Federal Association of German Galleries and Art Dealers

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The Federal Association of German Galleries and Art Dealers e. V. ( BVDG ) is a German association of gallery owners , art dealers and editors who deal full-time and predominantly in the visual arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. The BVDG is committed to shaping the cultural and political commercial framework within which art education can take place.

history

Today's BDVG emerged from the Association of Progressive German Art Dealers, which was founded in 1966 by gallery owners Hein Stünke and Rudolf Zwirner , primarily to organize the Cologne art market . This association was merged in 1973 into the newly founded European Art Dealers Association (EKV). In 1970, at the instigation of the Cologne gallery owner Ingo Kümmel, a rival association, the "Internationale Kunst- und Informationsmesse eV" (IKI) ", was set up, which organized the fair of the same name. On September 9, 1975, the spokesman for the International Art and Information Fair (IKI), Alexander Berswordt-Wallrabe (Galerie m, Bochum) and Rudolf Zwirner from the European Art Dealers Association invited to the founding event of a joint gallery owners association. The 37 participants decided to found the Federal Association of German Galleries . The Cologne Art Market was merged with the IKI to form the International Cologne Art Market 1975 , which took place at the Cologne exhibition center in Cologne-Deutz. The new association acted as the ideal sponsor, while the Cologne trade fair company was the professional organizer. Today the art fair calls itself Art Cologne . In spring 2007 the Federal Association of German Galleries (BVDG) and the Federal Association of German Art Publishers (BDKV) merged to form the Federal Association of German Galleries and Editions (BVDG) . At a general meeting of the BVDG in 2011 it was decided to rename the association to the Federal Association of German Galleries and Art Dealers . In 2010 the association moved its headquarters from Cologne to Berlin.

Goal setting

With around 340 members, the BVDG is the largest gallery association in the world today; He belongs to the European umbrella organization FEAGA (Federation of European Art Galleries Associations) and is an active founding member in other associations and institutions: in the Working Group of German Art Trade Associations , in the Art Council section of the German Cultural Council , in the Art Compensation Association and in the central archive of the international art trade . The aim of the association has been to organize an annual art fair and to represent the cultural, political and economic interests of gallery owners, art dealers and editeurs vis-à-vis politics, the media and the general public.

By participating in various specialist committees of the German Cultural Council , in the advisory board of the Artists' Social Fund , as well as in the juries of the art fund and the artist support program at Art Cologn , the association also influences the development of the art market in Germany and brings in the interests of its members. One of the first cultural-political activities of the BVDG in 1975 was the support of the appeal to all political parties “Art is not a luxury” in order to support a major inquiry in the German Bundestag on cultural policy. In the same year, the BVDG took part for the first time in a meeting of the art trade associations , a joint forum for art trade political activities. The subject of resale rights , which the BVDG is still concerned with, was already in the foreground at this meeting .

activity

In 1976 the BVDG began to think about how the planned new artist's social security contribution could be absorbed politically and financially. Within the working group of German art trade associations , negotiations were held with the VG Bild-Kunst in the following years in order to come to a flat-rate arrangement for the compensation of the resale right and the artist's social contribution. With the help of the BVDG, the Art Compensation Association was finally founded in 1980 , which enables the galleries involved to make bureaucratic and economic relief by submitting an annual flat-rate fee.

Also in 1980, the later chairman of the BVDG, Gerhard F. Reinz, together with the gallery owner Philomene Magers, initiated the funding program for young artists at the Cologne art fair (renamed Art Cologne in 1984 ). The funding program for young artists, called New Positions since 2009 , is financially supported by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the City of Cologne and the Cologne Trade Fair. The around 650 sponsors so far include numerous internationally recognized artists such as Rosemarie Trockel , Tracey Emin , Olafur Eliasson , Neo Rauch and many others.

In 1988 the association introduced the ART COLOGNE Prize together with the Cologne Trade Fair . From then on, the prize was awarded to personalities who have made an outstanding contribution to the international communication of modern and contemporary art. The first prize winner was the New York gallery owner Ileana Sonnabend , followed by well-known exhibition organizers, gallery owners, collectors and art scholars such as Harald Szeemann , Annely Juda , Frieder Burda , Werner Spies and Harald Falckenberg .

In 1991, the association took over the organization of the Working Group of German Art Trade Associations (ADK) , in which the political and economic interests of the art trade are formulated and brought into the political arena. The ADK currently includes: the BVDG, the Federal Association of the German Art and Antiques Trade (BDKA), the Association of German Antiquaries (VDA) and the Federal Association of German Art Auctioneers (BDK).

In 1992 the Central Archive of the German and International Art Trade (ZADIK) was founded by the BVDG. The aim of the ZADIK is to document and research the influences of the art trade on international art development and its role in the field of art education, especially after 1945. In 2001 the ZADIK moved from Bonn to Cologne.

Since 2001, on the initiative of the BVDG, German galleries have been financially supported in their participation in foreign art fairs within the framework of foreign trade promotion: From 2001 to 2004, galleries from North Rhine-Westphalia were opened at the Paris Photo trade fair by the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Economic Affairs and from 2004 to 2007 German galleries of the New York art fair Armory Show funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics.

The BVDG and Koelnmesse have been awarding the Cologne Fine Art Prize since 2007 . First introduced in 1996 by the BDKV at art multiple in Düsseldorf, the award is presented to artists in whose work the principle of reproduction plays a central role. Previous winners have included Dieter Roth , Astrid Klein , Sigmar Polke , Thomas Schütte and Katharina Sieverding .

Selection of artists Funding program for young artists (New Positions)

Chairperson

  • Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Bochum, 1975–1978
  • Bogislav von Wentzel, Hamburg / Cologne, 1978–1984
  • Gerhard F. Reinz, Cologne, 1984–1997, since 1997 honorary chairman
  • Dietmar Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, 1997-2001
  • Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, 2001-2004
  • Bernhard Wittenbrink, Munich, 2004–2007
  • Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, 2007–2013
  • Kristian Jarmuschek, Berlin, 2013

literature

  • Maximilian Krips (Ed.): Galleries in Germany: Interface Art + Market; for the 25th anniversary of the Federal Association of German Galleries , NCC Cultur Concept, 2000 ISBN 978-3-93510314-5
  • Nicolai B. Kemle: Art fairs: admission restrictions and antitrust law , Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89949338-2 , p. 19 ff
  • Günter Herzog, Brigitte Jacobsen: Art Market Cologne '67: Origin and Development of the First Fair for Modern Art , 1966–1974, Central Archive of the International Art Trade, 2003, ISBN 978-3-98090920-4

Individual evidence

  1. BVDG press release of May 21, 2007.

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