Michael Schultz (gallery owner)

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Michael Schultz (born November 4, 1951 in Freudenstadt / Black Forest ) is a German gallery owner who was active on the international art market. The focus was on contemporary European and Asian art. There were a total of four locations: two in Berlin and one each in Beijing and Seoul . At times he ran another branch in Tel Aviv .

biography

Michael Schultz studied music and theater studies from 1974 to 1978 at the Free University of Berlin . He was editor-in-chief of the Berlin KUNST magazine and then managing director of the Michael Wewerka gallery in Berlin. In 1986 he founded the Michael Schultz gallery in Berlin-Charlottenburg on Mommsenstrasse not far from Kurfürstendamm . With the schultz contemporary gallery, which opened in 2005 , he focused on young contemporary art from Europe , America and Asia . In 2006 he opened a branch in Seoul and in 2007 another branch was opened in Beijing , with which he serves the Asian art market with European and American art. He realized exhibitions by Sigmar Polke , Jörg Immendorff, Georg Baselitz, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Keith Haring , Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella , among others .

Michael Schultz was a member of the Art Cologne admissions committee from 1985 to 2007 . From 2005 to 2011 he was a member of the committee of the KIAF in Seoul / Korea and in 2007 he became a member of the selection committee of Art Fair 21 in Cologne and the trade fair advisory board of Munich Contempo . In 2012 Contemporary Istanbul took him on to the Advisory Board. Various foreign galleries, such as Leo König or Pace Wildenstein from New York , Hyundai Gallery (Seoul / Korea), Sanatorium Gallery in Istanbul and Lelong (Paris) cooperated with Michael Schultz. He also worked closely with international museums and biennials: u. a. the Venice Biennale , the Today Art Museum and the World Art Museum in Beijing, the Gwangju Museum of Art , National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul and the Museum of Modern Art, New York , the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto (Canada) and J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He also succeeded in anchoring Gerhard Richter in Korea, whose market he served with Richter's paintings, and AR Penck there on an institutional level. Schultz, for example, organized the first museum exhibitions in Korea at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, and gave them a presence at the Gwangju Biennale . Schultz was also one of the few galleries that dedicated Richter solo exhibitions and actively sold him. He also showed Sigmar Polke and Joseph Beuys in Beijing for the first time . In 2004-2005 he was visiting professor at Seoul National University and ChoSun University in Gwangju. Because of his activities in Korea, the city of Gwangju made him an honorary citizen on February 24, 2008 .

The Galerie Michael Schultz GmbH & Co.KG was dissolved on November 7th, 2019 due to the opening of insolvency proceedings.

gallery

Solo exhibition by Gerhard Richter in the Michael Schultz Gallery in Seoul, 2011.
Charlottenburg Mommsenstrasse 34 former Michael Schultz gallery

He opened the house in 1986 with a solo exhibition by Le Corbusier . In the next few years further exhibitions of Berlin artists followed, for example with Wolf Vostell and Georg Baselitz . In the 1980s he showed American Pop Art paintings such as Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Indiana , James Rosenquist , Mel Ramos and Andy Warhol . Schultz markets William Copley's Edition SMS In the early 1990s, the gallery took over the main agency for AR Penck . Schultz has also represented the artists Cornelia Schleime and Helge Leiberg since the 1990s . During this time he began working with Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz and Sigmar Polke, of whom he showed numerous exhibitions. Works by students from Baselitz's class were shown at regular intervals, including by SEO and Norbert Bisky , whom he had made known early on as a gallery owner.

Another focus was the presentation of artists from Berlin, such as representatives of the Neue Wilden, including Bernd Zimmer , Rainer Fetting and Luciano Castelli . He also dedicated exhibitions to Wolfgang Petrick , Eva and Adele , Wolfgang Joop and younger artists such as Bernd Kirschner, Maik Wolf, Sultan Adler, Joel Morrison and Jochen Proehl. The exhibitions were each accompanied by a large-format catalog with contributions from well-known art historians. Numerous Korean and Chinese artists were also represented.

The gallery regularly took part in numerous art fairs, such as the Armory Show (New York), Art Miami, Art Cologne , Vienna Contemporary, Istanbul Contemporary and ABC Art Berlin Contemporary .

Publications

The Schultz Gallery published over 200 artist and exhibition catalogs, including:

Web links

Commons : Michael Schultz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Heinrich: New pictures by AR Penck in the Michael Schultz gallery , in: Die Welt, June 21, 2002.
  2. ↑ a b c Black Forest Bote, Oberndorf Germany: Freudenstadt: From enthusiastic caddy to cosmopolitan - Black Forest Bote. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Charles Rump: Hungry and Curious. Two leading gallery owners on Germany's joy in collecting art and the myth of the Leipzig School , in: Die Welt , February 10, 2006.
  4. ^ Robert Rauschenberg | Michael Schultz Gallery. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  5. ^ Arno Widmann: Galerie Michael Schultz. A conversation with the gallery owner about the art market, the crisis, the search for the disturbing and the struggle for reliability in Berlin, Seoul and Beijing , in: Berliner Zeitung , September 4, 2011; Interview with M. Schultz on vernissage TV for "MunichContempo".
  6. ↑ s. SEO: Personal Cosmos; Catalog book for the exhibition in Venice, Biennale, June 4th-27th November 2011
  7. ↑ s. Catalog of the exhibition Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA NY
  8. ↑ s. Catalog of the 2006 exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon , South Korea
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Gerhard Richter at Schultz Berlin. One of the very rare gallery appearances of the famous painter . In: Berliner Zeitung from April 25, 2014, front page
  11. ↑ Stephen Redeker: Michael Schultz: Honorary Citizen of Gwangju City , in: GwangJuNews, March 28, 2008.
  12. ↑ District Court Charlottenburg, entry in the commercial register (at www.companyhouse.de)
  13. ↑ See entries on the Michael Schultz gallery in WorldCat ; and the research in the catalog of the German National Library ; full list on the gallery homepage.
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gallery owner and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenstadt