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 women or queer artists, the gallery spaces are befittingly found in the heart of where things are happening – in NY’s Tribeca and Cologne’s Belgian quarter.
Co-owned by Alexandra Hecker and Bettina Rosarius respectively, both split their time between the two cities. “There‘s a lot of symbolism in the works, explains Alexandra Hecker walking us through the current Cologne show Tricksters II, by Los Angeles-born, London-based artist, Katja Farin. “The characters can either be emotions or symbols or figures that tell a story both personal as well asfictional. The work is dealing with disassociation from your own body and kind of identifying what do you identify as – and how other people view you. These are topics that are very personal to themselves and in the work as non-binary and trans person. The larger paintings are a combination of dreams, their own experiences, but also go into surrealism.”
On view at Art Cologne Palma Mallorca are surrealist works by Finnish painter Frans Nybakka and handwoven textile works by Jia Sung, a Singaporean artist who lives and works in New York.
Uscha Pohl
Alexandra Hecker, GAA Gallery, exhibition Tricksters II by Katja Farin, The Crows Watch, 2025, oil on canvas, 190 x 165 cm; Lamp, 2025, stoneware, glaze, metal ring photos Tomek Sierek