The annual meeting of Kunsthaus
7B Investors Circle took place on 29th of December 2020 online. “A
hybrid event is a real chance, that more people are getting aware of our
philanthropic philosophy and its combination with return of investment,”
explains Thomas Emmerling, co-initiator of Kunsthaus 7B in Cisnadioara, Transylvania
and its investors circle. In fact, that the participants of the meeting aiming
to protect their privacy, the stream will not be published on facebook, zoom or
youtube. “We are not a secret circle caring conspiracy, the “by invitation only”
policy should ensure, that we have enough time to discuss the points of our
agenda,” Emmerling describes the policy. “Most collectors are coming from
Central and Eastern Europe, as well as several from UK, Germany, Switzlerand
and Austria.” Indeed, K7BIC reports that almost all members had been present
and could discuss the situation of Kunsthaus 7B in times of COVID-pandemic and
the plans for the program 2021. Looking back to 2020 Emmerling describes the
main challenges “It had been a steadily switch between online and reality
events, what ever had been possible, so we prepared ourselves for both”.
“Remapping the future” a group-show with works by Slovakian artists Alena
Adamikova, Maria Corejova, Kristina Mesaros and Olga Adamikova during the
summer month had been the most successful exhibition this year in Cisnadioara.
Aside this Bucharest artist Oana
Ionel had been able to celebrate a big success in Vienna during September and
October with her personal-exhibition “Secret Stories of Danube River” at Art
9Teen in Vienna’s 19th District. Oana Ionel and Maria Corejova are
represented in K7BIC and recently recommended for investment, by K7BIC
management. As a result coming up from the Viennese Ionel exhibition new
projects of the artist are discussed in Italy, Germany, France and Switzerland.
In February and March 2021 Venice Biennale artist Maria Corejova, who is
represented as well in STRABAG Collection, will show drawings, digital works
and sculptures inspired by her at Art 9Teen – Vienna’s Private Art Club.
Beginning of January 2021
Kunsthaus 7B will introduce the program for the started year, which will
contain exhibitions with works by artists born in Romania and living abroad as
well as by international artists. Aside this the list of artists featured by
Kunsthaus 7B in 2021 had been published. Amongst them are shooting stars as Oana Ionel
and Radu Rodideal, as well as established artists as Armin Mühsam, Maria
Corejova and Birgit Reiner. “We are interested on a long term partnership with
our artists! We want that K7BIC activists meet the artists, know them,
understand what strives them and last but not least, what to invest in,”
Emmerling describes the policy of the initiative. One of the collectors is
adding “For me it is interesting to accompany the development of an artist over
years, maybe decades, to see how they unfold their talent, train their skills
and work hard on steadily improvement”. K7BIC enables that with three or five
years partnerships, where they invest in a certain artistic career. For the
complete list of recommended artists, please send an email to Kunsthaus7B@gmail.com .
“In building artistic careers,
especially for artists from CEE-Countries as Romania or Slovakia, the financial
development is asymmetric. That means, at the beginning, the artists need money
to invest in material, fairs, travelling, diners and whatever. But nothing is
coming in. This you can just endure financially, when you have the money before
you start, or you have parallel income, which hopefully does not distract
promising talents from painting.” Art-collector and dealer Thomas Emmerling is
creating business-plans for every artist he is representing. He is discussing
the financing of the plan with the ones, who are ready to invest now, to fill
the financial gap of the artist. “Our members want to help the Eastern European
artists and the Project Kunsthaus 7B. As a side effect, their investment is
getting interested and after running time they can select an artwork from their
favorite artist out of a special catalog.” The systematic is very simple, pay
now to help buying materials, organizing exhibitions and art-fairs, and benefit
later from the increase of the value of the artist’s work. “Of course it might
be easier to buy a work now and it’s done. But our regular meeting, the studio
visits, the friendship with the artist from the beginning as well as the team
spirit amongst us collectors is unique!” The K7BIC spirit is strongly connected
with the Transylvanian village Cisnadioara, with the passion for art and the
philanthropic idea to help artists and support the Kunsthaus 7B project. For
this reason the annual meeting and the summer-fest in Cisnadioara are important
occasions to meet.
At the end of the line, the Kunsthaus 7B Investors Circle wants to support artists and cultural initiatives in Romania and Central and Eastern Europe and form a circle of art-connoisseurs, who share the idea.
