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I Have Nothing Against Women But…

A look inside the exhibition “I Have Nothing Against Women but Can’t You Ring at Another Person’s Door”

RICHARD HAWKING, Last of His Kind

RUSS MEYER, Eve With Blue Sweater

RICHARD HAWKINS, Untitled (Set 2)

STEPHAN MELZL, Koje

MARTIN KIPPENBERGER, Ich habe zwar nichts gegen Frauen, aber können Sie nicht woanders klingeln

ANNETTE RUENZLER, Untitled

JULIAN WASSER, Marcel Duchamp – Chess Match at the Pasadena Art Museum

LARRY CLARK, Untitled (TL46, Cover)

ANDREA BOWERS, Political Slogans and Flower Magic: Keep your laws off my body!

ZOE LEONARD, Bubblegum # 7

ALEXANDER RISCHER & JAN TIMME, Sphinx

CLAUDIA BREUER, Fickende Kaugummis

KATE DAVIS (coll. with JIMMY ROBERT), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

ZOE LEONARD, Pin Up #1 (Jennifer Miller does Marilyn Monroe)

ZAZIF TOPCUOGLU, Proust Picture

ANETA GRESZYKOWSKA, Untitled Film Still # 5

ANN LISLEGAARD, Untitled (Fontainebleau)

GUERILLA GIRLS, The Birth of Feminism

MEG CRANSTON, The Complete Works of Jane Austen

KATIE HOLTEN, The Black Tree

ANNETTE KELM, Untitled (Duchamp-Villon)

ZOE LEONARD, Mouth Open – Teeth Showing, II

PHILIPPE HALSMAN, Mao Marilyn

WS, Morsbroich – Kavalierstart

ZOE LEONARD, Mouth Open – Teeth Showing, II

ANNEMIE VAN KERCKHOVEN, 100 Jahre Moderne Kunst

ROMAN SCHRAMM, Susanne als Arrow Collar Man

ROSELINE RANNOCH, Scala-Paradisi-Katholisch

CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, Erratum

PETRA HERZOG, No Rodeo Today

EVA KOTATKOVA, Behind Between Over and Under In (The Room)

GRAHAM LITTLE, Untitled

CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, Kodak Three Point, 2005. Reflection Guide/ ©️ 1968, Eastman Kodak Company, 1968/(Meiko laughing)/Vancouver, B.C./April 6, 2005.

NICOLE EISENMAN, Ketchup vs Mustard

CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, Untitled (Study in Yellow and Red/Berlin) Dirk Sharper Studio, Berlin, June 21st, 2007 (No. 1)

KATE DAVIS, Your Body is a Battleground Still

WS, Looking at De Kooning – Woman #1

DUNCAN MARQUIS, No Volunteers Came Forward

ANDREA BOWERS, Design of Choice (MyBodyMyChoice with Stripes)

LARRY CLARK, Brother and Sister

SOFIE BIRD MØLLER, Wie im Himmel, wie in der Hölle II

MEG CRANSTON, Someone Else With My Fingerprints

CHARLIE HAMMOND, Untitled (Man Pissing)

ANTJE MAJEWSKI, Black Hairstyles No. 7

SILKE OTTO KNAPP, Many Many Women

ANTJE DORN, O,O Total

MICHAEL STEVENSON, Revolutionary Degas

The collection of Wilhelm Schürmann is included in the Art Guide.

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You are the Concept

Private sessions with IC founder and strategist Christian Kaspar Schwarm.

Julia Stoschek

Sergej Timofejev in conversation with Julia Stoschek: one of the most active and famous collectors of time-based art.

Boros Bunker #4

This former techno-club has been home to the private collection and residence of Christian and Karen Boros.

haubrok projects

Lollie Barr meets collector Axel Haubrok in Lichtenberg

Wurlitzer Berlin-Pied-à-Terre Collection

Gudrun and Bernd Wurlitzer have created a space where artworks sit comfortably alongside signs of everyday life

KUNSTSAELE Berlin

Geraldine Michalke provides one of the most dynamic sites for aesthetic exchanges in Berlin

The Feuerle Collection

Désiré Feuerle has turned a site of isolation and paranoia into a place infused with humanity, lightness and sensuality

Ingrid & Thomas Jochheim

The collector couple describes the discovery process, which has led them to around 700 artworks to date, as emotional

ARNDT Collection

Tiffany Wood and Matthias Arndt aim to collect works that create disturbance

PRIOR Art Space

Oliver Elst and Laura del Arco have built significant collections, both individually and together

Elke and Arno Morenz Collection

A collection about seven postwar avant-garde movements

Collection Night

A new twilight initiative takes places in Berlin to bring private collections together in a special programme.

Warhol and Works on Paper

Editions and works on paper from The Dirk Lehr Collection.

Art is a Window – Christian Kaspar Schwarm

Una Meistere in conversation in Berlin with IC founder Christian Kaspar Schwarm.

Dirk Lehr Collection

A look inside the Berlin-based collection that refuses to follow trends.

Yvonne Roeb

Inside the studio of the artist with the unusual collection.

Christian Kaspar Schwarm “Young Collections”

Inside the constantly growing and unconventional collection of the IC co-founder.

The Vague Space

The continuously contouring art collection from Independent Collectors’ co-founder.

Boros Bunker #3

A look inside the belly of Berlin's most known World War II Bunker.

Gudrun & Bernd Wurlitzer

On the occasion of the sixth edition of Berlin Art Week, Gudrun and Bernd Wurlitzer will be opening up their home and private collection to the public.

Gudrun & Bernd Wurlitzer 2017

After the German reunion Gudrun and Bernd Wurlitzer witnessed the gallery scene in Berlin change dramatically.

me Collectors Room – Picha/Pictures

"Picha/Pictures – Between Nairobi & Berlin" at Berlin's me Collectors Room features artworks by Berlin-based artists and children that live in Kibera, East Africa’s largest slum.

How to Be Unique

An exploration of the interlacing of textual, structural, and lingual elements and painting with a special emphasis on their material manifestations.

Kuhn Collection

Offering a bright perspective of young contemporary art.

Archivio Conz x KW

Archivio Conz presents “Pause: Broken Sounds/Remote Music. Prepared pianos from the Archivio Conz collection” at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

Haus N Collection & ROCCA Stiftung

Two collections joined forces to create a unique cultural experience in an abandoned car dealership in Kiel, Germany.

Kuhn Collection I

This exhibition is the first in a series in which Michael Kuhn and Alexandra Rockelmann share works from the Kuhn Collection on IC.

Recording Memories

Mimi Kolaneci shares parts of his collection

Haus N Collection & Wemhöner Collection

ach, die sind ja heute so unpolitisch

STUDIO BERLIN – Boros Foundation x Berghain

We are here with insight into the seductive new Berlin happening, STUDIO BERLIN, with an interview with Karen Boros and Juliet Kothe, Artistic Directors of the project.

me Collectors Room Berlin/Stiftung Olbricht

My Abstract World

Haupt Collection

Dreissig Silberlinge

Désiré Feuerle

Publicly accessible private collection in an old bunker.

Lapo Simeoni

Collectors who have a special bond with Berlin.

Timo Miettinen

Finnish collector talks about the impossibility of ignoring Berlin’s relevance in today’s art world.

Kai Bender

Collectors who have a special bond with Berlin.

Olaf Schirm

Collectors who have a special bond with Berlin.

From Sponsorship to Authorship

Creative workshops for brands who want to become great story-tellers.

Manfred Herrmann

The Berlin based tax consultant Manfred Herrmann and his wife art historian Burglind-Christin Schulze-Herrmann have been collecting contemporary art for the last 30 years.

me Collectors Room – Private Exposure

For the fifth time, the Olbricht Foundation has invited London Metropolitan University students from the ‘Curating the Contemporary’ Master’s program in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, to curate and develop an exhibition with works from the extensive art collection of Thomas Olbricht.

Safn

From a very early age, Pétur Arason enjoyed visiting artists in their studios with his father. Today, Arason has built up his own collection spanning more than 1 200 works.

Cindy Sherman – Works from the Olbricht Collection

Arguably one of the most important photographers of the late 20th Century, Cindy Sherman is not just a master of disguise but also a master at captivating her audiences.

Gute Kunst? Wollen!

Born into a family of textile merchants that spans over four generations and a long tradition of passionate art collecting Thomas Rusche’s passion for collecting art started early, with his first purchase at the age of 14. Over the years that followed, his passion for collecting has grown into a vast accumulation of 17th century Old Masters, contemporary painting, and sculptures.

Frisch Collection

The Berlin based couple, Harald and Kornelia Frisch, have been collecting idiosyncratic painterly and sculptural positions from different artistic generations free from market-based aesthetics since the 1960s.

Slavs and Tatars: Friendship of Nations

An exhibition from the Berlin-based collector Christian Kaspar Schwarm, featuring work from the art collective, Slavs and Tatars.

Queensize

Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection at me Collectors Room, Berlin.

Barbara Klemm: Photographs

A new exhibition from the Berlin collector Werner Driller.

Collection Regard

En Passant

To the patrons of tomorrow

Laurie Rojas on the future of art patronage and how to nurture enthusiasm for good art, worldly sensibility, curiosity, and connoisseurship.

A Travel Companion to access private art

What started off as an ambitious task back in 2012 to gather a world-wide list of the most exciting art collections, resulted in unique book that would radically increase the accessibility of private art to the general public.

The Rediscovery of Wonder

»Good art is rarely simple, but it is hardly ever incomprehensible, « says Christian Kaspar Schwarm, IC founder and avid collector who has never lost his excitement for complexity.