Galerie Buchholz

History

The gallery’s exhibition spaces are located in Cologne on Neven-DuMont-Strasse 17 and on Elisenstrasse 4-6, in Berlin on Fasanenstrasse 30, as well as in New York on 17 East 82nd Street. Since its founding the gallery has had various locations in Cologne. Its first location was at Bismark Strasse 50, in a former storage facility of the Cologne gallerist Rudolf Zwirner. In 1988, the gallery opened at Venloer Strasse 21 in Cologne. In 1990, Buchholz & Schipper opened at Albertusstrasse 26 in Cologne, a shop run in collaboration with fellow gallerist Esther Schipper specializing in multiples. In 1992, Buchholz & Buchholz opened on Breite Strasse 36 in Cologne, an exhibition space in the second antiquarian bookshop run by Daniel Buchholz’s father. Since 1994, Galerie Daniel Buchholz has been located at Neven-DuMont-Strasse 17, in the primary location of the antiquarian bookstore that his father founded. Daniel Buchholz converted the former storage spaces of the bookstore into exhibition spaces, and, since his father’s death in 1993, has continued to run Antiquariat Buchholz parallel to the gallery. This address is still the headquarters of the gallery today. The art historian Christopher Müller began organizing film programs and co-curating exhibitions in the gallery in 1996. Since 2000 he has been partner in the gallery. In 2006 the gallery opened a second exhibition space in Cologne on the nearby Elisenstrasse. In 2008, the gallery opened a branch in Berlin, at Fasanenstrasse 30 in the Charlottenberg neighborhood, and 2015, a branch in New York City, at 17 East 82nd Street at the Upper East Side, Manhattan.

Exhibitions

In 1985, Daniel Buchholz organized exhibitions with artists John M. Armleder and Brian Eno in the former storage facility of Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne. Following this, under the name Daniel Buchholz, he mounted exhibitions of John M. Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Udo Lefin, Allan Belcher and Uwe Lausen, Ken Lum, Dieter Roth and the Canadian artist collective General Idea. In 1987, Buchholz organized a pioneering exhibition on the history of multiples as well as exhibitions of the complete graphic works of Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke. In the same year, Buchholz presented his first collaboration with the artist Isa Genzken in 1987. Buchholz organized her exhibition project Musix, in which he showed Genzken's concrete "World Receiver" radio sculptures in the window of a HiFi electronics store in Cologne. Following this, in 1988, Genzken had her first solo exhibition with Daniel Buchholz, and since then the artist has been represented by Buchholz as her primary gallery worldwide. "Isa Genzken: Retrospective", Exhibition catalogue The Museum of Modern Art, pp. 8–9 New York (2013/2014), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2014), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2014/2015), Texte von Sabine Breitwieser, Laura Hoptman, Lisa Lee, Michael Darling, Jeffrey Grove, publ. von The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2013. In 1990, Daniel Buchholz presented the exhibition project "Samson" by Chris Burden. In 1993, at Buchholz & Buchholz, he presented the gallery’s first exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans, whom the gallery continues to represent today.

Tillmanns, who later belonged to the worlds most renowned photographers, had his first exhibition at Galerie Buchholz in a room of 9 squaremeters

1994-2014

In addition to exhibitions of gallery artists Galerie Buchholz also presents curated historical exhibitions. In 2010 the gallery mounted an exhibition of the oeuvre of Martin Wong (1946-1999). In 2013, the gallery put together an extensive exhibition about the life and work of Raymond Roussel (1877-1933). An expanded version of this exhibition opened their New York space in 2015. In the summer of 2014, on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the American curator and theoretician Douglas Crimp, the gallery organized a symposium and exhibition together with Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel. The exhibition in the gallery was developed in conversation between Douglas Crimp and Christopher Müller, and the international speakers at the symposium were invited by Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel.

Institutional Exhibitions

Art Fairs

The Gallery is represented at Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Cologne, Frieze Art Fair London and Frieze Art Fair New York.

Publications