Australian Art Berlin

Australian Art Berlin

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Berlin
Opening February 2013

Michael Reid
Australian Art
Ackerstraße 163
D-10115 Berlin, Germany
+49 (0) 175 62 65 100
11am–6pm, Tuesday to Saturday
infoberlin@michaelreid.com.au

The galleries 2012 end of year Newsletter

The art gallery Michael Reid, Australian Art will open in February 2013 in Berlin's central Mitte neighbourhood, home to the Parliament and Museum Island. The district is in former East Berlin, in the city's historical heart, and includes landmarks such as the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Cathedral. It was the first neighborhood to be revived after the Wall fell.

The opening of our Berlin gallery complements galleries in Elizabeth Bay, Sydney and at Murrurundi in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales. A new website will be launched in January integrating the three galleries.

The Berlin gallery is located on the ground floor of a grand 1870s apartment building that survived the almost total devastation of Berlin during the Second World War and the vagaries of brutalist Stalinist reconstruction in the former German Democratic Republic. Berlin graffiti is, however, an obligatory badge of honor.

Michael Reid:

Today a growing international consensus about what constitutes good art has created a surge of interest in Australian art from world collectors and curators. The opening of the Berlin gallery demonstrates our ongoing commitment to bringing the very best of Australian and Aboriginal art to our clients around the world.

At a time when galleries all over Australia are closing, or at best merging, the opening of Michael Reid Australian Art Berlin demonstrates our creative, entrepreneurial optimism in the strength of the Australian and German visual arts economies. Berlin is the art exhibition capital of Germany and Germany is the economic engine room of Europe.

European art collectors are inquisitive and keen to explore contemporary Australian and Aboriginal art. Sales from my exhibition in September and October 2012 proved absolutely that collectors respond positively to great art from a respected source.

The Berlin gallery will:

• Represent a hand-picked group of Australian contemporary artists
• Exhibit select Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art
• Advise interested collectors and art museums
• Source Australian art in Europe for resale in Australia
• Conduct exhibitions

Artists represented in Europe include; Papunya Tula Artists, Regina Pilawuk Wilson; Julie Dowling; Danie Mellor, Freddy Timms; Linde Ivimey; Adam Cullen; Mariam Drew; Christian Thompson; Chris Pease; Nathan Taylor; Jason Benjamin; Joseph McGlennon; Deborah Paauwe; Amanda Marburg and Catherine Nelson.

The first exhibition is scheduled for April 2013- simultaneously- in Berlin & Sydney: Catherine Nelson, Other Worlds

The galleries 2012 end of year Newsletter

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