Newsletter No. 6

Through the snow and in the dawning light of the new year we are sending you another glance at the latest developments within and around the Kunstmatrix.
We are expanding our service with individual guided tours through your exhibition and our new online artist search. We are excited to have received an award from the Technische Universität Berlin, and we are happy to welcome our new exhibitors Artes, Krefeld's Galerie Börgmann and the Kunstantiquariat Winterberg from Heidelberg.

We wish you a peaceful and inspiring Christmas season.

News from the Kunstmatrix

Award-winning excellence
In the course of the Technische Universität Berlin's Alumni.Angel.Abend, the university's president awarded us the quality label StarTUp. We're excited to receive this award for our company and take it as an incentive to refine the quality of our service.

Guided tours through your virtual exhibition
Like in a museum, you can now introduce the visitors of your virtual exhibition to the background information and details of your exhibits. As a new additional service, we offer to create individual tours to help you guide your visitors through your exhibition, eg. with your recorded audio commentary.

Selective artist search
Our artist data bank is growing continuously. We therefore expanded our website so as to help you keep track. You can now make use of our new online artist search to find and select information about our 400 listed artists.

New exhibitors and exhibition openings

Artes
We are happy to welcome the Internationales Kunsthaus Artes as an exhibitor into our virtual spaces. For more than thirty years it has offered and sold more than 2000 limited and numbered art editions from more than 400 artists of the 20th and 21st century. Artes focuses on great masters just as well as on young, promising talents.

Galerie Börgmann, Krefeld
Another new entry into ourline of exhibitors is Krefeld's Galerie Börgmann. Its young artist program concentrates on advancing bold and seminal ideas and establishing them on the art market. Their virtual group exhibition currently shows works of the Berlin artists Jan Muche, Fabian Seyd and Roger Wardin.

Winterberg
We also welcome Heidelberg's Kunstantiquariat Winterberg into our line of exhibitors. This auction house, established in 1970, offers paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics, illustrated books, sculptures and bronzes from the 15th to the 21st century for auction every spring and autumn.
In 1993, the auction business expanded into the Heidelberg gallery Palatina, and 2004 saw the opening of the representative Galerie Winterberg in Munich.
The virtual exhibition is currently showing early graphical works of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff as well as the highlights of the Auction 81.

Art in Berlin

Halfway through their run we'd like to recommend the two exhibitions “Arno Fischer. Photographs 1953-2006” and “Nan Goldin. Berlin Work” at the Berlinische Galerie, that combine and engage in an exciting dialogue.
Arno Fischer, born 1927, received the Hannah Höch Prize of the Federal State of Berlin for his life's work this year. Fischer, interested in “the state of society, people's relations with one another and the existential frame of mind of the individual”, created “the most significant comment on the division of Berlin in the early year after the war“ with his work “Situation Berlin” (1953-1960).

Nan Goldin's works always reflect her personal relationships as well as the subculture of drag queens, transvestites and homosexuals. Following long stays in Boston and New Yorks, she came to Berlin in the 1980s as a DAAD scholar and has returned often ever since. Her “Berlin Work” creates a vivid portrait of her Berlin surroundings and it reflects Goldin's understanding of Berlin as a place of “creation and transition”.

The exhibiton “Arno Fischer. Fotografien 1953-2006” will run until February 28, “Nan Goldin. Berlin Work” will run until March 28, 2011, at the Berlinische Galerie.