Preview: November 6 | 12 pm – 4 pm
On View: November 7 – 9, 2025
November 5, 2025 (Cologne, Germany) – Gathering Cologne will participate in Art Cologne from November 6 – 9, 2025. The gallery will show a presentation of works by Stefan Brüggemann, Ndayé Kouagou and Sebastian Riemer at booth N004.
Ndayé Kouagou transforms wood, resin and fabric into "A story for…", a new work that fuses the artist’s characteristic and paradoxical text-based practice with bright colours and abstracted shapes. Kouagou’s work will accompany Stefan Brüggeman’s "Trash Mirror Boxes", a sculpture made of a set of six silkscreened mirror boxes. Brüggemann’s work blends art and language into a historically informed and conceptual practice tinged with humour. Sebastian Riemer’s two works in the booth are from his series “Stills", works that Riemer created from slides formerly used for teaching academic art history. In high magnification, these works traverse the canon of postwar art to present it as something to be memorialised but also in a material state of decay.
Irony, social commentary and text proliferate within the booth through these three artists works.
NOTES TO EDITORS:
Address
Koelnmesse
Messeplatz 1
50679 Köln
Preview (by invitation only)
Thursday, November 6 | 12 pm – 4 pm
Vernissage
Thursday, November 6 | 4 pm – 8 pm
Private View (by invitation only)
Saturday, November 8 | 10 am – 11 am
Fair Days
Friday, November 7 | 11 am – 7 pm
Saturday, November 8 | 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, November 9 | 11 am – 6 pm
About Gathering:
Founded in 2022 in the heart of Soho, London, Gathering is a contemporary art gallery, presenting a diverse exhibition programme of international emerging voices alongside established artists, including Emanuel de Carvalho, Tamara K.E., Soojin Kang, Ndayé Kouagou, Wynnie Mynerva, Tai Shani and Oda Iselin Sønderland. In 2023, Gathering inaugurated GLASSHOUSE, an alternative strand of programming which fosters emergent creative practitioners alongside Gathering’s main exhibitions. In 2024, the gallery expanded to Sant Miquel de Balansat on the island of Ibiza, carrying the cutting-edge programming and artist-led ethos of Gathering to an international stage. Following its expansion to Ibiza in 2024, Gathering launched in Cologne, marking the next step in Gathering’s continued growth and dedication to supporting progressive artistic practices across Europe.
Image credits
1. Stefan Brüggemann, Trash Mirror Boxes, 2016. Set of 6 silkscreened mirror boxes. 18 1/8 x 12 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (each). 46 x 31 x 35 cm (each). Courtesy of the artist and Gathering.
2. Sebastian Riemer, LICHTENSTEIN Red Pntng (Brushstroke) F 9.21 1965 o, magna/L.60x60 1965, 2025. Pigmentprint, Powdercoated Aluminium Frame, Museum Glass. 35 3/8 x 35 3/8 in. 90 x 90 cm. 36 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. (framed). 92 x 92 cm (framed). Courtesy of the artist and Gathering.
3. Sebastian Riemer, A-20-Kell-8-1 Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red Entire., 2025. Pigmentprint facemounted to Acrylic, Powdercoated Aluminium Frame. 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. 200 x 200 cm . 80 3/4 x 80 3/4 in. (framed). 205 x 205 cm (framed). Courtesy of the artist and Gathering.