Art Forum Berlin 2006

The 11th ART FORUM BERLIN -The International Fair for Contemporary Art - presents itself consequent in its selection and constantly focussing on new. From September 30 to October 4, opening September 29, 2006 the ART FORUM BERLIN appears as a precise, compact, actual fair with a by far wider range of international attendance and a fresher program than last year.

The annually rotating Admission Committee 2006 has made its choice out of a record number of applicants. About 120 Galleries from Europe, Asia, Australia, North- and South-America have been selected for this year's edition.



Members of the Admission Committee 2006 were Carlos Duran, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Ellen de Bruijne, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Kamel Mennour, Gallery Kamel Mennour, Paris, and Markus Lüttgen, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, as well as the curators Beatrix Ruf, Kunsthalle Zurich, and Britta Schmitz, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin. Georg Kargl, Galerie Kargl, Vienna, did represent the Galleries' Advisory Board as did Christian Nagel, Christian Nagel Galerie, Berlin/Cologne, who assumed the chair of the International Admission Committee.



The 11th ART FORUM BERLIN presents fresh and dynamic avant-garde on its highest level represented by galleries from 23 countries. Although the Berlin and German focus is still strong, international galleries are in the majority: from the USA13 galleries will be aboard, from France, Great Britain and the Netherlands respectively six galleries will participate. Among the international new participants are Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Christopher Grimes, Los Angeles, The Breeder, Athens, Linn Lühn, Cologne or veracortes, Lisbon. A selection of galleries who will exhibit for the first time in Berlin: Art:Concept, Paris, Tim van Laere, Antwerpen, Otto Schweins, Cologne, and Max Wigram, London. Anticipated are new discoveries by Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg and Nina Menocal, Mexico City. Back in Berlin are amongst others Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles as well as Spencer Brownstone and Elizabeth Dee, both from New York.



Well-known features of ART FORUM BERLIN will be retained, like the alphabetical placement of the exhibitors, the individual design of the booths with their 3.5-meter solid walls, the ART FORUM BERLIN Talks, which started in 2000 and the already traditional lounges and rest areas, specially conceived by artists for the fair. This year, some of the lounges will be designed by prize-winning artists of the GASAG-art-prize 2006.



Exhibition Overview
Paintings, sculptures, drawings, original graphics, photography, installation art
video, multimedia, special editions.

Visitor Target Groups
Private collectors, public and commercial institutions,contemporary art museums, art enthusiasts, privat and institutional contractors.

Dates
Opening > September 29, 4-9 p.m.
September 30 - October 04, 2006, noon - 8 p.m

Location
Exhibition Grounds Messe Berlin, in the Halls 18-20, Entrance 19 (Hammarskjöldplatz-Masurenallee)

Hours
September 30 - October 04, 2005, 12 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Admission
Full-day Ticket EUR 15,00
2-days Ticket EUR 27,00
Reduced Ticket (students) EUR 10,00
Groups/per person (more than 10 persons) EUR 10,00
Evening Ticket (after 5 p.m.) EUR 10,00
Opening (for 2 persons) EUR 60,00



Art Forum Berlin 2006 - Exhibitor List
Galleries :
Adamski, Aachen / Akinci, Amsterdam / Helga De Alvear, Madrid / Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen / Anhava, Helsinki / Arndt & Partner, Berlin/Zurich / Art:Concept, Paris / Asbaek, Copenhagen / Aurel Scheibler, Berlin / Guido W. Baudach, Berlin / Jürgen Becker, Hamburg / Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Main / Black Dragon, Los Angeles / Bleich-Rossi, Vienna / Breeder, Athens / Spencer Brownstone, New York / Lena Brüning, Berlin / Ellen De Bruijne, Amsterdam / Buchmann, Berlin / Marta Cervera, Madrid / Charim, Vienna / Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin / Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin / Crone, Berlin / Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow / Erika Deák, Budapest / Elizabeth Dee, New York / Volker Diehl, Berlin / Dogenhaus, Leipzig / Dörrie*Priess, Berlin/Hamburg / Anselm Dreher, Berlin / Eigen + Art, Berlin/Leipzig / Espai 2nou2, Barcelona / Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne / Frank Elbaz, Paris / Fred, London / Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne / Gazonrouge, Athens / Laurent Godin, Paris / Goff + Rosenthal, New York / Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica / Karin Guenther / Nina Borgmann, Hamburg / Kavi Gupta, Chicago / Habana, Havana / Hammelehle & Ahrens, Cologne / Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart / Haunch of Venison, Zurich / Patrick Heide, London / I-20 Gallery, New York / In Situ, Paris / Johnen, Berlin / K Galleri, Oslo / Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe / Kamm, Berlin / Georg Kargl, Vienna / Ben Kaufmann, Munich/Berlin / Kicken Berlin, Berlin / Martin Klosterfelde, Berlin / Leo Koenig, New York / Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin/ La Casona, Havana / Stella Lohaus, Antwerp / Linn Lühn, Cologne / Martin Asbaek, Copenhagen / Urs Meile/Caaw, Lucerne/Beijing / Kamel Mennour, Paris / Nina Menocal, Mexico / Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe / Milliken, Stockholm / Mkgalerie.nl, Rotterdam / Magnus Müller, Berlin / Mark Müller, Zurich / Christian Nagel, Berlin/Cologne / Neu, Berlin / Noga, Tel Aviv / Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin/Beijing / Paolo Bonzano, Rome/ Peres Projects, Berlin/Los Angeles / Pestorius, Brisbane / Pierogi, Leipzig/New York / Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg / Jesco von Puttkamer, Berlin / Robert Miller, New York / Roebling Hall, New York / Ronmandos, Rotterdam / Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg/Paris / Rove Schachter, London / Jette Rudolph, Berlin / Schmela, Düsseldorf / Michael Schultz, Berlin / Otto Schweins, Cologne / Senda, Barcelona / Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg / Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf / Springer & Winckler, Berlin / Taik, Helsinki / Tanit, Munich / Barbara Thumm, Berlin / Tim van Laere, Antwerp / Upstream, Amsterdam / Van Horn, Düsseldorf / Vanguardia, Bilbao / Veracortes, Lisbon / Susanne Vielmetter, Culver City / Nadja Vilenne, Liège / Voges + Partner, Frankfurt/Main / Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam / Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf / Klara Wallner, Berlin / Gitte Weise, Berlin / Jan Wentrup, Berlin / Johann Widauer, Innsbruck / Max Wigram, London / Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt/Main / Jan Winkelmann, Berlin / Wohnmaschine, Berlin / Thomas Zander, Cologne / Zderzak, Krakow / Michael Zink, Munich / Zürcher, Paris / Zwinger, Berlin

Fine Art Publishers :
Kunstquartal im hantje cantz verlag, Ostfildern / Photography now, Berlin / Texte zur Kunst, Berlin

Institutions :
BBK Berlins, Berlin / Berliner Aids - Hilfe, Berlin / Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin / Bücherbogen, Berlin / Invaliden 1, Berlin / Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin / Kunstmarkt Media, Würzburg / Landesverband Berliner Galerien, Berlin / Lokal-30, Warszawa / Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin / Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin

Art Magazines :
Artery Verlag Martens, Willmine / Art.es, Madrid / Artfacts.Net, London / Artforum International, New York / Art in America, New York / Art Papers, Atlanta / Camera Austria, Graz / Contemporary Magazine, London / Die Welt, Berlin / Eikon, Vienna / F.A.Z, Frankfurt/Main / Flash Art, Milano / Frieze, London / Kunst-Bulletin, Zürich / kunsttermine, Stuttgart / Kulturspiegel, Hamburg, / Monopol, Berlin / Parachute, Montreal / Spike, Vienna / Springerin, Vienna / Text, Berlin / The Green Box, Zürich



For more information : http://www.art-forum-berlin.com

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