Art Düsseldorf

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Art Düsseldorf
Branch Art fair
Place of issue Düsseldorf , Meerbusch
First exhibition 2017
Website www.art-dus.de
Last exhibition
date Nov 16, 2018 to
Nov 18, 2018
Visitors approx. 40,000
Exhibitors about 100
Next exhibition
date Nov. 15, 2019 to
Nov. 17, 2019

The kind Dusseldorf is an art fair in Dusseldorf . Established and young, regional and international galleries have been showing post-war and contemporary art at Art Düsseldorf since 2017. From November 16 to 18, 2018, with 91 participating galleries from 19 countries, the second edition of the regional art fair took place in Areal Böhler, an old industrial location of Böhler-Werke developed from 1914 .

Exhibition company, exhibitor and orientation

View of listed industrial halls on the "Areal Böhler", 2016

Organizer of Art Dusseldorf is art.fair International GmbH, based in Cologne . The GmbH is majority owned by Andreas Lohaus and Walter Gehlen, who organized the Artfair in Cologne from 2003 to 2016 . The MCH Group from Basel , which organizes Art Basel , among other things , acquired a 25.1 percent stake in the company in February 2017 . The MCH Group sold its stake in 2019 to the London trade fair organizers Sandy Angus and Tim Etchells, founders and shareholders of various art fairs in the Asia-Pacific region. In order to expand its strategic position, Angus also acquired a further 15 percent stake in Art Düsseldorf. Walter Gehlen has been the sole managing director and director of the fair since 2018.

The selection of the galleries participating in the fair is made by an advisory board. Of the more than 90 participants in the second edition, 53 percent came from the region ( Germany and the Benelux countries ), especially from the Rhineland, and 47 percent from the international area. In addition to numerous top-class galleries, the fair with the Post-Lehman section also offers special support to young galleries from the founding year 2008. Both exhibitions attracted around 40,000 visitors. According to the company, the art fair is aimed primarily at those interested in art in the densely populated and affluent center of the so-called Blue Banana .

resonance

The media and experts rated the appearance of this second major art fair in the Rhineland as a challenge for the so far leading Art Cologne, in the tradition of rivalry between the Rhine cities . Daniel Hug , the director of Art Cologne, criticized the fact that Art Düsseldorf would be another “offshoot” of Art Basel. This threatens regional diversity and is a "form of colonialism ".

However, the second edition of Art Düsseldorf in 2018 closed with a consistently positive balance from exhibitors, visitors and the press. The art fair established itself as a fixed date for collectors, gallery owners, curators and art lovers in the region.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Böhler-Werke , website in the portal denkmalgalerie.meerbuscher-kulturkreis.de , accessed on December 1, 2017
  2. ↑ MCH Group participates in Art Düsseldorf , media release of February 9, 2017 ( PDF ), accessed on December 1, 2017
  3. ↑ Art fair Art Düsseldorf gets new partners . Article from May 30, 2019 in the portal aachener-nachrichten.de , accessed on June 1, 2019
  4. ↑ Art Düsseldorf gets new partners . Article from May 29, 2019 in the monopol-magazin.de portal , accessed on June 1, 2019
  5. ↑ Art fair Art Düsseldorf gets new partners . Article from May 29, 2019 in the welt.de portal , accessed on June 1, 2019
  6. ^ New art fair Art Düsseldorf is planning for the next few years . Article dated December 7, 2017 in the welt.de portal , accessed on December 7, 2017
  7. ↑ Helmut Frangenberg: Art.Fair leaves Cologne art fair will be bigger in Dusseldorf , articles from 29 October 2016 in the portal station feeds .com , accessed on December 1, 2017
  8. ↑ Kate Brown: Art Basel's MCH Group Extends Its Empire to the UK, Taking Over the Masterpiece London Fair , article from December 1, 2017 in the news portal . artnet .com , accessed December 1, 2017
  9. ↑ Stephanie Bailey: A Tale of Two Cities: A report from the first Art Düsseldorf , article from December 1, 2017 in the portal ocula.com , accessed on December 1, 2017
  10. ↑ Neue Art Düsseldorf announces list of participants , article from September 20, 2017 in the monopol-magazin .de portal , accessed on December 1, 2017
  11. ↑ New art fair Art Düsseldorf celebrates its premiere , article from November 16, 2017 in the portal moz .de , accessed on December 1, 2017
  12. ↑ Uta Reindl: Nervous neighbors , articles of 14 November 2017 Portal tagesspiegel .com , accessed on December 1, 2017
  13. ↑ Christiane Hoffmans: The Art Dusseldorf is aggressive , articles of 18 November 2017 Portal world .com , accessed on December 1, 2017
  14. ↑ Art Düsseldorf started , article from November 17, 2017 in the monopol-magazin.de portal , accessed on December 1, 2017
  15. ↑ Guido M. Hartmann: Is there now an “art war” in the Rhineland? , Article from November 21 in the welt.de portal , accessed on December 1, 2017
  16. ↑ Hug attacks Art Basel ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article from April 25, 2017 in the portal art-magazin .de , accessed on December 1, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  17. ↑ Marcus Woeller: The beautiful sister . November 17, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed January 22, 2019]).
  18. ↑ A strong region for art. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Alexandra Wach: Art fair in Düsseldorf: The invention of "Post Lehman" . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 22, 2019]).
  20. ↑ Michael Kohler: Trap doors in theory dungeons. November 16, 2018, accessed on January 22, 2019 (German).
  21. ↑ Michael Kohler: End of the colonial era . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 16, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 22, 2019]).
  22. ^ Art fair Art Düsseldorf opens. November 15, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .
  23. ^ Bertram Müller: Art Fair Düsseldorf: Art pleasure in the former steelworks. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Art Düsseldorf goes into the second round. What to expect. November 13, 2018, accessed January 22, 2019 .