My friend Kate and I have been to the fine art fair frankfurt (which took place between April 13th and 15th) a couple of weeks ago. This year it was called "Quality Street" (yes, named after that british sweets I hate so much!) and a sculputers only fair. 48 international galleries showed "off works" by 90 artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. The conventional trade fair architecture had been almost entirely done away with the presentation of the sculptures. The works were shown in a darkened hall without stand walls, and illuminated in a stage like style. A lounge in the centre of the hall served as a meeting place and information hub. The responsible architects are from the berlin based company kühn/malvezzi (Wilfried Kühn actually is my professor...). Definitely a unconventional kind of art fair!!! Please visit the fair's website for further information or my website for more pictures.
Carolin's gallery Galerie Sturm, Stuttgart will show (and sell!) her work at Art Brussels this year. Their boot has the number 11B-11S. Be sure to have a look at her stuff if you'll be in Brussels (I won't, by the way...) between april 20th and 23th.
What's this year's documenta going to be about?
The french architects Lacaton & Vassal are going to build a huge glasshous at the Karlsaue to center the exhibition (different from documenta XI where Okwui Enwezor spread the exhibition allover Kassel). Besides that the Fridericianum (as usual!) aswell as the documenta hall willbe used as exhibition spaces. The construction works at the Karlsaue can be viewed here. Niklas Maak wrote about it in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ - German!).
On monday the first issue of the documenta magazine Modernity? was released during a press conference at the Wiener Secession. Peter Richter wrote about it in the FAZ (German!). I've already placed my order here.
I was very pleased to read about Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe in Die Zeit, a major weekly newspaper in Germany. Meyer Riegger is a gallery based in Karlsruhe (south of Germany) which is quite unusual for a successful and internationally known gallery in Germany. Most of the galleries are in Berlin or Duesseldorf (some in Cologne). Kalrsruhe doesn't exist in the artworld (they have quite good art- and designschools there, but only a few galleries. You go there to study but not for business!). So it's unusual that a gallery based in the province takes part in major art fairs and convinces collectors and curators to visit Karlsruhe. Actually Karlsruhe isn't that bad. They have the ZKM, Kunsthalle and many little exhibitions spaces and upcoming galleries like Iris Kadel. It's definitely worth a visit. Maybe on your way from Frankfurt Airport to Art Basel 07? The Art Karlsruhe is the next bigger occasion. I'm going to blog from there for regioartline by the way.
The current issue (as digital version online avaible for free!!!) of ArtReview has David Lynch on its cover (ha ha I somehow didn't know how he looked like...) who - as a painter, photographer, filmmaker - talks about his upcoming show at Fondation Cartier.
Krinzinger in Vienna I've seen and already wrote about .
well, maybe. I'm leaving art school this summer and my father is afraid that I won't find a job, because "artists are impoverished". Actually I'm not an artist, but an art theorist and on my way to become the next moma director, latest since I read about Glenn Lowry's (the moma director) salary of $1.3m and the benefit of $5.4m he received lately. Not too bad, isn't it!?
