Galerie Crone Wien, Berlin Booth C27

Galerie Crone was founded in 1982 by Ascan Crone and Mechthild von Dannenberg in Hamburg. In more of 40 years of existing, the gallery has made its mark as an essential part and driving force of the international art market. Crone runs a gallery and a project space, both in Vienna and Berlin. It thus has four locations at which it shows a total of 24 solo and group exhibitions per year.

Crone’s programmatic focus is contemporary art that addresses social realities and political challenges with an aesthetic awareness. The gallery represents artists of various generations, origins, cultural backgrounds, and sexual orientation who are united by their desire for an open, tolerant, enlightened society and culture. Their work encompasses the entire range of artistic practices, media, and approaches, from painting and sculpture to installation and time-based art.

In the past five years artists represented by Crone have participated in Documenta, the Venice Biennale, theLyon Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, and Curitiba Biennial. Their artwork is found in major private and institutional collections, from the MoMA in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Albertina in Vienna.

Joannis Avramidis

Joannis Avramidis (1922-2016) stands alongside Fritz Wotruba, Alfred Hrdlicka and Bruno Gironcoli as one of the most important Austrian sculptors of the postwar period. He created a singular body of work that is uniquely anchored in art history and whose focus is resolutely on the human figure. In search of the absolute form, Avramidis drew inspiration from archaic and classical Greek sculpture as well as from artists like Hans von Marées, Constantin Brancusi, and Wilhelm Lehmbruck.

Joannis Avramidis · Kleine Zweifigurengruppe, 1964

Daniel Lergon

Daniel Lergon (b. 1978 in Bonn) lives and works in Berlin. In his work, the quality of the surface plays a decisive role. His experimental approach draws on a single pigment to develop a rich spectrum of nuances — from a luminous light green to a dark hue bordering on black. An inner light pulsates in his works which, despite their abstracted forms, contain remnants of the figurative. Reducing the palette to a single pigment places the focus squarely on the gestural application of paint, which is inscribed on the canvas like traces in sand, individual and immediate.

Daniel Lergon studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Lothar Baumgarten. His work has been shown in numerous international group and solo-exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Malmö, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Marseille, Cologne, Berlin, and Munich, among others

Daniel Lergon · [Translate to Englisch:] Jeweils Ohne Titel, Öl auf Leinwand, 80 x 60 cm (2023)
Daniel Lergon · [Translate to Englisch:] Ohne Titel, Öl auf Leinwand 200 x 130 cm (2021)
Daniel Lergon · [Translate to Englisch:] Ohne Titel, Öl auf Leinwand, 160 x 130 cm (2021)