ALFRED KREN

Co-owner and director, Alfred Kren Gallery, Inc., New York, 1985 – 1986.

Alfred Kren Gallery

22 East 65th Street

New York, New York 10021

SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS

1985

Mar. 1 – Mar. 30 :       Inaugural exhibition: Sigmar Polke, 39 photographs, Paris, 1971

Apr. 2 –  Apr. 27 :       Brazilian Ex Votos: Devotional Sculptures from Northeastern Brazil (catalogue, see publications)

May 1 – May 29 :   Antonius Höckelmann: Sculptures, Drawings and Prints, 1961 – 1984

June 1 - June 29 :         Greg Kwiatek: Paintings and Drawings, 1979 – 1985

                                      (in conjunction with exhibition at KUNSTRAUM MUNICH, catalogue, see publications)

July 3 – July 27 :           Aspects of Tachism in European Prints: 

                                      Corinth, Fautrier, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Wols, Baumeister, Jorn, Miro, Schumacher, Fontana, Afro, Vedova,

Rainer, Penck, Höckelmann, Wörsel

Aug. 3 – Aug. 31 :       Drawings by Roni Horn, Michael Peglau, Al Taylor

                                      and

                                      American Prints: Breer, Chamberlain, de Maria, Flavin, Haacke, Judd, Kelly, LeWitt, Marden, Oldenburg, Paik,

Sandback, Serra, Sonnier, Twombly, Warhol, Whitman

Sep. 4 – Sept. 28 :       Dieter Roth: Selected Prints, 1966 – 1972

Oct. 2 – Oct. 30 :         Jean Fautrier: Selected Prints, 1925 – 1955

Nov. 2 – Nov. 30 :       Troels Woersel: Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1979 – 1985

Dec. 4 – Jan. 1986:     Amy Purcell: Rooted Re-Settlement (a sculptural installation)

                                      and recent sculpture and drawing

1986

Jan. 10 – Feb. 1             Georges Rouault / Georg Baselitz:  Dialectic in Prints

                                      and

                                      Wladimir Zabotin (1884-1967):  Selected Drawings 1917-1954

Feb. 6 – Mar. 1             “Black”:  Works by Henri Michaux, Jean Fautrier, Man Ray, Christian Schad,  Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri,

Vincenzo Agnetti, Arnulf Rainer, Imi Knoebel, Brice Marden, Stephen Ellis, Greg Kwiatek, Amy Purcell,

with Bamana, Dogon, Lobi and Tellem pieces                                                                                                                          

Mar. 5 – Mar. 29           Brazilian Ex-Votos:  Devotional Sculpture from Northeastern Brazil  

Apr. 3 – Apr. 30           Antonius Höckelmann:  Recent Work

May 3 – May 31           Arnulf Rainer:  Important Work from the Seventies

June 4 – June 28       Al Taylor:  Recent Work  (catalogue, see publications)

Sep. 27 – Nov. 1           Frederick Kiesler, Galaxies, In conjunction with Jason McCoy, Inc. (catalogue, see publications)

Nov. 5 – Dec. 6           Joop Sanders: Paintings and Works on Paper from Three Decades

Dec. 10 - Dec. 30 :       Maureen Connor: New Sculptures and Drawings (catalogue, see publications)

Owner and director, Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne, Germany, 1986 – 1993.

Galerie Alfred Kren

St.-Apern-Straße 20

5000 Köln

1986

Sept. 3 – Oct. 4         inaugural exhibition Frederick Kiesler:  Drawings from 1926 to 1959 and Model for the Endless House, 1958 

Oct. 12 – Nov. 8         Bernard Childs:  Paintings, drawings and prints from the Fifties

Nov. 13 – Dec. 13:     Stephen Ellis:  Recent paintings and drawings

1987

Jan. 17 – Feb. 21:       “Black” - Works by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Natalia Gontcharova, Christian Schad, Henri Michaux,

Bernard Childs, Al Taylor, and Amy Purcell, and African tribal arts of the Dogon, Lobi, Tellem, Wurkun, and Bamana

Mar. 5 – Apr. 4:         Al Taylor:  New Work

Apr. 7 – Apr. 25:         Brazilian Ex Voto Sculptures

Apr. 30 – May 30:     “Friends”:  Joint works by Dieter Roth, Stefan Wewerka, George Brecht, Arnulf Rainer, Richard Hamilton

June 13 – July 15:       African Masks and Japanese Noh Masks

                                    and

                                    American Drawings:  Lyonel Feininger, Bernard Childs, Greg Kwiatek, Stephen Ellis, Al Taylor, John Ferro

SPECIAL EVENT

Oct. 25 – Nov. 1         Stephan von Huene, Glass Pipes, 1975 (two sound sculptures) loft studio of Galerie Alfred Kren, Bismarckstraße 13

  Posts and Columns Leonard Kahan Gallery African Arts, New York (brochure with text by Alfred Kren)

Galerie Alfred Kren

Antwerpener Straße 42

5000 Köln

Germany

Nov. 13 – Dec. 19:     Stephen Ellis:  Recent Paintings

                                    and

                                    Traditional African Ceramics

1988

Jan. – Feb. :               Accrochage (gallery artists)

                                    and

                                    Brazilian Ex Voto Sculptures

                                    and

                                    African Tribal Arts

Feb. 27 – Mar. 30:     Robert Rauschenberg, Currents, 1970  (The complete set of the 44 original handprinted silkscreens)

Apr. 9 – May 14:        “The Other New York”:  Sculptures by Maureen Connor, Rona Pondick, Kate Ritson

                                    and

                                    African Terracottas and Textiles

May 21 – June 25:     African Textiles and Costumes

Sept. 2 – Oct. 1:         “The Story of the Eye”:  Sculptures and Paintings from Black Africa, Brazil, Europe, and the USA

Oct. 12 – Nov. 5:       “aus dem ff”:  Found Fakes / Gefundene Fälschungen

                                  and

                                  traditional African pieces from Nigeria and Cameroon

Nov. 10 – Dec. 23:     “Boliw”:  Shrine Figures of the Bamana, Mali, West Africa

1989

Feb. 3 – Mar. 4:         Three Portfolios:  Stephen Ellis, Sol LeWitt, Fred Sandback

Mar. 10 – Apr. 4:         Endre Tót:  Murals + Canvases

Apr. 7 – May 6:         Maureen Connor:  Lung Racks, 1988

                                  and

                                  Philip Guston:  10 Lithographs, 1966

May 19 – June 30:     Richard Hamilton:  Selected Prints

                                   and

                                   Sculptures of the Lobi, Burkina Faso, West Africa

Sept. 8 – Oct. 7:       Walter de Maria:  The Pure Polygon Series

                                  and

                                  African Fetish Figures

Oct. 13 – Nov. 11:     Robert Feintuch:  Recent Paintings

                                   and

                                  Henri Michaux:  Prints

Nov. 17 – Dec. 22:     Al Taylor, Pet Stains, 1989

                                  and

                                  Kiki’s Paris:  An exhibition in celebration of the book by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin  

(with works by Kiki, Jules Pascin, Man Ray and Jean Cocteau)

                                  and

                                  Arnulf Rainer:  Haute Coiffure, 1963

1990

Feb. 16 – Mar. 31:   Three Portfolios:  Brice Marden, Al Taylor, Richard Tuttle

                                    and

                                    Anyang, Ejagham, Ekoi Masks, Cross River Area, West Africa

Apr. 4 – May 5:           Dieter Roth, die Die DIE VERDAMMTE SCHEISSE, 1975 (The complete set of 52 etchings)

May 12 – June 13:     Robert Rauschenberg, American Pewter with Burroughs, 1981

                                    and

                                    Fon Sculptures from Dahomey, West Africa

Aug. 31 – Oct. 6:         Bakuba Textiles from Zaire, Central Africa

                                    and

                                    African Masterpieces

Oct. 9 – Nov. 10:         Richard Hamilton:  Selected Prints

                                    and

                                    Peter Moore:  The Avant-Garde Observed

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS DURING ART COLOGNE:

 FRI., Nov. 16    :       Andreas Horlitz:  Copy Assemblages and Light Boxes 1985-1990

SAT., Nov. 17    :       Stephen Ellis, Escorial, 1990  (portfolio with eight etchings)

SUN., Nov. 18    :       Thom Barth:  New Work, 1990 / Artist’s Books 1988-1990

MON., Nov. 19:          Al Taylor, Ten Common (Hawaiian Household Objects, 1990 (portfolio with eleven drypoints and etchings with aquatints)

TUES., Nov. 20:         Alexander Gyenes, Iron Age / Eisenzeit, 1990  (portfolio with ten photographic works)

Nov.16 - Jan. 26, 91:  Raoul Hague:  Important Sculptures

and

Willem de Kooning:  Works on Paper

1991

Jan. 30 – Feb. 23  :   Al Taylor:  Large Drawings

Mar. 1 – Apr. 24  :     Andreas Horlitz:  New Work (catalogue with text by Edith Decker)

                                    and

                                    African Field Photography Around 1900

Apr. 26 – June 15 :     Thom Barth

                                    and

                                    Masks from Black Africa

Summer:                     Accrochage

Sept. 9 – Nov. 11:     Wiener Aktionismus in Fotografien: Brus, Nitsch, Schwarzkogler

Nov. 15 – Dec. 21:     Horn Fetishes from Tanzania, East Africa

                                    and

                                    Drawings:  Thom Barth, Stephen Ellis, Robert Feintuch, Al Taylor

1992

Jan. 18 – Feb. 26:      Jean Cocteau:  12.08.1916:  A Day With Picasso, 19 Photographs

                                  and

                                   African Tribal Arts

Apr. 4 – May 16 :       Robert Rauschenberg:  Paintings 1990 – 1991

                                  and

                                  Allen Ginsberg:  Photographs 1953 – 1985

May 22 – June 27:    Raimund Girke:  Paintings

                                  and

                                   Pedro Guerrero:  Photographs Frank Lloyd Wright 1940 – 1959

Nov. 12 – Jan. 16,

          1993:               Robert Rauschenberg:  Sculptures from the Eighties