Gallery Weekend: praise the gallery – Tagesspiegel

00:00 clock Christiane Meixner

Who looks around in Berlin galleries, sees countless idealists at work. They can be on unsecured artistic positions, which has ennobled still not a museum, and make works to the debate. They invite you to dispute about art, which is always a dispute over the reality. A commentary on the Gallery Weekend.

In New York gallery owner puts many more to than all the Berlin art dealer. These are the big players, deal on pure profit focused company that art as an industrial commodity. And in Berlin? Can the galleries of those 300 million only dream that a David Zwirner is about to take on its three sites in the US and London every year.

Perhaps they dream other dreams. Who looks around in Berlin, sees countless idealists at work. You feel at new places and pull a few years later to return, because the rents are increasing – the gallery, the area has after all been upgraded. They can be on unsecured artistic positions, which has ennobled still not a museum, and make works to the debate. They invite you to dispute about art, which is always a dispute over the reality.

collectors, critics and gallery visitors talk to passionate, gain insights, be aware of (not only) aesthetic questions. Sometimes they see a future star rise. Worldwide established artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Jorinde Voigt or Anselm Reyle were discovered and promoted by Berlin gallery owner. What may they flourish when they finally sell for tough construction work works, many know from their own experience. Then advertise the big player the artists for the hungry market from

Bought must be

Berlin gallerists take no entrance fee. Daily except Sundays they allow free access to art. Anyone can come, watch, ask questions – not only at the Gallery Weekend, which began as a private initiative of several galleries to secure sites and has become an institution. Meanwhile, hundreds of galleries remain open in the city this weekend, for collectors from around the world, as well as for Berlin visitors. Not all employees in the galleries may seem accessible.

Most found but an enthusiast who can convey more about the sensuality of art than many museum guide. The you have to pay for the rest, just like the entrance to the museum. Galleries, however, are free and low-threshold, they offer fresh, beguiling, and strange art, truth and magic, poetry and provocation. Galleries are place of wonder: It is close to the avant-garde, maybe she finds herself back tomorrow at the Museum. How it started because once with Andy Warhol? Or with the Zero-art, which is now celebrated in the Gropius-Bau?

Bought may be in the galleries of course. But nobody wags here with the price list. The business is discreet, perhaps this just makes for one of the great misunderstandings in the German art market: that galleries are generally successful models. The beginning of 2014, they had an increase in VAT to 19 per cent for art cope, although this represents a considerable disadvantage in international trade. And many are struggling with the rising rents in the major cities. The Berlin Institute for Strategy Development has questioned Germany’s gallery owners according to their sales, only eight percent earning more than one million euros per year. In Berlin make around 20 of 400 galleries half of sales, accounted Hergenstadt Wöbken, the managing director of the Institute. Here are the galleries “, the largest exhibition center of the capital”. It is time to thank the gallery for this commitment.