Volker Diehl (gallery owner)

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Volker Diehl

Volker Diehl (born May 28, 1957 in Neheim-Hüsten ) is a German gallery owner . He mainly exhibits contemporary art in the “DIEHL” gallery ( Berlin ) .

Career

After graduating from high school in Warstein in 1977 , Volker Diehl first studied at the Münster Art Academy under Hans-Jürgen Breuste , and from 1978 at the Free University of Berlin art history . In West Berlin he supervised various artists as part of the DAAD's Berlin artist program (including Markus Raetz , André Thomkins , Wolf Vostell , Dieter Hacker ) and got to know René Block in this context . At the exhibition “For Eyes and Ears” curated by Block, which was shown first at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, then at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris , he was also responsible for mentoring the artists and thus met Joseph Beuys , Nam June Paik , Joe Jones and many more artists. A little later he became Shigeko Kubota's assistant and ran her studio. From 1981 to 1983 he was assistant to Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal . In this context, he supervised the artists and worked as a personal assistant on the Zeitgeist exhibition , which was "arguably one of the most historically significant global painting surveys of the 20th century." “) Represented. Together with Roland Hagenberg, he subsequently published the two books Maler in Berlin (1982) and the sequel ... And (1983) self-published ("HAPPY-HAPPY"), which contain numerous interviews with and portraits of artists and collectors , including Anselm Kiefer , Georg Baselitz and Erich Marx as well as representatives of the artist groups Neue Wilde and Arte Cifra . With Roland Hagenberg he traveled to New York , where they conducted interviews with Andy Warhol , Robert Mapplethorpe , Keith Haring , Francesco Clemente , Julian Schnabel , Robert Morris , Jean-Michel Basquiat , Leo Castelli , Ileana Sonnabend , Mary Boone , Tony Shafrazi and many others. The tapes used later turned out to be defective, which is why the interviews were never published.

Works as a gallery owner

In 1983 he began to oversee exhibitions at the “ Folker Skulima Gallery ” in Berlin as a junior partner and showed young, contemporary artists there, including Jaume Plensa , Rosemarie Trockel , Leiko Ikemura , Sergey Volkov, Ray Smith and Martin Assig . In September 1990 he took over the premises in Niebuhrstrasse when he founded the Galerie Volker Diehl . 2. In 2000 the company moved to new premises in Zimmerstr. in Berlin-Mitte , 2007 in Lindenstrasse in the Kreuzberg district . In autumn 2011 the gallery moved back to the previous room in Niebuhrstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In September 2013, a project space was added under the name “Diehl Cube” in Emser Strasse in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , in which exhibitions were shown until 2018.

In addition, Diehl opened its own exhibition space in Moscow in April 2008 as the first western gallery owner under the name “Diehl + Gallery One”. From April 17 to June 15, 2008, Diehl exhibited the works of the American artist Jenny Holzer under the title Like truth in the former premises of the state Soviet art trade at Smolenskaya No. 5/13 . After further exhibitions by Wim Delvoye , Zhang Huan , Jaume Plensa and Olga Chernysheva , the Moscow branch closed again at the end of 2009.

Under the name "Diehl Projects", Diehl was responsible for other projects, initially around 2000 and 2007/2008 in Berlin, later the exhibition by the Russian artist Olga Chernysheva Adventure Istiklal N. 9 in the "Yapi Kredi Kazim Taskent Art Gallery" in Istanbul (2009 ) and two group exhibitions in Rostov-on-Don with the title Berlin is good! and Pubblico - Privato (spring 2012).

As part of the event series Charlottenwalk - Gallery Tour Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf , Diehl z. B. Works by Ritzi Jacobi, Imre Bak, KP Brehmer (all 2019), Dieter Hacker , Constantin Flondor, Susan Hefuna , #WeDoo and Alexandra Paperno (all 2018).

Other Projects

In 1996 he was a founding member of the art fair “ art forum berlin ” with 13 other gallery owners , and until 2001 he ran the company together with Rudolf Kicken . It was internationally the first exclusively contemporary art fair and the first fair in the world that was designed and carried out by gallery owners.

With Margarita Pushkina and Vlad Ovcharenko, he established the Russian art fair “Cosmoscow” with an “all-inclusive concept” in 2010; in 2016 he also founded the London pop-up company “Art Circle” together with Elena Sereda and Natalia Chagoubatova (curation et al by Bettina Ruhrberg ).

Exhibitions (selection)

1983 to 1990 in the Folker Skulima Gallery

Gallery Volker Diehl in Berlin

Diehl + Gallery One in Moscow

  • Jenny Holzer , Like truth , 2008
  • Wim Delvoye , New Works , 2008
  • Group exhibition: Laughterlife - New Art from Russia and Central Asia , 2008
  • Zhang Huan, Paintings and Sculptures , 2008/2009
  • Jaume Plensa , Silent Music , 2009
  • David Ter-Oganyan , Aleksandra Galkina , Scale , 2009
  • Group exhibition: Glasnost. Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s , 2010
  • in cooperation with Baibakov Art Projects: Olga Chernysheva, Participation in Modernikon - Contemporary Art from Russia , 2011

Diehl Cube

Publications (selection)

Painter in Berlin
  • Christos M. Joachimides (ed.): Zeitgeist. Editing by Ursula Prinz u. Volker Diehl. Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1982.
  • Volker Diehl, Roland Hagenberg (ed.): Painter in Berlin. HAPPY-HAPPY, Berlin [1982].
  • Volker Diehl, Roland Hagenberg (eds.): ... And. HAPPY-HAPPY, Berlin [1983].
  • Volker Diehl (ed.): Martin Assig. Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin 1990.
  • Andy Warhol : Flowers. Stellan Holm Gallery, New York and Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, 1994.
  • Galerie Großinsky & Brümmer, Galerie Volker Diehl (ed.): Martin Assig. Gallery Großinsky & Brümmer u. Gallery Volker Diehl, Karlsruhe a. Berlin 1997.
  • Jaume Plensa : Like a breath. Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin 1998.
  • Susan Hiller : The curiosities of Sigmund Freud. Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin 2006.
  • Zhang Huan : Drawings - On the Occasion of the Exhibition Zhang Huan - Drawings, at Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, March 10 to April 10, 2007. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2007.
  • Martin Borowski : Homestory Visitation. Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin 2007.
  • Ling Jian : The Last Idealism. Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin 2007.
  • Martin Assig : Westwerk Havelhaus. Gallery Volker Diehl u. Schirmer / Mosel, Berlin a. Munich 2008.
  • Olga Chernysheva, Boris Groys : Caesuras - Works 2000-2008. Gallery Volker Diehl u. Diehl + Gallery, Berlin a. Moscow 2009.
  • Joseph Backstein , Ekaterina Degot , Boris Groys, Olga Sviblova: Glasnost - Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s. Haunch of venision; Gallery Volker Diehl, London 2010.
  • Christian Megert : light and movement. Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin 2013.
  • Peter Sedgley : Singing Light. Diehl, Berlin 2014.
  • Rolf-Gunter Dienst : Primavera. Volker Diehl, Allegra Ravizza, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8947998-0-9 .
  • Ralf Hanselle , Volker Diehl, Stefan Heyne : Prime Time - archetypes of abstraction in photography. Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817940-1-4 .
  • Julia Nefedova , Lena Vazhenina : Internet doesn't allow me to forget you. Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817940-0-7 .
  • Simon English: My Big Self Decoy Justin Beiber. Black Dog Publishing, London 2017.
  • Tiberiy Szilvashi: Rembrandt Zoom - Melancholy as the alchemy of painting. Edited by Volker Diehl. ciconia ciconia, Berlin 2019.

literature

  • Klaus Siebenhaar : Culture Handbook Berlin . Bostelmann & Siebenhaar, 2001 (p. 216)
  • Julika Kehb, Natascha Kirchner, Esther Knuth: Gallery profile Volker Diehl - hardness and brutality . In: KUNST Magazin 1307/08, pp. 12-17.
  • Odrija Fišere: At the end, the artwork survives: An interview with German gallerist Volker Diehl . In: Arterritory.com , August 12, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abitur 1977, Europa-Gymnasium Warstein
  2. ↑ a b Monika Lembke: The art ambassador. Die Welt , June 2, 2008, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Group exhibitions, Stephan von Huene
  4. ^ John Newsom: Zeitgeist. Flash Art , March 13, 2016, accessed September 14, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Odrija Fišere: At the end, the artwork survives. In: Arterritory.com , August 12, 2016.
  6. ↑ Kolja Reichert: The nasty money. Die Zeit , November 28, 2013, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  7. ^ Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin.de
  8. ^ Swantje Karich: Volker Diehl opens in Moscow. Frankfurter Allgemeine , March 16, 2008, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  9. ^ Christiane Hoffmans: Our man in Moscow. Welt am Sonntag , April 13, 2008, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Odrija Fišere: At the end, the artwork survives. In: Arterritory.com , August 12, 2016.
  11. ↑ Exhibition list on charlottenwalk.de
  12. ^ Gallery Volker Diehl. Achim Klapp Medienberatung, 2008, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Julika Kehb, Natascha Kirchner, Esther Knuth: Gallery profile Volker Diehl - hardness and brutality. In: KUNST Magazin 1307/08, p. 16.
  14. ↑ Susanne Schreiber: Shopping for art in the “Red October” factory building. Handelsblatt, December 14, 2010, accessed on September 18, 2019 .
  15. ^ The Essence of Things - Art Circle - London, Art Matter
  16. ↑ Ahoy, Attersee! Der Tagesspiegel , quoted by Galerie Volker Diehl (pdf), March 18, 1989, accessed on January 4, 2018 .
  17. ^ Gallery Volker Diehl - KP Brehmer: Brush your teeth twice a day. In: DIEHL. Retrieved May 6, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Diehl, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Neheim-Hüsten