“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...