Art Düsseldorf 2025 Planning the exhibition booth
Areal Böhler · Stand J 06

11 – 13 April 2025

Planning the exhibition booth

At Art Düsseldorf 2025, Gallery Dr. Dorothea van der Koelen is presenting a selection of its established top artists from the international avant-garde – in line with this year’s exhibition focus. While the presentations in 2024 were characterized by a plea for the beauty of art against the current horrors and wars of this world, the year 2025, for which Pope Francis has proclaimed a ‘Holy Year’in Rome, is entirely under the theme of hope.

Uecker once said: “Art cannot save people, but with the means of art, a dialog is possible that calls for action that preserves people.” The focus is on three of the gallery’s artists who are celebrating milestone birthdays this year: nail artist Günther Uecker (95 yo), video art pioneer Fabrizio Plessi (85 yo) and visual poet Heinz Gappmayr (100 yo).

Exhibited artists

Lore Bert, who enjoys worldwide fame as a paper artist, is showing her latest pictorial objects with delicate Japanese paper and fine gold leaf at Art Düsseldorf, including works that play with perspective and the large Star in Turquoise and Gold.

Daniel Buren, the French master of minimalist art, is famous for his ‘stripe principle’, which he developed in the mid-1960s. At Art Düsseldorf, he is presenting some of his popular Encore des Carrés works consisting of small panels with the typical 8.7 cm wide stripes.

Heinz Gappmayr is regarded as one of the leading representatives of visual poetry. The basic material of his work is language. He uses visually presented letters, words and numbers to investigate the categorical possibilities of language. At the stand, we are showing his monumental 10-part panel work Colours as well as the text panels Only for a Moment and Ist Wird.

Gottfried Honegger is showing a wonderful almost square picture in blue, which excellently thematizes the ‘two souls in his chest’ – Cercle et Carré as well as Poetry and Construction, as one half of the picture is matt, the other shiny on the surface.

Mohammed Kazem, who had a highly acclaimed exhibition at the Ludwigmuseum im Deutschherrenhaus in Koblenz in 2023, is showing some of his elegant monochrome Sound of Angles works.

Nam Tchun-Mo, the Korean artist and representative of his country’s monochrome Dansaekhwa movement, is presenting two typical Spring works in beige and blue as well as two austere Beam works in red and black and white.

Fabrizio Plessi, the Venetian by choice and pioneer of video art, honors our stand with a work from the more recent group of Splash works in rich blue. His preoccupation with the elemental forces of water and fire is characteristic of his œuvre.

Turi Simeti, the Italian ZERO artist and companion of Lucio Fontana, is showing two of his impressive canvas reliefs in elegant red and deep blue with his typical Oval Shapes.

Günther Uecker, who is celebrating his 95th birthday this year, will be decorating our stand in his adopted home of Düsseldorf with some selected embossed prints in large format, including the striking works Wave and Duo.