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RikReinking
About
Rik Reinking is a German art collector, dealer and curator based in Hamburg. Raised in Oldenburg, he bought his first work — a self-portrait by Horst Janssen — on his way to school at the age of sixteen, in 1992 for 250 DM. From 1996 he studied law and art history in Hamburg and, in 1997, organised his first curatorial project in the Alter Elbtunnel.
In 2006 he was named by the federal initiative Deutschland — Land der Ideen one of Germany's 100 Köpfe von morgen, holding “one of the most exciting collections of young contemporary art in Europe”. In 2014 Apollo Magazine selected him for its 40 under 40 in the Collectors category. In 2007 he founded Artfonds 21 AG, a stock corporation built around the idea of returns through serious collecting.
His own collection — Sammlung Reinking — spans roughly 200 artists, from the 1960s onward: Informel, Fluxus, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Urban Art (Graffiti / Street Art) and contemporary painting. Since the late 2010s its permanent home has been the Woods Art Institute in Wentorf near Hamburg, the cultural institution he founded as a place of encounter between art, nature and people.
Exhibitions
Selected curatorial projects, loans and presentations of the Sammlung Reinking and ReinkingProjekte.
- 2014
Existenzielle Bildwelten | Sammlung Reinking — Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (DE)
Beyond melancholia. Sammlung Reinking | Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg | 1 — Hamburg (DE)
- 2013
POESIA — Werke aus der Sammlung Reinking — Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst (DE)
Hidden Tracks — Universität Hamburg / Career Center (DE)
- 2011
Street Art — meanwhile in deepest east anglia, thunderbirds were go… — Von der Heydt-Museum, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal (DE)
- 2009
Urban-Art — Werke aus der Sammlung Reinking — Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (DE)
ARTotale — Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (DE)
Alle Rechte vorbehalten! — Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg (DE)
- 2008
Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking — KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad (DK)
fresh air smells funny — Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (DE)
- 2007
Aktive Konstellationen — Haus der Kunst der Stadt Brünn (CZ)
Still on and non the wiser — Von der Heydt-Museum, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal (DE)
- 2006
Minimal Illusions — Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE)
Was wär ich ohne Dich — Städtische Galerie, Prague (CZ)
sculpture@CityNord — Hamburg (DE)
- 2005
Passion des Sammelns — Halle 14, Alte Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig (DE)
See History 2005 — Kunsthalle zu Kiel (DE)
Schon vergeben — Sammlung Rik Reinking — Art Cologne (DE)
- 2004
66–03 — Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst — Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (DE)
- 2003
Dasein — Ernst-Barlach-Museum Wedel (DE)
- 2002
Kritik am Kontext — Hamburg (DE)
- 2001
Anstiftung zu einer neuen Wahrnehmung — Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (DE)
- 1997
First curatorial project, Alter Elbtunnel, Hamburg (DE)
Biographical text adapted from woodsartinstitute.com and Wikipedia. © Sammlung Reinking / Woods Art Institute.
“The heart of contemporary art is in you.”— Rik Reinking
The collection has a home
Woods Art Institute
2,500 m² of gallery space, twelve artist studios, a boarding house and a sculpture park spread across a wooded estate on the Bille — the permanent home of Sammlung Reinking and a public place of encounter between art, nature and people.
The Collection
Around 200 artists. Painting, sculpture, installation, video, conceptual propositions, and indigenous artefacts as a counterpoint to Western contemporary positions.
Selected artists
- Carl Andre·
- Banksy·
- Monica Bonvicini·
- John Bock·
- Werner Büttner·
- James Lee Byars·
- Lawrence Carroll·
- Mark Dion·
- Brad Downey·
- Jimmie Durham·
- Shepard Fairey·
- Robert Filliou·
- Hamish Fulton·
- Liam Gillick·
- Nan Goldin·
- Rodney Graham·
- Georg Herold·
- Damien Hirst·
- Mark Jenkins·
- Imi Knoebel·
- Terence Koh·
- Barbara Kruger·
- Daniel Man·
- Jonathan Meese·
- Bjørn Melhus·
- Jonathan Monk·
- Moses & Taps·
- Bruce Nauman·
- Ernesto Neto·
- Cady Noland·
- Os Gêmeos·
- Tony Oursler·
- Wolfgang Petrick·
- Richard Prince·
- Robert Rauschenberg·
- Mirko Reisser (DAIM)·
- Klaus Rinke·
- Rolf Rose·
- Ulrich Rückriem·
- Santiago Sierra·
- Roman Signer·
- Stohead·
- Tasek·
- Rosemarie Trockel·
- Ben Vautier·
- Franz West·
- Lawrence Weiner·
- Heiko Zahlmann