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This is the second year that In the future, all disused buildings
Contemporary Fine Art (CFA) will be art galleries. This is a certainty
Berlin’s owners Bruno Brunnet and almost up there with death and
Nicole Hackert have appeared on taxes, and one borne out by German
this list, and with its impressive roster advertising magnate Christian
of artists (Peter Doig, Daniel Richter, Boros’s recent transformation of
Jonathan Meese to name but a few) a Second World War-era bunker
and plans to open a new space on – a warren of tunnels built in 1943
Berlin’s Museum Island, the gallery to shield Berlin citizens from Allied
is sure to experience an upswing in bombings – into a museum for his
the next year. Opened in 1992 by private collection. Boros runs a large
Brunnet and Hackert (joined later advertising company in Wuppertal,
by co-director Philipp Haverkampf) with clients including Coca-Cola
in the Charlottenburg district, the and Siemens, and is one of the
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gallery has since moved to Mitte and hottest young German collectors.
regularly publishes monographs and As befits a man who traffics in taste-
books about its artists in addition making, his collection contains some
to organising shows and promoting of the most important artists of the
their work internationally. Currently, past 25 years – Wolfgang Tillmans,
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house artist Georg Baselitz has a Olafur Eliasson, Damien Hirst, Sarah
Bruno Brunnet,
solo show at the Royal Academy Lucas, Elizabeth Peyton, Rirkrit
Nicole Hackert &
in London, while Jonathan Meese Tiravanija. The establishment of the
Christian Boros
is showing at the Sammlung Essl museum is an important event for Category: Collector
Philipp Haverkampf
in Vienna, with Chris Ofili at Berlin, which has become a centre Nationality: German
Category: Gallerists David Zwirner in New York. Of its of art production and commercial Last Year: New
Nationality: German shows this year, Dash Snow’s The End galleries but lags in museum
Last Year: 38 of Living … The Beginning of Survival spaces for contemporary art. The
was ‘hotly debated’ (according renovation of the bunker, by the
to the critic Marc Spiegler) and a influential German architecture
focus of the Gallery Weekend Berlin firm Realarchitektur, shows the city’s
fair in April. rising fortunes – from bunker, to
techno nightclub, to museum.
Jeff Wall’s iconic light-box mounted solidified by a string of major Gary Garrels has kept a low profile work on small shows with emerging
photographs have made him one museum retrospectives: Jeff Wall: In in Los Angeles since arriving in artists, looks set to make waves.
of the most important artists of His Own Words, which opened earlier 2005 from the Museum of Modern What comes next for Garrels is one
his generation, tying together this year at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, where he was chief of the most intriguing questions of
strands of Conceptual art, history Art in New York and travelled to curator of drawings and a curator of a Southern California scene that
painting, photography and cinema. the Art Institute of Chicago and painting and sculpture. Frustrated continues to expand and deepen.
This reputation has recently been the San Francisco Museum of Art with aspects of MoMA’s institutional
(where it is currently on show); culture, he made the leap to chief
and the large-scale exhibition that curator at LA’s renowned Hammer.
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filled Tate Modern in 2005–6. The His professed reason for leaving an
Canadian photographer’s fictions important post in New York’s most
draw upon cinematic techniques – important institution is the vibrant
meticulously crafted mise en scènes energy in the LA scene, and at the
that flood the gallery space from Hammer particularly. It’s a move seen
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their illuminated light boxes – and by many as another confirmation
have played a key role in elevating of the migration of America’s
Jeff Wall
the stature of photography as an art creative centre from the East to
Gary Garrels
Category: Artist medium (and at auction). Working the West. And though he’s kept Category: Curator
Nationality: Canadian since the 1970s, Wall has hit major fairly quiet, especially compared to Nationality: American
Last Year: 45 highs in works such as Milk (1984) the Hammer’s glamorous director, Last Year: New
aris (59)
or Dead Troops Talk (A Vision after Ann Philbin, his initial steps show
an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol, promise: Garrels helped steer a
Near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter show of drawings by the Latvian-
1986) (1992). Class and conflict are born American artist Vija Celmins,
recurrent themes, giving his scenes in association with the Pompidou
the strange veneer of recognisably Centre; his first clear announcement
oster (57), Philippe Chancel, P
staged realism. of his take has been this summer’s
ack F
5), J
Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, an
idiosyncratic show ranging from
established figures like Lari Pittman
and Jim Shaw to relative unknowns;
r
anziska Sinn, Berlin (5
and his enthusiasm for LA’s young
scene, and the Hammer’s ability to photos: F
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