As the first art fair in the world, Art Cologne is the most important meeting point for galleries and institutions in Germany and has been an occasion for generations of art collectors to discover, collect, exchange ideas and establish new contacts. 

The gallery’s presentation for 2023 highlights the specific era between 1985 and 2010 of the ‘Second Generation’ Australian Aborignal painters. An era in which female painters, often the wives of deceased male ‘First Generation’ artists, take the lead and whose innovations greatly expanded the art movement. 

1985 - 2010 is an era within the Australian Aboriginal Art movement in which female painters, often the wives of deceased male ‘First Generation’ artists, take the lead and whose innovations greatly expanded the art movement. Utopian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye is without a doubt the most notable artist from this era and her ability to experiment with both subject matter, composition and color has changed our understanding of ‘Australian Aboriginal Art’. At the same time artists like Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa - or ‘Mrs. Bennett’ as she was the wife of the late artist John John Bennett - and Naata Nungurrayi, expanded the art of the Western Desert with new color schemes and subject matters; telling their own stories inspired by the Women’s Dreamings hidden from the male perspective and, up to that point, also from the art world at large.