A platform for original content with in-depth features
on artists from the gallery’s extensive program.

A platform for original content
with in-depth features on artists from
the gallery’s extensive program.
BOSCO SODI The World is a Membrane
Articles

BOSCO SODI
The World is a Membrane

For Bosco Sodi, this process involves a further step that complicates and enriches the usual relationship of matter to form, creator to creation, work to worker, art to artist: Sodi invites the...
XIYAO WANG In the Flow of Time
Conversations

XIYAO WANG
In the Flow of Time

Ahead of her solo exhibition LIGHTLY FLOATS AND DRIFTS THE BOAT at KÖNIG MEXICO CITY (4 February – 27 March 2025), Xiyao Wang reflects on the themes shaping her art –movement, memory, and nature’s ...
HENNING STRASSBURGER <br>Linking Past and Present
Conversations

HENNING STRASSBURGER
Linking Past and Present

For Henning Strassburger, the Nave of St. Agnes at KÖNIG GALERIE offered his work the space to breathe and resonate. In this video, the artist reflects on the connections within his exhibition KÖPF...
ETSU EGAMI <br>Melody
Conversations

ETSU EGAMI
Melody

In this video, Etsu Egami reflects on her distinctive brushwork and the influences behind her show MELODY, featuring a series of portraits that dissolve the boundaries between tradition and contemp...
ALLISON ZUCKERMAN Curatorial Statement
Articles

ALLISON ZUCKERMAN
Curatorial Statement

POWER SHIFT brings together my early work with that of Evelyne Axell, allowing our perspectives on femininity, power, and self-expression to interact and resonate with one another in St. Agnes’s im...
ALEXANDER WERTHEIM <br> Studio Sounds
In the Studio

ALEXANDER WERTHEIM
Studio Sounds

Artists often find inspiration in various sources, with music being a significant influence during their creative process. In this edition of our STUDIO SOUNDS series, step into Alexander Wertheim’...
CHRISTIAN ACHENBACH <br> Studio Sounds
In the Studio

CHRISTIAN ACHENBACH
Studio Sounds

Artists draw inspiration from a host of sources, one in particular being the music they listen to while creating. For this new feature of our series STUDIO SOUNDS, artist Christian Achenbach select...
REINE PARADIS <br> STUDIO SOUNDS
In the Studio

REINE PARADIS
Studio Sounds

For this new feature of our series STUDIO SOUNDS, multidisciplinary artist Reine Paradis selected her favorite tunes to listen to in her studio and gathered them into a playlist...
EMILY WEINER <br> Studio Sounds
In the Studio

EMILY WEINER
Studio Sounds

Artists draw inspiration from a host of sources, one in particular being the music they listen to while creating. For this new feature of our series STUDIO SOUNDS, artist Emily Weiner selected her ...
AMIR FATTAL <br>Blurring Realities in Modern Art
Articles

AMIR FATTAL
Blurring Realities in Modern Art

Amir Fattal, JOEL'S HOUSE, 2023. For my POST-ARTIFICIAL PAINTINGS exhibition, AI takes center stage, transforming visual data into a reflection of our own tastes and desires. Given its role in the...
JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER Studio Sounds
In the Studio

JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER
Studio Sounds

Artists draw inspiration from a host of sources, one in particular being the music they listen to while creating. For this new feature of our series STUDIO SOUNDS, artist Johannes Wohnseifer select...
K.H.HÖDICKE Honoring Berlin’s History
Conversations

K.H.HÖDICKE
Honoring Berlin’s History

When walking down the streets of Berlin’s most historic district, Berlin-Mitte, and exploring the illustrious buildings lining up one after the other on the sidewalks, there is one that can’t be mi...
Alice Anderson <br> Winner of the SAME Prize 2023
Articles

Alice Anderson
Winner of the SAM Prize 2023

KÖNIG GALERIE congratulates Alice Anderson for receiving the 15th SAM Prize for Contemporary Art. As part of the prize, the artist will travel to Brazil to realize her project titled SOLIDARITY WITH NON-HUMANS...
CLÉDIA FOURNIAU <br> The Pictorial Gesture
Conversations

CLÉDIA FOURNIAU
The Pictorial Gesture

Ahead of her first solo exhibition with KÖNIG GALERIE, Clédia Fourniau sat down in her studio for an interview to shed insight on her performative painting process and the works of her inaugural show in the Nave of St. Agnes, TEN TURNS...
JOHN SEAL Studio Sounds
In the Studio

JOHN SEAL
Studio Sounds

For this regular magazine feature, we ask artists for a selection of what they have been listening to as they work. Step inside John Seal's studio and find out what's on his playlist. Click on the link…
PRIX NICE (HE)ART X ASIA NOW
Articles

Prix Nice (He)Art X Asia Now

We are pleased to announce that Monira Al Qadiri was awarded the Prix Nice (He)art x Asia Now. The artist received the prize on the occasion of Asia Now art fair, where we presented Al Qadiri‘s ...
ALEXANDER WERTHEIM Weaving Colours
In the Studio

ALEXANDER WERTHEIM
Weaving Colours

We visited Alexander Wertheim at his studio in Friedrichshain, Berlin, to discuss the ideas behind his first exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE. The interview is accompanied by pictures showing...
JOHANN KÖNIG Was mit Kunst
Articles

JOHANN KÖNIG
Was mit Kunst

In "Was mit Kunst", Johann König explains the exclusive art world by interviewing artists, curators, and art collectors. A unique approach to influential players in the art scene...
DAVID ZINK YI I Was Intrigued by Things Being Different
In the Studio

DAVID ZINK YI
I Was Intrigued by Things Being Different

Featuring original music and performances in this video portrait, David discusses a practice that encompasses film, sculpture, ceramics, and silk textiles, all with an eye to the mutability and expressive potential of the...
CLAUDIA COMTE Zooming in on Nature
Conversations

CLAUDIA COMTE
Zooming in on Nature

Claudia Comte draws inspiration from the structural intelligence and formal complexity of the natural world, creating sculptures, wall drawings, and site-specific work that rhyme and repeat those patterns…
ALLISON ZUCKERMAN Studio Sounds
In the Studio

ALLISON ZUCKERMAN
Studio Sounds

In this installment of STUDIO SOUNDS, we are delighted to share a playlist from the New York-based artist, ALLISON ZUCKERMAN, whose first solo presentation with the gallery will open on 9 June 2023...
JOHANNA DUMET Studio Sounds
In the Studio

JOHANNA DUMET
Studio Sounds

Artists draw inspiration from a host of sources, and one in particular is the music that plays in the studio while they work. For this new feature, STUDIO SOUNDS, Johanna Dumet sent us the playlist that...
Koo Jeong A Selected for South Korea Pavilion at 60th Venice Biennale
Articles

Koo Jeong A
Selected for South Korea Pavilion at 60th Venice Biennale

We are delighted to congratulate KOO JEONG A on being selected to represent South Korea at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. ODARAMA CITIES will transform the cylindrical structure of the national pavilion into an olfactory journey through the spells familiar to urban centers in South Korea. The pavilion is co-curated by members of the Kunsthal Aarhus...
Spotlight Seoul
Articles

Spotlight Seoul

In September of this year, the art world descended on Seoul as the Korean capital played host to the inaugural edition of Frieze Seoul. König Seoul welcomed fair visitors and others...
REFIK ANADOL What dreams may come
Articles

REFIK ANADOL
What Dreams May Come

In Refik Anadol’s artistic practice, machines can perform what once seemed strictly reserved to the domain of the living – to dream and imagine. This represents a revolution in the creative process...
JUSTIN MATHERLY New Beaches
Articles

JUSTIN MATHERLY
 New Beaches

For over a decade now, Brooklyn-based artist Justin Matherly has been exploring the art of Roman and Greek antiquity and its reinterpretation in his work. One monumental example is his New Beaches,...
JEPPE HEIN Studio Visit
In the Studio

JEPPE HEIN
Studio Visit

The studio of Jeppe Hein is located in the neighborhood of Kreuzberg, in Berlin, where the artist works with a 15-person team. Food, in addition to art, has long played a major role for Jeppe...
JORINDE VOIGT's Studio Sounds
In the Studio

JORINDE VOIGT
Studio Sounds

Artists draw inspiration from a host of sources, and one in particular is the music that plays in the studio while they work. For this new feature, STUDIO SOUNDS, Jorinde Voigt sent us the playlist that…
ALICJA KWADE & PIERRE YOVANOVITCH in Conversation
Conversations

ALICJA KWADE &
PIERRE YOVANOVITCH
in Conversation

Alicja Kwade and Pierre Yovanovitch have a particular kind of creative bond. The French interior architect and designer is known for his love of contemporary art, which also influences his design process…
NIKLAS MAAK On WERNER DÜTTMANN
Articles

NIKLAS MAAK on
WERNER DÜTTMANN

Can you imagine that the top planner of a big city isn’t a harassed bureaucrat who spends his time in competition juries and endless meetings, frustratedly munching on the dry biscuits with a sticky blob of...
The Grand Opening PETER DREHER and SOPHIE HUNGER
Articles

The Grand Opening
PETER DREHER and
SOPHIE HUNGER

Over the last forty-four years Peter Dreher created a series of roughly five thousand works, depicting the very same glass again and again. Starting in the 1970s, when realist painting was a provocation in…
KARL HORST HÖDICKE Crucified in the Act
Articles

KARL HORST HÖDICKE
 Crucified in the Act

When juxtaposing selected works by Hödicke and Ballesteros, we find intriguing intersections, allowing the viewer to make two key discoveries. Firstly, there are the clearly identifiable motifs and…
JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER Studio Visit
In the Studio

JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER
Studio Visit

The studio of Johannes Wohnseifer is a shrine to pop culture, filled with photographs and memorabilia from visual medias past and present. The elements collected and displayed on the walls of his workspace in…
ERWIN WURM and JUERGEN TELLER
Articles

ERWIN WURM
and JUERGEN TELLER

The Erwin Wurm & Juergen Teller shoot at the Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier took place as part of Erwin Wurm’s “One Minute Sculpture” special project featured at Festival Images Vevey / Switzerland in…
Homage to Vienna
Homage

Vienna

Facing the Vienna Secession, home of Klimt’s monumental Beethoven Frieze, stands the KLEINE HAUS DER KUNST. The name may be new, but the art deco building certainly is not. But why Vienna…
The Kunstgut – Stranger Than Paradise
In the Studio

The Kunstgut –
Stranger Than Paradise

The waterfront home of Anselm Reyle and Tanja Lincke in Berlin’s Treptow district is a working estate with a decidedly urban slant. While yielding top-notch art and architecture, it also secures an enviable…
ALICJA KWADE Self-portrait
Articles

ALICJA KWADE
Self-portrait

Alicja Kwade has had her genetic code analyzed, yielding some 259.025 pages of information. She has compiled individual sections into files that have been rendered into NFTs...
MATTHIAS WEISCHER Studio Visit
In the Studio

MATTHIAS WEISCHER
Studio Visit

The studio of Matthias Weischer is located in Leipzig, a city now renowned for a school of figurative painting that emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall, where classical rendering...
CLAUDIA COMTE with PETER ZUMTHOR
Conversations

CLAUDIA COMTE
with PETER ZUMTHOR

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has attracted a cult following over the five decades of his career, and yet he has kept a famously low profile in the media. Exclusively for KÖNIG MAGAZINE, he answered artist…
K.H. HÖDICKE with HANS ULRICH OBRIST
Conversations

K.H. HÖDICKE with
HANS ULRICH OBRIST

On a rainy Berlin day in January 2017, Hans Ulrich Obrist and painter K.H. Hödicke sat down to talk. Hödicke’s exhibition "Ich bin ein Berliner" was just about to open in Paris. Due to this occasion and over...
ANNETTE KELM at Haus Ludwig
Articles

ANNETTE KELM
at House Ludwig

Built in 1953, Haus Ludwig in Aachen, once residence of the art collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig, can best be described as an artwork in itself. Displaying objects from different eras and ...
ROBERT JANITZ Made in New York
Articles

ROBERT JANITZ
Made in New York

Distanz Verlag has dedicated a cataloge to his large-scale canvas works of the New York years: Robert Janitz, Made in New York (144 pages, 2020). The following is an excerpt from the artist’s perso...
ANSELM REYLE & MARTIN EDER Buddies
Conversations

ANSELM REYLE &
MARTIN EDER Buddies

“Buddies” – how can such a trivial term be so appropriate? Anselm Reyle and Martin Eder could hardly be described more accurately. Maybe they’ve managed to maintain their friendship over many years…
ALICJA KWADE Dear Miss Warren...
Articles

ALICJA KWADE
 Dear Miss Warren...

In February 1944, nuclear physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer sent a handwritten letter to Sarah Lawrence College in New York – nothing unusual about that. At the time, the letter’s author was...
The Future Belongs to Female Collectors
Articles

The Future Belongs
to Female Collectors

Distribution systems have gone digital while appropriate attention is being paid to the historical as well as contemporary contributions of women. In search of an interface offering opportunities. History teaches……
MONA ARDELEANU in Conversation with JOHANN KÖNIG
Conversations

MONA ARDELEANU
with JOHANN KÖNIG

Mona Ardeleanu’s paintings oscillate between figurative and abstract. Her painted fabrics, lace, tassels, or furs seem like enigmatic three-dimensional objects, which, by means of an unexpected trompe l’oeil…
Homage to JÜRGEN TELLER
Homage

JÜRGEN TELLER

It’s more of a friendship between Juergen and me. It started when he photographed me for some Russian magazine that was never published. The publisher was imprisoned for tax evasion or something. Pretty crazy…
NORBERT BISKY Studio Visit
In the Studio

NORBERT BISKY
Studio Visit

Norbert Bisky’s studio, located in Berlin, provides rare insight into the process by which the Leipzig-born painter creates his vibrant scenes of spiraling, swirling male characters, surrounded by colourful…
JOHN SEAL The Ruins of the Day
Articles

JOHN SEAL
The Ruins of the Day

At first glance, John Seal’s mysterious pair of paintings appears innocuous, peaceful, almost kitsch. In the first work, the painted cups, adorned with ships and flowers, tower in the foreground of a lush…
The Desk of ANSELM REYLE
In the Studio

The Desk of
ANSELM REYLE

Found objects, discarded items and a critique of the decadent bourgeoisie are as much a part of ANSELM REYLE’s work as handmade ceramics and vases. Directly on the Spree, in the East of Berlin, Reyle and…
Handle with Care
Homage

Handle with Care

When talking about what we call art handlers, most German-speaking people initially think of the exalted, international art dealer, the Kunsthändler. It’s a word for whom the simple “art dealer” or…
Interview with CHEYENNE WESTPHAL
Conversations

Interview with
CHEYENNE WESTPHAL

She is one of the best-known names on the international auction scene: Birte Cheyenne Westphal. Raised in Baden-Baden, she began her career in 1990 in the basement of Sotheby’s, and went on to become their…
My First Time MICHAEL NEFF
My First Time

MICHAEL NEFF

It has remained so to this day. My teenage den has grown only marginally larger, but my love and appreciation for Kippenberger's work has remained at a consistent high. I bought...
CHIHARU SHIOTA A Room of Memory
Articles

CHIHARU SHIOTA
A Room of Memory

Standing in an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, Berliner of choice since 1999, is like poking your head under a curtain into a space of collective memories. You suddenly find yourself…
Homage to Berlinische Galerie
Homage

Berlinische Galerie

In one of those parts of Berlin in which no one knows to which district it belongs, a former glass warehouse is located. The building is not utterly charming, somewhat unapproachable, and surrounded by…
WERNER DÜTTMANN
Articles

WERNER DÜTTMANN

In the year 2021 the Berlin architect, urban planner, Academy president and artist Werner Düttmann (1921-1983) would have celebrated his 100th birthday. During his lifetime he was a key figure in the cultural…
ELMGREEN & DRAGSET Statue of Liberty
Articles

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
Statue of Liberty

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, on June 21, 2019, a single segment of the wall found its way back into the public sphere of the German capital. Yet this time not as a threat to the ...
Sensitive Euro Man FRIEDRICH KUNATH
Articles

Sensitive Euro Man
FRIEDRICH KUNATH

German Romanticism is the most German of all German art ideas. It is the expression of, and opposition to, emergent modernism, and probably the last rearguard action against the relentless advance ...
ALICJA KWADE & JOSÉ DAVILA Intersecting Practices
Articles

ALICJA KWADE
& JOSE DÁVILA
Intersecting Practices

The practices of Alicja Kwade and Jose Dávila are both broad and distinct. Each artist has ventured successfully into an array of mediums: video in Kwade’s case, and painting in Dávila’s; but it is in…
EVELYNE AXELL Striptease à Rebours
Articles

EVELYNE AXELL
 Striptease à Rebours

She started with the tights, the underwear, and then the bra. The sensuality of it all drove the audience crazy,” said the film-maker Jean Antoine about his wife Evelyne Axell’s performance at her opening…
In Partial Shade
Articles

In Partial Shade

A garden is like a gallery, a museum, a church, a city, in fact, it is like the whole world. The more you know, the more you see. In spring 2016 – just one year after König Galerie moved into the…
KOO'S Cube
Conversations

KOO'S Cube

This is Koo Jeong A’s ice cube, an augmented reality artwork that she has titled Density (2019). It hovers within a rather secret garden inside Regent’s Park in London. Nobody has seen it...
ISA GENZKEN New Wall Pieces 2017
Articles

ISA GENZKEN
New Wall Pieces 2017

Isa Genzken began a series of wall pieces in autumn of 2016 in her Berlin studio which she finished in summer of 2017. The resulting works don’t have titles. Isa Genzken sometimes smilingly calls them...
Homage to Venice
Homage

Venice

I love Venice, the same way I love anything shrouded by sadness, anything that gives off a certain melancholy. I’ve had the same feeling in Israel, in Disneyland, and in Bonn. Like most sad things…
MONA ARDELEANU Filo
Articles

MONA ARDELEANU
Filo

At first glance, her paintings seem like something you’ll have to research. Mona Ardeleanu masterfully paints virtuously folded fabric bundles, bound textile objects, hair, and an origami of traditional costumes...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO Untitled, LA
Articles

GUILLERMO DEL TORO
Untitled, LA

In a short essay, film director and author Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water), who was also born in Guadalajara, refers to Dávila’s installation when he describes Los Angeles as …
NORBERT BISKY On Being Your Own Man
In the Studio

NORBERT BISKY
 On Being Your Own Man

Years ago, an elderly gentleman came up to me after a reading and told me that he knew me. He’d once slept in my parents’ room for a night, he said. I was about to give him a terse reply when he quickly …
KLUGE by MORRIS
Homage

KLUGE by MORRIS

My taxi was barreling up Sixth Avenue when my cell phone rang. A soft, quizzical voice said, “This is Alexander Kluge.” I was passing a landmark in midtown, a famous shop that sold ribbons in the garment…
RINUS VAN DE VELDE News From The Comfort Zone
Articles

RINUS VAN DE VELDE
News from the Comfort Zone

I remember a story I once read about a filmmaker who had a daily ritual for coming up with a new brilliant idea for his next movie, he would stand naked on his balcony, high, overlooking the city until he…
To ARNO BRANDLHUBER
Homage

ARNO BRANDLHUBER

Arno Brandlhuber is an architect, urban development visionary and passionate sauna-goer. From 2012 to 2014, he converted the St. Agnes church built by Werner Düttmann in Berlin-Kreuzberg into what it is …
TATIANA TROUVÉ <br> On the Eve of Never Leaving
Articles

TATIANA TROUVÉ:
On the Eve of Never Leaving

A journey with Tatiana Trouvé through the poetry of Fernando Pessoa: The sleep falling over me, The mental sleep falling physically over me, the universal sleep falling individually over me – this sleep …
DANIEL TURNER EMP Step
Articles

DANIEL TURNER
EMP STEP

In the fall of 2016, Swiss-born Daniel Humm, the current chef de cuisine and co-owner of New York’s three-star restaurant Eleven Madison Park, stands, stunned, in an exhibition by artist Daniel Turner. …
AUSTYN WEINER Vertigo
Articles

AUSTYN WEINER
Vertigo

Just watching the world spin is enough to make you dizzy. You don’t have to be apocalyptically inclined to understand that there are no clear paths left. At the very least, there is a sense of trepidation that…
LOIE HOLLOWELL The Scared Contract
Articles

LOIE HOLLOWELL
The Scared Contract

Loie Hollowell explores physicality and sensuality in large-scale, color-intense paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. In her text, Anneli Botz describes the artist’s process in…
CORINNE WASMUTH Studio Visit
In the Studio

CORINNE WASMUTH
Studio Visit

Corinne Wasmuht‘s pictures are created in her head. She plans the images, takes photos that fit the theme and then sketches are created. Only then does she begin to paint. Corinne Wasmuht takes about eight…
MICHAEL SAILSTORFER The Road that No One Looks Upon
Articles

MICHAEL SAILSTORFER
The Road that No One
Looks Upon

In October 2017, König London opened its doors on Edgware Road in Marylebone. Twelve months later, Berlin-based artist Michael Sailstorfer came to the city to prepare his solo exhibition „Tear Show“. He met…
Erwin Wurm <br> Edition with KPM Berlin
Conversations

Erwin Wurm
Edition with KPM Berlin

Erwin Wurm’s ONKEL is the product of a collaboration with the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM), a porcelain manufacturer located in Berlin, with a rich history dating back to the middle of ...
HELEN MARTEN Left and Right Hemispheres
Articles

HELEN MARTEN
Left and Right Hemispheres

In preparation for her exhibition Fixed Sky Situation at König Galerie in January 2019, Helen Marten invited photographer Lewis Ronald to her London-based studio to document her production in process…
BERNAR VENET NY Stock Exchange 1969
Articles

BERNAR VENET
NY Stock Exchange 1969

It was the first time in history that financial news became art when Bernar Venet appropriated Clem Morgello’s prominent Newsweek business section as an artwork in 1969. Venet’s blow-up prints were part of…
Homage to Hollywood
Homage

Hollywood

Kathryn Andrews & Puppies Puppies go on a rat and bear hunt: „Hey Uma, have you seen puppies puppies?“ „No, shut up bitch.“ „Puppies! What are you looking for?“ „I‘m looking for a rat and a bear…
Homage to Instagram
Homage

Instagram

How about the manner in which Instagram revolutionized and democratized the art world, forever impacting and changing the way we view, consume, and communicate about art for a start…
JORINDE VOIGT Everything but white
In the Studio

JORINDE VOIGT
Everything but white

The spaciousness and industrial atmosphere of the old hall and the reference to the river Spree and nature were the basis of the design,“ says architect Daniel Verhuelsdonk of the new studio for…
INTO THE DAZZLING LIGHT
Articles

TIMON KARL KALEYTA
Into the Dazzling Light

Today, Kaleyta is a columnist, screen-writer, and most recently, he’s been writing novels. Here’s an excerpt from the final chapter of his award-winning debut, Die Geschichte eines einfachen Mannes…
FRIEDRICH KUNATH Trouble in Paradise
Articles

FRIEDRICH KUNATH
Trouble in Paradise

Within California’s famous beauty and grace, there has always been a peculiar melancholy. It could be said that it has always been boldly opposed to the general good mood of this place – its necessary opposite…
ELMGREEN & DRAGSET: Installing Useless Bodies?
Articles

ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
Installing Useless Bodies?

For four years, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset worked on their major solo exhibition, transforming the new spaces of the Fondazione Prada in Milan into several immersive installations, which address the…
JULIAN ROSEFELDT Penumbra
Articles

JULIAN ROSEFELDT
Penumbra

Julian Rosefeldt’s 85-minute film PENUMBRA is not a work of science fiction. Instead, it points to our current situation, albeit within a fictious framework that paves the way for a paradoxical enigma...
ANDREAS MÜHE A German Intervention
Articles

ANDREAS MÜHE
A German Intervention

A woman sits by the window. The car has stopped, the engine is running. The window is a spotless, bulletproof pane of glass. A ray of sunlight falls on her weary face. She turns to look outside, toward the chalk cliffs...
My First Time ANGELIKA TASCHEN
My First Time

ANGELIKA TASCHEN

There are moments in life that are etched in the brain: like the first kiss or the first work of art you have acquired. I first came into contact with contemporary art in the mid-1980s, after moving to…
DANIEL ARSHAM
Articles

DANIEL ARSHAM

Daniel Arsham’s work explores the zeitgeist and feeds off pop culture. His depictions of eroding sneakers, cassette players, Polaroid cameras, and Pokémon are an expression of his artistic concept of…
Jose Dávila Drops His First Nft
Articles

Jose Dávila Drops His First Nft

Over the past six years, Jose Dávila has created a series of cut-out works that emerged from the pictorial language of Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, among others, with a special emphasis on portraits and paintings depicting the human figure…
IST DAS KUNST? An Arte Documentary
Articles

IST DAS KUNST?
An Arte Documentary

Time and again, incredible record values achieved by works of art at international auctions have astonished the world. But how is the value of a work of art actually determined? What makes art art?...
WHAT BEAUTY IS, I KNOW NOT
Articles

WHAT BEAUTY IS, I KNOW NOT

The summer exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE in 2019 was curated by Kasper König, father of gallerist Johann König. It was the first time that he and his son had worked together in this way...
ROBERT JANITZ Big Apple
Homage

ROBERT JANITZ
Big Apple

Much has been said about the Big Apple, much has been repeated. To me, New York fulfilled the promise I sensed it had in store: it was the perfect stage for me to become more than the baggage I had…
TATIANA TROUVÉ
Articles

TATIANA TROUVÉ

There are various ways to arrive somewhere. Every person can choose between long, medium and short paths. The artist Tatiana Trouvé proposes yet another possibility: to no longer focus on the length and…
My First Time LENA WINTER
My First Time

LENA WINTER

When I was still in high school, I went to see art in Vienna with my parents. There we visited a former fellow student of my father in her atelier. Maria Hahnenkamp studied art alongside my father and…
FRIEDRICH KUNATH & JOHN MCENROE It’s an Inside Job
Conversations

FRIEDRICH KUNATH
& JOHN MCENROE
It’s an Inside Job

In 2018, Friedrich Kunath talked about life, art, and self-doubt with John McEnroe, seven-time Grand Slam winner, once the enfant terrible of tennis. McEnroe, who is not particularly tall for a tennis player…
DAVID ZINK YI News from the Comfort Zone
Articles

DAVID ZINK YI
News from the Comfort Zone

Inspiration strikes in moments of enlightenment and it comes in totally different ways. There are too many to list. I generally feel more inspired by experiences than by specific places. Things like…
KATHARINA GROSSE Choreographies in Color
Articles

KATHARINA GROSSE
Choreographies in Color

Katharina Grosse’s Untitled (2019) slices the exhibition space of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in two. Its surface is densely saturated with Grosse’s signature high-octane colors: tourmaline greens meet…
Homage to the ATM
Homage

ATM

As guardian of cash, the ATM has been a symbol of both the promises and threats of capitalism for more than half a century. On the one hand, they promise the ability to buy and afford everything immediately…
JEREMY SHAW & JULIA STOSCHEK States of Trance
Conversations

JEREMY SHAW &
JULIA STOSCHEK
States of Trance

Jeremy Shaw’s films tend to defy conventional markers of linear time. In the first of Shaw’s Quantification Trilogy, Quickeners (2014), we see footage of people shaking their bodies in a primal ecstatic dance…
KATHARINA GROSSE It Wasn't Us
Articles

KATHARINA GROSSE
It Wasn't Us

The Austrian author Kathrin Röggla and Katharina Grosse are connected in various ways with one another—both are part of the non-profit alliance „WE DO THAT!“ and are engaged members of the Akademie der…
NORBERT BISKY The Man Who Dreams Pictures
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NORBERT BISKY
The Man Who Dreams Pictures

This is the story of a man who, if the Wall had not fallen, would have missed out on his life. It is a story that begins in grey tones and explodes in the colours of freedom. This is the story of Norbert Bisky…
JOHN SEAL Ha-Ha Picturesque
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JOHN SEAL
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One of the key privileges afforded to eighteenth-century aristocratic guests of London’s Chiswick House was the opportunity to survey its prodigious gardens. The further one wandered from the Palladian…
NFT – c’est quoi?
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NFT – c’est quoi?

A few weeks ago hardly anyone was thinking about NFTs, then suddenly there were a few new auction records: 69 million USD for a digital painting by Beeple at Christie’s, for example. Suddenly the whole world...