Christian Nagel Galerie Berlin

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On April 30th Galerie Christian Nagel will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Founded in Cologne in 1990 the gallery has represented and attended artists whose works show developed social and political positions, compellingly expressed with a distinctive aesthetic language.

The opening exhibition in Cologne was also Cosima von Bonin 's first solo show. Together with Martha Rosler , Adrian Piper and Stephan Willats, Galerie Christian Nagel represents groundbreaking conceptual art positions with strategies reaching back to the 1960s.

A younger generation, including Stephanie Taylor , Kalin Lindena , Stefan Müller , Cornelius Quabeck , Jan Timme , Lutz Braun , Sven Johne , Rachel Harrison and Michael Beutler , came after the 2002 opening of the new space on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin . Gang Zhao , Peking/ New York and Kader Attia , Paris/Algeria are artists of bilateral heritage who reflect on canonized Western positions from a trans- cultural perspective.

In our gallery work we always saw it as important to recognise and support the next generation. Finally with Hanna Schwarz , Julia Horstmann , Mirjam Thomann and Lone Haugaard Madsen , Kathryn Andrews , Keren Cytter , Dominik Sittig and Xavier Mary our gallery program was enriched with important young artists of the present.

The 2000s have brought what appears to be a widespread, growing inclination towards art as a market commodity. As in the beginning, we prefer to support artistic positions that invigorate and visualize the critical potential inherent in tensions between politics and aesthetics, content and form, work and context. In may 2010 we will open a new space in the city of Antwerp, an important location in the history of avantgarde art.

Galerie Christian Nagel handles the Ingeborg Gabriel and Jörg Schlick estates.

represented artists

Kai Althoff      Kathryn Andrews      Kader Attia      Michael Beutler      Lutz Braun      Clegg & Guttmann      Jiang Congyi      Keren Cytter      Stephan Dillemuth      Mark Dion      Diego Fernandez      Andrea Fraser      Ingeborg Gabriel      Martin Gostner      Renée Green      Rachel Harrison      Lone Haugaard Madsen      Julia Horstmann      Gareth James      Sven Johne      Kiron Khosla      Thomas Kilpper      Till Krause      Kalin Lindena

Xavier Mary      Hans-Jörg Mayer      John Miller      Christian Philipp Müller      Stefan Müller      Nils Norman      Adrian Piper      Josephine Pryde      Cornelius Quabeck      Martha Rosler      Jörg Schlick      Hanna Schwarz      Dominik Sittig      Catherine Sullivan      Stephanie Taylor      Mirjam Thomann      Jan Timme      Luca Vitone      Stephen Willats      Joseph Zehrer      Gang Zhao      Heimo Zobernig