The German capital’s preeminent art fair, art berlin, is on the move. Changes began last year with the announcement of a partnership with Art Cologne, organized by the Rhineland fair’s parent company Köln Messe. That was part of a package of changes that included a new identity: out with the old, abc – art berlin contemporary, and in with the more simply stated art berlin.
More changes are afoot. The fair will move from its longstanding home at Gleisdreieck to the former Tempelhof Airport in the fall, with 120 participating galleries occupying two hangars that sprawl over 100,000 square feet. (Other hangers in the Modernist former airport house one of the city’s large refugee centers, which were featured at the end of Ai Weiwei’s film, Human Flow.)
The fair’s relocation also meant moving its dates from its usual calendar spot at the beginning of September to the end of the month. Berlin Art Week and Positions Art Fair also opted to move to align with art berlin’s new dates of September 27–30 (Next year, art berlin will go back to being in middle of the month again). To make things even more streamlined, Positions will also be nearby to art berlin at Tempelhof, further down in Hangar 4 (which is about a 20-minute walk).
Previously known as a “curated fair,” abc initially featured single work presentations. Now, art berlin is aiming again for a more curated experience. Six Brazilian galleries are joining together to present contemporary Latin American art, and four Austrian galleries will focus on sculpture.
The fair will have also introduced two thematic sections. Some 28 galleries will feature solo presentations in “Special Projects”, while the “Salon” section will see the Swiss-born and Paris-based curator Tenzing Barshee work with artists from 19 international and local galleries. They are: Air de Paris, Paris; Arcadia Missa, London; Galerie Bernhard, Zurich; Maria Bernheim, Zurich; BQ, Berlin; Castiglioni Fine Arts, Milan, São Paulo; Fonti, Naples; Gnyp, Berlin; Lomex, New York; Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brussels, New York; Neu, Berlin; Norma Mangione, Turin; PPC, Frankfurt; Rüdiger Schöttle, München; Gregor Staiger, Zurich; Truth & Consequences, Geneva; Federico Vavassori, Milan; Weiss Falk, Basel; Zeller van Almsick, Vienna.
Here’s the full list of galleries in art berlin 2018 (* denotes a participating gallery in “Special Projects”):
A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
Achenbach Hagemeier, Dusseldorf
Galerie Falko Alexander*, Cologne
Alma*, Riga
Rolando Anselmi, Berlin
Art+Text*, Budapest
Piero Atchugarry, Gazón
Balice Hertling, Paris
Bastian, Berlin
Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Klaus Benden, Cologne
Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
Blain|Southern, Berlin, London
Brutto Gusto, Berlin
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Luciana Caravello, Rio de Janeiro
carlier | gebauer, Berlin
Charim, Vienna
Choi&Lager*, Cologne
Clages*, Cologne
Conradi, Hamburg, Brussels
conrads, Dusseldorf
Cosar HMT*, Dusseldorf
Crone, Vienna
Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin
Ebensperger*, Berlin, Salzburg
Edition Block, Berlin
Edmond, Berlin
Eigen + Art, Berlin, Leipzig
Emalin*, London
Kai Erdmann, Hamburg
fiebach, minninger, Cologne
Filiale (Grässlin, Rüdiger & Webelholz), Frankfurt
Konrad Fischer, Berlin, Dusseldorf
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo
Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, Paris
M + R Fricke, Berlin
Klaus Gerrit Friese, Berlin
Barbara Gross, Munich
Karin Guenther*, Hamburg
Michael Haas, Berlin
Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin
Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Leipzig
House of Egorn, Berlin
Ikeda, Berlin, New York, Tokyo
Jahn und Jahn, Munich
Michael Janssen, Berlin
Jo van de Loo, Munich
Kleindienst*, Leipzig
Klemm’s, Berlin
Klosterfelde Edition*, Berlin
KM*, Berlin
König, Berlin, London
Christine König, Vienna
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
M. LeBlanc, Chicago
alexander levy, Berlin
Levy, Hamburg
Jörg Maaß Kunsthandel, Berlin
Martinetz*, Cologne
Daniel Marzona*, Berlin
Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Karlsruhe
Mul.ti.plo Espaço Arte, Rio de Janeiro
Tobias Naehring*, Leipzig
Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Cologne
Neu, Berlin
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Nicodim, Bucharest, Los Angeles
Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin, Copenhagen
Nome*, Berlin
Nordenhake*, Berlin, Stockholm
Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
Opdahl, Stavanger
Osnova, Moscow
Plan B*, Berlin, Cluj
tanja pol*, Munich
Polansky, Prague
Berthold Pott, Cologne
Produzentengalerie*, Hamburg
Katharina Maria Raab, Berlin
Petra Rinck, Dusseldorf
Roehrs & Boetsch*, Zurich
Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld
Deborah Schamoni, Munich
Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle *, Munich
Michael Schultz, Berlin
Anita Schwartz, Rio de Janeiro
Gabriele Senn, Vienna
Setareh, Dusseldorf
Sexauer, Berlin
Slewe, Amsterdam
Société, Berlin
Soy Capitan*, Berlin
Sperling*, Munich
Sprüth Magers, Berlin, London, Los Angeles
paul stolper, London
Walter Storms, Munich
Luísa Strina, São Paulo
Studio Picknick, Berlin
Tore Süssbier, Berlin
Tabari Artspace, Dubai
Bene Taschen*, Cologne
Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Graz, Vienna
Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Van Horn, Dusseldorf
Vivid, Rotterdam
Tanja Wagner*, Berlin
Barbara Weiss*, Berlin
Zak | Branicka*, Berlin
Zilberman, Berlin, Istanbul
Zink*, Waldkirchen