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Stefan Kobel's review of the art trade, as perceived by the press in the last six months.I am losing faith in the innocence of 145.5 million Russians whose government is waging a barbaric, unjustifiable war against a population that is trying to find its way to democracy. It (the Russian government) concludes treaties in order to bomb the port the next day through which grain ... read more
It's actually summertime and there should be time to look back on the first half of the year. Stefan Kobel looks back at the art fairs of the first half of the year. For us, the present is too eventful for time to look back."When Faith moves Mountains" is the name of the new exhibition at the Pinchuk Art Center ... read more
Art Karlsruhe 2022 is now over. On the opening day it was surprisingly quiet - or as some gallery owners said: too quiet. Germany is on holiday early and perhaps also exhausted from the other fairs on the borders that took place shortly before: Basel, Brussels, Maastricht - well and then now Karlsruhe - fortunately there was state aid for the booth rent - let's ... read more
More than half of the year is already behind us! The days are getting shorter again. The war in Ukraine has already lasted 131 days and Russia reports control over Luhansk. Donetsk and Luhansk are Ukraine's industrial regions with attractive mineral resources that could form the backbone of developing prosperity. The usurpers destroyed the Indurstrie, now they are handing out their passports as a cynical ... read more
Dear readers of Kobel's Kunstwoche,last week I had a rant about visitors to Art Basel not being able to visit TEFAF due to Covid - and now I've been hit myself. I've been tested positive for a week and am waiting for my release ... which is expected sometime this week - and then Maastricht, here I come. The experiences around it are interesting. Friends ... read more
Stefan Kobel's Art Week is particularly detailed this time, so we'll make ours a little shorter:Germany and France have a massive problem on the right: in Germany, it is almost the entire East where the AfD, with its racist tendencies, is gaining high shares of the vote, and in France, it is no longer just the South where the Front National around Marine Le Pen ... read more