Galerie Clairefontaine, Epace 1, was founded in 1988. It started out with Austrian classic modern painters like Oscar Kokoschka, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele and then continued to show primarily international contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography. In 1997 Galerie Clairefontaine, Espace 2, a second space, was inaugurated with the aim to promote photography and show cutting edge positions in contemporary art.
Both galleries are situated in the very heart of the historical center of Luxembourg City, surrounded by the government and only a few steps away from the Museums and the Palace of the Grand Duke.
Parallel to the exhibition program, Dr. Marita Ruiter has started a number of long-term projects, e.g.
- the annual Luxembourg photo-festival called “photomeetings Luxembourg”,
- the ongoing photo-series of a group of Luxembourg people “Luxembourg portraits",
- as well as the paining project “The portrait society"
The Gallery collected a number of photographic works on specific subjects, like “Portraits and Reportages by Gisèle Freund", “The First Aerial Photographs of Berlin”, “ Fidel Castro and the Revolutionary movement in CUBA 1959/60”, etc., which are shown in international Museums and Cultural Institutions.
Galerie Clairefontaine developed to one of the leading galleries in the Interregion. Well established and well known in the European art market the gallery offers best professional visibility to its artists. Founded and run by Dr. Marita Ruiter, the gallery is well known as innovative, committed to an exploration of new art as well as promoting emerging artists.
The gallery has participated in many international Art Fairs like ART BASEL, ART COLOGNE, ARCO, AIPAD NEW YORK, DFOTO, ART BRUSSELS, FIAC, MIAMI etc.
Artists shown by the gallery are: Dieter Appelt, Nobuyoshi Araki, Gabriele Basilico, Peter Bialobrzeski, Giacomo Costa, Stéphane Couturier, Roland Fischer, Franco Fontana, Gisèle Freund, Daniel&Geo Fuchs, Horst P.Horst, Jörg Immendorff, Mimmo Jodice, Markus Lüpertz, James Nachtwey, Michael Najjar, Max Neumann, Marla Rutherford, August Sander, Roland Schauls, Edward Steichen, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marie Taillefer, Massimo Vitali, Hugo Ernst Georg vom Hagen, etc.
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