At the start of the autumn season for European art fairs some 130 of the leading galleries from the world's main art centres will be presenting their stars and their newcomers in Berlin. This year, the art forum berlin presents several innovations. Thus, for the first time, in the sector galleries, in addition to galleries for contemporary art, a series of galleries will be admitted which present art since 1960. With this expansion of the exhibition offers the International Art Show will become more varied and even more attractive and interesting for the visitors.
The art forum berlin – the International Art Fair – will be taking place for the fourteenth time from 24 to 27 September 2009.
At the start of the autumn season for European art fairs some 130 of the leading galleries from the world’s main art centres will be presenting their stars and their newcomers in Berlin.
This year, the art forum berlin presents several innovations. Thus, for the first time, in the sector galleries, in addition to galleries for contemporary art, a series of galleries will be admitted which present art since 1960. With this expansion of the exhibition offers – without detracting from the main emphasis on contemporary art – the International Art Show will become more varied and even more attractive and interesting for the visitors.
The sector focus allows young galleries – in existence for less than 5 years – an appearance which will attract a lot of attention. Furthermore, the International Art Show will introduce the sector plein air for the presentation of installations and sculptures in the attractive summer garden at the Palais am Funkturm. The presentation of cultural institutions and international art magazines rounds off the exhibition programme. Additionally, panel discussions with leading experts from the international art world are organized.
During art forum berlin, the Berlin museums, galleries and private art institutions will offer a varied programme of outstanding exhibitions. Thus the New National Gallery will present Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch: Schwerpunkt Surrealismus and Thomas Demand, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, the exhibition Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst 2009: Keren Cytter, Omer Fast, Annette Kelm und Danh Vo.
At the same time as art forum berlin, upon the initiative of Berlin galleries there will be the abc exhibition with the title def – drafts establishing future. This exhibition will show models, drawings, sketches, installations and videos of art projects specifically created for the public space in Berlin. Exclusive receptions and events will be further attractions and meeting points all over the city.
Galerie
* Aanant & Zoo (sector focus)
* Galerie Anhava (sector galleries)
* Arratia, Beer (sector focus)
* Artericambi (sector focus)
* Martin Asbæk Gallery (sector galleries)
* Galerie Guido W. Baudach (sector galleries)
* Jürgen Becker Galerie (sector galleries)
* Galería Elba Benítez (sector galleries)
* Galería Elba Benítez (sector plein air)
* Galerie Katharina Bittel (sector focus)
* Galleri Bo Bjerggaard (sector galleries)
* Niels Borch Jensen Galerie (sector galleries)
* Spencer Brownstone Gallery (sector galleries)
* Ellen de Bruijne Projects (sector plein air)
* Galerie Lena Brüning (sector focus)
* Buchmann Galerie (sector galleries)
* Buchmann Galerie (sector plein air)
* carlier | gebauer (sector galleries)
* Carreras Mugica SL (sector galleries)
* Chert (sector focus)
* Galerie Mehdi Chouakri (sector galleries)
* Christine König Galerie (sector galleries)
* Contemporary Fine Arts (sector galleries)
* Galerie Crone (sector galleries)
* Ellen de Bruijne Projects (sector galleries)
* Dogenhaus Galerie (sector galleries)
* Galerie Anselm Dreher (sector galleries)
* Edlin Gallery (sector galleries)
* EDS | Galería (sector focus)
* Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt (sector galleries)
* Galerie Eigen + Art (sector galleries)
* Feinkost (sector focus)
* Fiebach & Minninger (sector galleries)
* Figge von Rosen Galerie (sector focus)
* Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese GmbH (sector galleries)
* Galerist (sector galleries)
* Gentili Apri (sector focus)
* Christopher Grimes (sector galleries)
* Barbara Gross Galerie (sector galleries)
* Galerie Bärbel Grässlin (sector galleries)
* Galerie Bärbel Grässlin (sector plein air)
* Galerie Karin Guenther (sector galleries)
* Galerie Haas (sector galleries)
* Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens (sector galleries)
* Hatje Cantz Verlag/ KQ KUNSTQUARTAL (art magazines)
* Galerie Reinhard Hauff (sector galleries)
* Herald St (sector galleries)
* Galerie Max Hetzler (sector galleries)
* Hoet Bekaert Gallery (sector galleries)
* Gallery Xavier Hukens (sector galleries)
* I-20 Gallery, LLC (sector galleries)
* i8 Gallery (sector galleries)
* IBID PROJECTS (sector galleries)
* Galerie Grita Insam (sector galleries)
* Alison Jacques Gallery (sector galleries)
* Johann König (sector galleries)
* Johnen Galerie (sector galleries)
* Galerie Iris Kadel (sector galleries)
* Galerie Kamm (sector galleries)
* Georg Kargl Fine Arts & Georg Kargl Box (sector galleries)
* Georg Kargl Fine Arts (sector plein air)
* Kicken Berlin (sector galleries)
* Kisterem (sector focus)
* Klemm’s (sector focus)
* Klosterfelde (sector galleries)
* Galerie Krinzinger (sector galleries)
* Krobath (sector galleries)
* Kuckei + Kuckei (sector galleries)
* Galerie Bernd Kugler (sector galleries)
* Kulturwerk des bbk berlin GmbH (cultural institutions)
* Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin (sector focus)
* Galerie Gebr. Lehmann (sector galleries)
* Galerie Gisèle Linder GmbH (sector galleries)
* Stella Lohaus Gallery (sector galleries)
* Stella Lohaus Gallery (sector plein air)
* Loock Galerie (sector galleries)
* Patricia Low Contemporary (sector galleries)
* Galerie Löhrl (sector galleries)
* Lüttgenmeijer (sector focus)
* Mai 36 Galerie (sector galleries)
* Galerie Hans Mayer (sector galleries)
* Galerie Mario Mazzoli (sector focus)
* Meyer Riegger GmbH (sector galleries)
* Galerie Michael Janssen (sector galleries)
* Stuart Shave/Modern Art (sector galleries)
* Moeller Fine Art GmbH (sector galleries)
* Galerie Vera Munro (sector galleries)
* Galerie Mark Müller (sector galleries)
* neugerriemschneider (sector galleries)
* Galerie Nordenhake GmbH (sector galleries)
* Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder (sector galleries)
* Nathalie Obadia (sector galleries)
* Galerie Nathalie Obadia (sector galleries)
* Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin | Beijng (sector galleries)
* Tatjana Pieters / OneTwenty (sector focus)
* perugi artecontemporanea (sector galleries)
* Galleria Pianissimo (sector focus)
* Galeria Plan B (sector galleries)
* Produzentengalerie Hamburg (sector galleries)
* ProjecteSD (sector galleries)
* PSM (sector focus)
* Rodeo Gallery (sector focus)
* Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (sector galleries)
* Galerie Gabriel Rolt (sector focus)
* Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac GmbH (sector galleries)
* Galerie Jette Rudolph (sector focus)
* Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska (sector galleries)
* Galleria S.A.L.E.S. (sector galleries)
* Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie (sector galleries)
* Esther Schipper, Berlin (sector galleries)
* galerie schleicher+lange (sector focus)
* Galerie Thomas Schulte GmbH (sector galleries)
* galeria SENDA (sector galleries)
* SEPTEMBER Koerner von Gustorf und Müller GbR (sector focus)
* Galerie Sfeir-Semler (sector galleries)
* Galerie Sfeir-Semler (sector plein air)
* Sies + Höke Galerie (sector galleries)
* Slewe Galerie (sector galleries)
* Fredric Snitzer Gallery (sector galleries)
* Galleria Franco Soffiantino (sector galleries)
* Sommer & Kohl (sector focus)
* Sprüth Magers (sector galleries)
* Michael Stevenson (sector galleries)
* Gallery TaiK (sector galleries)
* Team (Gallery Inc.) (sector galleries)
* Galerie Daniel Templon (sector galleries)
* Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman (sector galleries)
* Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman GmbH (sector plein air)
* Galerie Barbara Thumm (sector galleries)
* Sassa Trülzsch (sector focus)
* Tulips & Roses (sector focus)
* Daniela Steinfeld Van Horn (sector focus)
* Tim Van Laere Gallery (sector galleries)
* Galerie Bob van Orsouw (sector galleries)
* Studio Voltaire (cultural institutions)
* Galerie Barbara Weiss (sector galleries)
* Wentrup (sector galleries)
* Wentrup (sector plein air)
* Galerie West (sector focus)
* Max Wigram Gallery (sector galleries)
* Galerie Eva Winkeler (sector focus)
* Galerie Eva Winkeler (sector plein air)
* Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (sector galleries)
* Galerie Thomas Zander (sector galleries)
* Galleria Zero (sector galleries)
* Zink + Zink GmbH & Co. KG (sector galleries)
Sector plein air and berlin talks
New: Sector plein air
art forum berlin initiates the sector plein air for the presentation of sculptures and installations in the exterior space. The plein air platform gives the interested visitors of the International Art Show an insight into what leading contemporary artists understand by art in the public space: Robert Barry (Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Beirut), Dora Garcia, (Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam), Michael Kienzer (Galerie Elisabeth und Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck), Thomas Kiesewetter (Wentrup, Berlin), Meuser (Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt on the Main), Wilhelm Mundt (Galerie Buchmann, Berlin), Ernesto Neto (Elba Benítez Gallery, Madrid), Claus Richter (Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt on the Main), Gerwald Rockenschaub (Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin and Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna), Erik von Lieshout (Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp)
berlin talks
Daily from Thursday, September 24 to Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 24
4 p.m. Does urban space need art?
Susanne Küper (art historian, Berlin), Jochen Volz (Artistic Director Instituto Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil), Zhang Wei (Director Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, Beijing)
In cooperation with art berlin contemporary – drafts establishing future. public art projects for urban space
Artist Talk
5.30 p.m. Gerwald Rockenschaub (artist, Berlin) in conversation with Hans-Jürgen Hafner (curator, Berlin).
8 p.m Does Berlin need a Kunsthalle?
Personalities from the Berlin and the international art and cultural scene discuss the project of a Berlin Kunsthalle. Klaus Biesenbach (Chef Curator Museum of Modern Art, New York) Thomas Eller (artist and former executive director of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin), Olafur Elliason (artist, Berlin), Florian Schmidt (Spokesperson of the initiative Berliner Kunsthalle, sociologist, Berlin), Klaus Wowereit (Mayor of the City of Berlin)
In cooperation with the Hamburger Bahnhof.
Venue: Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Invalidenstrasse 50 – 51, Berlin
Friday, September 25
Collectors' Panel
4 p.m. Collecting art in Berlin
Erika Hoffmann (collector, Berlin), Heike Catherina Mertens (Board member Kultur, Schering Stiftung, Berlin), Christiane zu Salm (collector, Berlin), Christian Boros (collector, Wuppertal and Berlin), Thomas Köhler (Berlinische Galerie, Deputy Director, Head of Collections and Programme Planning) and Ivo Wessel (collector, Berlin)
Host: Christiane Hoffmans (Welt am Sonntag, Kultur und Kunstmarkt, Düsseldorf).
Artist Talk
5.30 p.m. What makes the difference? Why Berlin and not Paris? Why Paris and not Berlin? Damien Deroubaix (artist, French, lives and works in Berlin), Nicolas Moulin (artist, French, lives and works in Berlin), Jan Kopp (artist, German, lives and works in Paris), Veit Stratmann (artist, German, lives and works in Paris)
Host: Valerie Smith (Head of Department Fine Arts, Films and Media, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin).
Saturday, September 26
4 p.m. The Hungarian Art Scene
About the current art scene in Hungary, discussants Anna Bagyo (Art Consultant, Budapest), Margit Valkó (owner Kisterem Gallery, Budapest), Zsolt Somlói (collector, Budapest), Barnabás Bencsik (Director Ludwig Museum, Budapest), Zsolt Petrányi (Director Kunsthalle Mücsarnok, Budapest), Balázs Kicsiny (artist, Budapest)
Host: Gábor Ébli (Associate Professor, Institute for Theo¬retical Studies Moholy-Nagy University for Art and Design Campus, Budapest).
Artist Talk
5.30 p.m. The Oracle and Snöfrid
Stories about the Oracle, The Fruit and Flower Deli, Snöfrid, the Keeper and Kunsthalle Athena, in an open conversation about spiritual journeys in the arts, about piracy, hijacking, and about the ideological grounds of new practices and models of operating within and outside the commercial art scenes. Rodrigo Mallea Lira (dealer, the Keeper of Fruit and Flower Deli)
Ylva Ogland (artist, created the Oracle, is the earthly mirror twin sister of Snöfrid)
Host: Marina Fokidis (curator and writer, founder of Kunsthalle Athena).
Sunday, September 27
4 p.m. Young galleries in the international art market
How to build up a brand? How important are art fairs for young galleries? Do new ways exist to make the gallery and its artists known to the public? How do young galleries hold their own against the established galleries? These and other issues will be discussed by young gallery owners participating in the sector focus. Sylvia Kouvali (owner Gallery Rodeo, Istanbul), Tatjana Pieters (owner Tatjana Pieters / Onetwenty Gent), Elizabeth Díaz Soto (owner EDS Galería, Mexico City), Sassa Trülzsch (owner Galerie Sassa Trülzsch, Berlin), Eva Winkeler (owner Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt on the Main)
Host: Abaseh Mirvali (Cultural and public policy projects producer, Mexico-City).
Artist Talk
5.30 p.m. John Bock (artist, Berlin) and Prinz Gholam (Wolfgang Prinz, Michel Gholam, artists, Berlin) in conversation with Franz Erhard Walther (artist, Halstenbek).
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Opening Day 23 September 2009
Media Conference 10:30 a.m.
Premiere starts 11 a.m.
Preview starts 3 p.m.
Vernissage 6 p.m. – to 9 p.m.
Exhibition Grounds
Messe Berlin GmbH, Berlin
EntranceS-Bahn station Messe Nord / ICC
U-Bahn station Kaiserdamm or Theodor-Heuss-Platz
Halls 18 to 20 (Sector galleries)
Hall 11.2 (Sector focus)
Palais am Funkturm (Sector art magazines and cultural institutions; berlin talks, VIP Lounge)
Sommergarten (Sector plein air)
Hall 19, North Entrance, Masurenallee-Hammarskjöldplatz
Opening noon – 7 p.m
Ticket Price: Full-day Ticket EUR 18
2-days Ticket EUR 32
Student Ticket EUR 12
Groups (per person, min. 10 persons) EUR 12
Evening Ticket (after 4 pm) EUR 12