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00:10 >> Yeah, the gallery was founded in 2003 in Berlin Mitte.
00:14 It's Rosa Luxemburgstraße and we started with a young program
00:19 and now we're very happy to be here in Basel.
00:23 It's very thrilling to show here our work
00:28 and our booth is about, we decided not
00:33 to show figurative stuff.
00:35 We decided to make a concept booth with abstract works
00:40 and works that are in between abstract and realistic things.
00:45 For example, the piece by Stefan Sieler,
00:49 it's a painting behind acrylic glass
00:54 and he paints directly on the glass
00:56 and so it got a photorealistic impression like you have
01:01 from the German photographers and everybody thinks
01:06 in the first moment that it's a photograph
01:10 but it's actually painting.
01:12 Everything is painted, you see,
01:13 and it makes it really interesting
01:16 because you don't see anything on the surface
01:21 of the acrylic glass because it's painted behind it.
01:25 So you don't see brush strokes or anything and actually
01:30 in the inner parts
01:33 of the brushes are totally abstract painted.
01:37 So that's what I mean with our concept that we decided not
01:41 to show figurative stuff.
01:43 Yeah, our background is that when,
01:47 before we founded the gallery, we were working
01:50 as freelance curators and art consultants
01:56 and we made a few shows at the Allianz Insurance Company
02:01 in Berlin for two years and then we decided
02:04 to do our own space and we, both, Matthias
02:09 and me are art historians and in 2003, like I told already,
02:14 we started the gallery and yeah, now three years later,
02:20 we're doing very well and it's going better and better.
02:25 Last year, we, I mean, we're the organizers
02:29 of the Preview Berlin, the emerging art fair.
02:32 We participated last year and then we participated
02:36 at the art forum last year
02:38 and then we did this year at Amsterdam and we're going
02:41 to do in autumn the Preview again and we're going to go
02:47 to the Zoo Art Fair and we're really happy about this too.
02:51 Yeah, I mean, this is a place where you sell the pieces
02:55 and you sell the works and so many people come here
02:58 and this was really the point about Basel
03:01 that there are so many interesting, really,
03:03 really interested and interesting people here
03:07 and I mean, it's, we have a program where the prices are not
03:14 that high so it's not that easy to make so many fairs but to be
03:20 in Basel is a must and the Zoo Art Fair,
03:23 we are really happy about this too and we don't want to do
03:27 so many fairs because actually, I don't like it.
03:30 I don't like selling art at fairs
03:33 but that's the way it goes right now so.
03:36 >> Do you have a lot of collectors
03:38 from overseas here in Adventure?
03:42 >> Yeah, I mean, everybody came to our booth
03:46 and to the Volta Show and everybody we knew
03:49 and we have very good, we made very good new contacts
03:52 and that's the point what makes it really interesting
03:57 and it's really unbelievable what happened here.
04:00 >> Is it rather private collectors
04:04 or institutional ones?
04:05 >> No, it's, okay, the private collections but private
04:09 which are public shown so and we sold lots and lots of pieces
04:15 to the US and to London for example and not so many
04:21 to Germany so to our collectors.
04:24 It was more that the new contacts bought a lot of pieces
04:29 and they wanted big pieces.
04:30 We're going to do a show next week with Wolfgang Steele,
04:35 a Munich-based artist and he's going to do an installation
04:38 and video show and then we're going to have a break in August
04:42 and then we start in September with Olaf Kwancius and yeah.
04:47 >> And then you have a preview of your own art.
04:51 >> Yeah, and then we're going to have the preview Berlin,
04:54 the emerging art fair and yeah,
04:57 two weeks later it's going to start the zoo.
04:59 So yeah, it's going to be a hot awesome.
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