In Düsseldorf’s streets, the Japanese cherry trees are blooming, in the exhibition halls of the area of the Böhler area, in which the Art Düsseldorf takes place for the eighth time, painted bouquets made of plastic packaging, vacuum cleaners and crumpled handkerchiefs are exhibited. She painted the Japanese painter Haruko Maeda, who lives in Vienna and Linz. In her pictures, she combines motifs of art history with everyday objects of our time – and seasons the whole thing with a pinch of the gloomy humor typical of Austria. The solo appearance of Haruko Maeda at the Salzburg Gallery Elektrohalle Rhomberg (prices 6700 to 31,600 euros) is part of this year’s Japan focus of the trade fair in the city with the third largest Japanese diaspora Europe, with 108 galleries, of which 34 from the Rhineland, the Art Düsseldorf can be successfully positioned again as a regional fair, even if some Düsseldorfer Gallery can be successfully positioned no longer participates. This may be due to the overlaps, as the trade fair director Walter Gehlen says. Perhaps it is also due to increased prices for exhibitors or a little international audience. The Art Düsseldorf mainly attracts collectors from the region and from Frankfurt. She can convince again with her airy exhibition architecture and good quality at the stands. A new picture for the art palace individual presentations are again under the diffuse headings “Love is the Answer” and “Liminal State”. The distinction is hardly clear when you walk over the fair, because the sections are not delimited from each other in their own areas. Under “Liminal”, the poetic work on topics such as friendship and motherhood of the young painter Pauline Rintsch at the Cologne Galerie Fiebach, Minninger. Under “Love”, the appearance of the Berlin Gallery Ebensperger, which was able to look forward to a sale right from the start: the patronage of the friends of the art palace, has acquired a full body portrait of Almut Heises from 1978 for 45,000 euros. With work by Hermann Nitsch, Marc Henry, Alicia Viebrock and Acaye Kerunen: Stand of the Kandlhofer gallery on the way Düsseldjana Book with “Paper” and “Tales of Transformation” have been added to new departments. While work on paper is supposed to move young collectors with entry prices for sale, the “sculpture spots” distributed in the halls are aimed at institutions. There is a monumental curtain from Edith Dekyndt at Konrad Fischer (Düsseldorf) for 60,000 euros. In addition to long -standing companions, newcomers have made. The International Pace Gallery, who wants to establish itself in Germany with a branch in Berlin, shares a stand with Mennour from Paris. In a solo by Alicja Kwade, fragments of her DNA can be found on 259,025 pages of paper, of which 785 pages cover the walls of the stand. However, the majority is hidden in 35 copper boxes. The installation went into the possession of a museum collection on the preview day. At Max Goelitz: Ju Young Kim, “Almost Like Whale Watching”, 2024dirk Tackerzum first time is represented by the Gather The Gathering Gather from London, whose founder Alex Flick recently opened a new location in Cologne. The Rhineland, on the other hand, leaves Max Mayer. For the last time he performs at the fair together with the closing gallery Hans Mayer. Work by the aspiring painter Marc Henry have two exhibitors with them: the Wiener Galerie Kandlhofer and Anton Janizewski from Berlin. Most were sold on the preview day (from 1000 euros). Stand by Max Goelitz (Munich, Berlin) an object from the artist Ju Young Kim for 11,800 euros. Made from aircraft parts, it puts its inside open with colored glass inserts. Her work is combined with works by the artist group Troika, which examines how technical progress changes our perception. An incentive to undergo the flowering cherry trees of a new view after the visit to the trade fair .art Düsseldorf, area Böhler, until April 13, admission 29 euros
