Gruppenausstellung
„Liebe und Ethnologie – die koloniale Dialektik der Empfindlichkeit (nach Hubert Fichte)“
18. Oktober 2019 – 06.Januar 2020
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Gruppenausstellung
„OUT OF ORDER. WERKE AUS DER SAMMLUNG HAUBROK, TEIL 1 und Teil 2“
TEIL 1 / 25. Oktober 2019 – 6. Januar 2020
TEIL 2 / 17. Januar – 1. März 2020
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5. Oktober 2019 – 8. März 2020
Esbjerg Art Museum, Dänemark

Galerie Nagel Draxler opens additional gallery location in Munich

Galerie Nagel Draxler is pleased to announce the opening of our new premises in Munich’s district of Maxvorstadt, close to Museum Brandhorst and Pinakothek der Moderne. The street level gallery space in Türkenstraße 43 will be a perfect addition to our spaces in Cologne (active since 1990) and Berlin (active since 2002).

Munich, with its great institutions and its very engaged art collectors, is an ideal city to present our program with artists such as Kader Attia, Anna Fasshauer, Andrea Fraser, Stephan Dillemuth, Sayre Gomez, Reneé Green, Martha Rosler, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Luke Willis Thompson, Heimo Zobernig a.o.

The opening exhibition on October 23rd 2019, will feature American artists Mark Dion (*1961, represented by our gallery since 1990) and Christine Wang (*1985, represented by our gallery since 2015) and will address today’s pressing environmental issues of climate change.

Munich is Christian Nagel’s hometown. Already in the mid 1980s he co-directed Galerie Christoph Dürr in Munich’s Villa Stuck, where he showed artists such as Fareed Armaly, Günther Förg, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Heimo Zobernig, Franz West, Clegg & Guttmann, a.o.

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Galerie Nagel Draxler eröffnet zusätzlichen Galeriestandort in München

Die Galerie Nagel Draxler freut sich, die Eröffnung neuer Räumlichkeiten in der Münchner Maxvorstadt, nahe dem Museum Brandhorst und der Pinakothek der Moderne bekanntzugeben. Der Galerienraum in der Türkenstraße 43 ist eine perfekte Erweiterung zu unseren bestehenden Standorten in Köln (seit 1990) und Berlin (seit 2002).

München ist, mit seinen hervorragenden Institutionen und seiner besonders engagierten Sammlerklientel, die ideale Stadt zur Präsentation unseres Galerieprogramms, das Positionen wie Kader Attia, Anna Fasshauer, Andrea Fraser, Stephan Dillemuth, Sayre Gomez, Reneé Green, Martha Rosler, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Luke Willis Thompson, Heimo Zobernig u.a. umfasst.

Zur Eröffnung am 23. Oktober 2019 zeigen wir Arbeiten der US amerikanischen Künstler Mark Dion (*1961, vertreten durch Nagel Draxler seit 1990) und Christine Wang (*1985, vertreten durch Nagel Draxler seit 2015), die das einschneidende Thema der Klimakatastrophen unserer Zeit anvisieren.

München ist die Heimatstadt von Christian Nagel. Bereits Mitte der 1980er Jahre stellte er hier, als Co-Direktor der Galerie Christoph Dürr in der Villa Stuck, Künstler wie Fareed Armaly, Günther Förg, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Heimo Zobernig, Franz West, Clegg & Guttmann u.a. aus.

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20 September 2019 – 12 January 2020

Opening and performances: Friday, 20 September 2019, 8 pm: Joëlle Tuerlinckx ‚La Fabrique d’un ​Singlescreen‚​
Doors open from 6 pm

Kunsthal Gent, Belgium

„TUBEREUSE ORGANIQUE – Wirkung unsichtbarer Filter auf Malerei“

14/09/2019—15/09/2019
Partizipative Eröffnung in Anwesenheit der Künstler:
Freitag, 13. September 2019, 18 – 22 Uhr

breathe, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 26-28, Berlin

Galerie Nagel Draxler is pleased to announce the representation of the Alf Lechner Estate.

Alf Lechner (* April 17, 1925 in Munich; † Februar 25, 2017) was one of Europe’s most important steel sculptures. In the 60 years of his career Lechner created about 800 sculptural works, and 4.500 drawings. His works are placed in a large number of highly established museum collections, like Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf, Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Städtische Galerie im Lehnbachhaus, Munich, a.o..

The philosophy of the 80s disputed distinctly about the „theories of the sublime“ due to a crucial chapter of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement. The sublime is not stated there as a badly balanced hierarchical elitism, but rather as a moment of sensory overwhelm in the face of intense sensation during the perception of the experience. And this is nothing more and nothing less than the definition of aesthetic experience.
Alf Lechner once said, he is interested in simplicity, because simplicity is highly complex – Beckett and Thomas Bernhard knew that too. Cube cuts, surfaces, cubes, cuboids. Unfolded, retracted, layered, condensed. The surfaces of Lechner’s sculptures are usually defined by the procedures of industrial processing of steal and its physical features. No pretentious fuss but respect and libidinous charge of reality. Not performance but power. Therefore most of Lechner’s works, particularly the enormous ones, are made of massive material. Their volume is steel volume not room volume. The stored energy is directed to nothing. It is pure resistance. The madness culminates in their immobility making the encounter an aesthetic experience.

We are happy to announce that our first solo gallery exhibition titled „Alf Lechner. Estate“ will open at our Berlin space on Friday, June 21st 2019.

Galerie Nagel Draxler (Berlin/Cologne) is pleased to announce the representation of Saudi Arabian artist Abdulnasser Gharem.

Abdulnasser Gharem (*1973, Saudi Arabia) is a canvas to construct a social critique, often by welcoming collaboration and involving the community within his projects. As a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Saudi Arabian Army, themes of control and authority can be felt within this work, as well as a desire to preserve and respect the history upon which traditional art is built. Gharem’s conceptual work not only references his heritage but is also politically and socially astute.

At this years’s Art Basel Unlimited, Abdulnasser Gharem presented his project “The Safe”, a walk-in installation reminding of the Kashoggi murder (presented by Nagel Draxler Gallery in collaboration with Brigitte Schenk Gallery, see here)

Recent international solo shows include the Sharjah Art Museum, UAE (2018); LACMA, Los Angeles, USA (2017) among others in London, Dubai, Abha, and Jeddah.

We are happy to announce that our first solo gallery exhibition with Abdulnasser Gharem will take place at our Berlin space during Berlin Gallery Weekend 2020.

curated by Dr. Brigitte Franzen
1. Juni – 23. September 2019
14. Triennale Kleinplastik 2019, Fellbach

30. Mai – 1. September 2019
GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
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