Kuttner Siebert Gallery is predominantly providing a platform to emerging international artists working in painting, photography, video and installations. The gallery is run by Tobias Kuttner and Mathias Siebert. The gallery’s goal is to support a necessary scope for development and to give the artists the possibility to realize new ideas. Tobias Kuttner talks about the gallery’s booth at Voltashow 02 and the gallery’s program. At Voltashow 02 the gallery presents works by Dunja Evers, Terry Haggerty, Olaf Quantius, Anja Schwörer, Stefan Sehler, Wolfgang Stehle. Upcoming exhibitioin: Wolfgang Stehle (opening reception June 23, 2006, 7 pm). Voltashow 02, June 18, 2006. PS: Tobias Kuttner is co-organizer of Preview – The Emerging Art Fair in Berlin, together with Kristian Jarmuschek (Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner), Rüdiger Lange (loop – raum für aktuelle kunst) and Ralf Schmitt (Förderkoje®).
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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.