Buchmann Gallery
The Buchmann Galerie is a gallery for international contemporary art with locations in Switzerland and Germany .
history
The gallery was founded in 1975 by Elena and Felix Buchmann in St. Gallen / Switzerland. From 1983 to 1998 the gallery was located in Basel next to the Museum of Contemporary Art and today has two rooms in Agra / Lugano and Lugano .
André Buchmann founded the Buchmann Galerie in Germany in 1995 with the first location in Cologne . Since 2005 the gallery has been in Berlin with two exhibition rooms in a central location on Charlottenstrasse between Checkpoint Charlie and Gendarmenmarkt . André Buchmann has also been a member of the board of trustees of the Cragg Foundation Wuppertal since 2008.
Artist
The Buchmann Galerie represents international emerging and established artists who work primarily in the media of sculpture , painting , video and photography . Among others, the following artists are represented:
Anna & Bernhard Blume , Daniel Buren , Lawrence Carroll, Tony Cragg , The Estate of Martin Disler , Alberto Garutti, Raffi Kalenderian, Wolfgang Laib , Tatsuo Miyajima, Wilhelm Mundt , Bettina Pousttchi , Fiona Rae, Joel Sternfeld , William Tucker , Felice Varini , Clare Woods
The gallery has accompanied most of the artists from the very beginning. The collaboration with Tony Cragg has existed since 1983, with Wolfgang Laib since 1987, with Fiona Rae since 2000, with Tatsuo Miyajima since 1994, with Bettina Pousttchi since 2005, with Lawrence Carroll since 1994, with Daniel Buren since 1989. Buchmann has represented since 2013 Gallery the estate of Martin Disler.
The artists represented have exhibitions in institutions around the world and take part in major exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale , Documenta Kassel, Carnegie International Pittsburg or Prospect in New Orleans. They received important art prizes, including the most important prize, the Praemium Imperiale . It has already gone to three of the gallery's artists: Daniel Buren (2007), Tony Cragg (2007), Wolfgang Laib (2015).
Buchmann Galerie artists have carried out important permanent and temporary works in public spaces:
- Daniel Buren: Les Deux Plateaux , Palais Royal Paris
- Tatsuo Miyajima: Fortress of Human Rights , Université Dufour Genève
- Tony Cragg: Caldera , Makartplatz Salzburg
- Alberto Garutti: Piccolo Museion , Bozen
- William Tucker: Victory , The Memorial Park Project, Buenos Aires
- Bettina Pousttchi: Echo , Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
- Felice Varini: Otto rettangoli rossi , LAC Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Città di Lugano
- Clare Woods: Carpenters Curve , Olympic Park London
measure up
The Buchmann Galerie is regularly represented at the most important international art fairs such as Art Basel , Art Basel Miami Beach , Art Basel Hong Kong , Fiac Paris, Art Cologne , The Armory Show New York, Expo Chicago and TEFAF Maastricht.
Museums
The Buchmann Galerie has placed museum works by its artists in public collections such as:
- Pinakothek der Moderne Munich
- Stuttgart Art Museum
- Art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf
- Art Museum Bern
- Art Museum St. Gallen
- Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
- Kunsthaus Zurich
- Center Georges-Pompidou Paris
- Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
- MUDAM Luxembourg
- Musées Royaux de Bruxelles
- Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas
- Toyota Municipal Art Museum
- M + Hong Kong
- Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lugano Tourism website ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2016 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.
- ^ "Artists" , on buchmanngalerie.com
- ↑ List of Laureates on the official Praemium Imperiale website.
