In the wake of successful collaborative ventures like London’s Condo (currently on in New York and soon to launch in Shanghai and Mexico City), gallerists in Düsseldorf and Cologne are launching their own brand of ‘condominium’, Okey Dokey, hosting some of their international peers in their spaces from 8–30 September. The project was initiated by Ginerva Gambino, Jan Kaps and Max Mayer who, with another six gallerists, are inviting 17 international galleries – ranging from Tokyo’s Misako & Rosen to the young Vienna-based publishing house Sax Publishers to Surrealism-focused Galerie 1900-2000 – to cocurate group shows in their spaces. The initiative takes its name from Konrad Fischer’s infamous catch phrase, referencing more widely the Rhineland’s longstanding tradition of collaboration and exchange that has shaped its artistic landscape.
The hosting galleries and guests are:
Delmes & Zander, Cologne hosts Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, and Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Drei, Cologne, hosts Kirchgasse, Steckborn, Lulu, Mexico City, and Park View, Los Angeles
Ginerva Gambino, Cologne, hosts Ermes Ermes, Vienna/Rome, Truth and Consequences, Geneva, and Sandy Brown, Berlin
Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf, hosts Stereo, Warsaw, and Lomex, New York
Jan Kaps, Cologne hosts Weiss Falk, Basel, Edouard Montassut, Paris, and Saxpublishers, Vienna
Linden, Düsseldorf hosts (tba)
Max Mayer, Düsseldorf, hosts Arcadia Missa, London/New York, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, and Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
Studio for Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf, hosts Barbara Rüdiger with Anna Sophie Berger
Rob Tufnell, Cologne, hosts Tanya Leighton, Berlin
28 July 2017
