CAMERA WORK Gallery was founded in 1997 in Berlin, and has since then become one of the worldwide leading galleries for photographic art. With its historically coined gallery name, the gallery has always followed the philosophy to represent, next to world famous classic photographers such as Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Herb Ritts, and Albert Watson and contemporary artists to manifest the position of photography as an independent genre within visual art and to give room to new positions.
CAMERA WORK Gallery exclusively represents many prominent contemporary artists in Germany, Europe and around the world such as David Yarrow, Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Olaf Heine, Russell James, Robert Polidori, Eugenio Recuenco, Martin Schoeller, Dean West, and Christian Tagliavini. CAMERA WORK regularly participates in the major international photography and art fairs, such as Art Central Hong Kong, Zona Maco in Mexico City, Paris Photo, and Photo London.
CAMERA WORK Gallery represents about 40 artists and has hosted more than 200 exhibitions so far.
In 2020, CAMERA WORK established CAMERA WORK Virtual Gallery: an innovative, high quality online gallery where art collectors and art lovers can experience exclusive exhibitions.
Address
CAMERA WORK Gallery
Kantstrasse 149
10623 Berlin
Germany
Contact
+49 (0)30 3100 7776
info@camerawork.de
Opening hours
Tuesday to Saturday
11 a.m. to 6 p.m. & by arrangement
Free admission
Ute Hartjen
Chief Executive Officer
Alexander Golya
Head of Operations and Sales/Marketing
+49 (0)30 3100 7745 / Email
Victoria Hofer
Sales Associate
+49 (0)30 3100 7743 / Email
Jan Burghardt
Art Consultant and Collection Manager
+49 (0)30 3100 7774 / Email
André Raczynski
Art Consultant and Logistics
+49 (0)30 3100 7742 / Email
Johannes Schwab
Art Handling and Logistics
+49 (0)30 3100 7778 / Email
Alina Heinze
Press and Marketing
+49 (0)30 3100 7773 / Email
Joseph Dell’Olio
Accounting
+49 (0)30 3100 7775 / Email
In 2020, CAMERA WORK established CAMERA WORK Virtual Gallery: an innovative, high quality online gallery where art collectors and art lovers can experience exclusive exhibitions.
Announcement: This year’s Annual General Meeting of CAMERA WORK AG will take place on September 17, 2024, at 12:00 PM at CAMERA WORK Gallery (Kantstrasse 149, 10623 Berlin).
Die im Jahr 2001 gegründete CAMERA WORK AG besitzt eine der weltweit größten und wichtigsten Foto- und Fotobuchsammlungen. Die Sammlung umfasst Vintage-Arbeiten namhafter Fotokünstler wie Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Peter Lindbergh, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Paul Strand und vielen mehr.
Als Aktiengesellschaft im weltweiten Fotokunstmarkt wird somit eine Symbiose aus Fotokunst und Investmentstrategie erreicht. Die Weiterentwicklung dieser Sammlung auf konstant höchstem Niveau steht mit der Förderung der Fotografie als Kunstform gleichberechtigt im Fokus des Handelns der CAMERA WORK AG. Dieses Handeln bildet die Grundlage für Wertsteigerung und langfristige Werterhaltung.
Die CAMERA WORK AG betreibt die Galerie CAMERA WORK und ist zuständig für den Galeriebetrieb, der regelmäßig wechselnde Ausstellungen, Messeauftritte und Kooperationen mit Museen und anderen Institutionen umfasst.
Von 2012 bis 2019 betrieb die CAMERA WORK AG darüber hinaus mit der CWC GALLERY in der Ehemaligen Jüdischen Mädchenschule Berlin eine temporäre Dependance von CAMERA WORK. Mit der CWC GALLERY, die auf zeitgenössische Kunst spezialisiert war, konnten ausgewählte zeitgenössische Künstler auf dem Kunstmarkt etabliert und zugleich in das Künstlerportfolio von CAMERA WORK aufgenommen werden.
Die CAMERA WORK AG führte von 2006 bis 2019 das Museum THE KENNEDYS in Berlin – das zweitgrößte Museum der Welt zur Geschichte der Kennedy-Familie. Sämtliche Exponate stammen aus der unternehmenseigenen Sammlung. Nachdem seit 2004 einzelne Bestandteile der Kennedy-Sammlung für internationale Museumsausstellungen als Leihgaben zur Verügung gestellt wurden, wird das Museum THE KENNEDYS mit seiner Standortschließung in Berlin zu einer Wanderausstellung umkuratiert, um weltweit präsentiert werden zu können.
INVESTOR RELATIONS
Handelsregister Berlin-Charlottenburg
HRB 106815 WKN 677150
Vorstand: Ute Hartjen
Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Clemens J. Vedder
Kontakt:
Alexander Golya
+49 (0)30 31007745
alexander.golya@camerawork.de
After more than 12 successful years, in 2019 the museum THE KENNEDYS closed its location in Berlin to travel the world. This is a new and exciting chapter in the chronicle of the world’s largest private collection on the Kennedy family. John F. Kennedy’s connection to Germany and Berlin is an important part of our history and should be accessible to witnesses of that time as much as adolescents internationally. This induced the museum’s supporter CAMERA WORK AG to close the museum’s location in Berlin and let the collection become a global long-run touring exhibition.
The impressive collection THE KENNEDYS consists of about 2,000 mostly-vintage photographs by artists such as Mark Shaw, Yousuf Karsh, Robert Frank, or Hy Peskin, and numerous official and private documents, an extensive press archive, and over 100 pieces of Kennedy family memorabilia.
Since opening in Berlin in 2006, the museum had presented over 30 special exhibitions from the comprehensive photo collection of CAMERA WORK AG as well as in cooperation with international artists and institutions—such as the British fashion designer Paul Smith, the finish fashion label Marimekko, Germany’s most famous department store KaDeWe, and Montblanc. Not only because of its focus on fashion and art, the museum became a popular cultural hot spot for Berliners and tourists from all over the world. Politicians as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visited the museum in the context of several events. For over one decade, THE KENNEDYS made it possible to experience the unique combination of art, fashion, and politics in Berlin.
We will keep you updated on the museum’s world tour here. For further information on the collection please go to: www.thekennedys.de/english
For any questions on THE KENNEDYS and for exhibition requests, please contact Ms. Alina Heinze.
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