XENIA HAUSNER | UNINTENDED BEAUTY
CCA ANDRATX
8 JULY – 13 AUGUST 2022
The work of Xenia Hausner acts like a reclamation of moods; moods as a tool that has the function and the honour to present our emotional…
CHIHARU SHIOTA | ACROSS THE RIVER
STATE GALLERY
11 JUNE 2022 – 15 JANUARY 2023
Chiharu Shiota’s ACROSS THE RIVER is a new, site-specific installation that spans an entire room and references the architecture as well as…
SUMMER SCULPTURE PARK | BECHYNĚ CASTLE
BECHYNĚ CASTLE
5 JUNE – 30 SEPTEMBER 2022
This year's Sculpture Park at Bechyně Estate, which will open on 5 June and run until the end of September, will feature internationally renowned…
MONIRA AL QADIRI AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE FOR SCULPTURE
KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to announce that Monira Al Qadiri has been awarded the Fellbach Triennial Small Sculpture Prize for 2022...
MONA ARDELEANU | FILO
At first glance, her paintings seem like something you’ll have to research. Mona Ardeleanu masterfully paints virtuously folded fabric bundles...
JEPPE HEIN'S DEBUT NFT
Jeppe Hein’s NFT will feature a collection of profile pictures (PFP) based on digitized watercolours made by the artist. These will display...
HOMAGE TO ARNO BRANDLHUBER
Arno Brandlhuber is an architect, urban development visionary and passionate sauna-goer. From 2012 to 2014, he converted the St. Agnes...
RALPH WOLTER DONATES THREE RARE NORBERT BISKY WORKS ON PAPER
KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to announce that Ralph Wolter will gift three Norbert Bisky works on paper to the collection of the Berlinische Galerie...
JOHN SEAL | THE RUINS OF THE DAY
At first glance, John Seal’s mysterious pair of paintings appears innocuous, peaceful, almost kitsch. In the first work, the painted cups...
EVELYNE AXELL | STRIPTEASE À REBOURS
She started with the tights, the underwear, and then the bra. The sensuality of it all drove the audience crazy,” said the film-maker Jean Antoine...
HELEN MARTEN | LEFT AND RIGHT HEMISPHERES
Helen Marten invited photographer Lewis Ronald to her London-based studio to document her production in process...
HOMAGE TO BERLINISCHE GALERIE
In one of those parts of Berlin in which no one knows to which district it belongs, a former glass warehouse is located. The building is not utterly...
Johann König in conversation with Xenia Hausner and Anouk Lamm Anouk
From muse to friend: In addition to their art, the two painters Xenia Hausner and Anouk Lamm Anouk have also been linked by an intimate...
ERWIN WURM | WURM x TELLER
The Erwin Wurm & Juergen Teller shoot at the Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier took place as part of Erwin Wurm’s “One Minute Sculpture” special project...
IN PARTIAL SHADE
A garden is like a gallery, a museum, a church, a city, in fact, it is like the whole world. The more you know, the more you see...
ANDREAS SCHMITTEN | FIRST THERE IS A HOUSE, THEN THERE IS NO HOUSE, THEN THERE IS
What went first, what came after, what will be? In a mythic setting between abandoned ruins and cozy wooden architecture, Andreas Schmitten...
ALICJA KWADE | DEAR MISS WARREN...
In February 1944, nuclear physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer sent a handwritten letter to Sarah Lawrence College in New York—nothing unusual...
NORBERT BISKY | THE MAN WHO DREAMS PICTURES
This is the story of a man who, if the Wall had not fallen, would have missed out on his life. It is a story that begins in grey tones and explodes in...
CLAUDIA COMTE | IN CONVERSATION WITH PETER ZUMTHOR
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has attracted a cult following over the five decades of his career, and yet he has kept a famously low profile...
KARL HORST HÖDICKE | AN UNGODLY PLACE
On a rainy Berlin day in January 2017, Hans Ulrich Obrist and painter K.H. Hödicke sat down to talk. Hödicke’s exhibition "Ich bin ein Berliner"...
KARL HORST HÖDICKE | CRUCIFIED IN THE ACT
When juxtaposing selected works by Hödicke and Ballesteros, we find intriguing intersections, allowing the viewer to make two key discoveries...
ANDREAS SCHMITTEN | IN CONVERSATION WITH CARLA CUGINI AND BENJAMIN DODENHOFF
For the occasion of the 25th anniversary of The Peter & Irene Ludwig Foundation in Aachen, Andreas Schmitten was invited to realise...
CLAUDIA COMTE | WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH
Claudia Comte’s work speaks to various ecological sensibilities, entreating us to consider our relationship to the natural world as anything...
NOW REPRESENTING ALICE ANDERSON
KÖNIG GALERIE is delighted to announce that Alice Anderson is joining our gallery. After her first solo exhibition, HYPERLINKS, at KÖNIG LONDON...
NOW REPRESENTING ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI
KÖNIG GALERIE is delighted to announce that Arghavan Khosravi is joining our gallery. Arghavan Khosravi was born in 1984 in Shahr-e Kord...
Tatiana Trouvé
There are various ways to arrive somewhere. Every person can choose between long, medium and short paths.The artist Tatiana Trouvé proposes...
CHIHARU SHIOTA | MULTIPLE REALITIES
CISTERNERNE
13 MARCH – 30 NOVEMBER 2022
Chiharu Shiota takes on the dark chambers of the Cisternerne Museum in Frederiksberg in Denmark with her exhibition, MULTIPLE REALITIES…
JULIAN ROSEFELDT | FAUST
OPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN
22 JUNE – 2 JULY 2022
Scenes from Goethe's Faust is one of the best kept secrets of romantic music theatre. For his two key works of German literature, Faust: A Tragedy...
NIKLAS MAAK ON WERNER DÜTTMANN
Can you imagine that the top planner of a big city isn’t a harassed bureaucrat who spends his time in competition juries and endless meetings...
TREY ABDELLA | ALMOST HEAVEN
X MUSEUM
17 APRIL – 17 JULY 2022
Trey Abdella’s first solo exhibition in China assembles new and older works of engrossing yet evocative daily fragments filled with exuberant…
NORBERT BISKY | MIRROR SOCIETY
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
28 FEBRUARY – 1 AUGUST 2022
In MIRROR SOCIETY, Norbert Bisky presents a series of recent works uniquely collaged with canvas from previous paintings that…
NOW REPRESENTING MONIRA AL QADIRI
KÖNIG GALERIE is delighted to announce that Monira Al Qadiri is joining our gallery. The Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri was...
MY FIRST TIME WITH VIRGIL ABLOH
In the MY FIRST TIME rubric, personalities share their first art purchases.“The first artwork that I have ever purchased is such a profound question...
KÖNIG × PORSCHE GLOBAL GALLERY
The hype surrounding NFTs and NFT marketplaces has caused digital art to be seen precisely there: at NFT marketplaces...
VOICES OF HOPE
These are strange times – for the world, and the art business. How has this changed the way gallery owners work? And, more importantly...
AUSTYN WEINER | VERTIGO
The artist has consciously suspended laws, asking herself: What do they even mean, what do directions dictate, when...
VIENNA CALLING
The first exhibition, “One Decade of Female Sculptors”, opened in October 2021, presenting over thirty sculptures by...
THE DESK OF ANSELM REYLE
Directly on the Spree Reyle and his wife Tanja Lincke discovered the former shipyard of the GDR water police and converted it into...
ALICJA KWADE | LES SIÈGES DES MONDES
ART BASEL
13 JUNE – 19 JUNE 2022
While apparently alluding to the number of planets in our solar system, the eight perfectly round stone spheres represent any possible planet…
BASIM MAGDY | THE MANY COLORS OF THE SKY
ART BASEL
15 JUNE 2022
Basim Magdy makes films that dialogue with the traditions of painting and poetry. Realism, surrealism and science fiction complement…
BOSCO SODI | TABULA RASA
ART BASEL
13 JUNE – 19 JUNE 2022
Emerging on the other side of the road, you will arrive at the Neptune fountain, at the rear of Barfüsserkirche. Here, you will…
ROBERT JANITZ | ANAHUACALLI
MUSEO DIEGO RIVERA ANAHUACALLI
9 JUNE – 10 OCTOBER 2022
This major solo exhibition of Robert Janitz’s work will fill the three floors and outside of the Diego Rivera Museum, with more than thirty…
JOSE DÁVILA DROPS HIS FIRST NFT
The 72-hour drop takes place on the occasion of Jose Dávila’s exhibition in Haus Konstruktiv Zurich. Furthermore, it coincides with…
MONICA BONVICINI | I DON'T LIKE YOU VERY MUCH
KUNSTHAUS GRAZ
22 APRIL – 21 AUGUST 2022
I Don‘t Like You Very Much ... and I don‘t think you are fascinating. So is the continuation of the text from which the title of the show is originating…
JEPPE HEIN | WHO ARE YOU REALLY?
MODERNA MUSEET
21 MAY – 28 AUGUST 2022
Jeppe Hein’s solo presentation at the venerated Moderna Museet in Stockholm is not an exhibition in the traditional sense…
ANDREAS SCHMITTEN | SCULPTURE PARK WALDFRIEDEN
SCULPTURE PARK WALDFRIEDEN
26 MAY 2022 – 1 JANUARY 2023
Anthropomorphism and material impersonations are of interest to Andreas Schmitten, whose recent sculpture invites a contemporary…
ART BASEL 2022
ART BASEL
16 – 19 JUNE 2022
KÖNIG GALERIE returns to ART BASEL with a select group of works by gallery artists that together create a wonderland of imaginative…
LAURA ATTANASIO BECOMES NEW PARTNER
Lena and Johann König are pleased to announce that long-standing employee and current Senior Director, Laura Attanasio, will become...
TATIANA TROUVÉ | THE GREAT ATLAS OF DISORIENTATION
CENTRE POMPIDOU
8 JUNE – 22 AUGUST 2022
For this solo presentation at the esteemed Centre Pompidou, Tatiana Trouvé will take over the 800 sq m of Gallery 3, employing a variety of materials…
IS THAT ART? AN ARTE DOCUMENTARY
Artists Alicja Kwade, Anne Imhof, and Amoako Boafo are in search of answers to these questions. Gallery owners, curators, art journalists…
JOSE DÁVILA | MEMORY OF A TELLURIC MOVEMENT
MUSEUM HAUS KONSTRUKTIV
2 JUNE – 11 SEPTEMBER 2022
Museum Haus Konstruktiv is dedicating a comprehensive solo exhibition to Mexican artist Jose Dávila. Alongside selected new paintings…
JEPPE HEIN | SPACE SHIFTERS
HAYWARD GALLERY
26 SEPTEMBER 2018 – 6 JANUARY 2019
In Autumn 2018, Hayward Gallery presents Shifting Spaces, a major new thematic exhibition that includes site-specific installations and new…
BASIM MAGDY | THE DENT
RÖDA STEN KONSTHALL
5 FEBRUARY – 18 APRIL 2022
The title of this exhibition derives from Basim Magdy’s film The Dent, which represents a departure point for his solo show. The exhibition…
JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER | #ruttkoenig
BAM BERLIN
7 SEPTEMBER – 14 SEPTEMBER 2019
#ruttkoenig is a temporary exhibition project that sets its main scope on the democratic approach of collaboration…
KÖNIG GALERIE X OMR
KÖNIG GALERIE presents together with ART VISIT a virtual 360° gallery tour at OMR in Hamburg. ART VISIT reveals art and architecture...
KRIS MARTIN | EXIT
S.M.A.K.
18 MAY 2020 – 3 JANUARY 2021
‘EXIT’ is the first Belgian retrospective dedicated to the work of Kris Martin. After having shown his work internationally for twenty years…
JEPPE HEIN | STUDIO VISIT
The studio of Jeppe Hein is located in the neighborhood of Kreuzberg, in Berlin, where the artist works with a 15-person team...
JEREMY SHAW | QUANTIFICATION TRILOGY
JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION
17 JANUARY – 6 JUNE 2021
Jeremy Shaw’s Quantification Trilogy consists of three parafictional short films: Quickeners, Liminals, and I Can See Forever…
JEREMY SHAW | PHASE SHIFTING INDEX
CENTRE POMPIDOU
26 FEBRUARY – 20 JULY 2020
Since the mid-2000s, Canadian artist Jeremy Shaw has established a multifaceted artistic practice that combines disparate sources of…
XENIA HAUSNER | PALAIS POPULAIRE
PALAIS POPULAIRE BERLIN
10 FEBRUARY – 2 MARCH 2020
The new production of Richard Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier" staged by Andre Heller is the occasion for the first cooperation…
MANFRED KUTTNER | SURVEY
LANGEN FOUNDATION
19 JULY – 6 OCTOBER 2013
Manfred Kuttner entered the art-world stage together with his artist friends Gerhard Richter, Konrad Lueg, and Sigmar Polke. The four artists…
CORINNE WASMUTH | SPARDA ART PRIZE
KUNSTMUSEUM STUTTGART
18 MARCH – 18 JUNE 2017
The “Kubus. Sparda Art Prize” was dedicated to the theme “Expanded Painting.” Corinne Wasmuht, Myriam Holme, and Leni Hoffmann…
ELMGREEN & DRAGSET | USELESS BODIES?
FONDAZIONE PRADA
31 MARCH – 22 AUGUST 2022
For four years, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset worked on their major solo exhibition, transforming the new spaces of the…
DAVID ZINK YI | HORROR VACUI
DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BUILDING
20 MARCH – 6 JUNE 2021
David Zink Yi presents the two-channel video installation Horror Vacui at Dr Martin Luther King Jr. building. The work operates as an extended…
DAVID ZINK YI | PNEUMA
ISOLOTTO DELL' ARSENALE
1 JUNE – 24 NOVEMBER 2013
Pavilion of Latin America-IILA (Italo-Latin American Institute) at the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia…
KARL HORST HÖDICKE | PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE
PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE
18 JUNI 2020 – 13 SEPTEMBER 2020
The retrospective „K. H. Hödicke“ at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich presents the artist’s core creative phases from the early 1960s…
KARL HORST HÖDICKE | HALL ART FOUNDATION
HALL ART FOUNDATION
6 SEPTEMBER – 20 MARCH 2022
The exhibition “K.H. Hödicke” at Hall Art Foundation comprises approximately 40 paintings and sculptures produced between the mid-1960s…
KARL HORST HÖDICKE | PALAIS POPULAIRE
PALAIS POPULAIRE
9 OCTOBER 2020 – 8 MARCH 2021
After initially being shown at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the retrospective „K. H. Hödicke“ was then seen at the PalaisPopulaire…
ANNETTE KELM | AUSWÄRTIGES AMT
AUSWÄRTIGES AMT
18 SEPTEMBER 2019 – 30 APRIL 2020
What you see at first sight when you are face to face with Annette Kelm’s photographs are exquisitely balanced, aesthetically satisfying…
Katharina Grosse | FUGES IN COLOR
FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON
4 MAY – 29 AUGUST 2022
Katharina Grosse is part of the group exhibition "Fuges in Color" at the Fondation Louis Vuitton…
JOHANNES WOHNSEIFER × LUXURY FASHION HOUSE MCM
Artist Johannes Wohnseifer has collaborated with the German luxury fashion house MCM to create a DJ trunk that incorporates elements...
CLAIM YOUR ALICJA KWADE NFT FROM KÖNIG GALERIE ON YOUR MOBILE
We have compiled a guide detailing each step on how to claim your NFT on Verisart. You will receive an order confirmation via...
GALLERY WEEKEND 2022
KÖNIG SHOWROOM
29 APRIL – 1 MAY 2022
For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022, KÖNIG GALERIE presents an updated take on their showroom, featuring works by 21 artists in the gallery…
CLAIM YOUR ALICJA KWADE NFT FROM KÖNIG GALERIE ON YOUR COMPUTER
We have compiled a guide detailing each step on how to claim your NFT on Verisart. You will receive an order confirmation via...
XENIA HAUSNER | ALBERTINA MUSEUM
ALBERTINA MUSEUM
29 APRIL – 15 AUGUST 2021
The ALBERTINA MUSEUM presents the work of Xenia Hausner – one of the important contemporary Austrian painters…
ALICJA KWADE’S DEBUT NFT
Kwade’s debut NFT collection exemplifies the artist’s continued investigation into the self, which culminated in her recent exhibition...
BOSCO SODI | WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
PALAZZOVENDRAMIN GRIMANI
23 APRIL – 27 NOVEMBER 2022
Collateral event of the 59th international art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia…
JEPPE HEIN | RUINART
VENICE PALAZZO ROCCA
22 APRIL – 24 APRIL 2022
Collateral event of the 59th international art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia…
KATHARINA GROSSE | APOLLO, APOLLO
ESPACE LOUIS VUITTON
23 APRIL – 27 NOVEMBER 2022
Collateral event of the 59th international art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia…
TUE GREENFORT | MEDUSA ALGA LAGUNA
FONDAZIONE ERES VENEZIA ARTE + SCIENZA
23 APRIL – 1 NOVEMBER 2022
Collateral event of the 59th international art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia…
NORBERT BISKY | ON BEING YOUR OWN MAN
Years ago, an elderly gentleman came up to me after a reading and told me that he knew me. He’d once slept in my parents’ room for...
ANNETTE KELM | AT THE LUDWIGS’ HOUSE
Built in 1953, Haus Ludwig in Aachen, once residence of the art collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig, can best be described as an artwork...
JOHN SEAL | “HA-HA PICTURESQUE”
One of the key privileges afforded to eighteenth-century aristocratic guests of London’s Chiswick House was the opportunity to survey...
ALICJA KWADE & JOSÉ DAVILA | INTERSECTING PRACTICES
The practices of Alicja Kwade and Jose Dávila are both broad and distinct. Each artist has ventured successfully into an array of mediums...
JOHANNES KAHRS & ANDY HALL | ARE YOU NOT AFRAID OF THE DARKNESS?
Fifteen years ago, the career of German painter Johannes Kahrs took off toward a later high when museums like Pompidou...
KATHARINA GROSSE | IT WASN'T US
The Austrian author Kathrin Röggla and Katharina Grosse are connected in various ways with one another—both are part of the non-profit...
JEREMY SHAW & JULIA STOSCHEK | STATES OF TRANCE
In the first of Shaw’s Quantification Trilogy, Quickeners, we see footage of people shaking their bodies in a primal ecstatic dance while...
ANSELM REYLE & MARTIN EDER | BUDDIES
“Buddies” – how can such a trivial term be so appropriate? Anselm Reyle and Martin Eder could hardly be described more accurately...
Friedrich Kunath & John McEnroe | It’s an Inside Job
Friedrich Kunath talked about life, art, and self-doubt with John McEnroe, seven-time Grand Slam winner, once the enfant terrible of...
FRIEDRICH KUNATH | TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Within California’s famous beauty and grace, there has always been a peculiar melancholy. It could be said that it has always been...
TUE GREENFORT & EMANUELE COCCIA
One is from the world of fine arts, the other is a philosopher—but they share a common theme: the relationship between plants and animals...
CHIHARU SHIOTA | A ROOM OF MEMORY
Standing in an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, Berliner of choice since 1999, is like poking your head under a curtain into...
HANDLE WITH CARE
When talking about what we call art handlers, most German-speaking people initially think of the exalted, international art dealer...
FRIEDRICH KUNATH | SENSITIVE EURO MAN
German Romanticism is the most German of all German art ideas. It is the expression of, and opposition to, emergent modernism...
INTO THE DAZZLING LIGHT
Over the years, Timon Karl Kaleyta has released four albums with his band Susanne Blech, written songs with Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre...
BOSCO SODI | CASA WABI
Founded in 2014 by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, the non-profit art center Casa Wabi provides a platform to engage and connect with...
THE FUTURE BELONGS TO FEMALE COLLECTORS
Distribution systems have gone digital while appropriate attention is being paid to the historical as well as contemporary contributions...
What are NFTs?
And what do you actually do with them? Answering these questions is both simple and terribly complicated at the same time...
Werner Düttmann
Werner Düttmann’s centenary is being honoured by a comprehensive book and a major outdoor exhibition throughout West Berlin...
CHEYENNE WESTPHAL | INTERVIEW
She began her career in the basement of Sotheby’s, and went on to become their Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art. “The most powerful...
LOIE HOLLOWELL | THE SACRED CONTRACT
Loie Hollowell explores physicality and sensuality in large-scale, color-intense paintings that oscillate between abstraction and figuration...
DANIEL ARSHAM
Daniel Arsham’s work explores the zeitgeist and feeds off pop culture. His depictions of eroding sneakers, cassette players, Polaroid...