Friedmann-Hahn Gallery
The Friedmann-Hahn Gallery is a gallery for contemporary and figurative art in Berlin .
history
The Friedmann-Hahn Gallery was founded in 2005 by Alexander Friedmann-Hahn in Berlin-Charlottenburg . His father Josef Friedmann-Hahn ran an art trade in Hamburg in the former gallery of Gunter Sachs , where he had shown Andy Warhol's first exhibition in Germany.
Alexander Friedmann-Hahn worked as a visual artist until 2005 and used today's gallery space as a studio.
After graduating from high school in 1987, he initially trained as an advertising clerk until 1990 . He then enrolled as a visiting student at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nice . From 1992 the first pictures were shown in various solo exhibitions, including in the editorial rooms of the Berliner Zeitung , in the traditional Commeter Gallery in 1995 and 2000, in Cannes in the Galerie la Croisette and in the Willy Brandt House . On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall , the photo project Leben ohne Mauer was created in 1999 for the magazine Die Welt . His pictures are represented in various collections. Among others in the Samuel Braun Group collection in the Savoy Hotel in Berlin's Fasanenstrasse.
As a gallery owner, Alexander Friedmann-Hahn built up a program of international contemporary painters. The focus is on contemporary figurative painting, supplemented by individual positions in the areas of urban art, photography and sculpture. The Friedmann-Hahn gallery represents u. a. the artists David FeBland, Josef Fischnaller , Markus Fräger , Edite Grinberga , Anders Gjennestad, Anne Leone, Daniel Ludwig, Saša Makarová , Nikolai Makarov, Guido Sieber , Marc Sparfel, Mark Taschowsky, Donald Vaccino and Maximilian Verhas .
The gallery shows four to six solo exhibitions per year, accompanied by catalog productions published by the Friedmann-Hahn art publisher, with essays that position the works in terms of art history. The authors published, among others, the writer Christian Ankowitsch , the former director of Villa Massimo in Rome Jürgen Schilling , the philosopher Harry Lehmann, the art historians Mark Gisbourne and Ludwig Seyfarth, the film critic Ursula Vossen, the director of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Christoph Tannert and the time - Author and publicist Maxi Sickert -Broecking.
The Friedmann-Hahn Gallery produces film portraits of artists for the exhibitions. a. by Sabine Carbon . In between, the gallery shows young, selected positions in group exhibitions in addition to its regular artists in order to give them a forum. For example during the “Berlin Gallery Weekend” or the “Berlin Art Week”. In 2017, a work monograph by the Austrian photographer Josef Fischnaller was published in cooperation with Fern Verlag .
Exhibition reviews and interviews with the artists and the gallery owner appeared and a. in Monopol , Weltkunst , Deutsche Welle , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Chapeau-Magazin , on n-tv , in Tagesspiegel , in Berliner Zeitung and Die Welt .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2019: Marc Sparfel. Wood anima.
- 2018: Maximilian Verhas. Moving Perspectives.
- 2018: Anders Gjennestad.Gravity.
- 2018: Josef Fischnaller. Erotica.
- 2017/2018: Edite Grinberga. Meanwhile.
- 2017: Sasa Makarová. La Grande Bellezza.
- 2017: Markus Fräger. The forsaken.
Catalogs
A selection of art catalogs published by the gallery:
- Harry Lehmann: Edite Grinberga. Shared light. 2015.
- Sophie Gerlach: Edite Grinberga. Painting. 2009–2012. 2012.
- Sophie Gerlach: Marc Sparfel Wood Hunter. 2015.
- Maxi Broecking-Sickert, Mark Gisbourne: Mia Florentine Weiss. Ten Years of Work. 2017.
- Christian Ankowitsch: Josef Fischnaller. Dudes, Hustlers, and other weirdos. 2011.
Web links
- Website of the Friedmann-Hahn Gallery
- Literature from and about Galerie Friedmann-Hahn in the catalog of the German National Library