Just in time for ART COLOGNE, the managers of the Alter Wartesaal have launched a project in cooperation with the Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne Art Association) called "kunstbar" (the art bar) which interprets the concept of a bar in a new and unusual way. A spot, so popular and so closely associated with the art scene is obviously the ideal meeting point and the "place to be" for the galleries and guests of the 43rd ART COLOGNE.

"Alter Wartesaal" und kunstbar - only fifteen minutes walk from the fair venue the nightly meetingpoint for galleries, artists, curators, collectors is located between main trainstation and the Dom Cathedral.

April 22 - 26, 8 pm - 3 am

 

Museum Ludwig presents as part of its series of major temporary exhibitions some 30 large-scale works - both paintings and silkscreen prints - by Christopher Wool. In addition, the 160-part photo series East Broadway Breakdown (1995) will be shown. Christopher Wool is the winner of the Hahn Prize for 2009, which is among the top financial awards in Germany for international contemporary art. The exhibition traces Wool's artist development in recent years, not least his growing interest in composition and the ways it can be conveyed in such different media as painting, drawing, photography and the print. The main thrust of the exhibition is directed to Wool's abstract paintings and silkscreen prints since 2006.

Christopher Wool award ceremony

April 20th 2009, 7 pm, followed by vernissage opening at Museum Ludwig

 

Artist and DJ Spencer Sweeney spins records for a special after Vernissage night at the Alter Wartesaal, April 21st, 11pm - 3am

Free entrance for ART COLOGNE card holders and exhibitors

 

Dark Fair 09 Cologne - the subversive and experimental miniature art fair will take place without the use of natural or electric light. An international selection of galleries, nonprofits and artists will display work custom to these conditions, using candlelight, flashlights, oil lamps, work that glows in the dark, light sculpture, battery powered video and unplugged performances. In the tradition of the Unfair, Dark Fair seeks to reinvigorate the model of the art fair with a new spirit. Dark Fair will also feature two Video Nights curated by Matthew Higgs and Julia Stoschek, and Submerging Artists, a group show of underwater sculpture. DJing and nightly performances by Spencer Sweeney, Gavin Russom and more.

Presented by Milwaukee International

April 23 - 26, 6 pm - Midnight
Opening: April 22, 2008, 9:30 pm - Midnight

 

Traditionally the Cologne galleries will be staging previews on one and the same evening - 22 April - presenting their stable of artists, new names and new work, to throngs of international art lovers from 6 pm until the early hours.

Joint Openings Cologne Galleries: Wednesday, April 22 2009, 6-10 pm

 

Accompanied to the exhibition "Sonic Youth etc. Sensational Fix" the band will give a concert in Düsseldorf. The exhibition is devoted to the activities of the experimental guitar band Sonic Youth, which profoundly influenced style in the music and art scene from its founding in 1981. This is shown by the numerous joint projects of the band with artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians, as well as by works of art that Sonic Youth has selected for the exhibition.

Sonic Youth Concert
Friday, April 24, 2009
Tickets are sold out

 

1301 PE (Los Angeles), Adamski (Aachen/ Berlin), Akinci (Amsterdam), Art Agents (Hamburg), AYE Gallery (Bejing), ASPN (Leipzig), Laura Bartlett (London), Andreas Binder (Munich), Blanket Contemporary Art (Vancouver), Bleich-Rossi (Vienna), Blow111 (London), Bortolozzi (Berlin), BQ (Cologne), Sebastian Brandl (Cologne), Broadway 1602 (New York), Lena Brüning (Berlin), Daniel Buchholz (Berlin /Cologne), Sandra Bürgel (Berlin), Bugdahn + Kaimer (Duesseldorf), Cabinet (London), Gisela Capitain (Cologne), Charim (Vienna), China Art Objects (Los Angeles), CIRCUS (Berlin), CLAGES (Cologne), Pepe Cobo (Madrid), COMA (Berlin), Cosar HMT (Duesseldorf), Crisp (London/ Los Angeles), Chantal Crousel (Paris), Dogenhaus (Leipzig), Heinrich Ehrhardt (Madrid), Frank Elbaz (Paris), Eleven Rivington (New York), Fahnemann Projects (Berlin), Ferenbalm Gurbrü Station (Karlsruhe), Fiebach & Minninger (Cologne), Figge von Rosen (Cologne), Thomas Flor (Duesseldorf), Forsblom (Helsinki), SixFriedrichLisaUngar (Munich), Klaus Gerrit Friese (Stuttgart), Gentili (Prato), GMG Gallery (Moscow), Bärbel Grässlin (Frankfurt), M & J Guelman (Moscow), Freymond Guth (Zurich), HaiShangShan Art + Exhibition (Shanghai), Hammelehle und Ahrens (Cologne), Häusler Contemporary (Munich), Reinhard Hauff (Stuttgart), Ernst Hilger (Vienna), Heinz Holtmann (Cologne), Hotel (London), I-20 Gallery (New York), Michael Janssen (Berlin), Annely Juda Fine Art (London), Galleri K (Oslo), Karma International (Zurich), Mike Karstens (Muenster), Ben Kaufmann (Berlin), Kevin Kavanagh (Dublin), Dennis Kimmerich (Duesseldorf), Kleindienst (Leipzig), Bernhard Knaus Fine Art (Frankfurt), Sabine Knust (Munich), Konzett (Graz /Vienna), Koraalberg (Antwerp), Krobath Wimmer (Vienna), Nicolas Krupp (Basel), L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht (Frankfurt), La Città (Verona), Laden für Nichts (Leipzig), Galerie für Landschaftskunst (Hamburg), Lange + Pult (Zurich), Gebr. Lehmann (Dresden), Christian Lethert (Cologne), Löhrl (Moenchengladbach), Loevenbruck (Paris), Linn Lühn (Cologne), M 29 (Cologne), Brigitte March (Stuttgart), Alessandro de March (Milan), Miguel Marcos (Barcelona), Hans Mayer (Duesseldorf), Mirko Mayer (Cologne), Mezzanin (Vienna), The Mint (New Delhi), Gillian Morris (Berlin), Mot International (London), Mother's Tankstation (Dublin), Christian Nagel (Berlin /Cologne), NextArt (Budapest), Nice & Fit (Berlin), Mihai Nicodim (Los Angeles), Anna Nova (St. Petersburg), Nusser & Baumgart (Munich), Alexander Ochs (Berlin /Bejing), Priska Pasquer (Cologne), Rupert Pfab (Duesseldorf), Karl Pfefferle (Munich), Plan B (Cluj), Tanja Pol (Munich), Program (Warsaw), Redling Fine Art (Los Angeles), Thomas Rehbein (Cologne), RENTAL Gallery (New York), Petra Rinck (Duesseldorf), Ritter / Zamet (London), Stefan Röpke (Cologne), Rosenfeld (Tel Aviv), Jette Rudolph (Berlin), Ruzicska / Weiss (Duesseldorf), Marion Scharmann (Cologne), Scheffel (Bad Homburg), Aurel Scheibler (Berlin), Brigitte Schenk (Cologne), Schmidt Maczollek (Cologne), Schnittraum/Lutz Becker (Cologne), Otto Schweins (Cologne), Nicola von Senger (Zurich), Sies + Höke (Duesseldorf), Walter Storms (Muenchen), Hans Strelow (Duesseldorf), Jacky Strenz (Frankfurt), Sutton Lane (London /Paris), T 293 (Napoli), Teapot (Cologne), Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman (Innsbruck), Wilma Tolksdorf (Frankfurt /Berlin), VAN HORN (Duesseldorf), Edith Wahlandt (Stuttgart), Ursula Walbröl (Duesseldorf), Michael Werner (Cologne /New York), Wetterling (Stockholm), Michael Wiesehöfer (Cologne), Eva Winkeler (Frankfurt), Workplace (Gateshead), Susanne Zander (Cologne), Thomas Zander (Cologne)

 

Modern / Post War Galleries