 October 2006, 12 noon – 5 p.m.
Vernissage: 31 October 2006, 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
