Rüdiger Schöttle Galerie

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What`s on in Munich with pictures or without pictures

The founding of the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery in Munich in 1968 marked the beginning of a forum of contemporary art that over the years has presented a great many artists in their first solo exhibitions in Germany, or indeed in their first solo exhibitions at all. The list includes, for example, such artists as Jenny Holzer, Günther Förg , Dan Graham , Jeff Wall , Rodney Graham , James Coleman , Andreas Gursky , Thomas Struth , Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Ruf f , Anri Sala .

The construction of identity, the relationship between memory and history, situations and places, are the themes, for example, of the works of Candida Höfer and James Coleman , the film installations of Anri Sala and David Claerbout , and thus enter into a direct dialogue with the works of such artists as Thomas Schütte and Dan Graham , who have been in the gallery's programme since its very beginnings.

Besides cultivating a programme of longstanding artists, the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery has a decisive interest in exploring new approaches in the contemporary art scene and regularly presenting the works of young artists. Since 2000, for example, one of the accents has been on the most recent trends in painting. Florian Süssmayr's inventories of urban realities and the painterly narrations of Janis Avotins and Wilhelm Sasnal operate between reality and fiction, between the picture plane and the illusion of spatiality, and thematicize - while correlating with our own imagination's fund of images - the very principles of pictorial narrative.