Max Hetzler Gallery

The Max Hetzler Gallery is an international art gallery founded in Stuttgart in 1974 . It is run by Max Hetzler and his French wife Samia Saouma.

history

In the 1970s the gallery was based in Stuttgart, in 1982 it moved to Cologne , and in the mid-1990s it moved to a former factory building in Berlin . Max Hetzler opened his offices in Charlottenburg in 1994. A year later he discovered Zimmerstrasse at Checkpoint Charlie as an additional gallery space that later became the main location. In 2006, Hetzler moved from Zimmerstrasse to the former Osram Höfe in Wedding. In 1981 the gallery exhibited Martin Kippenberger , Günther Förg as well as Albert Oehlen and Alfons Mucha . Hetzler exhibits museum-worthy contemporary art from Jeff Koons to Gerhard Merz. At the end of 2013, Max Hetzler left the showroom in Wedding and opened two new locations in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In May 2014, Hetzler opened a branch in Paris. In Weidingen (Eifel) he and his wife run the Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art in Weidingen , on the premises of which annual summer exhibitions take place, where the artists can live and work in preparation for and during the exhibition. In July 2016, a library with around 3000 books from Günther Förg's collection was opened on the foundation's premises .

activities

Anniversary exhibition

In 2013 the gallery celebrated its 40th anniversary and showed the currently represented artists in the exhibition Remember Everything. Forty Years Gallery Max Hetzler . Works by Darren Almond , Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra , Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum , Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter , Marepe , Beatriz Milhazes , Ernesto Neto , Frank Nitsche , Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim , Richard Phillips , Michael Raedecker were included , Bridget Riley , Thomas Struth , Rebecca Warren , Christopher Wool and Toby Ziegler .

Artists with solo exhibitions (selection)

Max Hetzler has organized over 100 solo exhibitions by international artists, including:

Darren Almond Donald Baechler Bernd & Hilla Becher Monica Bonvicini Klaus from the break André Butzer Werner Büttner Walter Dahn Rineke Dijkstra Günther Förg Mona Hatoum Georg Herold Hubert Kiecol Martin Kippenberger Gerhard Merz

Jeff Koons Beatrice Milhazes Ernesto Neto Frank Nitsche Albert Oehlen Markus Oehlen Yves Oppenheim Michael Raedecker Bridget Riley Thomas Struth Philip Taaffe Rebecca Warren Christopher Wool Toby Ziegler

Trade fair participations

The gallery has been continuously represented at major art fairs since 1989, including a. with appearances at the abc - art berlin contemporary , The Armory Show , Art Basel , Art Basel Miami Beach , Art Cologne , Art Forum Berlin and at the FIAC .

Art library

Max Hetzler has an art book collection with over 20,000 titles. The core holdings are works related to the gallery and art from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Polke and Baselitz and Richter. Many of them are out of print.

literature

• Thomas Groetz: Galerie Max Hetzler: Berlin 1994–2003. ISBN 3-935567-16-2 .

Web links

• Website of the Max Hetzler Gallery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrich Clewig: When books make you happy In: cicero.de of February 25, 2012.
2. ↑ www.berlin.de
3. ↑ My name is Charlie, Checkpoint Charlie. Retrieved August 29, 2019 . 
4. ↑ www.berliner-zeitung.de
5. ↑ ^{a b} Swantje Karich: Blossoms, you flowers made of steel! In: FAZ.net . November 15, 2013, accessed December 12, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Galerie Max Hetzler At: steps-hotel.de
7. ↑ Tim Ackermann: This is what a winner looks like. In: welt.de. December 15, 2013, accessed December 12, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Why more and more galleries are moving to Charlottenburg. Retrieved August 29, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: One sucks. Retrieved August 29, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Max Hetzler goes to Paris ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2013 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. In: monopol-magazin.de of April 29, 2013  
11. ↑ Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art in Weidingen ( Memento of the original from April 6, 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. , accessed July 14, 2015  
12. ↑ Outside barn, inside gallery in Trierischer Volksfreund , accessed on July 14, 2015.
13. ↑ Christiane Hoffmans: Art knows no summer break , in the world of August 7, 2016, accessed on August 15, 2016.
14. ^ Foundation website: Library Günther Förg , accessed on August 15, 2016.
15. ↑ www.artfacts.net