CURATOR-LED GUIDED TOURSAdditionally, there will be two themed, curator-led guided tours. Join us on Friday 8 November at 4pm for “Emerging Artists” with Fair Manager and curator Hannah Weber-Heidenfels and on the same day at 5pm for “Kunst unter 500€” with Fair Director Oliver Lähndorf.

ENTRANCE INSTALLATIONYou might have already seen the striking installation of Tomislav Topic at the first Affordable Art Fair in Berlin this April. If you have missed it, you will now get a second chance at Hamburg Messe. In collaboration with Berlin-based artnow gallery, Tomislav has been invited to show again the installation which has been specially created for the Berlin fair and which will now as well hang from the ceiling at the fair’s entrance.

Berlin-based artist Tomislav Topic has created a stylistically unique and unmistakable body of work throughout his career. He is known for his colourful, site-specific art installations, in which he adeptly reduces his work to focus in colour and form, which he has realized in public spaces worldwide: from ruins of Greek architecture to public squares and urban hotspots in megacities in Asia.

His fundamental focus on colour and form allows him to create universally understandable installations, which enable the viewer to experience art in a true and direct way. Wether painting or installation, his art has the ability to resonate world-wide as an internationally valid form of expression and also to unite people of different cultures in art.

EMERGING ARTIST EXHIBITIONInitiated in 2012 by Fair Director Oliver Lähndorf, the annual Emerging Artists exhibition at the Affordable Art Fair Hamburg and since last year in Berlin, offers young artists a curated platform to show their art to a broad audience. With Darko Caramello Nikolic we are showing an artist this year who is already at another emerging point in his career. The Emerging Artist exhibition at the fair will feature museum-style art, which is primarily about making art tangible using an educational approach.

If we look back over the last twelve years, this particular exhibition has contributed significantly to the visibility of the participating artists and thus created more favorable conditions for their careers in the art world. That was exactly the intention with which I launched the Emerging Artists Platform in 2012.

On display are parts of Nikolics work cycle “Archetypes of Concrete Art”, which, following the footsteps of the constructivists, deals with form and color effects in 36 large-format paintings. The exhibition will be curated by Fair Manager Hannah Weber-Heidenfels.

Read on here to get to know more about the upcoming exhibition and here for an interview with the artist himself. Darko C. Nikolic, ‘Archetypes of Concrete Art’, MeetFrida Foundation, 2022, photo: Eric Anders

ART UNDER 1000€ WALLDon’t miss our curated wall with artworks all priced under 1000€, showing artworks from different galleries which are offering a wide range of affordable art.

LATE VIEWNo fair would be complete without festivities! On Thursday 7 November we will be open until 10pm with our Late View. Come along to enjoy a glass of wine and relax while browsing this year’s exhibition. This is the best time to visit the fair if you want to avoid prams and the weekend rush.

WRAPPING STATIONAs always, we’ll offer a wrapping and packing service with our partner Wall to Wall Art Solutions for all artworks purchased at the Hamburg Fair ensuring that our collectors are able to take their newly acquired works home safely