Ullens plan to stage exhibitions
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by less obviously commercial
Chinese artists, and to bring bigger
international names to China (there
Bubbling Under
are plans for a show with Rebecca
Horn). Guy Ullens knows China
Who are we likely to see on the list next year?
well, having had business interests in
the country, and has been collecting
John Martin
Guy & Myriam
Chinese art for 20 years. At a time
Dubai has decided to create an art market and cultural scene
Ullens
when both the market for, and
virtually ex nihilo, and this is being led by Dr Omar bin Sulaiman, of
Category: Collectors public interest in, Chinese artists is
DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre). He is backing British
Nationality: Belgian going through the roof, the UCCA
dealer John Martin, who organised the first Art Fair in Dubai this
Last Year: New will likely establish its founders as a
year. While commercially so-so, the event will continue next year,
significant force in the international
and Martin has the financial backing to push it forward. There’s
It’s no secret that collectors the world contemporary art world.
huge money there, but will the locals (ex-pats) spend real money
over have taken a keen interest in
on art? And can a place without a single museum and only a few
the Chinese contemporary art
galleries create a cultural hub?
world, but Belgian Baron Guy
Ullens and his wife, Myriam, are the
Zhang Huan
first to commit to the local scene by
Recently signed up by both Haunch of Venison and
opening a huge art centre in Beijing
PaceWildenstein, Chinese artist Zhang Huan is currently riding
this month. The Ullens Center for
the hype of a retrospective at Asia Society. He shows at Haunch
Contemporary Art (UCCA) is a
of Venison London during Frieze, with another large installation
restored munitions factory, a 6,500-
at the gallery’s Berlin space. A similarly big show will take place at
square-metre space that is billed to
Pace next year. Backed by two powerful galleries and three large-
include a library and auditorium, £10
scale studios, staffed by 100 assistants operating factory methods,
million for which was raised through
the Shanghai-based artist is going to be hard to avoid over the
the sale of the couple’s collection
coming months.
of Turner watercolours at Sotheby’s
in London this summer. While the
Viktor Pinchuk
space will be technically commercial,
Ukraine’s second wealthiest billionaire is busy proving his artworld
to avoid interference from the
mettle. Owner of the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev (the only
Chinese government, it is intended
contemporary art space in the city), he was responsible for the starry
in practice to be not-for-profit. The
national pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, and its glamorous
and somewhat oversubscribed party. Pinchuk boasts friends in
high places: Jay Jopling, Damien Hirst, Peter Doroshenko of the
Gerd Harry Lybke’s gallery Eigen +
BALTIC Centre in Gateshead, not to mention Elton John and
Art has been in business nearly 25
Steven Spielberg. He also has an impressive collection, and bought
years and is credited with bringing
one of the Emins hanging in the British Pavilion this summer.
its stable of Leipzig artists to the
international arena, a move that
Don & Doris Fisher
began in earnest after the fall of the
Art collectors and Gap founders (perhaps that should be the other
er (98)
Berlin Wall. Before then, Lybke was
way round) are set to open a museum at the Presidio, a scenic
operating his gallery underground,
former military base turned national park in San Francisco. Neal
illegally showing works in his
Benezra, the director of SFMOMA, claims the Fisher collection is
Susanne Schley
apartment due to East German
‘one of the most important in the world’. All Mr Fischer wants to
restrictions on public-service work.
do, apparently, is ‘have a little curatorial fun while I’m living’. We’ll
He opened a second space in Berlin
find out whether the Fisher Collection is important, fun or neither
in 1992, but remained focused on
when the museum opens next year.
os Angeles & Berlin (95),
, L
Leipzig art. This was a canny decision,
as interest in this school of art has Tim Eitel (who recently showed at
Alex Sainsbury
r
ojects
The British collector and art benefactor is currently in the process
es P since exploded: stable artists such as the gallery in Leipzig and previously
er
Neo Rauch (whose works were at PaceWildenstein in New York)
of building a nonprofit gallery space in Spitalfields, which will open
part of a big show this year at the command solo shows as well as high
in 2008.
, courtesy P
os
Metropolitan Museum of Art) and prices.
akk
Kathy Halbreich
The Walker Art Center’s director stepped down in March after
Charlie M
16 years in the job and has just been appointed to the newly
y (94),
created position of Associate Director at MoMA, focusing on
contemporary art.
euer Galler
ach F
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Doris Salcedo
Looking to make a splash with her Turbine Hall installation at Tate
Modern.
Gerd Harry Lybke
Christopher Knight
Category: Gallerist
The LA Times art critic. And the new Jerry Saltz?
Nationality: German
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