Galerie Kai Erdmann began in 2007 as power galerie – a project founded, as the gallery once put it, with friendship and love for art, and rooted in the circle of artists around the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Without a space of its own, the gallery started out on the move: its first exhibition, a group show with Thomas Zipp, Phillip Zaiser, Martin Neumaier, Manfred Peckl and others, took place in September 2007 at Backyard Office of Daniel Hug Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2008 it presented Bird Berries Bash at Krinzinger Projekte in Vienna and a series of exhibitions in an office space in Berlin, followed by first shows in a Hamburg office in 2009.
In 2010 the gallery found its permanent home in Hamburg and took on the name of its director. Over the following years it built its programme on long-standing collaborations with a close circle of artists, presenting solo exhibitions in a rhythm of roughly eight weeks alongside large group shows and projects by invited curators. The focus lay on painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. The gallery has also presented its programme at international art fairs.
By 2022 the gallery had opened rooms at Schweidnitzer Straße 17 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and in 2024 it moved there entirely. Today it shares the address with the cooperation space NIZZA. The Berlin programme continues the gallery’s long-term work with its artists while bringing in new positions.
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Galerie Kai Erdmann
Schweidnitzer Str. 17 · 10709 Berlin
Wed – Sat: 12 – 6 pm and by appointment
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