PRISKA PASQUER is specialized in 20th century and contemporary art with the concentration on art in times of change and upheaval: the 1920s, the 1970s and after 2000.

With the project 20 | 13 we are identifying relevant artworks of the age of the digital revolution.

Priska Pasquer was founded with the principle aim of bringing classic modernist artists and their works to a wider audience. The gallery’s longstanding ties with collectors, international museums and publishing houses, coupled with our exhibitions in Cologne, Paris and other places, enabled this goal to come to fruition. This crystallised into three main groups – Russia, Japan and Germany – with works from the 1920/1930s, the 1960/1970s and newer works from after 2000. In other words, works from times of upheaval, with artists exploring new media and techniques, above all photography, reproductions and artistic representations in a wide variety of forms.

Our exhibitions were dedicated to the leading names of Constructivism – El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Mayakovsky, Klutsis and Kulagina – the New Vision and New Objectivtiy
– Umbo and Bauhaus, Renger-Patzsch and the Provoke movement in Japan. With August Sander, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu, Rudolf Bonvie we have concentrated our attention on those artists who used pictures, reproductions and photography to create the most important artistic statements of their time.

Thanks to Ferdinand Brueggemann, the Japanese photography has a special place in the history of the gallery, which hosted the rst ever exhibitions in Germany to be dedicated exclusively to the individual Japanese protagonists: Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Yutaka Takanashi and Issei Suda as well as a younger female generation of Japanese artists as Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa, Rinko Kawauchi and Lieko Shiga.

Thanks to the collaboration with Jablonka Galerie we have increased our spectrum with paintings and sculptures and we had the honour to work with leading american artists such as Ross Bleckner, Philip Taaffe, Terry Winters and Sherrie Levine.

In 2013, we are developing the concept called 20|13 in corporation with the protagonists of the digital world.
2013 is the tipping point of the digital revolution. We live in a world that is affected by the rise of virtuality.
20|13 selects relevant artworks of the digital age since the 1960s, when information technology became widely used and changed the way we perceive the world.