BERLIN—Art Berlin Contemporary (abc) announced the final list of galleries participating in the 2012 edition of the fair on Thursday. The headlining event for the inaugural Berlin Art Week, abc looks stronger and more international than ever for its fifth edition (September 13-16) with 120 galleries from 17 countries. The majority of the galleries (63) still come from Berlin, however the list also includes multiple exhibitors from Dubai, New York, Paris, and Milan, among others.
This year sees the fair drop its previous curatorial frameworks such as last year’s “About Painting” and “Light, Camera, Action” in 2010 in exchange for a partnership with New York’s Artists Space, who will present a bazaar of objects and artworks that cross boundaries between fine art, design, fashion, and publishing. “We don’t want to just do the same thing each year. We try to feel the zeitgeist and think about what needs to change. This year we decided that it would be a good idea to cooperate with someone from outside Berlin and turn the focus on the artists and the process of producing art,” abc’s Silke Neumann told ARTINFO Germany in an interview.
Due to abc’s expansion into a third hall of Station Berlin, galleries will have more room to show those artists as well. ARTINFO got an exclusive sneak peak at the unofficial list, which promises more depth and variety of medium than previous years, as well as an exciting array of new names from the fair’s younger galleries. Highlights include works by Mona Hatoum at Berlin’s Max Hetzler who will also open a show with Hatoum on September 8, David Adamo at Ibid Projects, David Thorpe with Meyer Riegger and Maureen Paley, Eddie Martinez at Peres Projects, Aaron Curry at VeneKlasen Werner, Jeff Wall at Johnen Galerie, Qiu Xiaofei at Boers-Li Gallery, and Clemens von Wedemeyer at KOW.
The full list of galleries is:
2P Contemporary Art Gallery
Galerie Mikael Andersen
Andrae Kaufmann
Arndt
Galerie Guido W. Baudach
Johan Berggren Gallery
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Boers-Li Gallery
Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie
Bourouina Gallery
BQ
Buchmann Galerie
Capitain Petzel
Carbon 12 Dubai
Carlier | Gebauer
Charim Galerie
Mehdi Chouakri
Contemporary Fine Arts
Galerie Crone
Croy Nielsen
Galerie Anselm Dreher
Duve Berlin
Egeran Galeri
Galerie Eigen+Art
Elastic
Galerie Frank Elbaz
Figge von Rosen Galerie
Konrad Fischer Galerie
Galerie Thomas Fischer
Galleria Fonti
Carl Freedman Gallery
Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender
Frutta
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann
Laurel Gitlen
GreyNoise
Grieder Contemporary
Galerie Karin Guenther
Galerie Jochen Hempel
Galerie Max Hetzler
Gallery Hyundai
Ibid Projects
Johnen Galerie
Galerie Kadel Willborn
Galerie Kamm
Georg Kargl
Kicken Berlin
Klemm's
Klosterfelde
Christine König Galerie
Galerie Johann König
KOW Berlin
Kraupa-Tuskany
Andrew Kreps Gallery
Galerie Krinzinger
Krobath
Krome Gallery
Galerie Bernd Kugler
Tim van Laere Gallery
Tanya Leighton Gallery
Lullin + Ferrari
Lüttgenmeijer
Mary Mary
kamel mennour
Meyer Riegger Berlin
Galerie Mezzanin
Monitor
Galerie nächst St. Stephan
Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Nature Morte Berlin
Galerie Neu
neugerriemschneider
Galerie Nordenhake
Galerie Opdahl
Maureen Paley
Peres Projects
Tanja Pol Galerie
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
PSM
RaebervonStenglin
Reception
Renwick Gallery
Aurel Scheibler
Esther Schipper
Schleicher/Lange
Galerie Micky Schubert
Galerie Thomas Schulte
Gabriele Senn Galerie
Galleria Suzy Shammah
Sies + Höke Galerie
Société
Sommer & Kohl
soy capitán
Sprüth Magers
Stevenson
Jacky Strenz
Supportico Lopez
Svit
Gallery Taik
The Third Line
Galerie Barbara Thumm
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf
Sassa Trülzsch
Rob Tufnell
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde
VeneKlasen Werner
Vilma Gold
Galerie Tanja Wagner
Galerie Barbara Weiss
Wentrup
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner Bremen/Berlin
Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch
xavierlaboulbenne
Alex Zachary Peter Currie
Zak | Branicka
Galerie Susanne Zander
Zero
Galerie Zink