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FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Einsatzleitung, Foto: Ludger Paffrath     

Berlin Collectors is an initiative by Berlin-based private art collections of contemporary art.

The initiative has its own communal web presence: berlincollectors.com. The website provides an overview of and insight into the various individual collections in Berlin which are open to the general public. The joint initiative is the result of civic engagement and is characteristic of Berlin in that it is open and individual. Which other city gives visitors the opportunity to see this many different private art collections?

The initiative also provides the impetus to stage collaborative events such as the current exhibition at abc art berlin contemporary. At me Collectors Room Berlin, a reference library is accessible all year round to anyone interested in gaining a closer insight into the various collections involved in the Berlin Collectors initiative. Further joint events are planned. 

Participants of Berlin Collectors:

About Change Collection, Sammlung Boros, Sammlung Arthur de Ganay, Sammlung Haubrok / FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Kienzle Art Foundation, Kunstsaele Berlin, me Collectors Room / Olbricht Collection, SAFN Berlin, Salon Dahlmann, Sammlung Christian Schwarm, SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde/Berlin, Sammlung Springmeier, Sammlung Ivo Wessel, WURLITZER Pied-à-Terre Collection 

Europa, 2015, olja på duk, 140 x 140 cm

VÄLKOMMEN TILL KONSTNÄRSSAMTAL MELLAN MARTIN WICKSTRÖM OCH FÖRFATTAREN HANS GUNNARSSON.

TORSDAGEN 17 SEPTEMBER KLOCKAN 17.00 - 18.30.

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Enrique Martínez Celaya’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Empires: Sea and Empires: Land. This exhibition, in two parts, comprises an interconnected group of new works that are revealed, hidden, or undermined by each other to create an experience that is simultaneously visceral and elusive.

Working in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, needlepoint and installation, as well as poetry and other writing, Martínez Celaya has created a new body of work characterized by the allusive complexity, emotional presence and intellectual rigor that he has developed over the past two decades. He blends reality, fantasy and memory to create a world that is both semi-autobiographical and resonantly universal. His visual language approaches aspects of experience often addressed through literature, religion and philosophy such as the individual search for authenticity and belonging, the limitations of self-knowledge, the tension between possibility and regret, and the consequences of a stunted inner life. The cumulative result explores the dynamics of will as we navigate a world that is often resistant to our strivings and regrets.

September 11 through October 24, 2015
Opening reception September 11, 7-9pm

UB Anderson Gallery presents Robert De Niro, Sr. and Irving Feldman: Painter and Poet at UB in the late 60s

August 19, 2015, Buffalo, N.Y. ----The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery and The Poetry Collection, University Libraries, University at Buffalo are pleased to present a collaborative exhibition, Robert De Niro, Sr. and Irving Feldman:  Painter and Poet at UB in the Late 60s.  The exhibition is co-curated by Sandra H. Olsen, Director of the UB Art Galleries and Michael Basinski, Curator, The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries.

In 1962, the private University at Buffalo joined the burgeoning State University of New York system and established its reputation as a major public research institution of higher learning by assembling a group of progressive and innovative artists from across all the artistic disciplines.  Creativity was the focus. In 1964 Jan Williams, a percussion soloist and conductor, was invited by Lukas Foss and Allan Sapp to become a Creative Associate in the newly formed Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at UB. That same year, Irving Feldman, renowned poet and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, arrived in UB's English Department.  Novelist John Barth was also a member of the English Department. In a recent gift to UB's Poetry Collection Barth's inscription reads, "To the UB libraries with fond memories of my time there in the "High 60s."