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The gushing reports on art fairs are often hard to take, especially when the coverage comes almost exclusively from US media. You really have to read between the lines to get a sense of what is actually going on. The New York fair week demonstrates this once again.“It’s a celebration,” reads the headline of the report on Frieze written by Brian Boucher and Daniel Cassady ... read more
“The Venice Biennale, the prestigious international art fair, opens this week”. Such a matter-of-fact, nonchalant tone as that used by Amy Kazmin in the Financial Times has probably never been seen in the press before. Behind the scenes, the Biennale has long been regarded as the world’s largest art fair. Yet gallery owners and dealers have never really been keen ... read more
Berlin’s Gallery Weekend is a testament to the resilience of the local art scene, notes Niklaas Maak in the FAZ (paywall): “What has disappeared, if anything, are the affordable rents for flats and studios, and the Senate is still doing too little to keep the art world—which the capital’s image campaigns are keen to promote—in the city. The good news ... read more
Since 1968 (initially as a biennial, and annually since 1997), Art Brussels has established itself as a contemporary art fair with its ups and downs. This year, it has been significantly scaled back. Nicole Büsing and Heiko Klaas express their delight in the Tagesspiegel: “[Discovery] features just as many exhibitors as last year. The main Prime section, by contrast, has ... read more
The tenth edition of Art Düsseldorf has impressed the critics. Georg Imdahl writes in the FAZ (paywall): “Large stand, small formats is the principle adopted by Frankfurt-based gallery Bärbel Grässlin, which, like Esther Schipper from Berlin, is taking part in Art Düsseldorf for the first time. ‘We’ve been watching this for two years, and we like the line-up,’ says Schipper ... read more
Josie Thaddeus-Johns presents Art Cologne’s second attempt in Palma, Mallorca, on Artsy: “Enter Art Cologne Palma Mallorca 2026. Although the fair will certainly be attractive to Spanish collectors, its German roots are unmistakable. On the fair’s VIP day on 9 April, a gallery owner remarked that the audience was predominantly German, many of them owners of second homes on the ... read more