Galerie Nagel Draxler (formerly Galerie Christian Nagel) was founded in Cologne in 1990 and operates in Cologne, Berlin, Munich and Meseberg. We are proud to be a gallery that has a history, a present and a future. An emphasis lies on an established artist generation, that has been showing with us since the beginning and whose work has been strongly influential for following generations. Our mid-career artists take part in defining the artistic discourses of our times. Finally, with a young generation, we meet the challenges of tomorrow. We see it as a privilege, to be able to give younger artists a context rooted in recent art history.
We opened in 1990 with Cosima von Bonin’s first solo show. In a strong orientation towards the new institutional critique we welcomed artists such as Michael Krebber, Andrea Fraser, Heimo Zobernig, Mark Dion, Renée Green, Kai Althoff, John Miller, Martha Rosler, and later Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Guillaume Bijl. Gang Zhao and Kader Attia are artists of bilateral heritage who reflect on postcolonialism from a transcultural perspective. More recently Sayre Gomez, Luke Willis Thompson and Christine Wang joined, as well as Zandile Tshabalala.
Beginning in 2022, we dedicated one of our Berlin spaces to an avant-garde of artists whose work explores cultures and technologies that reflect the new digital age of blockchains, the metaverse, and Web3. We since represent artists Kevin Abosch, Sarah Friend, Rhea Myers, Anna Ridler, and Kenny Schachter.
