Galleries
ClippingsBasler Stab, January 24, 2005
"In the VOLTAshow we see no competition ... but rather a compliment towards the allure of Art Basel."
Basler Zeitung, March 3, 2005
"In good company at Art Basel. The new art fair VOLTAshow is bringing 23 top galleries from 10 countries to Basel"
Basler Stab, March 3, 2005
"Two-storied Art"
Art+Auction, March, 2005
“Alternative Fairs: The Great and the Small”
tema celeste, issue 108, p. 105, March, 2005
"BASEL - The year 2005 will see the first edition of the VOLTAshow. (...)"
Art Fairs International, April, 2005
"... the VOLTAshow continues a recent trend of art fairs organized by galleries, conceived as a way of taking back some control over the grueling and fairly impersonal process of applying and preparing for, coordinating and exhibiting at a large-scale international art fair."
Art Review, May 2005
"An ambitious new art fair will be introduced to Basel this summer. (...)"
FAZ, No. 116, May 21, 2005
"VOLTAshow is coming to Basel. Art buying should be fun again."
Basler Stab, May 25, 2005
"Why Friedrich Loock thinks that Basel needs a third fair with the Voltashow (…)."
www.kunstmarkt.com, May 31, 2005
"New fair parallel to Art Basel."
art, Das Kunstmagazin, No. 6, June 2005
"Berlin gallery Wohnmaschine, together with Ulrich Voges from Frankfurt and Kavi Gupta from Chicago, is setting up the VOLTAshow in a former warehouse.(...)"
Wall Street Journal Europe, June 10-12, 2005
Basel this year has a new contemporary-art fair, Voltashow (…) the brainchild of three dealers: Friedrich Loock (Wohnmaschine, Berlin), Ulrich Voges (Voges + Partner, Frankfurt) and Kavi Gupta (Kavi Gupta, Chicago) (…) The fair sees itself as filling a gap between Art Basel, which is often difficult for new galleries to penetrate, and Liste, which only shows very young art in a somewhat crowded space. Taking place in the Voltahalle, located close to the River Rhine, there is plenty of room for spacious stands."
Basler Zeitung, June 14, 2005
“The VOLTAshow wasn’t even five minutes old and they were already strolling through the hallways: the art collectors, easily-recognizable by their knowledgeable gaze, which slowly but intensely skipped from one gallery to the next.”
FAZ, June 14, 2005
"There’s a sort of trend of a new style of relaxed and friendly salesmanship at the new fairs that are popping up, which want to deflect from the gravity of business and weight of the market. (…) VOLTAshow has set itself up - it’s small, elegant, and quite self-confident regarding the cutting edge."
The Art Newspaper, June 14, 2005
"Yesterday all of the 23 stands on the fair were besieged by such prestigious collectors as the Rubells from Miami beach, the Californians Stanley and Gail Hollander, Jane Suiter (buying for British collector Janet de Botton), and the owner of Art Review Dennis Holz and business was brisk."
journal des arts, June 14, 2005
"VOLTAshow took the challenge of offering a more pure visage than the ´grungy´ character of LISTE."
Artinfo.com, June 14, 2004
"From all reports, the scene at the VOLTA fair yesterday was a feeding frenzy. From the energetic description by Kavi Gupta, proprietor of the Chicago gallery bearing his name and one of VOLTA's organizers, one was left with the image of collectors lined up outside the door at noon when the fair opened, checkbooks at the ready. (…) Gupta said the Miami-based collectors Donald and Mera Rubell were especially supportive, showing up before the fair even opened and calling out, "Kavi, you did it!"
The Art Newspaper, June 15, 2005
"The venue of the new VOLTAshow, a disused power plant on the Rhine, could not have been better chosen. This energetic latest arrival on the add-on fair circuit was humming well before the official VIP preview (…)"
Basler Zeitung, June 16, 2005
"The brand-new VOLTAshow (…) was talking about a “sparkling debut”. According to the founders and organizers the new fair (…) the participating galleries were already reporting success in the first few hours."
Tagesspiegel, June 16, 2005
"In a more moderate price range is the newly-created Voltashow, a “fair by galleries for galleries.” (…) The collectors gladly joined the new fair."
Le Figaro, June 17, 2005
"Volta is the new small fair (…) that everybody’s been dashing to straight from the plane (…) this latest promising enterprise, unanimously welcomed by the public."
Basler Stab, June 17, 2005
"That the VOLTAshow, which has barely seen the light of the (fair-)world, is already accepted is a credit to the organizers."
Handelsblatt, June 17, 18, 19, 2005
"(...) from the outset, firmly against the rigid policy of the top-level fair selection committees and endless waiting lists which often stand in the way of the renowned Art Basel (...) its professionalism is the Voltashow’s ace-in-the-hole."
Le Monde, June 18, 2005
"(…) VOLTAshow, (…) has even provided a river ferry service that comes to whisk away the collectors that have visited Liste and take them downstream to the other side of the river to a former warehouse, entirely refitted for the event. Spotless stands, a professional presentation: this fair is organized by galleries for galleries. And since the contemporary art collector today is insatiable, most of the participants had close to sold out on the first day (...)"
FAZ, June 18, 2005
"Volta is a professional market and not an aggressive off-show. (…) Zoo and VOLTAshow, or the NADA in Miami beach, are successful concepts, which Voges refers to as the “David fairs,” a very apt metaphor, although here David doesn’t want to kill the giant: instead of taking up a place over the goliath’s lifeless head, like a nimble little brother he climbs up onto his shoulders and rides triumphantly in piggyback."
Frankfurter Rundschau, June 18, 2005
"(…) starting from this year on, is at a new, friendly arrival: Uli Voges from Frankfurt, Kavi Gupta from Chicago and Friedrich Loock of Wohnmaschine gallery in Berlin initiated the first edition of the VOLTAshow, a fair by galleries for galleries."
Regioartline Kunstmagazin, June, 2005
"The Voltashow was actually unusually successful for its first year. In its six days approximately 10,000 visitors crammed themselves into the specially-designed annex with which the Berlin architects Girod and Engelbrecht converted the Voltahalle. One of the alternative things about this fair was definitely the site. Presenting themselves as “galleries for galleries” (in quote marks) they presented a professional art set-up, clear and relaxed, very well organized and with a very good shuttle connecting to the other events (Art Basel, list 05) on the other side of the Rhine."
The Telegraph, June 20, 2005
"´Collectors are eating up new art,´ said Chicago dealer and VOLTA fair founder Kavi Gupta. ´We launched this fair because there is a limit to what Art Basel can contain. The next generation of galleries needs its own fair.´"
BAZ, June 21, 2005
"The organisators of the first years VOLTAshow are satisfied. More than 10 000 visitors attended to the art fair where 23 international galleries presented their artists."
Wall Street Journal Europe, June 24-26, 2005
"At the VOLTAshow, another parallel art fair launched this year for 21st-century works, co-founder Friedrich Loock said, “We are super happy.” “Collectors are always looking for something new,” said VOLTAshow co-founder Kavi Gupta of Chicago."
DIE WELT, June 25, 2005
"23 international galleries showed “the developments of established contemporary positions” according to their own statement. Nearly all the top collectors, VIP card holders, the crème de la crème of the international curatorial crowd, looked in here as well other dealers and young artists on the hunt for a gallery."
El Pais, June 25, 2005
"It seems the one that might supplant it in the future is the Voltashow, dedicated to the cutting-edge creation. As formerly there was the Rheinschau in Cologne or Zoo Fair in London, Volta was born this year from the collaboration of three galleries: Wohnmaschine in Berlin, Voges + Partner in Frankfurt and Kavi Gupta in Chicago, to which were added another twenty from the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada, and Japan."
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Countless journalists and media representatives visited the VOLTAshow 01. The clippings on this site present a general overview of international press activity. The selected foreign press quotes and headlines have been translated into English in-house and do not represent the respective publications' official translation.