ART IS AN
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As Head of Art Consult, Dr Thomas Kellein looks after international collectors and evaluates the trends on the international art market. Before joining Bergos AG, he was curator of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, director of the Kunsthalle Basel, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Since 2013, he has curated exhibitions of Jenny Holzer, Shirin Neshat, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.
We build collections, organize commissioned works, exhibitions and publications. We value artworks and advise on sales and new acquisitions. We manage insurance and storage, write audit reports and arrange legal advice. We cordially invite you to the art market. We would like you to share our expertise.
DECEMBER 2021
The ongoing pandemic, even though travel restrictions to the usa have been relaxed, has made us humble. What do we see, what have we seen in 2021? New York presented us with little of the future …
NOVEMBER 2021
Today we aren’t writing about brilliant colors, bling and happiness. Nor about whether the art world will become democratic over the course of the decade …
October 2021
When does a symptom become a cause? When does a cause have an effect? We speculate quite bit. We don’t just want to gaze into a crystal ball, but seriously look into the future …
August/September 2021
If you peruse Andy Warhol’s 800-page diary, which is not an exciting read on every page, you will be startled by at least one of his remarks: How can an artist consider himself …
Juni/July 2021
It could have turned out differently. There were many casualties. Others suffered lesser damages. If we remember how in March 2020 countless municipalities, companies, governments and …
May 2021
“Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.” Thus spoke St. Peter in the Book of Acts. According to his message, conversion and …
April 2021
Our morality is being newly curated at the moment. Our familiar worldview is undergoing a reorientation. One fascinating aspect of this development is the way artists and intellectuals of African …
March 2021
Music and art are relatively fixed elements in a country’s cultural and social history, which has always involved the shaping and negotiation of taste. As a rule, for more than 150 years, …
February 2021
We are aware that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. We know that objects of art-historical significance created as far back as 1.6 to 1.7 million years ago have been found in the Olduvai gorge …
January 2021
When we ask ourselves, what comes after linear historiography, after our internalized notions of progress, after decades of the dominant hegemonic power of the usa, we are at a loss for a moment. …