ART DÜSSELDORF 2017

Düsseldorf, Germany, 23 October 2017

Dates: November 17-19

Opening hours:
Press breakfast on Thursday, November 16, 10am – 12pm
Preview (by invitation) on Thursday, November 16, 12 – 4pm
Opening night on Thursday, November 16, 4 – 8pm
Friday, November 17, 12 – 7pm
Saturday, November 18, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, November 19, 11am – 7pm

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ART DÜSSELDORF presents its fair highlights and event program

The first edition of ART DÜSSELDORF will be held from 17 – 19 November (preview on Thursday, November 16). Around 80 established and young galleries from 21 countries will present modern and contemporary art (1945– 2017) in the halls of the former factory complex Areal Böhler.

ART DÜSSELDORF will feature 80 established and young galleries, with nearly 60% from Germany and the Benelux. For Beck & Eggeling (Düsseldorf), the Italian video-pioneer Fabrizio Plessi is creating an installation especially designed for the fair, which will feature 12 LED screens and stand next to the life-sized sculptural ensemble 30 Standing Figures by the late Magdalena Abakanowicz. Taking up the whole booth at Galerie Brigitte Schenk (Cologne), Klaus Fritze is creating Der Zuwachs fällt der Hauptsache zu II (2017), an elevated hunting blind to stimulate a change of perspective and conversation about criteria and structures of order and selection.

More large-scale installations include the large wallpaper installation, The Cast and Crew of the Old Revolutions (2017) by Marcel Dzama, displaying the sketches of some of his costume designs and characters of his films and drawings. The piece is currently exhibited at La Casa Encendida in Madrid but available for sale at Sies + Höke (Düsseldorf). Another large wallpaper installation that featured in the Viva Arte Viva exhibition in Venice this year will be presented by ChertLüdde (Berlin). The five-meter-long ABETARE (2015) by Petrit Halilaj features scans of an Albanian school book.

KOW (Berlin) will only show video art by Hiwa K, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Tobias Zielony and Mario Pfeifer, while Liang Gallery (Taipei) will also show works of the same medium by Taiwanese artists Chen I-Chun and Hsu Chia-Wei.

Galerie Boisserée (Cologne) will focus thematically on work created after 1950 a.o. with an early gouache piece by Joan Miró, and Levy Galerie (Hamburg) will spotlight pop art with paintings and mixed media by Werner Berges and Allen Jones. At Meessen De Clercq (Brussels) nature plays a central role in the works of Thu Van Tran, Claudio Parmiggiani, Chaim van Luit and José María Sicilia.

Galleries from the region will share booths with international galleries. Düsseldorf-based Max Mayer is collaborating with Misako & Rosen from Tokyo to present the artists Richard Aldrich and Ei Arakawa, who regularly collaborate. Linn Lühn, also from Düsseldorf, and CANADA Gallery from New York will show together new works by Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Florian Baudrexel and Christoph Schellberg.

There is a strong representation of artists who are from or live in Germany or the Benelux. Galerie Thomas Zander (Cologne) will show photographs of Düsseldorf by Candida Höfer and photo works by Jürgen Klauke, and Bartha Contemporary (London) will display new sculptures by Mike Meiré. Highlights at Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels) include new works by Gert & Uwe Tobias as well as Sanam Khatibi, while Tim Van Laere (Antwerp) will present Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck and Jonathan Meese.

“References”
Highlighted as standout booths called “References” across the fair, galleries will juxtapose contemporary artworks with an outstanding masterpiece created before 1945. MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna will present a booth curated around Paul Klee’s watercolor Edelklippe (1933, when Paul Klee lost his professorship at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), which displays a visionary place of shelter to prisoners and refugees, with works by the gallery’s Austrian artists Philipp Mentzingen and Herbert Brandl as well as the British sculptor Tony Cragg. Michael Werner Kunsthandel (Köln) spotlights the painting Reclining Nudes (ca. 1939) by Francis Picabia. The avantgarde artist uses references as part of his artistic strategy and his work in turn was referenced by Sigmar Polke, who also is amongst the represented artists at the gallery’s booth. Die Galerie (Frankfurt) is dedicating their booth to a solo show of Roberto Matta and Galerie Bastian (Berlin) to Robert Rauschenberg.

Düsseldorf’s mayor Thomas Geisel on the first edition of ART DÜSSELDORF:
“In addition to being a state capital, Düsseldorf is also a capital of Germany’s art market. That makes me all the more excited about ART DÜSSELDORF: With an impressive selection of the most exciting and influential galleries, it brilliantly rounds off our cultural offering alongside the art academy and a stimulating museum landscape.”

Walter Gehlen, co-director of ART DÜSSELDORF: “We are excited to welcome visitors and outstanding galleries from all over the world to the first edition of ART DÜSSELDORF. The Rhineland is a very relevant region for the art market with strong standing in contemporary art history, which is going to come alive through ART DÜSSELDORF.” The halls of Areal Boehler in Duesseldorf © Areal Böhler

ART DÜSSELDORF mobile App PRNCPL is a new technology platform for the art industry, created by the team behind curiator.com, which was acquired by MCH Group in 2016. The primary focus of PRNCPL is to help art fairs manage their data, and to create the best possible digital experience for its galleries, collectors and visitors.

ART DÜSSELDORF, being part of the MCH Group family, will be the first art fair to partner with the new platform and will launch its official mobile app on 2 November 2017, powered by PRNCPL. The app uses the latest IR (image recognition) technology to instantly display an artwork’s information simply by photographing. Within less than a second, the visitor will be represented with a hi-res image of the artwork that they can favorite, download or share with a friend or on social media.

BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER
For ten emerging artists, it has now become clear: They are presenting their works to a large audience during ART DÜSSELDORF. At the award ceremony on November 17 at 6 pm, the three winners of the BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER will be announced. A prize will additionally be awarded in the new special category ‘music video’.

The #urbanana award
The #urbanana award ceremony will be held at 5 pm on 17 November. Tourismus NRW in cooperation with CREATIVE.NRW are using the #urbanana award to recognize tourism-oriented projects from the creative economy for the first time. Along with the presentation of the award’s six recipients — each of whom will receive 4,000 euro — and impulse talks by North Rhine-Westphalia’s secretary of commerce, Andreas Pinkwart (to be confirmed), and Norbert Kettner, managing director of WienTourismus, the project #urbanana will also be introduced. It will be the first time that the Ruhr Valley and the Rhineland cities of Düsseldorf and Cologne present themselves together as a creative urban jungle.

Talks programme and tours
On Saturday, 18 November, Dominikus Müller, writer and journalist, will host four individual talks under the umbrella theme “Autonomy and Agenda” to discuss the relationship between art and politics amid questions about identity politics, social fragmentation and the rise of a new right wing.

On Sunday, 19 November, Tobias Flessenkemper, international expert in culture and governance, will chair two panel discussions about the cultural economy in the metropolitan region of the Rhineland and its role in European and international cultural policy. Panelists will be announced soon.

ART DÜSSELDORF will host tours and an extensive VIP program.

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Galleries 2017

313 ART PROJECT – Seoul
Piero Atchugarry Gallery – Garzón
Baginski Galeria / Projectos – Lissabon
Albert Baronian – Brüssel
BARTHA CONTEMPORARY – London
Galerie Bastian – Berlin
Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art – Düsseldorf
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard – Kopenhagen
Galerie Boisserée – Köln
CANADA – New York
carlier | gebauer – Berlin
Century Pictures – Brooklyn
ChertLüdde – Berlin
Cortesi Gallery – London, Mailand, Lugano
COSAR HMT- Düsseldorf
Croy Nielsen – Wien
DIE GALERIE – Frankfurt am Main
DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM – Berlin
DREI – Köln
Dvir Gallery – Brüssel, Tel Aviv
Daniel Faria Gallery – Toronto
Galeria Francisco Fino – Lissabon
Green On Red Gallery – Dublin
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art – Lissabon
Haas – Zürich
Lucas Hirsch – Düsseldorf
Galerie Heinz Holtmann – Köln
rodolphe janssen – Brüssel
Karma – New York
Galerie Peter Kilchmann – Zürich
Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen – Mainz, Venedig
Koenig & Clinton – Brooklyn
KÖNIG GALERIE – Berlin
KOW – Berlin
KRINZINGER – Wien
Tim Van Laere Gallery – Antwerpen
Galerie Christian Lethert – Köln
alexander levy – Berlin
LEVY – Hamburg
Liang Gallery – Taipei
Galerie Löhrl – Mönchengladbach
Linn Lühn – Düsseldorf
Markus Lüttgen – Köln
Edouard Malingue Gallery – Hong Kong, Shanghai
MARIO MAURONER CONTEMPORARY ART – Wien
Galerie Ron Mandos Amsterdam – Amsterdam
Marlborough Contemporary – New York
Galerie Hans Mayer – Düsseldorf
Galerie Max Mayer – Düsseldorf
Meessen De Clercq – Brüssel
kamel mennour -Paris
Misako & Rosen – Tokio
Montrasio Arte – Monza
Galerie Neu – Berlin
Carolina Nitsch – New York
OV Project – Brüssel
PRISKA PASQUER – Köln
Polansky Gallery – Prag
PSM Gallery – Berlin
Thomas Rehbein Galerie – Köln
Petra Rinck Galerie – Düsseldorf
Galerie Brigitte Schenk – Köln
Galerie Anke Schmidt – Köln
SCHÖNEWALD – Düsseldorf
Sies + Höke – Düsseldorf
SPERLING – München
Galerie Gregor Staiger – Zürich
SUZANNE TARASIEVE – Paris
Galerie Bene Taschen – Köln
Galerie Daniel Templon – Paris
Galerie Utermann – Dortmund
Van Doren Waxter – New York
VAN HORN – Düsseldorf
Sofie Van de Velde – Antwerpen
Axel Vervoordt Gallery – Antwerpen
MICHAEL WERNER – Köln, Märkisch Wilmersdorf, New York
Galerie Thomas Zander – Köln
Zilberman Gallery – Istanbul, Berlin
David Zwirner – London, New York