A New Position at Art Cologne

ART COLOGNE

The 44th ART COLOGNE will open its doors in Cologne from 21st to 25th April 2010. For a total of five days, about 180 gal­leries from Ger­many and abroad will be pre­sent­ing works of mod­ern art, post-war art and con­tem­po­rary art. Through selected works and care­fully assem­bled pre­sen­ta­tions, the gal­leries will offer fas­ci­nat­ing insights into the his­tory and present state of the avant-garde. They will dis­play paint­ings, sculp­tures, instal­la­tions, videos and pho­tog­ra­phy, works on paper, edi­tions and mul­ti­ples. In short, ART COLOGNE will cover the entire spec­trum of the fine arts of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Vis­i­tors at ART COLOGNE will find spe­cial­ized sources of infor­ma­tion about cur­rent trends and off­beat cre­ations in the New Posi­tions pro­gram, which young up-and-coming artists have been using since 1980 as a spe­cial “lab­o­ra­tory” for exper­i­ment­ing with new ideas. This spon­sor­ship pro­gram has already served artists such as Neo Rauch, Can­dida Höfer, Gün­ther Förg and Rose­marie Trockel as a spring­board into the inter­na­tional art mar­ket. Vis­i­tors can also make excit­ing dis­cov­er­ies in the area of New Con­tem­po­raries, where young inter­na­tional gal­leries dis­play works by selected artists from their port­fo­lios. Ever since 2005, ART COLOGNE has been using OPEN SPACE to explore new ways to stage an art fair. Lib­er­ated from the tra­di­tional booths, project-oriented and equipped with a spe­cial archi­tec­ture that is adapted to each indi­vid­ual art pre­sen­ta­tion, Open Space offers a tem­po­rary envi­ron­ment for con­tem­po­rary art. The focus here is on indi­vid­ual artists’ positions.