Art Cologone: Day 3

Dane Mitchell: Art Cologne installation views

Art Cologne vernissage

Art Cologne was launched yesterday with a preview followed by the vernissage. While the closure of Europe's airports put an end to the travel plans of many US collectors, there was a big turnout of European collectors. Director Daniel Hug's plan to "return Art Cologne to its former glory" appears to be on track, despite the eruption of the Eyjfallajokul volcano. 

Dane Mitchell: Art Cologne installation views

Behind the scenes at Art Cologne

Galleries completed their installations today in readiness for the Art Cologne preview and vernissage tomorrow. Our next post will be installation views of our solo pesentation by Dane Mitchell.

Behind the scenes at Art Cologne

As a giant cloud of volcanic ash blankets Europe, forcing countries to impose the biggest airspace closure since 9/11, it's business as usual at Art Cologne - at least behind the scenes. The installation and fitout of booths and visitor facilities is almost complete and galleries are beginning to install. In the Art Cologne office, however, staff must be thinking wistfully about the good old days when organising a fair was a relatively straightforward exercise. Over the past twelve months, art fair organisers have run into Swine flu, a global recession and now an Icelandic volcano spewing ash into Europe's air space.

Images: behind the scenes at Art Cologne, April 2010

Art Cologne on standby

Last year Swine flu threatened to rain on Art HK's parade. This year a cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash hangs over Art Cologne as organisers monitor reports of cancelled flights and airport closures and pray for a change of weather to reverse the southward drift of the cloud across northern Europe.

Images: Art Cologne on standby

Back on the art fair trail

We are Germany for a couple of weeks to present a solo exhibition by Dane Mitchell at Art Cologne. Next week we'll be posting photographs of the preview and vernissage, along with shots of our stand and others at the fair.

ART COLOGNE

We'll be presenting a solo project by Dane Mitchell at Art Cologne, which takes place shortly after he completes his one-year residency in the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm DAAD. This link takes you to installation views of his recent exhibition Minor Optics at the daadgalerie, Berlin.

Our art fair programme for the first half of 2010 is: Art Los Angeles Contemporary (28-31 January), The Armory Show, NY (4-7 March), Art Cologne (21-25 April) and ART HK (27-30 May).