Folker Skulima
Folker Skulima (* 1940 ) is a German gallery owner and art collector .
Life
Skulima studied German and Romance languages in Heidelberg and Barcelona. After working for several years in film and theater, he moved to West Berlin in 1968 , was the gallery manager of Reinhard Onnasch and in 1969 founded his own gallery Folker Skulima on Fasanenstrasse . He was one of the first gallery owners who opened a new space for contemporary art, such as process and conceptual art , in the city and created a counterpoint to the Berlin art of that time through an international orientation.
In 1975 he was one of the three founding members of the Federal Association of German Galleries . For more than 15 years he was a member of the Art Basel Exhibitor Advisory Board and, in the 1980s, the Art Chicago Exhibitor Advisory Board .
In August 1975 he was the curator of the exhibition “8 from Berlin” for the Edinburgh Festival on behalf of the Berlin Senate. In spring 2003 he curated the exhibition “Alexis Akrithakis” for the Neue Nationalgalerie. In 2005 he realized the exhibition “Affinities” in the Guggenheim Collection Venice with others.
Since the 1990s he has focused on curating and working on his extensive collection. Folker Skulima lives in Berlin and New York. With his art foundation, founded in December 2018, he promotes contemporary art and culture in all fields.
Folker Skulima Gallery
In 1969, Skulima showed works by Andy Warhol in his first exhibition in Berlin . In 1970 exhibitions a. a. with Marcel Broodthaers , Gilbert & George , Daniel Buren and Lawrence Weiner . 1971/72 Skulima u. a. Cy Twombly , Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz .
In 1977 Edward Kienholz selected the Skulima gallery for the premiere of his world-famous The Art Show . He showed exhibitions with works by Max Ernst , Hannah Höch and Jean Fautrier as well as group exhibitions on Dada , Surrealism and Constructivism with artists such as Marcel Duchamp , Francis Picabia , Raoul Hausmann , René Magritte and El Lissitzky . In the late 1970s he got involved with the “ New Wilds ”. From 1983 Volker Diehl supervised Skulimas exhibitions and in 1990 took over the gallery rooms under his own company.
Skulima published several narrow exhibition catalogs under his company name.
Skulima is a longstanding member of the Association of Friends of the National Gallery.
Folker Skulima Art Foundation
The Folker Skulima Art Foundation was founded in December 2018. “The aim of the Folker Skulima Art Foundation is to strengthen the importance of art and culture in a democratic, free and plural society; in this way it promotes the charitable purposes of art and culture as well as education. "
The foundation's first prize-winner is the German artist Jakob Mattner , who was honored with an extensive exhibition at Grisebach in Berlin in December 2019 and accepted the award there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolf Jessen: A realist, waiting for miracles. "Germany's largest gallery floor" was opened in Berlin. In: Zeit vom February 28, 1969, accessed on February 23, 2019.
- ↑ The International Art Fair. Art 8`77. Swiss sample fair Basel. Without publisher
- ↑ 8 from Berlin (exhibition catalog). The Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, August 16-14. September 1975
- ↑ Alexis Akrithakis. New National Gallery March 28 to May 18, 2003. An exhibition by the National Gallery Berlin.
- ↑ AFFINITIES - VENEDIG, PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION - Works from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection. Catalog. Venice 2005. Contribution by Jasper Sharp, Hanrike Schulte & Folker Skulima.
- ↑ Official Journal for Berlin Number 51 of December 21, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Art Foundation
- ↑ Query at the German National Library , accessed on February 23, 2019.
- ↑ Folker Skulima on Alexander Calder's "Untitled (Dancing Stars) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucg65v-DMg8
- ^ Volker Skulima Art Foundation
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Skulima, folker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gallery owner and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |