JOHANN KÖNIG

Blind Gallerist

2022
book
sternberg press
softcover
160 pages
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Andy Warhol, Isa Genzken, On Kawara, Rosemarie Trockel - Johann König grew up surroundet by great artists and their art. His hometown of Cologne was recognized as Europe´s art capital in the 1980s largely because of his family´s work in the field. The art world, as a result, became his extended family. His father, the renowned curator Kasper König, took him on trips to Jeff Koons´s studio in New York. Nam June Paik became his godfather after a "Fluxus baptism"; Gerhard Richter was the best man at his parent´s wedding. When Johann was eleven, a tragic accident caused him to lose almost all his eyesight. Isolated from the world, he found salvation in contemporary art. And when he was only twenty, he took the risk of starting his own gallery. What does it mean to become a gallery owner when you can´t see? How can you access art when you can't rely on your eyes? In this memoir coauthored with Daniel Schreiber , Johann König recounts his unique upbringing and equally unique approach to art, one shaped by circumstance and ambition. With distinctive candor, he offers inside into the art world from the perspective of both a true believer and an innovator. Today, with a spectacular gallery located in a Brutalist church in Berlin, he continues his family´s legacy while redefining what it means to see art.

Publishing Year: 2022
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Editor(s): Johann König und Daniel Schreiber
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 160
Dimensions: 13.3 x 19.7 cm
Weight: 0.3 kg
Language: Englisch

ISBN: 978 3 95679 627 2

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