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Volker Diehl (born 28 May 1957 in
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) is a German gallery owner. He mainly exhibits contemporary art in the gallery "DIEHL" (
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Biography and career

After graduating from high school in
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in 1977, Volker Diehl first studied at the Kunstakademie Münster under Hans-Jürgen Breuste, and from 1978 art history at the
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. In
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, he supported various artists as part of the
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(including
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, Dieter Hacker) and got to know René Block in this context. At the exhibition "Für Augen und Ohren" curated by Block, which was first shown at the
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, and then at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, he was also responsible for the support of artists and thus got to know
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, Joe Jones, and many other artists. A little later he became assistant to
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and ran her studio. From 1981 to 1983 he was assistant to Christos M. Joachimides and
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. In this context, he supported the artists and worked as personal assistant in the exhibition ''Zeitgeist'' (1982), which was "arguably one of the most historically significant global painting surveys of the 20th century".Odrija Fišere: At the end, the artwork survives. In
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Together with Roland Hagenberg, he subsequently published the two books ''Maler in Berlin'' (1982) and the sequel ''... Und'' (1983) in their own publishing house "HAPPY-HAPPY", which contained numerous interviews and portraits of artists and collectors, among them
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and Erich Marx as well as representatives of the art groups ''Neue Wilde'' and '' Arte Cifra''. With Roland Hagenberg he traveled
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, where they conducted interviews with
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, Robert Morris,
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, Tony Shafrazi, and many more. The tapes used turned out later to be defective, so the interviews were never published.


Activities as gallery owner

In 1983 he began to curate exhibitions at the "Galerie Folker Skulima" in Berlin as a junior partner and showed young, contemporary artists including Jaume Plensa, Rosemarie Trockel,
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, Sergey Volkov, Ray Smith and Martin Assig. In September 1990 he took over the rooms at Niebuhrstr. 2 with the founding of "Galerie Volker Diehl". In 2000 he moved to new rooms at Zimmerstr. in
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, in 2007 to Lindenstraße in the
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district. In autumn 2011 the gallery moved back to the former space at Niebuhrstraße in
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. In September 2013, a project space was added under the name "Diehl Cube" in Emser Straße in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, in which exhibitions were shown until 2018. In addition, Diehl was the first western gallery owner to open its own exhibition space in Moscow under the name "Diehl + Gallery One" in April 2008. In the former premises of the state Soviet art trade at Smolenskaja No. 5/13, Diehl exhibited the works of the American artist Jenny Holzer under the title ''Like truth'' as the first project from April 17 to June 15, 2008. After other exhibitions by
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, Jaume Plensa and
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, the Moscow branch closed again at the end of 2009. Under the name "Diehl Projects" Diehl was responsible for further projects, first around 2000 and 2007/2008 in Berlin, later for the exhibition of the Russian artist Olga Chernysheva ''Adventure Istiklal N. 9'' in the "Yapi Kredi Kazim Taskent Art Gallery" in
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(2009) and two group exhibitions in
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with the titles ''Berlin tut gut!'' and ''Pubblico – Privato'' (spring 2012).


Other projects

In 1996 he and 13 other gallery owners were founding members of the art fair "art forum berlin" and, together with Rudolf Kicken, also managed the business of the company until 2001. It was internationally the first exclusively contemporary art fair and the first fair in the world to be conceived and conducted by gallery owners. With Margarita Pushkina and Vlad Ovcharenko, he established the Russian art fair "Cosmoscow" in 2010 with an "all-inclusive concept". In 2016, together with Elena Sereda and Natalia Chagoubatova, he also founded the London pop-up company "Art Circle" (curation by Bettina Ruhrberg, among others).


Exhibitions (selection)


1983–1990 in Galerie Folker Skulima

*
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, 1983 * Karl Horst Hödicke, 1983 * Helmut Middendorf, 1984 *
Emil Schumacher Emil Schumacher (29 August 1912 in Hagen, Westfalen – 4 October 1999 in San José, Ibiza) was a German painter. He was an important representative of abstract expressionism in post-war Germany. In 2009 the Kunstquartier Hagen was inaugurat ...
, 1984 * Christian Hasucha, 1984 * Klaus Karl Mehrkens, 1985 * Erwin Bohatsch, 1985 * Gianni Dessi, 1985 *
Leiko Ikemura is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor. Biography Leiko Ikemura studied at Osaka University from 1970–1972. She then left Japan to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura ...
, 1985 * Pizzi Cannella, 1985 * Rosemarie Trockel, 1985/1986 * Erwin Bohatsch, 1986 * William Turnbull, 1987 *
Gotthard Graubner Gotthard Graubner (13 June 1930 – 24 May 2013) was a German painter, born in Erlbach, in Saxony, Germany. Graubner studied at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts in Germany, be ...
, 1988 *
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, ''Errötende Tiere'', 1989 * Martin Assig, 1990 *
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, 1990 *
Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German ...
, ''Grafik und Multiples 1966–1989'', 1990


Galerie Volker Diehl in Berlin

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Markus Lüpertz Markus Lüpertz (born 25 April 1941) is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. He also publishes a magazine, and plays jazz piano. He is one of the best-known German contemporary artists. His subjects are characterized by suggest ...
, 1990 * Martin Assig, 1990 * Donald Judd, 1991 *
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, 1991 *
Claudia Hart Claudia Hart (born 1955 in New York, New York) is an artist and associate professor in the Department of Film, Video, New Media, Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. She has been active as an artist, curator ...
, 1992 *
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, Rosemarie Trockel, ''Collectiv No. 1'', 1992/1993 * Angela Dwyer, ''Neue Bilder'', 1995 * Christoph M. Gais, 1995 *
Leiko Ikemura is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor. Biography Leiko Ikemura studied at Osaka University from 1970–1972. She then left Japan to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura ...
, 1995 * Group show: Magnus von Plessen, Fergus Bremner, 1996 * Martin Assig, 1997 * Jaume Plensa, ''Projekte auf Papier'', 1997 * Jaume Plensa, ''Wie ein Hauch'', 1997 * Magnus von Plessen, ''S.A.L.I.G.I.A.'', 1997 * John Noel Smith, 1998 * Matthias Müller, ''Film und Photographie'', 2001 * Alice Stepanek, Steven Maslin, ''Bodenlos'', 2002 * Jaume Plensa, ''Crown Fountain'', 2002 * Birgit Dieker, ''Kardio'', 2002/2003 *
Zhang Huan Zhang Huan (; born 1965) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and New York City. He began his career as a painter and then transitioned to performance art before making a comeback to painting. He is primarily known for his performance work, but a ...
, ''Photographie und Video'', 2003 *
Frauke Eigen Frauke Eigen (born 1969 in Aurich, West Germany) is a German photographer, photojournalist and artist. Early life Eigen studied at the Royal College of Art in London. Kosovo war photographs In 2000, while Eigen was working as a photo-journali ...
, ''Illusion Allusion'', 2004/2005 * The Blue Noses Group, (Slava Mizin und Sasha Shaburov from
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) ''The Blue Noses'', 2005/2006 * Susan Hiller, ''Outlaws and Curiosities'', 2006 * Martin Borowski, ''Homestory'', 2007 *
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, ''Crystal City'', 2008 * Alexei Wiktorowitsch Kallima, ''Closed Party'', 2008/2009 *
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, ''Caesuras'', 2009 * Susan Hefuna, ''Hefuna / Hefuna'', 2009 *
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, ''Durchsicht'', 2012 * Sergey Bratkov, ''Chapiteau Moscow'', 2013 *
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, ''Se… 1959–2014'', 2014 * Turi Simeti. ''Alcamo'', 2015 *
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, ''Werke/Opere 2000–2015'', 2015 * Alliance 22, ''Monochromia'', 2016 * Amélie Grözinger, ''Solid Matter 2.0'', 2017 * Simon English, ''I am not Justin Beiber'', 2017/2018 *
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, ''Zweimal täglich Zähneputzen'', 2018/2019


Diehl + Gallery One in Moscow

* Jenny Holzer, ''Like truth'', 2008 *
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, ''New Works'', 2008 * Group show: ''Laughterlife – New Art from Russia and Central Asia'', 2008 * Zhang Huan, ''Paintings and Sculptures'', 2008/2009 * Jaume Plensa, ''Silent Music'', 2009 * David Ter-Oganyan, Aleksandra Galkina, ''Scale'', 2009 * Group show: ''Glasnost. Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s'', 2010 * in cooperation with
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: Olga Chernysheva, ''Participation in Modernikon – Contemporary Art from Russia'', 2011


Diehl Cube

* Constantin Flondor, ''Über einige Flächen mit gemeinsamen Ebenen'', 2013 * Gonn Mosny, ''Above the Line – Atmen und Malen'', 2013/2014 * Homage to Lucio Amelio, ''The Early Hacker 1960–70'', 2014 *
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, ''Fuga'', 2014 *
Mark Lammert Mark Lammert (born 30 September 1960, in Berlin), is a German painter, illustrator, graphic artist and stage designer. He lives and works in Berlin. Biography Lammert studied painting at Kunsthochschule Berlin from 1979 to 1986 and from 1989 ...
, ''Floaters'', 2015 * James Lee Byars, ''The Secret Archive. Dieter Hacker Collection. Curated by Mark Gisbourne'', 2014 *
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, ''Zero in the Mirror'', 2015 * Ivan Gorshokov, ''The Way of King’s Pie'', 2015 * Anastasia Khoroshilova, ''Die Übrigen'' 2015 *
Alexander Rodchenko Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко; – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders ...
, ''Jump'', 2017 * Hartmut Böhm, ''Objects in Dialogue'', 2017


Publications (selection)

* Christos M. Joachimides (Ed.): ''Zeitgeist.'' Edited by Ursula Prinz u. Volker Diehl. Berlin: Frölich & Kaufmann, 1982 (in German). * Volker Diehl, Roland Hagenberg (Eds.): ''Maler in Berlin''. Berlin: HAPPY-HAPPY, 982(in German). * Volker Diehl, Roland Hagenberg (Eds.): ''... Und''. Berlin: HAPPY-HAPPY, 983(in German). * Volker Diehl (Ed.): ''Martin Assig.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 1990 (in German). *
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: ''Flowers.'' New York, Berlin: Stellan Holm Gallery, Galerie Volker Diehl, 1994. * Galerie Großinsky & Brümmer, Galerie Volker Diehl (Eds.): ''Martin Assig.'' Karlsruhe and Berlin: Galerie Großinsky & Brümmer and Galerie Volker Diehl, 1997 (in German. * Jaume Plensa: ''Wie ein Hauch.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 1998 (in German). * Susan Hiller: ''The curiosities of Sigmund Freud.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2006. *
Zhang Huan Zhang Huan (; born 1965) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and New York City. He began his career as a painter and then transitioned to performance art before making a comeback to painting. He is primarily known for his performance work, but a ...
: ''Drawings – On the Occasion of the Exhibition Zhang Huan – Drawings, at Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, March 10 to April 10, 2007.'' München: Schirmer/Mosel, 2007. * Martin Borowski: ''Homestory Visitation.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2007. * Ling Jian: ''The Last Idealism.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2007. * Martin Assig: ''Westwerk Havelhaus.'' Berlin and München: Galerie Volker Diehl and Schirmer/Mosel, 2008 (in German). * Olga Chernysheva,
Boris Groys Boris Efimovich Groys (born 19 March 1947) is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. He is currently a global distinguished professor of Russian and Slavic studies at New York University and senior research fellow at the Karlsruhe Univer ...
: ''Caesuras.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2009. * Joseph Backstein,
Ekaterina Degot Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь; b. December 2, 1958, Moscow) is a Russian art historian, art writer, and curator based in Moscow, Cologne and Graz. Biography A member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, she received her doct ...
, Boris Groys: ''Glasnost – Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s.'' Haunch of Venision; London: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2010. *
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: ''Licht und Bewegung.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2013 (in German). *
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: ''Singing Light.'' Berlin: Diehl, 2014. * Rolf-Gunter Dienst: ''Primavera.'' Berlin: Volker Diehl, Allegra Ravizza, 2015, . * Ralf Hanselle, Volker Diehl, Stefan Heyne: ''Prime Time – archetypes of abstraction in photography.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2016, . * Julia Nefedova, Lena Vazhenina: ''Internet doesn’t allow me to forget you.'' Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2016, . * Simon English: ''My Big Self Decoy Justin Beiber.'' London: Black Dog Publishing, 2017. * Tiberiy Szilvashi: ''Rembrandt-Zoom – Melancholie als Alchemie der Malerei.'' Published by Volker Diehl. Berlin: ciconia ciconia, 2019 (in German).


Further reading

* Julika Kehb, Natascha Kirchner, Esther Knuth: ''Galerieprofil Volker Diehl – Härte und Brutalität''. In:
KUNST Magazin ''KUNST Magazin'' was a nationwide German magazine about ongoing art issues and current exhibitions. It was in circulation between 2006 and 2013. Appearance, production and distribution ''KUNST Magazin'' was published ten times a year (with double ...
1307/08, p. 12–17 (in German). * Odrija Fišere: ''At the end, the artwork survives : An interview with German gallerist Volker Diehl''. In
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12. August 2016.


References


External links


Galerie Volker Diehl website
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