Portrait of Rose Wylie by Jürgen Teller. Below : Frick, oil on canvas. Yellow Strip, 2006, oil on canvas. Both paintings courtesy the artist and David Zwirner. "Yellow Strip depicts several footballers in movement from different perspectives at the same time,...

Born in Greece to an Icelandic artist mother and British musician, writer, poet and climber father, Sunna Wathen (‚Sunnna‘ in Icelandic) had travelled through Turkey, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Morocco before arriving in Mallorca at the age of two. Her parents (her...

High above the fortified citywalls lining the Parc de la Mar just along from the La Seu Cathedral, the exhibition banner “Rafa Forteza, Cámara de ecos” billows in the morning air draping from the balcony railings of Cas La Torre. The historical palazzo serves as Palma...

Mallorca has long been an island shaped by artists. From the legacy of Joan Miró to the many painters, sculptors, writers and thinkers who have found inspiration in its landscapes and Mediterranean light, creativity has always been woven into the island’s cultural...

There is a particular kind of artist who emerges from the landscape itself, shaped by the place that raised them while constantly pushing beyond it. Julià Panadès is one of those artists. Born in Ses Salines, Mallorca, in 1981, Panadès belongs to a generation of...

„Winter 2003 I started ‘Fran Reus Gallery,’ a month later Es Baluard Museum for Contemporary Arts opened — and the Art Contemporani association was founded shortly after. It was a great moment for culture on the island, a lot of energy and with Es Baluard we finally...

“I am originally from Palma but for almost thirty years I was at MACBA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, in charge of the collection. I had left Mallorca to study art and remained in Barcelona until suddenly in 2024  this opportunity to become the director...

On a personal level, I would say that I am an easy-going person with a great sense of humor. Professionally, I am a committed advocate of contemporary art who currently directs one of Spain’s leading museums, Es Baluard Museu, which entails a great deal of...

When Gertrude Stein told Robert Graves that “Mallorca is paradise, if you can stand it”, she was already speaking of that wonder – at times overwhelming and awe-inspiring – that is our island. Mallorca possesses that unsettling beauty in its excess that has made it so...

A spirited youthful crossatlantic gallery operation, with gallery dog and next generation in tow. GAA focuses on contemporary, mainly emerging artists, but also represents more historic artists and estates. Presenting progressive work, including more often than not...

Crossing town to Köln-Nippes, we discover the well-lit, double storied, glass fronted, high-ceiling Alex Serra gallery in what used to be a photography studio. “It actually was like this - I didn’t need to renovate much,” explains Paulo Nunes, founder and director. We...

WALTHER KÖNIG BOOKSTORE & ART COLOGNE “Art Cologne is very closely linked to the history of our bookstore. Both started around the same time and by now we are the only exhibitor who took part in every Art Cologne ever1! At the fair, we are a neutral space, at the...

Choosing from her vast oeuvre, often focusing on female labour and representation celebrating unsung heroines from diverse cultures and socioeconomic histories, here I ask her about the Barcelona Manifesta 15 in 2024.  Over the course of two years Schnitger created a...

Lara Schnitger and I first spent great times together in the mid-nineties in New York which involved a generous amount of partying, Lara dazzling with her great sense of style. I opened UP&CO September 1996 – some six months after Anton Kern opened his gallery –...

Below the surface nothing is black and white, we are not defined by colour of eyes or skin, social status, geographic or ethnic orgin, but one with nature. For the UP&CO @ EK STUDIO exhibition S.E.L.F. – Self Eternity Love Freedom – four international artists look...

1969, Düsseldorf Art Academy: a student demonstration with Joseph Beuys in the front row. Erinna König‘s pastel-coloured floral banner bears a message in bright red Japanese lettering: ‘Freedom for Art’ it demands, linguistically encrypted. At first glance, the...

Born in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) in 1967, the sisters combine video, photography, and sound in conceptual investigations of visibility and invisibility in relation to power structures. Their work came to international prominence through projects for which they...

The quest for life’s meaning and the self within, is as old as mankind. In Michelangelo Pistoletto’s words ‘from the first handprint in a cave’ man has been investigating the role of the self within the whole, our traces representing individua- tion of our being. Self...

“When I had just moved to NY I showed with UP&CO gallery (in the late 90s and 2000). UP&CO was also home to the editorial offices of VERY magazine and VERYstyleguide which we all somehow contributed to. A lot of team efforts! At UP&CO I met the most...

Renowned for her eloquent translations of the intrinsic into form, German artist Erinna König (1947–2021) presented semantics through aesthetics. Having made the concept of ‘social sculpture’ her own while masterstudent of Joseph Beuys, her sculptural paintings are...

The quest for life’s meaning and the self within, is as old as mankind. In Michelangelo Pistoletto’s words ‘from the first handprint in a cave’ man has been investigating the role of the self within the whole, our traces representing individua- tion of our being. Self...

Michelangelo Pistolettos work “QR Code Possession – Autoritratto, from 2019-2023, preempts today’s discussion about digital IDs, anticipates potential chips in, or tattoed QR codes on, human bodies. Today in 2025, authoritarianism in the global West and North no...

Conceptual artist Hans Peter Feldmann is renowned for assemblages of every day images, found photographs and objects either compiled or singled out, collated or reproduced in books or edi- tions, often in repetition. Appropriating works as elements in his compositions...

For his current exhibition with WiHH Gallery Amsterdam, Cees Krijnen (56) presents a remarkable new work: a handcrafted coffin made for his mother and muse, Greta Blok (84). Designed by Krijnen in oak, birch and beech,  the coffin was functionality and symbolism,...

Renowned for colourful and bold paintings, interiors, furniture and a combination of the three, REVERIES, TRUMPETS & TRICKS at Philara is a comprehensive overview of Anton Henning’s paintings of the past four decades. A notion of dejà-vu might take us aback at...

Düsseldorf is host to some 200 concert-quality organs, as well as the IDO festival (International Düsseldorf Organ Festival) which presents about 50 concerts every year over the course of 5 weeks. To celebrate the festival’s 20th anniversary, Philara Collection and...

Marking the 150th anniversary of the former Lennarz Glassworks, home to Philara Collection since 2016, “Melting Sands” exhibits glass works of fifteen contemporary artists exploring the medium, its characteristics and vast potential. Being an amorphous and disordered...

Icons of the Water Route is an ongoing artistic project by Niels Broszat that brings together painting, text and imagined landscapes. Starting from his series of icons, Broszat explores what an image can become once it is released from its original context and allowed...

Düsseldorf based sculptor Felix Baltzer explores rendering three-dimensionality visible in two dimensions — themes range from gravity, weightlessness, to liberation from space and time. His recent exhibition ‘Intergalaxy’ at ‘the pool’ suggests a representation of the...

Michelangelo Pistoletto at Cittadellarte, Biella, (photo Uscha Pohl) Born in 1933, the star of Michelangelo Pistoletto has brightened the sky of the international art world for 70 years. Having gained widespread recognition early on through his ‘mirror paintings’ and...