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Kobel's Art Weekly Archive

Brafa in Brussels, Photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 5 2025

Christiane Meixner is delighted with Brafa's 70 years in the , as reported by Artmagazine. Congratulations! read more

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Kobel's Art Weekly 4 2025

The dance on the volcanic ash is taking place. Matt Stromberg brings the good news at Hyperallergic: ‘Perhaps the biggest question lingering in the air was about the fate of the fair week's behemoth, Frieze, which tends to have a much larger proportion of international and non-local participants than the smaller fairs. On Friday afternoon, January 17, the fair finally ... read more

Handelsblatt's Susanne Schreiber at a talk in Cologne. Also online: https://vimeo.com/1045356929

Kobel's Art Weekly 3 2025

Last year was, to a large extent, just another Monday, and 2025 promises to be quite turbulent also. In recent weeks, reporting has been characterised by retrospectives and outlooks. Ursula Scheer has compiled a series of pictures with last year's top ten hammer prices in the FAZ. The major global auction houses had to cope with a sharp decline in ... read more

Paris November 2025; photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 2 2025

In the second half of the year, the auction market was still characterised by regionally different trends, as the third and final part of this review shows.Susanne Schreiber followed Christie's conference call on its half-year results in mid-July for the Handelsblatt: "Christie's CEO Guillaume Cerutti's video call with trade journalists had one message above all: to spread calm and confidence ... read more

Istanbul October 2024; photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 1 2025

The second half of the year was marked by Art Basel Paris' triumphant entry into the Grand Palais. But the second part of this review has even more to offer.Tokyo Gendai was not a roaring success in its second edition either, observes Sarah Douglas in mid-July for Artnews: “While some have hoped that a weak yen right now might encourage ... read more

Vienna September 2024; photo Stefan Kobel

Kobel's Art Weekly 52 2024

At the Annual General Meeting of Weng Fine Art AG in Düsseldorf in mid-December, Rüdiger K. Weng stated that 2024 is likely to have been the worst financial year since his company was founded. Gereon Kruse reported on the event for Boersengefluester and I for the Handelsblatt. But he sees light on the horizon for ... read more