ART COLOGNE
40th International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art
1-5 November 2006
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: 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 years 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 Galerie, 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: 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.
