The gallery opened in October 2003.

As the name Galerie für Zeichnung suggests,the gallery will focus exclusively on the medium of drawing;its program will feature a broad spectrum of contemporary international drawings.

 

 

 

 

Drawings were long relegated to a inferior status among artistic media, overshadowed by "major" representational work.

Yet it is precisely the unfinished,provisional and vulnerable nature of drawings that makes them so appealing and illuminating.

 

As a medium, drawing allows the artist to work in a freer, more direct manner, unfetterred by the difficulties and resistance that some more intractable materials present.

It is a medium of reflection,an instrument of self-reassurance and analysis.

 

A few years ago,the Berlin Academy of Arts put on an exhibition titled " Drawing is Anogher Kind of Language."

And,  indeed,  it is a language that is difficult to translate into other idioms. It is, however, possible to get an idea of which rules of  "grammer"  it operates by.