“Kunstschalter” at Richmod's Passage
From Producers´Art Gallery to provider agency of art marketing and management
After, for us completely unexpectedly, the landlord of Weyerstraße 30 changed, the rental demand rose by 30%, so we ended the “Kunstschalter” producers´gallery in January 1993.
Gone was the quiet shop near Cologne Barbarossaplatz with a large basement, which besides my glass engraving workshop with sufficient space also hosted Rainer Resch with his art edition "ONE of HUNDRED". My colleagues Alejandro Scasso and Nini Flick moved into other studios and I moved with my workshop into the studio of the black-light Neon Painter Frank de Lentdecker in Cologne-Bayenthal.
With Gabriele Thümmler in February 1993 I founded the “Kunstschalter Agency” at Richmod's Passage at Neumarkt
1992
09.04.1992
Art Fair Nuernberg 7
Ulrich Eichhorn, Barbara Hirschfeld, Max Höfler, Michael Hutter, Frank de Lentdecker
01.05.1992
Entered the Richmod's Passage at Neumarkt
CSD 1992
Once ... with an own truck at the CSD. Wish-fulfillment of my at that time especially joyful team .... Who can say No here ? Taking part were Gabriele Thümmler, Dirk Ludwig, Andreas Linek, Stefan Melnik, Martina Puetz, Frese / Galliano, Rüdiger Krischel and steering: Manfred Gabriel ... The press was attracted to us, as with for example a press photo for CSD 2002, ten years later still promoting in Cologne CSD Guides and stories.
26.06.-15.08.1992
TATA WEST / TATA EAST - Petra Wazlawik + Tobias E. Ellman
The two Leipzig artists show two art strands developed in GDR:
While Watzlawik is still having academic signs with some pictures reminding of the classic battle scenes, Ellmann has long gone for a much feal uncurbed ductus.
20.09.-04.10.1992
Ati von Gallwitz, "Tree Love" - room installation
A still life for an empty room was her challenge. Tackling against huge masses of concrete, artificial light and vitreous insulation, and within there for her wood sculptures to design an area of themes of and about nature.
10.11.-17.11.1992
Klaus Sommerfeld - Berlin "Live"- During the Art Cologne we again introduce the Berlin artists. Sommerfeld in the rooms of “Kunstschalter” at Vernissage period will for several days work at same time on some of the pictures.
09.09.1992
"Neussiade - Pinballexzess" in commemoration of Wolfgang Neuss
Fashion show : First Varnish Collection 93/94 - "So what" by Lee Kleimann, Airbrush - Performance Joe Brockerhoff L & L Song and Reading - Volker Seewald, Percussion - painting by Andreas Fasbender
07.12.1992
All love - or? Presentation and discussion with Ri Meuser von Eschmar, "Schleck Orchestra", performance of Inge Broska, author reading "Refinement/ Die Verfeinerung" directed by and starring Michael Domas
12.12.1992
Fetisch Park "How to sacrifice honey" and other videos of Marlon Shy & Carla Subito
Poetry Reading "My secret eye" (HRG.Konkursbuchverlag ), Klaus Prangenberg; interactive video installation "You want you save your soul or just your ass?" by and with Axel Brand
19.12.1992
Jürgen Fuchs at the charity gala "Dreaming of a white Christmas"
Satory Halls, Cologne -
To the benefit of the psychosocial care of patients with cancer and AIDS
Bert van der Post, Himmel und Äad e.V.06.12.-23.12.1992
"Hurly Burly at the Christmas Switch II" with 70 artists.
Andreas Artmann, Peter Berger, Martin Birzle, Sylvia Block, Hansi Böhmer, Phillip Boesel, Emil Brando, Ingeborg Broska, Gitta Büsch, Katharina Eckart, Ulrich Eichhorn, Britta Findeisen, Ati von Gallwitz, Federico Gambarini, Thino Grünwald, Fred Hartmann, Gerwin Hein-rich, Andreas Hentrich, Mickey Hoberg, Fabian Hochscheidt, Max Höfler, Olaf Hoffmann, Christian Honerkamp, Michael Hutter, Paul Kalkbrenner, Daniel Kho, Petra Kremer-Horster, Klaus WE Krug, Frank de Lentdecker, Roger Lips, Marl, Marion Menzel, Petra Moll-Wilde, Angelika Niedenhoff, Pietro Pellini, Erika Renner, Joachim Rohmann, Roman Pompe, Ko Rüchardt, Hans Schenker, Petra Scherzer, Rolland Rémi Schmitt, Wolfgang Schulenburg, SMart, Klaus Sommerfeld, Michael Springer, Spunk, Monika von Stark, Hans-Jörg Tauchert, Andreas Weische, Martin Weller, Horst Werder, Norbert Willing, Yayak Yamaka, Rüdiger Zell, Jörg Zimmer. Music: Andropop, Captain Iglow, Harald Sack Ziegler, Fashion Show: Ulli Janich, Lee Kleimann, Performance: Horst Werder, Thomas Hackenberg
Moderator: Klaus Prangenberg
Just like two years ago, a review of the independent cultural scene from all areas is presented. By repetition of the concept, we show much more artists than in Bustle No. 01, the exhibition continues to develop concerning plethora and diversity . This time there is a massed load of art, in the environment of Richmod's Passage, used to sensory overload. The actions, concerts, fashion shows and performances taking place on opening day will be seen by over 10,000 people, who, attracted by our gigs on our stage from Neumarkt Christmas market will halt at our stage.
1993
12.02.-16.02.1993
Culture Ruhr Festival, VHS Essen with Andreas Hentrich, photorealism
Hansjörg Over +, Visual Poetry, Lecture: Ulrich Eichhorn "Visual Poetry"
17.04.-06.05.1993
Rolland Rémi Schmitt, "Paintings"
22.05.-09.06.1993
Corinna Isabel Ohrdorf, "installations" + Frank de Lentdecker "Neon Paintings"
06.07.1993
Award Presentation of AOK - Health Reward for the Project “Kunststation16B” (3rd prize)
28.08.-15.10.1993
Monika von Starck - Cologne "Painting" - Marion Menzel - Cologne "installation and material"
Performance: Musical Theatre “Werkschutz”, Introduction: Prof. Dr. Horst Linker
12.09.-19.09.1993 - -Bel Air Charity Week "Save the Bel Air"
Exhibition of “Kunstschalter”with Michael Brauner (Munich)/Graffiti, Thino Grünwald/ Expressive Realism, Gerwin Heinrich (Bielefeld)/Naive Art, Sylvia Johannes,/Collage, Daniel Kho/Woodwork, Frank de Lentdecker/Neon Paintings, Gesa Luetkens/Nature pictures, Petra Moll/Wild abstractions, Wolfgang Schulenburg/ “Pear abstract” Kerstin Sollich - Realism program: "Captain Iglow" /Lyrical texts, Musical Theatre “Werkschutz”/ "Animal Love" Harald Sack Ziegler /Music Performance (Percussion, Andreas Fasbender)
23.09.-26.09.1993
Neumarkt/ New Market of Cultures - Hearts against Hatred
Alejandro Scasso (Argentina), Thomec Wozniakowski (Poland), Mbarak Khalfan (Uganda),
Nazim Babajef (Azerbeijan), Wjatcheslav Trubitzin (Ukraine), Emil Brando (Los Angeles), Daniel Kho (Indonesia)
19.10.-15.11.1993
Joachim Röderer + Odo Rumpf "Kinetic objects" - Michael Altmann, "assemblages"
Due to the success the art project “Station 16 B” will be prolongued and extended for two more years until mid-1996.
31.10.1993
"The spirits that we call" Artists Masked Ball, Hall 222, Köln-Deutz
10.11.93 - 5.1.1994
Hunt Slonem - New York "Birds in Spirit" painting
05.12.93-8.1.1994
Erotic Exhibition "Erotikreativ", Hall 222
Ralf König, Michael Altmann, Mickey Hoberg, Andreas Fasbender, Roger Lips, Horst Werder, Epsylon Point & La Signe, Christine Kaul, Ulrich Eichhorn, Rick E. Loef, Gerwin Heinrich, Gert Packhäuser, Jürgen Hammer, Adam Elsaesser, Lee Kleimann ,Joe Broeckerhoff, Music Theater “Werkschutz”, Volker Seewald, Dr. Ri Meuser of Eschmar, Inge Broska, Axel Brand, Klaus Prangenberg, Fetisch Park
05.12.1993
Fashion show : First Varnish Collection 93/94 - "So what" by Lee Kleimann, Airbrush - Performance Joe Brockerhoff L & L Song and Reading - Volker Seewald, Percussion - painting by Andreas Fasbender
07.12.1993
All love - or? Presentation and discussion with Ri Meuser von Eschmar, "Schleck Orchestra", performance of Inge Broska, author reading "Refinement/ Die Verfeinerung" directed by and starring Michael Domas
12.12.1993
Fetisch Park "How to sacrifice honey" and other videos of Marlon Shy & Carla Subito
Poetry Reading "My secret eye" (HRG.Konkursbuchverlag ), Klaus Prangenberg; interactive video installation "You want you save your soul or just your ass?" by and with Axel Brand
19.12.1993
Jürgen Fuchs at the charity gala "Dreaming of a white Christmas"
Satory Halls, Cologne -
To the benefit of the psychosocial care of patients with cancer and AIDS
Bert van der Post, Himmel und Äad e.V.
1994
05.02.-06.03.1994
Berthold Bell - Cologne "The Secret Life of the Palms"
Bell shows limited graphics that impress both through their compositional brilliance as well as their humor. Witty connections arise to cartoon, collage and surreal exotic scenes.
Susumu Sato / New York "Christopher Street"
Sato's photographic documentation of the Christopher Street Day in New York is created at the end of the 80s. They convey excellent, friendly atmosphere and happiness that prevails in this festival in New York.
05.02.1994
Closing Ceremony of Adult Creative Attire Party "Dress 4 Sex" - Sweat Box Cologne with DJ Marlene and Frank Herter – “GreenKomm”. Charity Action pf Group “Fetish Park” in favor of the organization Medica. Monika Hauser “Woman of the year” 1993, Help for Bosnian women. Graphics: Rüdiger Krischel
Due to the "infamous" title and a note in the Cologne Express, the event was considered too daring for the rotten KHD hall and canceled at last minute: we had to relocate to Sweat Box in Friesenstrasse. The flyer is proof of our early collaboration with “GreenKomm”-creators Frank Herter and Dirk Hollendung and the then very young DJ Marlene aka T.William.
12.03.-02.05.1994
Robert Harding - New York Performance: "Passion. Something About Time"
Harding's big, figurative and expressive oil paintings, which are held in a passionate heroic tradition, deal with man, life and death, change and the process of spiritual survival. In them there are the symbols of beauty, allowing us to imagine the horrible. On opening, the long-term performance artist staged his thoughts in an exciting performance with dancer Anja Ehrhardt and singer and violinist Gisela Weigand.
Composition: Steve Weinberg, dance: Robert Harding, Anja Ehrhardt, violin and vocals: Gisela Weigand
14.05.-20.06.1994
Sylvia Block, "20 x 30" - Painting
Block ´s works are mirrors of personally experiences, feelings and fantasies.
Of colour and found objects of everyday life she develops collage-like objects.
Petra Kremer-Horster, "Athwart" - material Images
Kremer-Horster uses sand and rust, lacquer, acrylic as material and therefore emphasizes the tactile moment of their work. Her work revolves around the picturesque and creative, less about motives.
03.09.-03.10.1994
Karin Köppel "Birth pictures and diaries"
The birthing stituation in her paintings mostly takes place in an unspecified environment. The women get their children sitting or standing and have transparent bellies, reminiscent of Naive Art, as children s well as naives depict things in their representations that cannot be “really” seen otherwise. Guitar and vocals by Zarlino "Neither Fish nor Flesh"
19.10.-22.09.1994
Jurate Mykolaityte + Algirdas Griskevicius "Lithuanian landscapes"
Subject of Mykolaitytes painting is urban culture. Ubiquitous theme is the architecture of her dreams and imagination, which is indeed painted realistic, but sometimes appears ghostly, elegiac, mournful or bizarre . An important factor is the position of the horizon line.
Griskevicius in his paintings describes landscapes, buildings, bridges and dams. He tells of the dawn of a new world, where many things are still orientated to old values or stagnating in a factious dormancy, but the impending change is palpable.
Eulogy: Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania Dr. Zenonas Namavicius
Music: Marina Bondas-Klekovina and Pyotr Bondas (violin)
19.11.-27.11.1994
Erotica `94" Erotic Highlights "
The “Kunstschalter” at the show of eroticism with:
Michael Altmann, Grigory Berstein, Karl Peter Brecht, Georgy Bretschneider, Michael Domas, Hans Drop, Ingo Graebner, Ulrich Eichhorn, Siegrid Eisendle, Andreas Fasbender, Markus Fräger, Manfred Gabriel Achim Gottschalk, Rudi Heiser, Regina Hellwig-Schmid, Rolf Hinterecker, Mickey Hoberg, Michael Hutter, Ulrike Janich, Ruth Hunter, Jedan, Fe & Jo K. Teh, Ralf König, Karin Köppel, Χρήστος Κουτσουράς (Christos Koutsouras), Oliver Krieger, Roger Lips, Rick E. Loef , SMart, Akele Mesfin, Music Theatre “Werkschutz”, Pietro Pellini, Roman Pompe, Martina Puetz, Wolf Röhl, Klaus Sommerfeld, Monika von Starck, Jan Tepass, Wolf von Waldow, Martin Weller, Horst Werder and Jörg Zimmer.