科隆国际艺术展览会(ART COLOGNE)是德国三大国际艺术展之一，是国际艺术盛会，一年一届，为期五天的展期中，来自德国及其它国家的180家画廊将展出其收藏的当代经典、战后艺术及当代与现代艺术精品。科隆国际艺术展上齐聚了油画，雕塑，装置，视频，摄影，纸上作品，版画及多媒体等艺术作品 --- 充分展现来自欧洲及其它国家参展画廊的高水平及专业性。德国艺术展会业十分发达，被誉为“画廊博览会之母”的科隆艺博会牢牢占据着龙头老大的位置。同期分类展举行的科隆古董古物艺术品交易展览会也是非常有吸引力的专业展。
ART COLOGNE展更紧凑，更清晰，更集中为特点，从2009年4月科隆国际艺术展将首次移师科隆国际展览中心11号馆。与以往的展厅相比，新的11号馆为展会提供了更合适的展示场地。另外，展会为现代经典，战后艺术与当代艺术作品安排了单独一层的展区 – 11号馆三层，观众参观这些作品时将更加便捷。另外，在开放的空间 (Open Space) 及艺术新星 (New Contemporaries) 展区中，最具潜力的画廊将展出他们的最佳作品。
开放的空间(OpenSpace)–为当代艺术作品提供了一个非传统的开放销售空间。包括展商、观众及媒体在内,都对这个单元普遍表示好评。艺术新星(NewTalents)–科隆国际艺术展除了强调传统外,还特别重视对青年艺术与青年艺术家的推广工作。艺术新星是德国官方文化及媒体委员会、北莱因－威斯特法伦州与科隆市政府共同赞助的一项青年艺术家评选活动。2005年首届举办的科隆国际艺术奖的获奖人就是青年艺术家.当代艺术(NewContemporaries)–本单元由科隆波恩储蓄银行艺术基金会赞助，协助推广青年画廊。
获得资助的青年画廊可在参展费用上获得减免.隐藏的珍宝(HiddenTreasures)–科隆国际艺术展不仅致力于推广后进艺术家，对于国际艺术市场的整体推广更是不遗余力,这一点体现于展会的另一项配套活动–隐藏的珍宝。此项活动每年定期举办一次，活动中将介绍至多五位40岁以上的艺术家及其作品。这些被视为“隐藏的珍宝”的艺术家们在艺术市场上的地位尚未稳固，尽管他们的作品已在艺术史上拥有一席之地。简言之：您将在这里找到拥有实惠价格的优秀作品。
科隆国际艺术展国际评审委员会名单：Hendrik A. Berinson (德国柏林Berinson画廊)； Jörn B?tnagel (德国科隆BQ画廊)；Valerie Carberry (美国芝加哥Valerie Carberry画廊)；Darren Flook (英国伦敦Hotel画廊)；Steve Hanson (美国洛杉矶China Art Objects画廊)；Dennis Kimmerich (德国杜塞多夫Dennis Kimmerich画廊)；Christian Nagel (德国科隆/柏林Christian Nagel画廊)；Niklas Svennung (法国巴黎Chantal Crousel画廊) ；Hans Mayer (德国杜塞多夫Hans Mayer画廊)；艺术新星（New Talents）改名艺术新阵地（New Positions）。科隆国际艺术展再度与德国联邦画廊及出版物协会（BVDG）联手，将原本的艺术新星（New Talents）展区改造成新的“艺术新阵地”（New Positions），继续为推广青年艺术家而努力。这项改变更加强调了展出作品的新创造理念。观众们将可以在各个画廊的展位上同时欣赏到在本区展出的个别画家作品。
展品范围(Show Products):
1、油画，雕塑，装置，视频，摄影，纸上作品，版画及多媒体等艺术作品；
2、现代经典，战后艺术与当代艺术作品；
3、艺术信息与媒体服务等。
展会报告(Show Reports):
It is named after the writer who, in the early 19th century, felt dizzy from all the art he saw during a visit to Florence. Stendhal noted in his diary that he was 'in a kind of ecstasy,' had 'strong palpitations,' and felt overwhelmed by pleasant sensory impressions, like being in love and 'on the verge of fainting.'
At the end of this year’s ART COLOGNE, some of the 45,000 visitors from 68 countries might have felt similarly. After all, thousands of works by hundreds of artists competed for our attention, ranging from Impressionism to the present, from African masks to AI. Despite its concentration on 170 galleries from Germany and abroad and two visitor-friendly, airy, and elegantly designed halls — 11.1 mainly featuring classics of modern art and design, and 11.2 focusing on contemporary art — the art intoxication might have left some visitors in a daze.
With 1.2 million euros, a work by Anselm Kiefer sold by Thaddaeus Ropac topped the list of sales. It didn't hurt that Wim Wenders' new 3D film about the artist is currently showing in movie theaters. Kiefer's work was not publicly shown. Instead, the gallery, operating from Salzburg and Paris and celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, presented a monumental painting by the outstanding artist Martha Jungwirth; a sculpture by Tony Cragg changed hands for 325,000 euros, and a work in acrylic on aluminum by Imi Knoebl for 220,000 euros.
The full spectrum of ART COLOGNE was showcased by the Berlin gallery Bastian: they brokered Renoir's impressionist 'Landscape with Two Figures' for 340,000 euros, while editions of the British contemporary artist Emma Stibbon were available starting from 1,500 euros. The Buchholz gallery parted with a magnificent Nefertiti sculpture by Isa Genzken, whose exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie just ended on November 27, marking the 75th birthday of this great artist.
At ART COLOGNE, the successful mix of international heavyweights like Hetzler or Sprüth Magers and younger galleries like the Alice Folker Gallery from Copenhagen provided variety. The latter focused its stand on the Danish artist Frederik Næblerød: his bizarre grimaces, applied to Rococo mirrors in pasty material, were available for four-digit amounts.
Galleries Roslyn Oxley9 from Australia, Pearl Lam from Hong Kong, and Choi&Choi from Seoul had travelled the farthest, while others came from New York, South Africa, Estonia, Greece, or Portugal. After a long absence, the Peter Kilchmann, operating in Zurich and Paris, was back. Their program includes the Mexican-based Belgian artist Francis Alÿs, who was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig during the fair week. The ART COLOGNE Prize went to Walther König this year – the first time it went to a bookseller and publisher.
Galleries sell across epochs and media - including to museums.
The Düsseldorf based gallery Ludorff sold paintings by Karin Kneffel and reserved a bronze Pietà by Käthe Kollwitz – with a price tag of 150,000 euros – for a museum. Works by Marc Chagall and Horst Antes found buyers at Utermann gallery from Dortmund on the opening day, while Thole Rotermund from Hamburg sold a Nolde watercolor for a six-figure amount.
In the field of modern art, DIE GALERIE from Frankfurt presented a museum-worthy solo exhibition with drawings, prints and large sculptures by Marino Marini (priced up to nearly two million euros). In the thirties, the Italian sculptor had seen the famous medieval statue of the “Bamberger Rider” – a lifelong inspiration. Following his motif of the rider on horseback over the decades, you can see how the artist interprets it increasingly free and expressive. Marino Marini's rider looks at the heavens and marvels, bending his back more and more, as if he were about to faint in amazement. One could surmise the Stendhal Syndrome has seized him.
