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Kobel's Art Weekly Archive

Tefaf Maastricht 2024, photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 11 2024

A certain shyness towards discourse, which she calls "timelessness", characterises the Arco in Madrid, writes Ursula Scheer in the FAZ : "Abstract painting and minimalist approaches are much more prominently represented than the figurative art that dominates elsewhere. [...] ARCO 2024 radiates timelessness, far removed from ideologically charged debates and wrestling with one's own past, which were by no means ... read more

Photography forbidden! Exhibition Art and Forgery in Heidelberg; Photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 10 2024

Maximilíano Durón selects the ten best stands at Frieze LA for Artnews, while Francesca Aton looks at the most prominent celebrities and Karen K. Ho summarises the sales reports from the exhibiting galleries. It is to be hoped that the fair is not as superficial as this coverage of it. ... read more

New Art Fair Stage Bregenz; photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 9 2024

A prominent art world figure has launched a new art fair in an unusual location. Nicole Scheyerer visited the Stage at the Festspielhaus Bregenz for the FAZ on 24 February: "Behind the premiere is the fair organiser Renger van den Heuvel: in Vienna, the native Dutchman ran the Viennacontemporary before launching his own event in 2021 with the Spark Art Fair. He left after the ... read more

Jeff Koons under Mond

Kobel's Art Weekly 8 2024

The Investec Cape Town Art Fair is expanding its position, observes Osman Can Yerebakan for Artnews: "The vernissage saw a crowd of around 5,000 attendees which included largely local collectors taking an early look at 400 works mainly by African artists and artists its diasporas. [...] Laura Vincenti, the fair's director, described the last decade as 'a learning curve' to ... read more

Zona Maco Mexico; photo Stephan Zilkens

Kobel's Art Weekly 7 2024

Whereas the first two months of the year used to be a largely fair-free period, events are now particularly crowded around the last week of January and the first two weeks of February. The individual art fairs therefore have to vie for media attention. Maximilíano Durón provides Artnews readers with what he considers to be the ten best stands in ... read more

For the last time at the World Heritage site: Art Rotterdam 2024; photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 6 2024

With its not entirely voluntary move to a new location from next March, Art Rotterdam also wants to become more attractive in terms of content. However, in the Tagesspiegel Nicole Büsing and Heiko Klaas also see dark clouds on the horizon regarding the future of the Mondriaan Fund's accompanying exhibition "Prospects": "The Netherlands still has an exemplary support system for ... read more