Clages

Since its founding in 2008, Clages has positioned itself as a platform for conceptual, process-oriented, and discursive practices. Early on, artists such as Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Bernhard Walter, Monika Stricker, and Anne Pöhlmann shaped a program that understands painting, sculpture, video, and installation formats alike as spaces for thinking and acting. At its core is a conceptual approach that reflects on and negotiates material, gesture, and space as carriers of meaning. Over time, this perspective has been expanded and internationally connected through positions such as Sara MacKillop, Daniel Maier-Reimer, Claus Richter, and Olivier Foulon. A particular focus lies on artists with interdisciplinary and feminist approaches. The practices of Frances Scholz, Shila Khatami, and Isabella Fürnkäs combine painting, video, text, object, and space into layered narratives addressing the body, memory, and social structures. At the same time, the gallery supports young, experimental voices such as Bradley Davies, Damaris Kerkhoff, and Christian Theiss, whose works deliberately shift disciplinary boundaries. Internationally active artists like Oliver Husain further expand the program with cinematic and performative perspectives. The result is a program that interweaves generations, media, and discourses—precise, research-driven, and clearly positioned. The gallery understands itself not only as an exhibition space, but as a site for dialogue, experimentation, and new ways of seeing. Guest presentations were conducted by Rita McBride, Mark Dion, Michail Pirgelis, Megan Francis Sullivan, Mark van Yetter and Cosima von Bonin. Art fair participations include ARCO Madrid, Art Basel, Art Cologne, Art Brussels, Art Berlin, Frieze NYC, Frieze London Projects, MiArt, NADA Miami and NADA New York.