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Art Cologne: Poised Between Past and Present

By Sarah Douglas

Published: April 24, 2008
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Photo by Sarah Douglas
A large mixed-media piece by Russian artist Andrei Molodkin featuring a blown-up photograph of participants in the G8 grabbed a lot of attention at Kashya Hildebrand's booth.


Photo by Sarah Douglas
Outside the fair, a young man stood clutching a sign that said, in German, "Whoever reads this is happy!"

News also broke that Berlin dealer Michael Neff, who heads up Berlin's Gallery Weekend in May, is starting a new event called Art Berlin Contemporary that will feature 50 galleries selling wares in an old post office. The four-day event, which he has been careful not to describe as a fair, debuts in September.
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