We are proud and pleased to announce that Shen Wei has won the "Excellent Foreign Photographer Award" at the Ping Yao 2008 International Photo Festival.

Congratulations from everyone at the gallery!

The Pingyao International Photography Festival will take place from September 19th until September 26th. kunst.licht Photo Art Gallery Shanghai will participate with its own exhibition and will present  works by Bai Xiaoci ("I Live In Here"), Kasey Myrick ("Disturbances") and Shen Wei ("Almost Naked"). Shen Wei will also be featured with his new series "Chinese Sentiment" in a group exhibition called "Gazing China".

Please also check out our daily blog from the Pingyao Festival.

kunst.licht signed up as marketing partners of Icon Art Map. Icon Art Map is the official art map for the 7th Shanghai Biennale, the Sh Contemporary 2008 and the Shanghai Art Fair 2008.

Icon Art Map launch event

Meet the crowd…

Yifat Hadaya of Icon Art Map and Lin Yun, Gallery Director of kunst.licht

Two photography auctions were held in London at Sotheby’s (May, 13th) and Christie’s (May, 15th).
While the interest in the auctions was good, the auction results themselves were moderate with most of the art works under the hammer selling within or below the estimates of the auction houses. A few noteworthy exceptions (among others) were prints from:

Henri-Cartier Bresson
"Barrio Chino, Barcelona" from 1933, sold at 30.000 Pounds, est. 8-12.000 Pounds (Sotheby’s)

Florence Henri
"Compostion (bobbins and mirrors)" from 1928, sold at 20.000 Pounds, est. 4-6.000 Pounds (Christie’s)

Hugo Erfurth
"Marc and Bella Chagall" from 1923, sold at 17.000 Pounds, est. 3-5.000 Pounds (Christie’s)
"Oskar Kokoschka" from 1920, sold at 20.000 Pounds, est. 8-12.000 Pounds (Christie’s)

Robert Mapplethorpe
"Hermes", from 1988, sold at 28.000 Pounds, est. 12-18.000 Pounds (Sotheby’s)

David Lachapelle
"Jesus is my homeboy (the last supper)", from 2003, sold at 19.000 Pounds, est. 7.5-10.000 Pounds (Sotheby’s)

Helen Levitt
"New York" from 1980, sold at 11.000 Pounds, est. 4-6.000 pounds (Sotheby’s)

The best selling single print was "Satiric Dancer, Paris" from 1926 by André Kertész. This vintage print was sold for 190.000 Pounds. A substantial offer of Japanese prints (Christie’s) seemed mostly undervalued and it will be interesting to see how Japanese contemporary photography will do in the future.

Today kunst.licht presented the lecture "The Art of Collecting Photography" to a selected audience.

This lecture marks the beginning of a series of workshops and lectures that will be held at kunst.licht Photo Art Gallery Shanghai. The events will cover a wide range of activities from photo art and the art market to lectures about the technique of photography and hands-on workshops with our artists. A white paper of today’s lecture will be online soon.

If you’d like to be informed about future events, please use our contact form. We’ll be in touch!

On April 20th kunst.licht finally opened its door to the public. We had a great opening event, sunny weather and a magnificent vernissage. We thank all our artists, friends and partners who made this day a special day for all of us at kunst.licht!

Click [here] to see the picture gallery of the opening event.