Galleries/Venues

The Hengesbach Gallery was founded 1991 in Wuppertal by Rolf Hengesbach under the name Räume für neue Kunst. It developed out of the necessity to create concentrated art-experiences through a close cooperation with the artists. On February 7th 1992 the gallery oepend the first exhibition. In 2002 the Gallery moved to Cologne, in Summer 2009 it opened the current space in Berlin at Checkpoint Charlie. In Wuppertal the gallery still runs a dependance named Kunstraum Hengesbach.

The gallery owns ideal exhibition conditions after an extensive modification, which recovered the original character of the industrial hall. The puristic straightness of the gallery space offers sufficient free space for a divers gallery program with a focus on painting and photography, as well as sculpture and media art. The Charlottenstreet houses several other galleries which are one of the centres for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

A close co-operation with public museums and exhibition-places has developed over 20 years. Texts have been written together with high quality catalogue publications. The gallery program doesn't follow any special artistic directions. Regardless of artistic media or form, the program accentuates in focusing on the aesthetical virtuosity to express the complexity of nowadays life.