25 Years of Kunstgruppe

© Salon Schmitz, 2021.

Kunstgruppe in real and virtual space

Every year at ART COLOGNE, Dirk and Trixi Mecky present a large group exhibition of young talents and well-known artists in the back room of Salon Schmitz.

The exhibition series of the art group started in 1995 in the legendary bar "Dos Equis". This year the series celebrates its 25th anniversary. Despite the lockdown, the more than 150 works have been hung in Salon Schmitz, even though no one can visit the exhibition for the time being.

To make the group show accessible anyway and give visitors the opportunity to buy works, Kunstgruppe brought the group show into virtual space.

The browser-based social VR platform OFFSPACE.net by simple invites visitors to discover and stroll together digitally.

Exhibition concept and curatorial direction:
Kunstgruppe - Trixi and Dirk Mecky

Collaboration:
Alistair Overbruck
Leo Düwel

Artists: Bernd Ackfeld, Hans Peter Adamski, Siegfried Anzinger, Tolia Astali, Astali/Pierce, Ira Bartell, Elke Baulig, Boris Becker, Hella Beerent, Peter Bömmels, Gerd Bonfert, Jan Bräumer, P. Buda, Wolfgang Burat Lisa Busche, Eun-jung Choi, Walter Dahn, Laura Dechanaud, Claudia Desgranges, Jo Dickreiter, Beatrice Dreux, Jan Düfelsiek, Lorraine Durgeloh, Britta Ebermann, Lars Eidinger, Robert Elfgen, Philip Emde, Andreas Erdmann, Aldous Eveleigh, Gina Lee Felber, Feyyaz, Alexander Pascal Forré, Max Frintrop, Sebastian Fritsch, Albrecht Fuchs, Roland Gatzschmann, Tobias Gerber, Nikolaus Grathwohl, Uli Grohs, Michael Growe, Tom Grundmann, Daniel Grüttner, Denis Guillomo, Robert Haiss, Mathilde Tijen Hansen, Georg Herold, Lisa Herfelot, Franz Josef Heumannskemper, Beatrice Hezinger, Karin Hochstatter, Jan Höfer, Tobias Hofknecht, Tine Holterhoff, Leiko Ikemura, Sarah Illenberger, Buket Isgören, Alfred Jansen, Bela Pablo Jansen, Christof John, Kalaman, Clemens Kaletsch, Benjamin Katz, Kayla Kauffman, Denis Kauzner, Anika Kehr, Jürgen Klauke, Astrid Klein, Max Marion Kober, Julian Kohl, Marie Luise Lebschik, Steffen Lenk, Manuela Leinhoss, Benedikt Leonhard, Andre Linpinsel, Daniel Man, Bernhard Marsch, Christoph Mascher, Louis Mason, Kevin Pavel Matweew, Jacques Mecky, Otto Mecky, Paul Mecky, Mike Meiré, Ulrike Meyer, Bernadette Mittrup, Nils Mlynek, Ulrich Moskopp, Motjér & Schneider, Helena Münch, Horst Münch, Leah Nehmert, Hartmut Neumann, Sarah Nöllenheid, Marcel Odenbach, Stefanie Oelke, Kirsten Ortwed, David Ostrowski, Alistair Overbruck, Christian Pilz, Pino Pipoli, Michail Pirgelis, Andreas Plum, Lorenzo Pompa, Max Precht, Simona Pries, Marcello Ragone, Nico Randel, Christine Reifenberger, Tilo Riedel, Iwo Ringe, Lea Rochus, Markus Saile, Akiko Sato, Mireille Schellhorn, Julia Scher, Georg Schmidt, Thomas Schmidt, Mathias Schmitt, Frances Scholz, Uta Schotten, Andreas Schulze, Mona Schulzek, Ralph Schuster, Heather Sheehan, Timothy Shearer, Ulrike Siecaup, Wolfgang Spanier, Dejan Spasowski, Alice Stepanek, Martin Streit, Stefan Strumbel, Stefan Strunden, Volker Tannert, Boscher Theodor, (Tim), Gert & Uwe Tobias, Leif Trenkler, Rosemarie Trockel, Tin Trohar, Klaus vom Bruch, Felix von der Osten, Katharina van Hoffs, Anna Virnich, Winfried Virnich, Wolfgang Voegele, Raimund von Luckwald, Eva von Platen, Thomas Gray Venable, Thomas Wachholz, Lioba Wagner, Bernhard Walter, Elena Wegener, Berthold Wegner, Georg Weisbach, Julia Wilczewski, Herbert Willems, Jürgen Wolf, Aleka Wollny, Jens Wortmann, Sebastian Zarius, Joseph Zehrer, Benedikt Ziegler, Peter Zimmermann, Thomas Zitzwitz, Marco Zumbé and others.

 

Sources: Instagram (@omecky), Salon Schmitz 1, Salon Schmitz 2

 

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