Art Cologne 2017 | The world’s oldest fair battles with newcomers
By Philippe Danjean / The Happening
For the 51st edition of Art Cologne, the oldest art fair in the world appears more dynamic and international than ever.
Hosting 28 countries (compared to 24 in 2016) with 200 galleries exhibiting, its safe to say the fair is a little more crowded this year. Among the new galleries welcomed, a large majority are French — with notable newcomers including, Thaddaeus Ropac (Salzburg/Paris), Karsten Greve (Cologne/Paris/St.Moritz), Max Hetzler (Berlin/Paris), Perrotin (Paris/New York/Hong Kong), and Daniel Templon (Paris/Brussels), who will all exhibit at the German fair for the first time this spring.

Jack Pierson, Georg Baselitz @ Thaddaeus Ropac
By Dana Stirling / The Aint-bad
Adam Wilkoszarski is a Polish documentary/landscape photographer based Poznań, Poland, born in 1986. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Photography from University of Arts in Poznań. In his works, he concentrates on the ways in which places, which are usually full of people, are changing the very moment when they become empty. He tries to find places in which the borders between public and private spheres are blurred and he is looking for the signs of disappearing or crossing of those borders.

Photo Adam Wilkoszarski
Thaddaeus Ropac On Why Global Galleries Aren’t in Artists’ Best Interest
By Anna Louie Sussman / The Artsy
Thaddaeus Ropac would likely wince at the designation “megadealer,” but he’s undoubtedly one of the world’s greats—a European powerhouse overseeing four spaces on the continent (two each in Salzburg, Austria, and Paris, France) and a new 16,000-square-foot London outpost designed by Annabelle Selldorf and opening this week in Ely House, an 18th-century mansion in Mayfair. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac represents 57 artists, ranging from art-historical luminaries such as Joseph Beuys, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg, to highly sought-after living artists including Georg Baselitz, Sylvie Fleury, Adrian Ghenie, and Alex Katz.

Installation view from left to right – Donald Judd, Untitled, 1989, Carl Andre, Tenth Copper Cardinal, 1973, Photo by Steve White, Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Wilhelm Sasnal has painted Marine Le Pen
By The Phaidon
As French elections begin, the far right leader appears alongside Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton in new show.

Marine Le Pen (2012) by Wilhelm Sasnal. All images courtesy of the artist and Anton Kern gallery
From the Contemporary Lynx archives:
CONTENT AND CONTEXT – IN CONVERSATION WITH JAGNA CIUCHTA
interviewed by Anna Tomczak
In 2014, as part of a summer residency at the Parisian Glassbox, Jagna Ciuchta created the project Spin-off, involving a series of brief exhibitions – conversation with artist.

Jagna Ciuchta, Details, after Spin-off and Eat the Blue and Cécile, with the artwork by Cécile Noguès in her studio (2012), 2015, Ink jet on paper, 60 x 90 cm.
© Jagna Ciuchta