Wittenbrink Gallery

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The Wittenbrink Gallery is an art gallery in Munich . It shows national and international contemporary art . Your main rooms are in the Kunstareal Munich at Türkenstrasse 16.

history

After training at an art publisher, Bernhard Wittenbrink started his own business as an art dealer in 1971. In 1978 he and his wife Hanna Wittenbrink opened a gallery in Regensburg . In 1984 they moved to Munich and opened their gallery on Ohmstraße, later on Jahnstraße in the Gärtnerplatzviertel . In 2011 the move to the art area in Munich took place.

The gallery mainly shows painting and sculpture , but also conceptual art, photography and video art . Artists who are or have been represented by the gallery include Tony Bevan , Vladimir Skoda, Antony Gormley , Stefan Demary and Rolf-Gunter Dienst . The presentation of contemporary designer jewelry occupies a special position , since this art form is mainly shown in specialized galleries. However, the Wittenbrink Gallery also exhibits works by, in some cases, internationally important jewelry artists such as Otto Künzli , Warwick Freemann and Hermann Jünger .

The gallery took part in international art fairs such as Art Basel , Art Cologne in Cologne, FIAC in Paris, Arco in Madrid as well as PULSE in New York and Miami. The constraints of art fairs were later questioned and participation in them minimized. Instead, the counter-concept is the opening of a second, smaller gallery within the Fünf Höfe shopping arcade near the HypoKunsthalle . In this WittenbrinkFifthHöfe gallery , rapidly changing exhibitions with works of art from various genres are shown within the urban shopping culture. In the main gallery, on the other hand, the concept of several months of individual presentations that is customary for galleries is followed.

The gallery publishes exhibition catalogs or artist books for almost all of its artists. From 1992 to 1995 Bernhard Wittenbrink published the magazine “Critique, Contemporary Art Munich” . Together with the Munich gallerist Rupert Walser, Bernhard Wittenbrink published the book “Without Order” on the history of the art trade and galleries in Munich. In Munich he founded the Munich Galleries Initiative with colleagues . He was one of the initiators of the "Europa 94" exhibition and one of the founders of the Art Forum Berlin trade fair . He is a founding member of the  Central Archives of the International Art Trade (Zadik). From 2004 to 2008 he was chairman of the Federal Association of German Galleries  (BVDG). He was a member of the jury for the Art Fund Foundation and is an honorary auctioneer for the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Why art fairs do not replace a visit to the gallery: A conversation with Bernhard Wittenbrink . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 27, 2004.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Wittenbrink, Rupert Walser (Ed.): Without order. On the history of the art trade. Volume I. Munich . Walser & Wittenbrink Verlag, Munich 1989.

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 46.9 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 25.2 ″  E