A new gallery formate with the name „artclub“ has been arisen in the centre of Cologne. It is a constant representation for artists which is unique worldwide up to today. The „artclub is a combination of gallery, artists club, artists archive and room for events. Altogether the gallery presents 100 artists who receive a permanent room for presentation in which they can present themselves and chosen works in a fastidious frame and in which they can offer their art in a professional surrounding. In addition the artclub has the essential aim to make the participating artists more prominent.
In order to attract visitors permanently, interest and tension has to be produced; to attract them to stay there need to be appropriate roomly conditions. This can be achieved on the one hand by the great number of artists and on the other hand by the new gallery formate and events and projects taking place here.
Each participating artist can be represented permanent and longlasting in each exhibition by two works, one small-sized and one medium-sized, which can also be offered for sale. Simoultanously, the works are an indication for the quality, the style, the way of working and the presence of the artists which can additionally preserve extensive information about themselves and their artistic oevre in an „active archive“.
Each artist represented in the artclub receives a Din A3 file which can be designed in any form with the following materials:
In addition each participant is free to choose other materials and decide how the inside of the file looks like. Each artists` file receives a place in a special shelf system. Visitors of the gallery can look at the files, the works of the artists and also buy these immediately. Beyond you can take certain files to the table in the front room and look through them.
The aim is to establish an art room with archive which differs from normal archievs in two essential points:
The artclub does not only offer place in the archive: Also the two permanent exhibition rooms in the gallery, the participation in regular exhibitions with vernissages which take place every six weeks, the possibility of using the gallery rooms after 8 p.m. for own projects or presentations and the participation in events outside the gallery belong to the new artclub formate. Beyond the rooms of the gallery are used as open meeting-place, place for open communication and the possibility of an additional postal address. The artclub becomes a place for art which represents an innovation and is not only new in Cologne. Artists receive these gallery offers under very cheap conditions.
During the present exhibitions the artclub is open daily (Monday till Sunday) from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. for free. From 8 p.m. there is a nice club atmosphere in the gallery: disussions, talks, meetings, events, performances, actions, video presentations, readings, music etc..
Translated by Nadine Kerkhoff
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