Guelman und Unbekannt Gallery

Guelman und Unbekannt Gallery The gallery will focus on digital art, primarily on art created by humans with the assistance of AI Guelman and Unbekannt is largely about time.

In April 2023, Marat Guelman and his partner will open a gallery in downtown Berlin. The gallery will focus on digital art, but primarily on art created by humans with the assistance of artificial intelligence. At Guelman und Unbekannt, we envision our space as a crucial player in the current revolutionary period in art. As the age-old rift between physicists and poets, humanists and technologists dissolves, we aim to integrate digital art into the broader artistic context. Our gallery strives to serve as a launching pad for new artists, whose innovative creations have the potential to transform the course of art history. Through our programming and curation, we are proud to contribute to this exciting and transformative era in the art world. Only yesterday, rejected digital artists created their own infrastructure in the digital underground. They were rejected not because of the quality of their work, but simply because there was no such concept as an original or a copy. Today, this problem is solved, and with the help of blockchain technologies, we can track the "provenance" of a digital work more accurately than the history of a painting made with oil paint on canvas. Over the past thirty years, the Internet has accumulated a huge number of images with the status of works of art. This quantity often scares art lovers. There are many talented artists and groundbreaking art out there, but there is practically no consensus among professionals that can help us navigate it. On the one hand, it is understandable that the digital environment not only produces art but also criteria by which it should be evaluated, and these criteria are new in some ways and traditional in others. On the other hand, the essentially democratic, hierarchy-rejecting digital community has not yet been able to create a functioning art evaluation mechanism. We, Guelman and Unbekannt, see our mission not only as placing digital art in an artistic context but also as educating a broad audience and professionals on how to appreciate this new art and understand its development. The brief history of digital art (since the mid-90s) is a unique adventure, and we see the art created by artists and artificial intelligence as its pinnacle. This is why our gallery is not just a virtual platform. It has walls, high ceilings, and an exhibition program for the year. We see it as a bridge between the traditional art world and the digital. In its first year, the gallery will introduce the public to various strategies for human-AI interaction. We plan to expand our interests into the realm of generative art and dive deeper into the phenomenon of digital art as a whole. But Guelman and Unbekannt is not just a gallery. Following Joseph Beuys' words that "every person is an artist," we provide a meeting place for humans and AI, where anyone can create their first artwork, come as a layman, and leave as an artist. Herr Unbekannt, an artificial intelligence trained in evaluating digital art, is Mr. Marat Guelman's public partner in this project. Every artist, not just digital artists, can receive their first review here, based on our thirty years of experience in evaluating works of art. We are inspired by the processes taking place in art today, and our ambition is to become an integral part of this new era. But we also want to become an integral part of Berlin. It is essential that it is here, not in Silicon Valley or London with Basel, that the AI gallery is opening. The air in Berlin is filled with interest in the new.

Join us in Basel for ARTHAUS📍 St. Johanns-Vorstadt 34, 4056 Basel🗓 June 14–21, 2025 | 🕓 4–10 PM daily🎉 Opening Reception...
13/06/2025

Join us in Basel for ARTHAUS
📍 St. Johanns-Vorstadt 34, 4056 Basel
🗓 June 14–21, 2025 | 🕓 4–10 PM daily
🎉 Opening Reception: Sat, June 14

The Arthaus is a collaborative exhibition project located in a 13th-century 6-story house in Basel, Switzerland, taking place during Art Basel week. Held in a historic residence overlooking the Rhine River, Arthaus offers an alternative exhibition experience by fostering immersive, community-driven encounters among artists, collectors, and curators in a domestic setting. The spaces are curated by different galleries, transforming the house into a dynamic showcase of contemporary art on the cutting edge.

Organized by Ethan Cohen Gallery (NY), Guelman und Unbekannt (Berlin), and Blond Contemporary (London), this year’s edition features a bold lineup of contemporary and post-war artists including:
Aboudia, Isaac Aden, Ai Weiwei, Emil Alzamora, Armand Boua, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Sophia Bounou, Chi Ming, Claudia Coca, Thomas Deininger, Li Daiyun, Ron English, Erik Foss, Marat Guelman, Hal Hirshorn, David Hockney, Katinka Huang, Margaret Innerhofer, Komar & Melamid, Bill Komoski, Lan Zhenghui, Lara Birgit Kamhi, Fabian Marcaccio, Donna Mikkelsen, Catheris Mondombo, Anna Navasardian, Yigal Ozeri, Jim Peters, Paul Paiement, Qiu Deshu, Ushio Shinohara, Vladimir Sorokin, Mark Tobey, and James Vaulkhard.

🖼 Highlights:
Among the exhibition highlights, Ethan Cohen Gallery (New York) presents solo exhibitions by Catheris Mondombo, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Li Daiyun, Paul Paiement, and Margaret Innerhofer, as well as several curated group exhibitions spanning six stories. Guelman und Ubekannt (Berlin), led by Marat Guelman, features a headline immersive exhibition by the legendary conceptual duo Komar & Melamid. Blond Contemporary (London), under the direction of Phillip Blond, will present a special exhibit of works by British icon David Hockney.

🗣 Daily programs include live performances, curator-led tours, and private gatherings aimed at cultivating meaningful connections within the art community.

📩 Inquiries & private viewings:
director@ecfa.com
🔗 www.arthausbasel.com

Visit Guelman und Unbekannt at VOLTA Basel 2025!Dear friends and art lovers,We’re excited to announce that Guelman und U...
03/06/2025

Visit Guelman und Unbekannt at VOLTA Basel 2025!

Dear friends and art lovers,

We’re excited to announce that Guelman und Unbekannt will be part of the 20th anniversary edition of VOLTA Basel, taking place June 19–22, 2025, at Hall 4.U, Messeplatz 21, Basel, Switzerland. The VIP Preview will be held on June 18.

📍 Our Booth: E10

At our booth, we’ll be presenting works by renowned artists, including:

- Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid
- Vladimir Sorokin
- Boris Eldagsen
- Anatoly Osmolovsky
- Marat Gelman
- group Plus, Minus, Comma (Ruslan Solopeev, Boban Marković Jr., Jean Jules)

Guelman und Unbekannt based in Berlin, focuses on digital art created in collaboration with artificial intelligence.

✨ Want to join us?
We have a limited number of personal invitations available.
Send us a DM to receive yours!

We warmly invite you to visit our booth, explore cutting-edge works, and connect with us for new ideas and collaborations.

🔗 Learn more: [Guelman und Unbekannt at VOLTA Basel](https://www.voltaartfairs.com/guelman-und-unbekannt-gallery)

We look forward to seeing you in Basel!

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You're invited!Join us for the presentation of the project "First of All, It's Beautiful" presented live on May 29–30, 2...
28/05/2025

You're invited!
Join us for the presentation of the project "First of All, It's Beautiful"
presented live on May 29–30, 2025, from 11:00 to16:00
at Berliner Kunstmarkt an Zeughaus
Am Zeughaus 1–2, 10117 Berlin

We look forward to seeing you there!

28/05/2025
15/04/2025
📸 Check out the photos from the opening! 🎉Take a look at the highlights from the event and relive the atmosphere of this...
02/03/2025

📸 Check out the photos from the opening! 🎉

Take a look at the highlights from the event and relive the atmosphere of this special day. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us! ❤️

RIVALS – Photography vs Promptography” is an exhibition for that provides answers to the questions: What is the strengt...
19/02/2025

RIVALS – Photography vs Promptography” is an exhibition for that provides answers to the questions: What is the strength of photography that AI cannot replace? And: What can AI do that photography can't?

Curated by in association with .edition.berlin and “RIVALS – Photography vs Promptography” works as a toolbox that the photography and community can use and develop - to further differentiate what the strengths of each media is.

This post represents the category TEXT AS THE SOURCE OF THE IMAGE.

Whereas photographers create images with light, promptographers can create with text.

AI is built on Large Language Models (LLMs). Thus, it is one of the amazing novelties that AI allows you to create images with text descriptions. Creatives that are into text prompting become directors and conductors of the AI.

As prompting is working with one's own knowledge and experience, writers can become image-makers. An example of this is the writer Vladimir Sorokin who collaborated with various prompt engineers to translate his ideas into images.





The opening of the exhibition "Museum ruines" Vitaly Komar & group Plus, Minus, Comma. 01.02.2025. Part 2
02/02/2025

The opening of the exhibition "Museum ruines" Vitaly Komar & group Plus, Minus, Comma. 01.02.2025. Part 2

The opening of the exhibition "Museum ruines" Vitaly Komar & group Plus, Minus, Comma. 01.02.2025. Part 1
02/02/2025

The opening of the exhibition "Museum ruines" Vitaly Komar & group Plus, Minus, Comma. 01.02.2025. Part 1

Together with our friends WhiteBox Gallery in New York, the exhibition of our gallery's resident Vladimir Sorokin BLUE L...
07/04/2024

Together with our friends WhiteBox Gallery in New York, the exhibition of our gallery's resident Vladimir Sorokin BLUE LARD opened. The exhibition is open until May 4. Welcome!

Welcome to the opening of the exhibition today at 19.00!
29/02/2024

Welcome to the opening of the exhibition today at 19.00!

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Mittwoch 10:00 - 17:00
Donnerstag 10:00 - 17:00
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