COLOGNE—The 43rd edition of Art Cologne, which runs from April 22 through 26, is the first under director Daniel Hug. He has moved the fair within its longstanding venue, the Kölnmesse, to a wing beside the ultramodern south entrance, where he’s installing a sculpture project. Hug has also trimmed about 50 dealers from the still heavily German exhibitor lineup, bringing the total number to 180. And he is debuting New Positions, which allows each gallery to attach a small second space to its booth to showcase a particular artist.

Munich’s Galerie Thomas is zeroing in on the Zero group: On view is Folium Saeculum, 1968, an aluminum and wood work by Heinz Mack, priced at €58,000 ($74,000). Pop artist Tom Wesselman’s Barn Behind Beechwoods, 1990, is featured, too, for $350,000. London’s Annely Juda, who last joined the fair in 2003, is making a splash with a 1963 David Hockney painting priced around $1 million. "Cologne is a hub for collectors from Belgium, the Rhineland and elsewhere," Juda says, explaining his decision to return. Also back± — after a six-year absence, to promote his newly reopened Cologne space — is the New York- and Berlin-based Michael Werner, showing an untitled 1990 abstract painting by Sigmar Polke. Fair newcomer Laurence Miller, a Manhattan photography dealer, is bringing prints by the Americans Helen Levitt, whose works range from $7,500 to $35,000; Ray Metzger, priced between $4,000 and $10,000; and Bruce Wrighton, selling for $4,000 or $5,000 each. Henze & Ketterer, of Bern, Switzerland, has the harbor scene Hafen, 1911, by Hermann Max Pechstein for €2.4 million ($3.1 million) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s woodblock print of a coyly posed nude woman, Akt mit schwarzem Hut, 1911, for €1 million ($1.3 million). "Cool in Köln" originally appeared in the April 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's April 2009 Table of Contents.