Zeitmaschine Balthus Cat. CFA Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin

The collection was not intended as such at the beginning. It was about engaging with and surrounding oneself with the unknown, the incomprehenible. It was about the fascination of imagination and bringing this fascination into one’ s own home, surrounding oneself with it, in order to remain aware of the constant stimulus of life. The collector has brought in the depths of the unconscious, of philosophy, of painting technique, and he has brought the wild and bustling Berlin into his own contemplative four walls. This collection also tells a contemporary story. It tells of a Berlin of the 90s and 00s in which so much was possible because there were large spaces for little money. The collection also tells us about backyard galleries, improvised project spaces that later became institutions and about “ Club Berlin” , which brought together parties with art, techno with politics.

Tom McGrath (born 1978) is an artist based in New York. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2000 and his MFA from Columbia University in 2002. Dana Ž aja (born in 1994) studied art history and comparative literature at the University of Zagreb and in the master’ s program at the FU Berlin with a concentration on contemporary art. Marcus Woeller is a Berlin based journalist working for the art pages of the Welt and Welt am Sonntag. Jö rg Heiser is an art critic, teacher, curator, and musician. A doctor of art history holding an M.A. in philosophy, he is Director of the Institute for Art in Context, Dean and a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts in Berlin. For twenty years, he worked as an editor for frieze magazine, and continues to write for numerous outlets including e-flux journal and the daily Sü ddeutsche Zeitung. He publishes books and curates shows of contemporary art. Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet (the founder of the gallery in 1992) are a permanent part of the international gallery world with CFA situated now at Grolmanstraß e in Berlin/Charlottenburg. Their work is inherent part with the beginning of artistic careers of Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, TAL R, Daniel Richter, Dana Schutz, Norbert Schwontkowski, Katja Strunz, Juergen Teller, or Marianne Vitale, just to name a few. Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet (the founder of the gallery in 1992) are a permanent part of the international gallery world with CFA situated now at Grolmanstraß e in Berlin/Charlottenburg. Their work is inherent part with the beginning of artistic careers of Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Sarah Lucas, Jonathan Meese, Raymond Pettibon, TAL R, Daniel Richter, Dana Schutz, Norbert Schwontkowski, Katja Strunz, Juergen Teller, or Marianne Vitale, just to name a few. Roberto Ohrt is a Hamburg based writer and lecturer.