2016-04-06

The origins of today’s Art Cologne as a trade fair for classic modern art, post-war art and contemporary art go back to the year 1967. Kunstmarkt Köln ’67 was launched on 15 September 1967 in a historic Cologne building – the Gürzenich. In medieval times it served as an arena for festivities, banquets and dances. Later, it served as a merchants’ hall.

The launch of the Kunstmarkt Köln ’67 was to have a profound impact on the international art market. The founders of the new fair were Cologne-based gallerists – Hein Stünke and Rudolf Zwirner. Their project was sparked by the urgency of the need to put new life into the lacklustre art market in West Germany. Although the immediate post-war period saw a tremendous revival in art and radical changes to public attitudes to modern art, the art market in West Germany faltered.

Paris was at the cusp of losing its central role as the capital of the modern art world and modern French art was about to lose market leadership. This occurred in the wake of documenta 2 in 1959. With the boom in modern American art, New York took over as the new art capital. At the end of the war West Germany had lost its capital city and its cultural foci. With Bonn as the new capital city, the Rhineland – an industrial powerhouse at the centre of Europe driving the West German economy and acting as a hub for the entire western European economy – took over as the centre of the West German art world.

Even today, North Rhine-Westphalia and its neighbouring federal states have very high concentrations of business and industry – and art collectors. In the early 1960s these were ideal preconditions for any art market project. Stünke and Zwirner’s initial plans were of a short-term nature but their long-term aim was to promote the new art being produced by young German artists. They intended to introduce these artists to an international market and to attract new buyers to their work. They vastly exceeded their expectations – their project made history. Art Cologne E has played a decisive role in the development of the international art market and has had a formative influence on all later art-market developments.

The full list of participating galleries:

Hall 11.2 Contemporary Art

1301PE, Los Angeles

A arte Invernizzi, Milan

acb, Budapest

Akinci, Amsterdam

Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen/Berlin

Anhava, Helsinki

Artelier Contemporary, Graz

Jürgen Becker, Hamburg

Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

BLAIN|SOUTHERN, Berlin/London

Niels Borch Jensen, Copenhagen/Berlin

Jean Brolly, Paris

Daniel Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin

Buchmann, Berlin

Shane Campbell, Chicago

CANADA, New York

Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Capitain Petzel, Berlin

CONRADS, Düsseldorf

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf

Crone, Berlin/Vienna

DEWEER, Otegem

EIGEN + ART, Berlin/Leipzig

fiebach, minninger, Cologne

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf/Berlin

Laurent Godin, Paris

Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt a.M.

Karsten Greve, Cologne/Paris/St. Moritz

Barbara Gross, Munich

Haas, Zürich/Berlin

Häusler Contemporary, Zurich/Munich

Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne

Jack Hanley, New York

Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

Hauser & Wirth, Zurich/London/New York

Jochen Hempel, Leipzig

Max Hetzler, Berlin/Paris

Fred Jahn, Munich

Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf

mike karstens, Münster

Kerlin, Dublin

KLEMM’S, Berlin

Klüser, Munich

Sabine Knust, Munich

König, Berlin

Christine König, Vienna

Koenig & Clinton, New York

Krinzinger, Vienna

Krobath, Vienna

Kromus + Zink, Berlin

Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck

Pearl Lam, Hong Kong/Shanghai

Lange + Pult, Zurich

Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden/Berlin

Christian Lethert, Cologne

Löhrl, Mönchengladbach

Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf

Maior, Pollença

Marlborough Contemporary, London

Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

MOT INTERNATIONAL, London/Brüssel

Vera Munro, Hamburg

nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

Nagel Draxler, Cologne/Berlin

NEU, Berlin

Carolina Nitsch, New York

David Nolan, New York

Nosbaum & Reding, Luxemburg

OMR, Mexico City

Onrust, Amsterdam

Roslyn Oxley9, Paddington

Paragon, London

Priska Pasquer, Cologne

PERROTIN, Paris

Giorgio Persano, Turin

Produzentengalerie, Hamburg

Thomas Rehbein, Cologne

Petra Rinck, Düsseldorf

David Risley, Copenhagen

Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris

Philipp von Rosen, Cologne

Brigitte Schenk, Cologne

Anke Schmidt, Cologne

SCHÖNEWALD, Düsseldorf

Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf

Slewe, Amsterdam

Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London/Los Angeles

Nils Stærk, Copenhagen

Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt

Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris

Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck/Vienna

Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt

Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice

VAN HORN, Düsseldorf

Fons Welters, Amsterdam

WENTRUP, Berlin

Michael Werner, Cologne

Thomas Zander, Cologne

David Zwirner, New York/London

Hall 11.1 Modern & Postwar Art

Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf

Klaus Benden, Cologne

Bernheimer Fine Art, Lucerne

Boisserée, Cologne

BORZO, Amsterdam

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London/Hong Kong

Dierking, Zurich

Johannes Faber, Vienna

Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin

Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin

Hagemeier, Frankfurt a.M.

Henze + Ketterer, Bern/Wichtrach/Riehen

Heinz Holtmann, Cologne

Akira Ikeda, Berlin/Tokyo/New York

Koch, Hannover

KONZETT, Vienna

Lahumière, Paris

LEVY, Hamburg

Ludorff, Düsseldorf

Maulberger, Munich

Moderne, Silkeborg

Montrasio Arte, Milan

Georg Nothelfer, Berlin

Remmert und Barth, Düsseldorf

Repetto, London

Margarete Roeder, New York

Ruberl, Vienna

Thomas Salis, Salzburg

Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld

Aurel Scheibler, Berlin

Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau

Michael Schultz, Berlin

Schwarzer, Düsseldorf

SETAREH, Düsseldorf

Simonis, Düsseldorf

Sims Reed, London

Staeck, Heidelberg

Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf

Florian Sundheimer, Munich

Hollis Taggart, New York

taguchi fine art, Tokyo

Galerie Thomas, Munich

Utermann, Dortmund

Valentien, Stuttgart

von Vertes, Zurich

Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp/Hong Kong

Whitestone, Hong Kong/Tokyo

Hall level 11.3: New Contemporaries

Aanant & Zoo, Berlin

Bischoff Projects, Frankfurt

Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo

Bernard Ceysson, Luxemburg

Chert, Berlin

CLAGES, Cologne

Hezi Cohen, Tel Aviv

DUVE, Berlin

EXILE, Berlin

FUTURE, Berlin

Ginerva Gambino, Cologne

Andreas Huber, Vienna

Jan Kaps, Cologne

kisterem, Budapest

Alexander Levy, Berlin

Markus Lüttgen, Cologne

Max Mayer, Düsseldorf

NANZUKA, Tokyo

Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv

Deborah Schamoni, Munich

Southard Reid, London

Soy Capitán, Berlin

SpazioA, Pistoia

Supplement, London

tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam

Rob Tufnell, London

Waldburger Wouters, Brussels

Kate Werble, New York

Evelyn Yard, London

Hall level 11.3: Collaborations

Samy Abraham, Paris + Triple V, Paris

Andriesse Eyck, Amsterdam, Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, + Susanne Zander, Köln, Delmes & Zander, Berlin

BolteLang, Zürich + Limoncello, London

DREI, Köln + Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City

Thomas Erben, New York + Jahveri Contemporary, Mumbai

Daniel Faria, Toronto + PSM, Berlin

The Green Gallery, Milwaukee + Marlborough Chelsea, New York

Bruce Haines, Mayfair, London, Halsey McKay, East Hampton + V1, Kopenhagen

The Hole, New York, Hollybush Gardens, London, Natalia Hug, Cologne + MIER Gallery, Los Angeles

Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam + Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam

Kalfayan, Athens + Mirko Mayer, Cologne

KOW, Berlin + Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin

Nicolas Krupp, Basel + Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne

Lokal_30, Warsaw + LeGuern, Warsaw

Lullin+Ferrari, Zurich + Sommer & Kohl, Berlin

Daniel Marzona, Berlin + RaebervonStenglin, Zurich

Tobias Naehring, Leipzig + Aurel Scheibler, Berlin

Neon Parc, Melbourne, Berthold Pott, Cologne + Ruttkowski;68, Cologne

The Art Cologne 2016 takes place from Thursday, 14 April to Sunday, 17 April, 2016

Vernissage Wednesday, 13 April 2016, 04:00 – 08:00 p.m.
Opening times: Thu- Sat 11:00 a.m. – 07:00 p.m, Sun 11:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m.

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