Galerie Buchholz is an

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specializing in international

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with exhibition spaces in

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and

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. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christopher Müller.

History

The gallery's exhibition spaces are located in Cologne at Neven-DuMont-Strasse 17, in Berlin at Fasanenstrasse 30, and in New York at 17 East 82nd Street. Since its founding the gallery has had various locations in

. 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 1990, Buchholz and gallerist Esther Schipper opened Buchholz & Schipper, a shop specializing in multiples, at Albertusstrasse 26. In 1992, Buchholz & Buchholz opened on Breite Strasse 36, an exhibition space in the second antique bookshop of 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 remains the headquarters for 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 a partner in the gallery. In 2008, Galerie Buchholz established a location at Fasanenstrasse 30 in the

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neighborhood of Berlin. In 2015, it opened an exhibition space in New York City, at 17 East 82nd Street on the

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, Manhattan.

Exhibitions

In 1985, Daniel Buchholz organized exhibitions with artists John Armleder and

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in the former storage facility of Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne. Following this, he founded a space called Daniel Buchholz, where he mounted exhibitions of John M. Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Udo Lefin, Allan Belcher and Uwe Lausen, Ken Lum,

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and the Canadian artist collective General Idea. In 1987 Buchholz organized an exhibition on the history of multiples and 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. 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. In the following of 1988, Genzken had her first solo exhibition with Daniel Buchholz, and has been primarily represented by the gallery ever since. In 1990 Daniel Buchholz presented the exhibition project "Samson" by

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. In 1992 he organised an exhibition of

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at the Castello di Rivara in Turin. In 1993 Daniel Buchholz opened a new gallery under the name Buchholz & Buchholz. It was here that he presented his first exhibition by the artist

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, whom the gallery continues to represent today. Alongside the exhibitions by represented artists, Galerie Buchholz regularly presents curated and historical exhibitions. For example, the 2013 and 2015 exhibitions on the life and work of French writer Raymond Roussel; or the 2014 symposium and exhibition on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the American theorist and curator

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, organized together with Diedrich Diederichsen, Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel. In 2017, Christopher Müller and Diedrich Diederichsen organized the exhibition "Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space - Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity" in the New York gallery. In 2012, the gallery organised an exhibition project with German playwright and director René Pollesch, which culminated in a publication. The gallery participates in the fairs

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, Art Basel Miami Beach,

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, and Paris+ par Art Basel.

Publications

In 1997, the gallery began publishing artist catalogues under its own press, including monographs on Isa Genzken,

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, Michael Krebber, and

. The gallery has also published a work of scholarship by Michael Sanchez on the French author Raymond Roussel.

Artists

* Tomma Abts * Lutz Bacher * Alvin Baltrop *

Tony Conrad Anthony Schmalz Conrad (March 7, 1940 – April 9, 2016) was an American video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer. Active in a variety of media since the early 1960s, he was a pioneer of both ...

* Caleb Considine * Moyra Davey * Simon DennyAndrew Russeth (13 July 2015)
Daniel Buchholz Opens in New York, Celebrating the Elusive Raymond Roussel
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''. * Trisha Donnelly * * Melvin Edwards *

Cerith Wyn Evans Cerith Wyn Evans (born 1958 in Llanelli) is a Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker. In 2018 he won the £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Early life and education The son of Sulwyn and Myfanwy Evans, Evans was born in Llanelli. ...

* Loretta Fahrenholz * Vincent Fecteau * Peter Fischli *

Morgan Fisher Stephen Morgan Fisher (born 1 January 1950) is an English keyboard player and composer, and is most known as a member of Mott the Hoople in the early 1970s. However, his career has covered a wide range of musical activities, and he is still ac ...

* Isa Genzken * Jack Goldstein * Julian Göthe *

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* Samuel Hindolo *

Anne Imhof Anne Imhof (born 1978 in Giessen, Germany) is a German visual artist, choreographer, and performance artist who lives and works between Frankfurt and Paris. She is best known for her endurance art, although she cites painting as central to her pr ...

* * John Kelsey * *

Jutta Koether Jutta Koether (born 1958) is a German artist, musician and critic based in New York City and Berlin
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* Michael Krebber * Mark Leckey * Monica Majoli * Diego Marcon * Lucy McKenzie * Elie Nadelman * Henrik Olesen * Silke Otto-Knapp * Vera Palme * * Florian Pumhösl * R.H. Quaytman * Cameron Rowland * Heji Shin * Frances Stark * Josef Strau * Gili Tal *

* Mayo Thompson *

* Stewart Uoo * Ulla Wiggen * Martin Wong * Katharina Wulff

Gallery

Henrik Olesen in der Galerie Buchholz.jpg, Installation view, Henrik Olesen in the Neven-DuMont-Straße, Cologne Fenster Antiquariat Buchholz.jpg, Window of the antiquarian bookshop Buchholz in the Neven-DuMont-Straße, Installation view of Mark Leckey, 2007 Raymond Roussel.jpg, Raymond Roussel, installation view Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015 Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015.jpg, Galerie Buchholz, New York 2015, Credit line: Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, New York

References

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