Target Group of Contemporary Art Expo Frankfurt:

Exhibitors:

Galleries, dealers and institutions

Visitors:
Museums, collectors, (Institutional-, investment, and professional private collectors), auction houses, art associations and organizations, cultural institutions, artists, art experts, banks, insurance companies and other financial service providers, architects, doctors and lawyers, art lovers and experts

Focal Topics of Visual Arts Fair Germany:

• ANTIQUE & ANCIENT ART:

This area of Germany Art Fair will cover the epochs of art history through to the mid-19th century.

Galleries will show art and craftwork from ancient Greece, the Hellenistic era and ancient Rome. Exhibits from the advanced civilizations of the ancient oriental Middle East, namely Egypt, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Persia and Asia Minor, will also be featured. The range of artwork extends through the Middle Ages to art by Old Masters from the Renaissance, Baroque era, Classicism and Romanticism, among others.

This section will be devoted to galleries that are firmly established in the art market, work at the highest level and consequently embody eternal values. Here visitors will find exquisite collection items – be they paintings, furniture, jewelry, or everyday artisanal objects – as part of art history. It goes without saying that the artwork will be of a unique quality, while gallery owners can draw on expertise gained over many years.

• NON-EUROPEAN ART:

With its immense scope of ethnic diversity and owing to the ample range of rarities, the Non-European Art section caters to international demand for epoch-spanning objects and works of art from cultures and tribes of Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Asia, and North and South America. In part exotic and mystical in appearance, they not only express cultural identity but also speak of the long history of colonialization through to the nations’ liberation from the yoke of occupation and the emergence of a new artistic identity, which combines historical roots with global influences in a fascinating manner.

The galleries exhibiting here are specialists in their field, have immense knowledge and enjoy excellent contacts to the exhibits’ countries of origin. This means they can present their audience with art in a quality and diversity such as is seldom seen.

• MODERN CLASSICAL:

The Classical Modernism section covers artists from an epoch that reached its zenith in the 20th century in Europe with the revolutionary works of the Fauvists, Cubists, Futurists, Expressionists and avant-gardists. Today, it continues to demonstrate the same diversity as the avant-garde styles seen as pioneering in the fine arts at the end of the Belle Époque. 

In recent decades Classical Modernist masterpieces have dominated the auction rooms, together with Impressionist works and contemporary art.

• CONTEMPORARY ART:

This segment presents galleries with exciting contemporary and pioneering positions that reflect the current art scene and its trends. Here, alongside established galleries and well-known artistic positions from all over the world, prominent exhibitors who have made contributions to more recent art history and also adopt a critical position have the opportunity to provide a platform and adequate space for young, upcoming artists.

The diversity of artistic forms of expression not only covers painting and sculpture, object art, installation and performance, but also photography, video and as the most recent medium, digital art.