A SPRINGTIME REVOLUTION
OPEN SPACE AT ART COLOGNE
18-22 April 2007
http://www.openspace06.com
http://www.artcologne.de
Changing dates might not make a big difference for the ennuied art traveller, but the 41st ART COLOGNE has decided to move to April – for a revolution never better times but springtime. The third edition of OPEN SPACE will make it from the very heart of ART COLOGNE with a joint presentation of international galleries, artists and projects of contemporary art.
OPEN SPACE 2007 continues to explore the borders of an art fair, connecting contemporary art projects and solo shows of more than 40 international galleries to a project-oriented, spacious overall art presentation. Due to an intrinsic correlation between the selected art projects and the spatial set, OPEN SPACE has defined its own rules for the game to develop a novel almost urban quality of presence, presentation and perception of art facing the demands of an informed, international public by carefully reflecting the contemporary contexts of artistic production and professional mediation.
OPEN SPACE is also about platforms for art related projects. This year, along the gallery presentations OPEN SPACE has invited various projects from Berlin, such as Bless as one of the advanced positions of conceptual fashion and the thematic bookstore pro qm. The Berlin Posterverlag will publish a special poster edition of one of the OPEN SPACE artists and Texte zur Kunst will be there to present their new magazine and all their artists editions.
GALLERIES, ARTISTS Adamski, Joel Tauber / Aschenbach & Hofland, Jan van der Plog / Laura Bartlett, Cyprien Gaillard / Daniel Buchholz & NEU, Dirk von Lotzow & Cosima von Bonin, Michael Krebber, Sergej Jensen / Sandra Bürgel, Raphael Danke / BQ, Dirk Bell / Gisela Capitain, Maria Brunner / COMA, Michael Müller / Sorcha Dallas, Charlie Hammond / Thomas Erben, Haeri Yoo / Fahnemann Projects, Kai Schiemenz / Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Django Gonzales / Häusler Contemporary, Keith Sonnier / Kai Hilgemann, David Medella / Hohenlohe & Cora Hölzl, Simon Wachsmuth / Hotel, Agnieszka Brzezanska & Richard Kern, Peter Saville, Steven Claydon / Johnen & Schöttle, Francesco Gennari / Iris Kadel, Katja Davar / Johann König, Johannes Wohnseifer / Linn Lühn, William N. Copley / Mary Mary, Karla Black / Christine Mayer, Klaus Auderer & Michael Hackel, Emanuel Seitz, Lorenz Strassl / Mirko Mayer, Daniela Brahm / Meyer Kainer, Martina Steckholzer / The Modern Institute, Scott Myles / Christian Nagel, Heimo Zobernig / Alexander Ochs, Yin Xiuzhen / Program, Agata Michowska / Parisa Kind, Lucas Ajemian & Julien Bismuth / Thomas Rehbein, Johannes Spehr / André Schlechtriem, Carla Arocha / Micky Schubert, Maximilian Zentz Zlomovitz / Gabriele Senn, Barbara Mungenast / Sprüth Magers, Martin Wöhrl / Olaf Stüber, Marc Aschenbrenner / Thoman, Florian Kompatscher / Vamialis, Sam Herbert / van Horn, Manuel Graf / Vartai, Ugnius Gelguda / PROJECTS Berlin Posterverlag / Bless / European Kunsthalle / pro qm / Texte zur Kunst
COMMITTEE Sorcha Dallas (Glasgow), Gregor Jansen (ZKM Karlsruhe), Joanna Kamm (Berlin), André Schlechtriem (New York), Adam Szymczyk (Kunsthalle Basel), Christina Végh (Bonner Kunstverein) PROJECT MANAGEMENT meyer voggenreiter projekte (Cologne) with Adelheid Teuber PROJECT CONSULTING Christian Nagel (Cologne, Berlin) ARCHITECTURE meyer voggenreiter projekte and Sebastian Hauser
Commissioned by ART COLOGNE/Koelnmesse PROJECT IDEA by Neumann Luz, Cologne (2005) LOCATION Hall 4 (lower level) A10 E11 DATES 18 22 April 2007 OPENING together with ART COLOGNE on Tuesday, 17 April 2007 at 12 am PROFESSIONAL PREVIEW and VERNISSAGE at 5 pm INTERNET http://www.openspace-cologne.com, http://www.artcologne.de
