Photography collection of Swiss Zellweger Luwa on view for the first time at Kunstmuseum Bonn

BONN.- Kunstmuseum Bonn presents under the title ‘THROUGH THE LOOKING BRAIN’ the photography collection of Swiss Zellweger Luwa AG which has never been shown in public before. Established by Ruedi and Thomas Bechtler in 1990 and constantly complemented by Cristina Bechtler, Ruedi Bechtler und Bice Curiger (Kunsthaus Zürich), the collection has become over the last 20 years one of the best and most comprehensive international collections in the field of conceptual photography. The collection contains works from the 1970s until today, including [...]

IVAM Announces Two Exhibitions of Masterpieces of 20th and 21st Century Art from Its Collection

VALENCIA.- As 2011 was chosen as the year of Russia in Spain and Spain in Russia at the Yaroslav Conference, the IVAM has organised two exhibitions to be held in Moscow and St Petersburg displaying, respectively, the masterpieces of 20th and 21st century art in the Collection of the IVAM and the history of photography in Spain with a selection of images by great Spanish photographers, also from the Collection of the IVAM. V. Kulagina, Estamos construyendo, 1929 From June [...]

Van Ham Celebrate their 10th Anniversary with Over 400 Works by Outstanding Photographers

COLOGNE.- Van Ham celebrate their 10th anniversary with over 400 works by outstanding photographers, among them regulars such as August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky or Irving Penn. Moreover, Van Ham dedicate a special catalogue to an American collection entitled Selection from an American Collection that comprises numerous works by international top photographers. At this occasion Van Ham again calls top lots from the highly sought-after oeuvre by Cologne photographer August Sander to auction. Particularly remarkable [...]

Exhibition of New Photographs by Julian Faulhaber at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler

NEW YORK, NY.- Hasted Hunt Kraeutler presents an exhibition of new photographs from the body of work Lowdensitypolyethylene by Julian Faulhaber. The German-born photographer made his United States debut in Chisel curated by Kathy Ryan of the New York Times at the first annual New York Photo Festival in 2008. His first gallery show in New York followed in the fall of that year at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler. Since then, Faulhaber has been named a new and emerging photographer to [...]

SFMOMA to Offer a Fresh Look at Seminal 1975 Photography Exhibition

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, on view from July 17 to October 3, 2010. Comprised of close to 150 photographs, it is a restaging of a historically significant exhibition held in 1975 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. This reprisal brings together the work of all ten photographers included in the original New Topographics: Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, [...]

Kopeikin Gallery to Open Exhibition of Drawings by William Steiger

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA.- The Kopeikin Gallery presents the first west coast exhibition of drawings by New York based artist William Steiger whose subject matter are icons of the American landscape, including grain elevators, tramways, railroad cars, roller coasters and ferris wheels. The exhibition opens on Saturday March 13th with a reception for the artist and continues through April 17th. Steiger’s drawings are never populated, focusing rather on the chiseled geometry of recognizable structures of 20th century ideology. The reduced forms [...]

Nine Dusseldorf Museums and Galleries Prepare for Dusseldorf’s Second Quadriennale

DUSSELDORF.- Art enthusiasts from Germany and abroad are looking forward to the second Quadriennale, which will open on September 10, 2010 and ends in January 2011. Nine Duesseldorf museums and galleries are preparing high quality exhibitions with considerable grants from the regional capital without which the ambitious exhibition plans would not be possible. Despite the general financial crisis, the city is supporting the Quadriennale with additional funds of approx. five million Euros. “With this Festival of Arts, the city with [...]