Events at ArtCollectorsClub

The winners of our Anti-Consumerism art contest

February 22, 2012 - April 15, 2012
After three intense months of voting in our facebook voting gallery.We are now proud  to present the four artists with their artwork selected by Jury and popular demand from 120 participants.   Boje Arndt Kiesiel is a Hamburg-based German artist, who grew up in Lübeck-Travemünde on the Baltic Sea. Involved in painting and photography from an early age, he first exhibited at the age of...more

Anti-Consumerism and Adbusting

October 28, 2011 - February 29, 2012
Meant as a way to question and rethink our behaviour towards consumption and the effects of advertising, anti-consumerism is a socio-political movement that has become more and more popular over the years. In order to spread this ideology, many artists have been using their works to express their take on this topic. One of their media of choice is adbusting, which consists of making caricatures...more

John Baldessari

January 10, 2011 - January 26, 2011
John Baldessari is one of the most influential artists living today. In spite of a career spanning over half a century, 200 solo exhibitions and several lifetime achievement awards, he has kept his edge. Santa Monica resident John Baldessari is a pioneer of conceptual art, whose influence has shaped contemporary art in the United States and around the world. Baldessari’s collage-based pieces done...more

Ross Bleckner

September 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011
Ross Bleckner’s paintings and photographs find their place in mist, circling somewhere between ephemerality and time, between infinity and now. An icon of American art in the latter years of the 20th century, Bleckner investigates the intangible – thought, time, memory, loss, immortality, desire  -- in luminous, romantic works that capture the imagination, compelling as much to the eye as to...more

LEVITIKUS

September 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011
In his Levitikus series Hermann Nitsch explores rituals and rules of sacrifice in a group of works inspired by the Third Book of Moses – also known as Leviticus. Selected by the Israeli publishing house Har-El in 2010 to create a book with reference to one Old Testament Bible text, he joined the ranks of renowned artists such as Günter Uecker, Jannis Kounellis, Emil Schumacher and Chillida who...more

Christine Ödlund and Fredrik Söderberg

September 19, 2011 - October 31, 2011
For the Spiritual in Art online event Milliken Gallery presents two acclaimed Swedish artists, Christine Ödlund and Fredrik Söderberg. They both work in the intersection of art and magic, experimenting with nature and cosmos, science and alchemy, visions and the occult. Christine Ödlund’s visually captivating art is as close to science as to the mysteries of nature. Fredrik Söderberg’s...more

Hunt Slonem

September 19, 2011 - October 31, 2011
Hunt Slonem’s artwork is instantly recognizable as it transports us into his exotic world, soaring, shimmering, fluttering and alive with extravagant color and naturalistic intensity. Serene patterns emerge from seemingly endless repetitions of butterflies, monkeys, and birds.   A passionate animal lover who has lived with up to 250 birds, Hunt grew up in Hawaii and Nicaragua and describes...more

Luzius Ziermann

September 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011
Luzius Ziermann has created a symbol of light that he lays out in spectacular landscape installations of thousands of mirrors. In his current project series "Signature of the Light", Ziermann adorns  the Namibian desert and the black sands of the Canary Island, Lanzarote with ca. 2,500 car mirrors collected from junkyards to form his "Sign of Luzius" light symbol. Various elements represent...more

The Spiritual in Art - an online series

September 1, 2011 - October 31, 2011
From the soaring ceilings of Gothic cathedrals and the splendor of sapphire and gold on the walls of Buddhist temples, art has inspired and evoked spiritual transcendence across eras and continents since the beginning of human history. Some have reached into the primeval, with ritual paintings and performances, dating far into the Paleolithic era and reaching from North America to the tribal...more

STROKE.04 Munich

May 26, 2011 - June 24, 2011
It has been a year since the STROKE.02 presented its phenomenal programme in Munich, demonstrating how young art evolves far beyond any traditional conventions. In 2011, the STROKE.ARTFAIR stands once more for an unconventional and hedonistic approach to art. Whether with an education in art history, with the serious intentions of an art collector, with passion for colours and shapes or...more

We love Kicks

May 26, 2011 - June 24, 2011
WLK COLLECTIVE is composed of the six Swiss artists: Benjamin „PUSH“ Solt Claude „NOTE“ Luethi David „DISK“ Monllor Ezra „EZRAONE“ Pirk Marc „MALIK“ Furer Thomas „PHEKS“ Bestvina. It is their roots in the graffiti scene that unites them - a creative like-mindedness and a constant urge for visual expression of their ideas and projects.The basic concept behind the collective was crystallized...more

SOON (Switzerland)

April 26, 2011 - June 24, 2011
SOON was founded in 2008. SOON is focussing on contemporary artists and artworks. The gallery is also specialised in so called StreetArt. With no fixed location, SOON operates in different cities by renting existing artspaces or presenting shows in empty downtown rooms. The name SOON was choosen, because of the focus on new and emerging artists and the strong artist promotion as well as the “...more

West Berlin Gallery presents

May 26, 2011 - June 24, 2011
Founded in 2009 by Elodie Bellanger & Guillaume Trotin, West Berlin Gallery is a mutli-disciplinary art space specializing in urban fine arts, street art and illustration in Berlin. Since 2010 the gallery operates as an art dealing business and positions itself as a new type of interface between artists and their audience, be it collectors, curators, journalists, brands or fans...more

110 Special Black presents NEVER PRO

May 26, 2011 - June 24, 2011
The artist group 110 Special Black presents their new project NEVER PRO. 1010 Special Black is a T-Shirt label with roots in skateboarding. Under the Claim "Living the Dream" they present printed T-Shirts and framed prints on paper. Originally, 110specialblack was a group of five Munich communication design students who had several exhibitions together based in Munich.Their work varies from...more

Quality Lovers

May 26, 2011 - June 24, 2011
The Quality Lovers stand for urban raw culture, high-detail stick men, degenerate art, proletariat leisure wear, street aesthetics, ghetto writing, analogue digitalism, graphicti, sidewalk chic, pornographics, 8-bit photorealism and a love for quality. And most importantly, LOVE is always in big letters.   The following artists are part of the artist group: Bernhard Russow Markus Haertel...more

ATM Gallery Berlin presents EMESS and ELIOT

May 26, 2011 - June 24, 2011
ATM operates as a translator and mediator of Art presented in an urban environment. Its aim is to draw attention to the energetic expressions of an international street-art scene. in the space of a gallery. ATM presents the two Belrin-based artists ELIOT and EMESS.   ELIOT can be regarded as primary rock of the German hip-hop movement. He is beat boxer, producer, graffiti artist and...more

Diana Drubach

May 25, 2011 - June 17, 2011
We are happy to show new work by the young German artist Diana Drubach who participated in our November online event  "Emerging Artists of the Munich Art Academy". Thanks to her selection by hello AG, our members have access to this fresh and highly original artist's work here for a limited time. Diana Drubach's  sensuous figurative painting mirrors images through the shiny veneer of...more

Anneè Olofsson

March 21, 2011 - May 15, 2011
ArtCollectorsClub's is pleased to feature one of Scandinavia’s most established younger artists: Anneè Olofsson. Through her photography and  sculpture, Anneè explores personal fantasies and existential questions  with herself as the main subject. Her symbolic and sensuous  reality, is both playful and deadly serious. Anneè is recognized for her carefully staged, dramatic and...more

Stefan Hengst

February 10, 2011 - March 3, 2011
Photographer Stefan Hengst brings a candid style to his images developed during a year-long photographic project. Using his iPhone, since November 2009, Stefan has collected a vast catalog of photographs on Facebook. Having taken at least two pictures per day, he has amassed an album of nearly 1200 images. Entitled My Daily Poetry Fix, this body of work casts an intimate gaze into his day-to...more

Kota Ezawa

March 4, 2011 - March 31, 2011
Kota Ezawa’s personal narrative is visible in his work, yet he provides viewers only an edited view. While his art may be highly personal, it is not confessional.  He chooses to work intuitively with an image or a series of images. Later he may recognize the personal connection, but it is not his primary concern.  Each animation, transparency, and intaglio print explores the...more

William Kentridge

January 24, 2011 - February 28, 2011
A runaway success, the simple yet strangely compelling art of William Kentridge spans disciplines from opera direction to animations, and has its base in drawing and print making. Kentridge’s work started to register outside his native South Africa in the 1990s, and has become very influential in a short period. The major award winning show, Five Themes travelled to museums across the US...more

Emerging Artists of the Munich Art Academy

November 12, 2010 - December 3, 2010
ArtCollectorsClub is thrilled to present a selection of promising young artists from the Annual Exhibition of der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Sebastian Gumpinger, Paul Hiller, Johanna Honisch, Hanne Kroll, Melanie Siegel, Sarah Zagefka, Diana Drubach, Asja Schubert  The work ranges in technique from painting to photography. Each artist has a highly individual approach to...more

Michel Huelin & Lyle Starr

October 29, 2010 - November 11, 2010
Organizing images and experiences to create new worlds Michel Huelin`s digital brushstrokes plunge the viewer into a virtual world of hybrid objects, both real and surreal, creating a sort of vegetation that the artist refers to as ‘phenotypic variations’.  He is one of the most prolific Swiss contemporary artists, and is presented here together with American artist Lyle Starr. Starr uses...more

Matthias van Arkel

October 8, 2010 - October 27, 2010
  Innovative and adventuresome, Matthias van Arkel is the only artist who 'paints' in silicon rubber.   He continuously pushes the limits of traditional painting, redefining it with an original technique that lands somewhere between painting and sculpture. Best known for his rubber 'paintings', van Arkel also translates his vision into two dimensions through wall paintings and works on...more

Daniel Sandberg

September 15, 2010 - October 7, 2010
ArtCollectorsClub's second event features Daniel Sandberg’s dramatic landscapes captured from a macro perspective, as if trying to arrange the world into neat abstract patterns. His orderly landscapes hide the erratic push and pull between man and nature. The merging of artistic refinement with a political agenda gives Sandberg’s work a sharp edge. ACC proudly presents a selection of this young...more