The gallery’s attendance at art fairs is central to Galerie EIGEN + ART, as these fairs are an important component of the gallery’s season. Galerie EIGEN + ART, with locations in Leipzig and in Berlin, participates in the five most important fairs: Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel, Art Forum Berlin, the Frieze Art Fair in London and the Armory Show in New York City. Gerd Harry Lybke pursues different exhibition strategies at each art fair: solo as well as group exhibitions, and also thematic presentations, sometimes focusing on art stars, sometimes on less established figures.
In the exhibition NEW YORK – BASEL – BERLIN – LONDON – MIAMI works by all artists from Galerie EIGEN + ART are represented. In the large display window in the new building, Birgit Brenner shows her work ›Licht Aus‹ (Lights out). Brenner represented the gallery at the Frieze Art Fair in London in 2007. Jörg Herold represented Galerie EIGEN + ART in 2007 at the Armory Show in New York, and in the context of this exhibition now shows the work ›Der Dokumentararchäologe im Land der beschleunigten Folklore‹ (The Documentary Archaeologist in the Land of Accelerated Folklore), which was also shown this year at Galerie EIGEN + ART in Berlin. The gallery will not participate in Art Basel Miami Beach in 2009. This part of the gallery remains empty and for three weeks will be at the disposal of Uwe Kowski, one of the artists represented by the gallery and the Leipziger Jahresausstellung 2008 laureate. In the context of Art Basel, Judy Lybke also sometimes shows works, which have already been bought and are on loan from museums. This principle held by Lybke is represented in the exhibition in Leipzig by wallpaper with reproductions of already-sold works. For the Art Forum Berlin scenario Lybke invited another gallery, which holds a branch at the Leipzig Spinnerei, to share his booth for the first time. The Mexican GALERIA HILARIO GALGUERA takes over this part and shows the photographs ›Titulo‹ by the artist Carmen Brucic. These photographs can now be seen together with Martin Eder’s current large-format photographs ›Les Nus‹. Brucic is also represented in another space which Galerie EIGEN + ART has allocated to the GALERIE HILARIO GALGUERA as a guest space. In the cinema in the new building alternating documentations of Galerie EIGEN + ART and art films will be shown.
