Daniel Buchholz (left) founded Galerie Buchholz in 1986 and is now jointly run by Buchholz and Christopher Müller (right).
The gallery's exhibition spaces are located in Cologne at Neven-DuMont-Strasse 17, in Berlin at Fasanenstrasse 30, and in New York at 17 East 82nd Street.[3] Since its founding the gallery has had various locations inCologne.[4] Its first location was at Bismark Strasse 50, in a former storage facility of the Cologne galleristRudolf Zwirner. In 1988, the gallery opened at Venloer Strasse 21. In 1990, Buchholz and galleristEsther Schipper opened Buchholz & Schipper, a shop specializing inmultiples, at Albertusstrasse 26. In 1992, Buchholz & Buchholz opened on Breite Strasse 36, an exhibition space in the second antique bookshop of Daniel Buchholz's father.
Since 1994, Galerie Daniel Buchholz has been located at Neven-DuMont-Strasse 17, in the primary location of the antiquarian bookstore that his father founded. Daniel Buchholz converted the former storage spaces of the bookstore into exhibition spaces, and, since his father's death in 1993, has continued to run Antiquariat Buchholz parallel to the gallery. This address remains the headquarters for the gallery today. The art historian Christopher Müller began organizing film programs and co-curating exhibitions in the gallery in 1996. Since 2000 he has been a partner in the gallery.[5]
In 2008, Galerie Buchholz established a location at Fasanenstrasse 30 in theCharlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin.[5]
In 2015, it opened an exhibition space in New York City, at 17 East 82nd Street on theUpper East Side, Manhattan.[5][6]
In 1985, Daniel Buchholz organized exhibitions with artistsJohn Armleder andBrian Eno in the former storage facility ofRudolf Zwirner in Cologne.[7] Following this, he founded a space called Daniel Buchholz, where he mounted exhibitions of John M. Armleder,Olivier Mosset,Udo Lefin,Allan Belcher andUwe Lausen,Ken Lum,Dieter Roth and the Canadian artist collectiveGeneral Idea. In 1987 Buchholz organized an exhibition on the history of multiples and exhibitions of the complete graphic works ofBlinky Palermo andSigmar Polke.In the same year, Buchholz presented his first collaboration with the artistIsa Genzken.[8] Buchholz organized her exhibition project Musix, in which he showed Genzken's concrete "World Receiver" radio sculptures in the window of a HiFi electronics store in Cologne. In the following of 1988, Genzken had her first solo exhibition with Daniel Buchholz, and has been primarily represented by the gallery ever since.[9] In 1990 Daniel Buchholz presented the exhibition project "Samson" byChris Burden.[10] In 1992 he organised an exhibition ofPaul Thek at the Castello di Rivara in Turin.[11] In 1993 Daniel Buchholz opened a new gallery under the name Buchholz & Buchholz. It was here that he presented his first exhibition by the artistWolfgang Tillmans,[12] whom the gallery continues to represent today.
Alongside the exhibitions by represented artists, Galerie Buchholz regularly presents curated and historical exhibitions. For example, the 2013 and 2015 exhibitions on the life and work of French writerRaymond Roussel; or the 2014 symposium and exhibition on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the American theorist and curatorDouglas Crimp, organized together withDiedrich Diederichsen,Juliane Rebentisch and Marc Siegel. In 2017, Christopher Müller and Diedrich Diederichsen organized the exhibition "Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space - Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity"[13] in the New York gallery. In 2012, the gallery organised an exhibition project with German playwright and directorRené Pollesch, which culminated in a publication.[14]
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