Art and commerce
Anyone interested in the latest trends in art goes to Kassel. Anyone wishing to buy goes to Cologne.
The “Museum for 100 Days” and the “Museum for Seven Days” are endearing sobriquets for two major, but very different events. The first is the documenta exhibition that takes place in Kassel very five years and, alongside the Venice Biennale, is the most important show of international contemporary art. It all started in 1955 when a group of artists decided to recall the art of modernism, in particular that art defamed by the National Socialists. The Museum for Seven Days, by contrast, is a fair in Cologne called Art Cologne that focuses on art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Amidst a unique and dense gathering of collectors, capital and commerce, it mainly promotes art by young German artists.
