Jablonka gallery

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Rafael Jablonka (left) with Franz Gertsch in the Böhm Chapel

The Jablonka Gallery was a gallery for contemporary art in Cologne. It was founded in 1988 by Rafael Jablonka . The gallery closed in 2018 and Rafael Jablonka handed over his gallery archive to the Central Archive for German and International Art Market Research (ZADIK) in Cologne .

Gallery work

Exhibition hall Böhm Chapel

The first domicile of the Jablonka Galerie was in a gallery house designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers on Venloer Strasse in Cologne. The Jablonka Gallery looks after and represents the artists under contract through exhibitions in its own gallery, through mediation to art museums and major international exhibitions, as well as through the presentation of their work at international art fairs.

So far, works by internationally known artists such as Nobuyoshi Araki , Andy Warhol , Miquel Barceló , Andreas Slominski , Sigmar Polke , Francesco Clemente , Eric Fischl , Alex Katz , Mike Kelley , James Rosenquist , Sherrie Levine , David Salle , Philip Taaffe and Enzo Cucchi exhibited.

The Jablonka Galerie participates in the major art fairs such as Art Basel , Frieze Art Fair , London, Art Basel Miami Beach and Artparis Abu Dhabi. Rafael Jablonka bought  the painting "Mustard Riot Race" by Andy Warhol from 1963 for 13.5 million US dollars at Christie's in New York in autumn 2004 - probably on behalf of the art collector Udo Brandhorst . As an art book publisher , the gallery publishes catalogs and books for its exhibitions , which are also available in bookshops. The art library association Florence-Munich-Rome lists fifteen publications by the Jablonka Gallery.

The gallery opened exhibition rooms on Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse in Berlin in September 2006 . The gallery rooms were closed again on December 23, 2009. The last Berlin exhibition was for artists Mike Kelley, Sherrie Levine and Andreas Slominski. Jablonka justified the closure with the lack of "economic perspective in Berlin" for contemporary art.

For this purpose, in 2010 in Hürth - Kalscheuren, after violent disputes about its profanation and the lifting of the monument protection, the former church of St. Ursula, created by Gottfried Böhm , was taken over as an exhibition building. In the Böhm Chapel renamed church two to three exhibitions per year are held. So far work has been carried out there. a. by Terry Winters , Sherrie Levine , Eric Fischl , David LaChapelle , Norbert Tadeusz and Franz Gertsch . The Böhm Chapel will continue to be used as an exhibition space even after the gallery has been closed.

In August 2012 the first Swiss branch of the Jablonka Gallery was opened in Zurich .

Publications

  • Craig Adcock: James Rosenquist, The Hole in the Center of Time . Jablonka Gallery, 2008. ISBN 978-3-931354-44-2
  • Jonathan Safran Foer: Andy Warhol, Ten portraits of Jews of the 20th century - Collage . Jablonka Gallery, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931354-40-4
  • From the Terreiro: Francesco Clemente, Atlantic Avenue Paintings . Jablonka Gallery, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931354-39-8
  • Kay Heymer: Eric Fischl, Dance - Sculpture and Watercolor . Jablonka-Galerie, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-931354-34-2
  • Zdenek Felix: Enzo Cucchi, Paintings and Sculptures . Jablonka Gallery, 2005, ISBN 3-931354-33-4
  • Miquel Barceló: Pablo Picasso, Women 1971 . Jablonka Gallery, 2005, ISBN 3-931354-31-8
  • Vincent Fremont: Andy Warhol's Small World. Drawings of Children and Dolls, 1948–1985 . Jablonka Gallery, 2005, ISBN 3-931354-30-X

Writings by Rafael Jablonka

  • Rafael Jablonka: Ruins: Strategies of Destruction in the Fracture Paintings of Georg Baselitz 1966-1969 . d'Offay, London 1982
  • Rafael Jablonka, Siegfried Gohr: Europe / America - The story of an artistic fascination since 1940 . Museum Ludwig, 1986
  • Kasper König, Rafael Jablonka: From here: 2 months of new German art in Düsseldorf . Society for Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Kelley and Damien Hirst had their first exhibitions with him faz.net
  2. ^ Carl Andreas Abel, Karl Ruhrberg: Zeitzeichen. Stations of fine arts in North Rhine-Westphalia . DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 978-3-7701-2314-8 , p. 558.
  3. ↑ Katja Blomberg: How art values ​​are created. The new art market . Murmann Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-938017-24-1 , p. 67.
  4. ↑ Catalogs of the Jablonka Gallery at Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de  
  5. ↑ Jablonka ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at: Art Libraries Association Florence – Munich – Rome @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kubikat.org
  6. ^ Lisa Zeitz: Ade Berlin . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 11, 2010