Andy W

So a couple of cultural players coming together and that probably created the ground that Cologne was for about maybe 10 15 years not the epicenter of the world but at least for Europe and contemporary art it was one of the few important cities Because it was kind of run down the people were welcoming and rents were cheap, so all what is necessary

And so we that might be the case with others as well that they like that So since I had no formal education about anything I remember I once asked the art historian professor can you teach me how to navigate around here? And I thought, yes, he could.

I said, no, no, you have to do it all on your own. And I said, oh, fuck.

But on the other hand, I lik

So it's nothing forever. But in the 70s and 80s, it is fair to say that probably all great visual artists in the world showed there at least once, twice or several times.

When I started the publishing house in 1980, all the great shows popped up just literally in front of our house there Whether that was Cindy Sherman or Mike Kelly Jeff Koons Christ

“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others” Proust

“Experimentalism has no meaning unless it’s done on the grandest scale. I just don’t want to join somebody else’s citadel. I want to build my own thing, my own castle with my friends, because that’s what’s needed. And if people want to come, they can come.”

-Mk.gee