Gallery Karsten Greve

Galerie Karsten Greve, Drususgasse 3 - Cologne

Galerie Karsten Greve operates art galleries in Cologne , St. Moritz and Paris and was founded by the art dealer and publisher Karsten Greve . The gallery program is determined by the international post-war avant-garde, photography, Chinese and international contemporary art. The gallery represents around 50 artists and publishes catalog editions accompanying the exhibitions, monographs and catalogs raisonneés.

Foundation and development

The German art dealer and publisher Karsten Greve is the founder and owner of Galerie Karsten Greve. In 1972 he opened the first gallery in Cologne, in 1989 a second location was opened in Paris, in 1994 a third in Milan (closed since 2002) and a fourth in 1999 in St. Moritz.

Cologne

In 1970 Karsten Greve ran the Möllenhof / Greve gallery together with Rolf Möllenhof (1939 *, Chemnitz). He founded his first own gallery in 1972 in the Cologne gallery building at Lindenstrasse 20. The gallery in Cologne was opened with an exhibition by the artist Yves Klein, who was still largely unknown, and his anthropometry series of works. In the same year, the gallery took part in Art Basel for the first time. In 1973 Karsten Greve became the sole owner of the Karsten Greve Gallery. In 1980 the gallery was relocated to the former business premises of Aenne Abels at Wallrafplatz 3 and exhibited, among others, Cy Twombly (1982), Lucio Fontana (1982 and 1983) and Willem de Kooning (1990). An expansion took place with the move to the former gallery of Rudolf Zwirner in Albertusstraße 18 in 1992, which was redesigned by the architect Erich Schneider-Wessling. A John Chamberlain solo exhibition was presented on the premises, followed by Josef Albers (1996 and 1998), Cy Twombly (1997), Wols (1998), Louise Bourgeois (1999) and Jannis Kounellis (1999). In 2000 the Karsten Greve gallery was moved to its current main location in a listed building from the 1950s at Drususgasse 1-5. The lower floors of the house were converted under the guidance of the French architect Yannis Tsiomis. Exhibitions are still held in the rooms at Wallrafplatz 3.

Paris

The Karsten Greve gallery opened its second location in 1989 on Rue Debelleyme in the Marais district of Paris near the Musée Picasso . The gallery rooms are located in a palace from the 17th century, which was built around a cour d'honneur and consist of a large main gallery and a smaller gallery over three floors. The architect Yannis Tsiomis was responsible for the renovation of the entire interior of the property.

In 2003 the Galerie Karsten Greve Paris presented a Pierre Soulages solo exhibition. Galerie Karsten Greve represents Pierre Soulages in France.

Milan

Karsten Greve opened a third gallery in 1994 in Via Santo Spirito in the historic center of Milan , near Via Montenapoleone , and dedicated the first exhibition to Cy Twombly. Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Nicola de Maria, Osvaldo Licini, Francesco Lo Savio and Mario Nigro were exhibited. The gallery was closed in 2002.

St. Moritz

In 1999 the Karsten Greve gallery opened its fourth location in Via Maistra 4 in St. Moritz. The former Posthaus Hotel was converted by the architect Norman Foster for this purpose  . The Karsten Greve gallery was one of the first galleries in the region. In contrast to other galleries in Engadin , exhibitions take place all year round.

Importance in the art world

The gallery enjoys worldwide recognition in professional circles due to its curated presentations at art fairs and museum exhibition quality and is counted among the leading galleries in Europe. During his career as an art dealer, Karsten Greve cultivated close friendships with artists such as Cy Twombly , Louise Bourgeois , Jannis Kounellis and John Chamberlain , Pierre Soulages and Gotthard Graubner. He and his galleries were therefore able to play a key role in ensuring that these artists found worldwide recognition. The focus of the gallery program is on the main streams of the renewal movements after 1945, which represented the starting point for the continuation of modernism at the turn of the century.

The gallery presents both solo and group exhibitions on its own premises as well as in cooperation with international museums and public art institutions and supports the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, among other things, through loans Fondation Beyeler and the Art Museum in Basel. Notable exhibitions in which the gallery took part include the Cy Twombly exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao (2008/2009), the Cy Twombly retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zürich (1987), which was later shown in Madrid and London, the Louise Bourgeois retrospective in the Tate, in the Center Pompidou, Guggenheim New York (2007/2008) and finally the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples (2008/2009), as well as the Lucio Fontana retrospective (2014) in the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The gallery acts as a consultant for private collections and corporate collections such as the Museum Frieder Burda, the Museum Insel Hombroich, the Broad Art Foundation, the Fondation d'Art Contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, La Maison Rouge and the Fondazione Prada .

Every year the gallery participates in leading international art fairs such as Art Basel in Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong and Art Basel Miami Beach , FIAC Paris, TEFAF Maastricht, TEFAF New York Spring and Art Cologne .

Represented artists

The gallery represents artists from all artistic genres (painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation and photography). The represented and exhibited artists include:

Josef Albers Eugène Atget Roger Ballen Use Bing Pierrette Bloch Louise Bourgeois Brassaï Thomas Brummett Alexander Calder Lawrence Carroll John Chamberlain (artist) Joseph Cornell Lynn Davis Willem de Kooning Ding Yi (artist) Jean Dubuffet Lucio Fontana

Gotthard Graubner Leiko Ikemura Mimmo Jodice Paco Knöller Yiorgos Kordakis Jannis Kounellis Catherine Lee David Malin Sally Mann Piero Manzoni Fausto Melotti Henri Michaux Claire Morgan Manish Nai Mario Nigro Jean-Michel Othoniel Robert Polidori

Norbert Prangenberg Qiu Shihua Gideon Rubin Georgia Russell Joel Shapiro Qiu Shihua Shen fan David Smith (sculptor) Pierre Soulages Louis Soutter Luise Unger Sergio Vega Wols Zhou Tiehai

publishing company

Galerie Karsten Greve is responsible for numerous catalog publications, monographs and catalog raisonneés in the field of contemporary art. The book 40 Years · 20 Years · 10 Years · Galerie Karsten Greve · Cologne · Paris · St. Moritz , which appeared in 2010, documents the history of the gallery since it was founded. Important titles of the publisher include: BRASSAÏ - DUBUFFET (2011), Joseph Cornell (1992) with texts from the diaries of Joseph Cornell, Louis Soutter, finger paintings 1937–1942 , (1998), with texts by Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Sculpture / Skulptur, lo sono uno scultore e non un ceramista, Catalog III (2012) and Cy Twombly, Work on Paper, Catalog VI (2013).

Web links

Commons : Galerie Karsten Greve  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Karsten Greve Gallery
• Publications by Galerie Karsten Greve in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gallery Karsten Greve. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
2. ^ Yves Klein Archives. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 9, 2017 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 . 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.  
3. ^ Yves Klein: Anthropometries. Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne . Galerie Karsten Greve, January 1, 1974 ( books.google.de ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Gallery Karsten Greve. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
5. ^ Gallery Karsten Greve. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
6. ^ Gallery Karsten Greve. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Horst Richter: School of seeing. Josef Albers and Peter Schmersal . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . September 29, 1998.
8. ↑ Bruno Schneider: Night watch grows out of wax chalk. The Greve gallery shows pictures by Cy Twombly . In: Rundschau . July 17, 1997: “In addition to rarely shown works by Greve, there are also well-known works by this painter from the years 1951 to 1976, in which he designed his graphic and painterly psychograms, which, despite their proximity to action painting and minimalism, hardly fit in with any style can be assigned. ”“ He is an artist whose works are less open to the intellect, but all the more to the sensitive and patient eye, for which the high rooms at Greve offer a rare opportunity. ”
9. ↑ Thomas von Taschitzki: "Full of vitality and freshness. Ball of color, fragments: Cy Twombly in the Greve Gallery . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . July 19, 1997:" The work of Cy Twombly has a special place in the program of the Karsten Greve Gallery. Twenty paintings and sculptures from the period between 1951 and 1976 are now being presented in an almost museum-like exhibition. "
10. ↑ Christiane Vielhaber ,: Painting is still alive . In: Handelsblatt . July 22, 1997.
11. ↑ Google Maps. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
12. ^ Gallery Karsten Greve. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
13. ^ Bettina Wohlfarth, Paris: Pierre Soulages in Paris: Beyond Black . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 12, 2015 ( faz.net [accessed February 15, 2017]).
14. ^ Des inédits de Pierre Soulages exposés à Paris - France 3 Occitanie . In: France 3 Occitanie . ( france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr [accessed February 15, 2017]).
15. ↑ Literature & Art | “Four dream hotels and cult locations in the wonderful Engadine”. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
16. ↑ St. Moritz Magazine . ( issuu.com [PDF; accessed February 15, 2017]).
17. ↑ 50th art fair Art Cologne - The old aunt is doing fine . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . April 14, 2016 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed February 15, 2017]).
18. ↑ Art Basel 2016 - first impressions & pictures . In: art . ( art-magazin.de [accessed on February 15, 2017]). art-magazin.de ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 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.  
19. ↑ Heidrun Wirth: Kingmaker with a flair . In: Kölnische Rundschau . October 15, 2009.
20. ↑ Joel Shapiro Triumphs at Karsten Greve. artnet News, February 9, 2015, accessed February 15, 2017 . 
21. ^ Heidrun Wirth: Hidden signs, ready for museum: Galerie Greve shows Brassai-Dubuffet . In: Kölnische Rundschau . November 16, 2011.
22. ↑ Jürgen Raap: Rooms of fear . In: Kölner Illustrierte . April 4, 1994: "A museum-ready program from John Chamberlain to Picasso has been the profile of Galerie Greve for a long time, and even now there are top-class things to see: drawings and early sculptures by Louise Bourgeois in the rooms on Wallrafplatz [...]"
23. ↑ Susanne Henle: In front of paradise you flatten your nose . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 2, 1997: “Greve's offer has reached a museum level here. Overall, the show, which in this year's summer months is also aimed at the international art people attracted by the documenta, can be seen as a strategically implemented art market offensive. "
24. ↑ Art World Europe's Top 55 Galleries You Need To Know artnet
25. ↑ Inside the World's Top Galleries: Karsten Greve .
26. ^ Benjamin Genocchio: Q&A with Karsten Greve . Ed .: Blouin art + auction. December 2013.
27. ↑ Roland Groß: A gallery owner of the world artists . In: The Standard . August 2003.
28. ↑ Heidrun Wirth: Kingmaker with a flair . In: Kölnische Rundschau . October 15, 2009.
29. ^ Kunsthaus Zürich: Expositions 1987. Retrieved on February 15, 2017 (French). 
30. ↑ Insight Informatics: Cy Twombly: Pictures, Works on Paper, Sculptures - Kunsthaus Zürich, February 18 to March 29, 1987. Accessed on February 15, 2017 (English). 
31. ^ Art Basel Great art, great money In: Manager Magazin . 20th June 2014
32. ↑ Art Basel: Exhibitors 2017. Retrieved on February 15, 2017 (English). 
33. ↑ Art Basel: Exhibitors 2017. Retrieved on February 15, 2017 (English). 
34. ↑ Art Basel: Exhibitors 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017 (English). 
35. ^ Gallery Karsten Greve AG. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 16, 2017 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 . 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.  
36. ^ Rose-Maria Gropp: Art Cologne Die Macht am Rhein Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 12, 2014
37. ↑ CONTEMPORARY ART | artcologne. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 20, 2017 ; accessed on February 15, 2017 . 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.  
38. ^ Gallery Karsten Greve. Retrieved February 15, 2017 . 
39. ^ Publications of the Karsten Greve Gallery in the catalog of the German National Library
40. ↑ Galerie Karsten Greve (ed.): 40 Years · 20 Years · 10 Years · Galerie Karsten Greve · Cologne · Paris · St. Moritz . Self-published, 2010.