In the past, it has exhibited at as many as 18 a year, Mr. König added. [9] In 2011, he won FIAC's Prix Lafayette together with Helen Marten for the solo exhibition "Take a stick and make it sharp", on the grounds that it was considered to be "the best exhibition project presented by an emerging gallery". If I say ‘I need to ship five tons of stones to Europe,’ he just says, ‘Fine,’” Mr. Dávila said. German, Release date:

Regular price: “Some collectors advised me against it.”. In March 2020, right at the beginning of the newly enforced lockdown measures, he began a Live Talk series on Instagram, 10am Series, featuring daily conversation with his artists, collectors, and curators.[26].

(One of these revealed the words “What you can’t see, can hurt you,” a sentence Mr. König might identify with.). A successful cornea transplant in 2009 partially restored his vision, but 10 years later, his body is rejecting that part of the eye and he is awaiting another operation. In a recent interview in Berlin, Mr. König, 38, flicked through his phone to a photo of a concrete block in the upscale Ginza shopping district of Tokyo, where the third König Galerie will open. Mit drei Nachkommen ist man in Deutschland bereits überdurchschnittlich bekindert.

[5][15][18] The project won the Berlin Architectural Prize 2016. In his youth König was already very influenced by the artists his father, Kasper König, worked with – among others: Dan Graham, On Kawara, M.C. [2] His father, Kasper König, is an art professor, curator, and former director of Museum Ludwig.

In 2020, he plans exhibitions featuring the Berlin-based artists Norbert Bisky, Alicja Kwade, Martin Eder and Anselm Reyle in the new space. or 1 credit, Release date: 03-11-10. The new König Galerie in Tokyo opens Nov. 9 with an exhibition of work by the photographer Jürgen Teller. “Frogs and Plates No. “The book was a risk,” he said. In 2019, Johann König published his autobiography Blinder Galerist, which was co-written with Daniel Schreiber. BERLIN — With a fashion label, a magazine and a roster of up-and-coming artists who regularly pick up awards, prestigious commissions and solo museum exhibitions, Johann König has a reputation as one of Germany’s most influential young art dealers. But being visually impaired might even help him distinguish profound and enduring works from art that is superficial and ephemeral, he says. It left him able to discern only strong colors, light and dark, and blurry shapes.

[20] The building also accommodates other tenants, among these New York University Berlin’s art studio. For us it’s not just about selling from exhibitions, it’s more about branding.

“Moment of Suspension” by Jose Dávila, installed in Mr. König’s Berlin gallery. Johann König (born 22 July 1981) is a German art dealer and gallery owner. Although Mr. König’s company is expanding and now has a staff of 40, he is trying to reduce the number of art fairs the gallery attends, he said.

This resonated with the teenage Mr. König, and he came to the view that art transcends the visual. "Fang heute an mit Müßiggang!" Mr. König said that before he works with an artist, he liked to talk with them at length about the concepts behind their works. [5], The gallery's focus is on museum exhibitions. [10], The gallery participates in international art fairs such as Art Basel,[11] Frieze Art Fair,[12] and Art Cologne. Their work was featured in exhibitions at the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and the Trinity Fine Art .Johann König's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $695 USD to $1,119,480 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Mr. König’s agile phone handling recalls an anecdote in “The Blind Art Dealer,” his autobiography, written with Daniel Schreiber, published in German in June. König Galerie represents the following artists:[13][15][28][29] Koo Jeong A, Kathryn Andrews, Micol Assaël, Evelyn Axell, Norbert Bisky, Monica Bonvicini, Claudia Comte, Jose Dávila, Peter Dreher, Tue Greenfort, Katharina Grosse, Jeppe Hein, Camille Henrot, Karl Horst Hödicke, Robert Janitz, Johannes Kahrs, Annette Kelm, Friedrich Kunath, Manfred Kuttner, Alicja Kwade, Helen Marten, Kris Martin, Justin Matherly, Amalia Pica, Anselm Reyle, Michael Sailstorfer, Andreas Schmitten, John Seal, Jeremy Shaw, Chiharu Shiota, Tatiana Trouvé, Daniel Turner, Rinus van de Velde, Jorinde Voigt, Corinne Wasmuht, Matthias Weischer, Johannes Wohnseifer, David Zink Yi, Erwin Wurm and Elmgreen & Dragset.