ART FORUM BERLIN 2007 - Fair for Contemporary Art

Participating Artists include: Adel Abdessemed / Saâdane Afif / Maja Bajevic / Mircea Cantor / Keren Cytter / Plamen Dejanoff / Marcelline Delbecq / Fabrice Gygi / Swetlana Heger / Séverine Hubard / Talia Keinan / Mark Kent / Peter Kogler / Lamarche & Ovize / / Maria Pask / Gitte Schäfer / Miri Segal / Francesco Simeti / Markus Sixay / Yorgos Sapountzis (list in formation, please consult our website for updates).

Established in 2001, the ART FORUM BERLIN Talks engage their audience twice daily in lively discussions with renowned artists, curators, collectors and scientists from across the globe. Topics this year include Europe United – The Estonian Art Scene, Tasks and Challenges of Art Criti-cism, our third Biennials panel with Adam Szymczyk, Curator 5. berlin biennial 2008, Iara Boubnova, Co-Curator 2. Moscow Biennial 2007 et. al. moderated by David Galloway. Gabriele Knapstein, Curator at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin discusses with colleague Christian Schoen, Director, Center for Icelandic Art, artist Erla Haraldsdóttir and others the characteristics of the art scenes in Reykjavik and Berlin. Doreet Harten and her panel will take a look at expanding art scenes across the Mediterranean, while Marc Spiegler explores with his panelists the knotty relationship between galleries and auction houses.

Visitors to ART FORUM BERLIN are invited to join special programs starting already in the evening of 27th of September, 2007 with the award ceremony and exhibition of the Prize of the National Gallery for Young Art with Jeanne Faust, Ceal Floyer, Damian Ortega and Tino Sehgal at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art Berlin, followed on the 28th by the Preview of ART FORUM BERLIN and on the 29th by the opening of the big Roman Signer solo show at Hamburger Bahnhof’s Rieck Halls.