Blog Galerie Priska Pasquer

Our exhibition Shomei Tomatsu received two reviews:
In the Kölnische Rundschau Thomas Linden writes:
Nur ein Spritzer auf dem Bein
Galerie Priska Pasquer zeigt faszinierende Fotografien von Shomei Tomatsu
Symbolisiert die Wolke über dem Meer einen aufsteigenden Gedanken, ein Zeichen der Hoffnung und der Freude? Oder ist sie nichts weiter als ein wenig Wasserdampf, der sich im Sonnenlicht über [...]

The Cologne city magazine Stadt Revue has listed our Mika Ninagawa Exhibition (January – March 2009) among the most important shows of 2009:
Mika Ninagawa: Liquid Dreams
Die feuchten Träume der japanische Startfotografin, höchst artifizielle Farborgien und kein bisschen anstößig. Bonbonbunte Unterwassaufnahmen verschmelzen mit Pop.
Michael Krajewski
Jahres-Charts: Das war 2009.
Stadt Revue, 01-10, 2010, p. 67

A Peaceful 2010
Priska Pasquer
Ferdinand Brueggemann

The British Journal of Photography has published a list of top ten books of the decade. Among the top ten is Rinko Kawauchi’s book “Utatane” (Siesta). Rinko Kawauchi had published the book in 2001 and she received for “Utatane” and a second book “Hanabi” (Fireworks) in the following year the Kimura Ihei Award, a leading [...]

The German art magazine “Art” has in its current December issue  an article about four German gallerists who are specialized in photography and about collecting photographs. The article starts with a portrait of Priska Pasquer:
LICHTBILDER UND LEIDENSCHAFT
Fotografie gilt auf dem Kunstmarkt immer noch als zweitklassiges Medium – trotz der Erfolge von Demand, Gursky und Co. [...]

Andrei Molodkin whose work we will show from April 17 at our gallery as well at our booth at the upcoming Art Cologne fair will represent Russia at the forthcoming 53rd Biennale di Venezia.

Mika Ninagawa – with whom we are preparing a solo exhibition at our gallery which will open at January 23, 2009 – has a major exhibition in Tokyo:

Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors
at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from November 1 to December 28.

Mika Ninagawa is one of the most popular photographers in Japan. [...]

This summer Asako Narahashi received the 24th Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Prize. The artist won the prize for her recent series “half awake and half asleep in the water”, which we will exhibit at our gallery from September 12.

Higashikawa is a small town in Hokkaido, located at the north end of Japan.
The photo festival has been [...]

The summer edition of ARTnews magazine1  has a review of the Rinko Kawauchi exhibition “Utatane” our partner Antoine de Vilmorin organized in Paris this spring.
Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi records the ephemeral scenes that pass by each day barely noticed, searching for the sublime in the banal. The 40 photographs here came from her 2001 series [...]

Rinko Kawauchi has currently a solo exhibition:
Rinko Kawauchi “Cui Cui”
at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (until Sept 9).

Since her debut, Rinko Kawauchi has surely established her career both in Japan and overseas. Her works captures ephemeral beauty in everyday life, from life to death, and its circulation, and it has been [...]