art KARLSRUHE 2011

The eighth art KARLSRUHE (10 to 13 March 2011)
is also being accompanied by a two-day event
directly on location at the art fair. The ARTIMA art
meeting, sponsored by Mannheimer Versicherung,
serves as a channel for airing views on art
(on Thursday, 10 March 2011) and the art business
(on Friday, 11 March 2011). Starting at 2 p.m
in each case, the host Karlheinz Schmid, chief
editor of KUNSTZEITUNG published by Lindinger
+ Schmid, will be quizzing a total of a dozen
artists, gallery owners, museum directors, and
other art brokers in one-to-one 20-minute sessions,     
digging for personal statements from the
prominent participants in the process.

Visitors to art KARLSRUHE can thus take an
informative break on their stroll through the art
fair by taking a seat in Foyer Ost and letting
themselves be entertained at the same time.
And of course visitors are free to attend all the
discussions, listening in on both days.
Well-known experts in the field have agreed to
take part, amongst them Katharina Princess of
Sayn-Wittgenstein from Sotheby‘s, Susanne
Gaensheimer, director of the Museum für Moderne
Kunst in Frankfurt (who will be supervising

the German pavilion at the Biennale in Venice as
curator in summer 2011) and the artist Jonathan
Meese.

Whereas the question of „What do we get from
art?“ is foremost on the first day of the ARTIMA
art meeting, with quite private significances being
discussed as well, being dealt with on the following
afternoon is the similarly broad yet central
issue of „What do we get from the market?“ –
a subject likely to take on a different appearance
depending on the angle it‘s viewed from. After
all it‘s not only about commercial success but
the stimuli and ideas that always arise in contact
with other market players and that can influence
future artistic or brokering activity. As the host
posing the questions, Karlheinz Schmid does not
mince his words because his aim, he says, is „to
give every dialogue partner a grilling with the
proper courtesy, partly even in friendship, but
never timidly.“