OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

is a contemporary art management office. Together with Black Cat Publishing, ICE projects gallery and the artists’ studios of Fendry Ekel and Folkert de Jong, OFFICE is situated in it’s own Contemporary Art Building (CAB) in Amsterdam. OFFICE is an initiative of and owned by managing director Astrid Honold, painter Fendry Ekel and sculptor Folkert de Jong. In 2000 the three together founded the Space For Artists Foundation. Today they share a business and together collect international contemporary art, (The ARC Collection ) and tribal art from South East Asia (The Long House Collection). Both collections are shown semi-permanently in the ICE projects gallery.

Astrid Honold from 1998 - 2007 has been organizing the annual major presentation of Amsterdam based design platform droog during the Salone del Mobile design fair in Milan. She was also responsible for droog's two international touring exhibitions: Simply droog (2003 -2007: MAD Museum, New York - Haus Der Kunst, Munich - Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba - Museum Bellerive, Zurich among other places) and A Human Touch (2006-2008: Beijing, Melbourne, Sydney, Shanghai, Jakarta and other cities). In 2003 Astrid Honold established Office For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, operating in the fields of Art Management and Consulting. Office supports a select group of individual talented young artists working in The Netherlands. With Black Cat Publishing, Amsterdam Astrid Honold publishes monographs and exhibition catalogues. Honold is a curator of exhibitions for galleries and museums internationally.

Astrid Honold was born in Saarbrücken, Germany. She studied Architecture graduating at the Stuttgart Technical Institute, Germany and the Rietveld Art Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2000 she founded the Space For Artists Foundation together with artist colleagues Folkert de Jong and Fendry Ekel with whom her Office continues to work intensively.

Office For Contemporary Art network:
Droog Design
Graphic Design Studio Laucke
Space For Artists Foundation
Idea Books Amsterdam
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens Belgium
James Cohan Gallery New York
Galeria Luis Adelantado Valencia Spain
Galerie Gabriel Rolt Amsterdam
Neonpark Gallery, Melbourne
Metis Gallery
André Simoens Gallery
Groninger Museum
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA)
Galeria Luis Adelantado Mexico City

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