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AUSTRIA
Die Galerien-Verband Oesterreichischer Galerien moderner Kunst
President: Martin Janda Members of the board: Robby Greif, Ursula Krinzinger, Emanuel Layr, Henrikke Nielsen, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Sophie Tappeiner.
FEAGA Gallery Awards 2026
INFORMATION
The European Gallery Award was created by the Federation of European Art Galeries Associations (FEAGA) to highlight the importance of galleries and to honor galleries that are an example in their efforts to support artists and make their work visible.
Sofie Van de Velde, President of the Award Committee, and FEAGA are proud to honour in great respect for creating and directing an exemplary gallery of high standing with a Lifetime Achievement Award:
Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Chris Dercon, art historian, curator, museum director gave a laudatio to Rüdiger Schöttle.
The Ernst Hilger Award for Innovation and Creativity goes to:
Bombon Projects, Barcelona, Spain
The introduction was be held by Alex Nogueras, gallery owner Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain.
Rüdiger Schöttle
The founding of Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery in Munich in 1968 marked the beginning of a forum of contemporary art that over the years has presented a great number of artists with their first solo exhibitions in Germany, or indeed their first solo exhibitions at all. The list includes such artists as Jenny Holzer, Günther Förg, Dan Graham, Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, James Coleman, Karin Kneffel, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Ruff and Anri Sala.
During the 1970s one of the focal points of the gallery's activities was the presentation of Concept Art with artists like Douglas Huebler, Daniel Buren, Ian Wilson, Lawrence Weiner and On Kawara. Conceptual content, the questioning of the correlation between art and reality and the reflection upon the context of art are to this day the common, cross-generation and cross-media link between the artists represented by Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery. The compositions of Martin Creed or Goshka Macuga follow this tradition.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the owner, curator and essayist Rüdiger Schöttle pursued a program that opened up the partial return of the narrative and the re-evaluation of images. Since the 1980s the Düsseldorf School of Photography has been one of the emphases of the gallery program. Artists like Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth are regularly exhibited and were complemented by the young Chinese artist Chen Wei.
Besides cultivating a program of longstanding artists, Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery has a decisive interest in exploring new approaches in the contemporary art scene and regularly presents works of young emerging artists such as Toulu Hassani, Thu-Van Tran or Elif Saydam.
Bombon Projects
Bombon Projects is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2017 in Barcelona. Directed by Joana Roda and Bernat Daviu, it has established itself as one of the most dynamic young galleries in Spain, with a strong presence at international art fairs and an expanding program that now also includes a space in Madrid.
The gallery focuses on emerging and mid-career artists whose practices engage with contemporary social, political, emotional, and material concerns. Its program is known for balancing experimental artistic practices with close, long-term collaborations with artists, creating what the gallery describes as an "ecosystem" based on trust and dialogue.
Bombon represents a generation of internationally active artists, including Eva Fà bregas, Lara Fluxà , Rosa Tharrats, and Joana Escoval. The gallery has gained recognition for presenting ambitious exhibitions that often explore themes of ecology, corporeality, perception, and alternative forms of coexistence.
Bombon Projects stands for a younger institutional model, closely associated with experimental, research-driven contemporary practices and the strengthening of the Barcelona art scene within an international context.
For more information about the history of the FEAGA Awards and its previous winners, please contact FEAGA info@europeangalleries.org.
2025
The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Chantal Crousel (Paris).
To honour the legacy of FEAGA’s long-standing chairman, esteemed college and dear friend Ernst Hilger, he is posthumously awarded FEAGA Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Ernst Hilger Innovation and Creativity Award goes to SUPRAINFINIT Gallery (Bucharest).
BELGIUM
Belgian Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries (BUP)
President: Sofie Van de Velde
Members of the board: Julie Senden, Sarah Vanwelden, Frederick Keteleer
Bart Vanderbiesen, Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte, Joost Delsard
1. Code of Ethics and Professional Practices
The Federation of European Art Galleries Associations (FEAGA) was founded in 1974 with the stated purpose of promoting the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practices within the art dealing profession. It is the responsibility of each individual Member (hereafter: Members) of the affiliated associations to conduct business in a manner that reflects these standards. Each Member must, of course, comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Beyond this basic standard, however, each Member is expected to conduct business professionally, fairly, with integrity and with the courtesy and respect due to artists, clients, colleagues, other Members, and the general public.
FEAGA has value to the Members where membership in the affiliated associations of FEAGA is regarded as an affirmation of integrity and fair dealing. Where a Member acts in a way that is not consistent with this Code of Ethics, it tarnishes the organization and its other Members, and brings disrepute to the art market more generally. Members therefore understand the fundamental importance of this Code of Ethics.
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I. Clients
A. Buyers
(1) Members are expected to provide an accurate description of all objects that they offer for sale. A buyer should be provided with a written invoice containing that description, which should include the identity of the artist, the dimensions and medium of the work, and other relevant information.
(2) Members exercise due diligence in verifying the authenticity of works of art that they offer for sale.
(3) Members do not knowingly buy, sell or exhibit works of art that are not authentic works of art by the artists to whom they are attributed.
(4) Members do not knowingly buy, sell or exhibit stolen works of art, and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in their efforts to identify, locate and recover stolen works.
(5) Members specify in writing significant known defects and restorations of works or art that they offer for sale.
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B. Consignors
(1) A Member understands that he or she acts as an agent of a consignor of a work of art and therefore owes a fiduciary responsibility to the consignor.
(2) A Member should enter into a written consignment agreement that contains a description of each work consigned (artist, title, medium, dimensions), the term of the consignment, the commission to the dealer or the net price to be paid to the consignor, responsibility for expenses, and any other significant term of the transaction. Where a net price is quoted, the Member should make clear to the consignor that the Member will retain any amount received from a buyer that is in excess of the net price. The consignor is expected to warrant that clear and unencumbered title will pass when the work is sold by the Member. It also is expected that the consignor will indemnify the Member against any claim of breach of any express or implied warranty made by the consignor.
(3) A Member provides a consignor with a good faith estimate of the current fair market value of all consigned works.
(4) A Member’s communications with the consignor regarding any aspect of the consignment are expected to be accurate, and must never be intentionally inaccurate or misleading.
(5) A Member should notify the consignor when payment is received for a consigned work, and make timely payment to the Consignor, as agreed.
(6) Members do not knowingly sell works of art that they are not authorized to sell. Nor do Members sell works of art on terms that are not authorized by the consignor.
II . Artists
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A Member understands that he or she acts as an agent for artists that the Member represents and therefore owes a fiduciary responsibility to each artist. Further, a Member representing an artist has responsibilities to the artist extending beyond selling the artist’s works. Those responsibilities may be divided into the (A) advisory, custodial and archival, and (B) financial.
A. Advisory, Custodial and Archival
(1) A Member acts as an advisor to an artist represented by the Member. The Member seeks to enhance the artist’s reputation through exhibitions, publications, and by acting as an advocate for, and fostering scholarship regarding, the artist’s work. The Member is expected to sell the artist’s work responsibly and seek where possible to place the work in important public and private collections.
(2) A Member is expected to exhibit the artist’s work in such a manner, acceptable to the artist, as shows the work to best advantage.
(3) A Member is expected to act responsibly in the handling, packing, shipping, insuring and storage of the artist’s work.
(4) A Member is expected to maintain appropriate records of the artist’s works in the dealer’s custody and to maintain proper photographic archives and other documentation of those works.
B. Financial
(1) A Member and an artist are expected to agree on the terms of the representation, including such expenses as shipments, insurance, photography, storage, framing and restoration. Under no circumstances should an artist be charged for the use of a Member’s gallery space for the exhibition of his or her art.
(2) A Member and an artist are expected to agree in advance on prices for the artist’s work as well as the percentage of proceeds to be paid to the Member as compensation.
(3) The Member and the artist are also expected to agree in advance on when and how the Member should account to and pay the artist after a sale is made and payment is actually received by the dealer. A Member is always expected to pay the artist his or her full portion of the proceeds of the sale of the artist’s work on a timely basis, and to take such steps as are necessary or required by law to assure that the artist’s share of the proceeds of the sale of a work of art is protected.
(4) A Member may never use work by one of its artists that is on consignment with the Member as collateral for any form of financing.
(5) A Member is expected to act in an honest and trustworthy manner in dealing with an artist and the works consigned by the artist.
III. Artists’ Estates
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A Member has the same responsibilities to the estate of an artist as to a living artist. This includes the advisory, custodial, archival and financial responsibilities listed above. Members are expected to be mindful that the artist no longer can be his or her own advocate and work actively to develop and foster the market for the artist’s works.
IV. Auctions
A. A Member who has an ownership interest in a work may not consign that work for auction with the intention of acquiring the work at the auction at a publicly enhanced price.
B. A Member who owns or guarantees a work consigned to auction, or has any other financial interest in the sale of the work, is expected to disclose that fact to potential bidders on that work before he or she offers any advice about the work.
C. A Member may not bid, or agree with others to refrain from bidding on a work at auction, solely for the purpose of enhancing or depressing the price.
V. Dealers
A. Members should seek to further mutual respect and enhance the public’s trust in art dealers. To that end, Members are expected to exercise care in making negative comments about other art dealers for the purpose of denigrating their reputations.
B. When a work is jointly owned by more than one art dealer, the Member should enter into a clear agreement concerning the price to be obtained, the terms of sale, insurance, and the sharing of costs and profits.
C. When a Member consigns a work to another dealer the Member is expected to assure that
(1) the consignment is consistent with the Member’s agreement with the owner of the work,
(2) the compensation to be paid to the other dealer is consistent with the Member’s agreement with the owner of the work,
(3) the other dealer is aware of and has agreed to comply with any terms of the Member’s agreement with the owner of the work that may affect the means or terms by which the other dealer may sell the work of art.
D. In any transaction in which another art dealer, advisor or other agent is acting for the counterparty to the transaction, a Member is expected to assure that it is clear who is being represented by the Member and who is being represented by the other art professional so that each professional may satisfy his or her responsibility to his or her client.
E. A Member does not seek or accept compensation from any party where such compensation would create a conflict with the Member’s responsibility to its principal in the transaction, unless such compensation has been disclosed to and approved by the Member’s principal.
VI. Art Fairs
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The provisions of this Code of Ethics apply to Members with respect to all of their transactions, including their participation in art fairs.
VII . Gallery Management
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Members are expected to treat their staff with courtesy and respect, and to comply with all applicable employment laws, including laws relating to any form of discrimination.
VIII. Enforcement
A. Recognizing the importance to all Members of protecting the reputation of FEA GA, every Member is expected to respond receptively and cooperatively to good faith concerns raised by other Members with respect to works of art that are being offered for sale by the Member or other matters related to this Code of Ethics.
B. If a Member has acted in violation of these guidelines, FEA GA appeals (encourages) affiliated associations to take their own responsibility and take concrete measures according to their own national Code of Ethics.
FEAGA
03-06-2019
2024
The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Baronian (Brussels). The Innovation and Creativity Award goes to Madragoa (Lisbon).
DENMARK
Danish Galeries Association | Danske Gallerier
President: Thorkild N.B. Nielsen
Secretary: Michael Folmer Wessman Members of the board: Kirstine Tolstrup Nielsen, Marie Kirkegaard, Sophus Gether,
Morten Avlskarl.
2023
The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to GalerÃa Juana de Aizpuru (Madrid). The Innovation and Creativity Award goes to LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS (Brussels).
2. New Guide for Galleries
2022
The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Victoria Miro Gallery (London). The Innovation and Creativity Award goes to Galleria Zero (Milan).
3. Sample Agreements between galleries and artists
FINLAND
Finnish Art Galleries Association: Galleristit – Galleristerna ry
President: Marika Sibakoff-Uravirta
Secretary: Maria Ollikainen
Members of the board: Eveliina Tuulonen, Inkeri Kallio, Solveig Lindqvist
GERMANY
Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler e.V. (BVDG)
President : Kristian Jarmuschek
Office: Birgit Maria Sturm, Silvia Zörner, Maria Morais
Members of the board: Karin Schulze-Frieling, Thole Rotermund.
2020/2021
Galerie Lelong & Co (Paris/New York); Galeria Plan B (Cluj/Berlin)
GREECE
Hellenic Art Galleries Association
President: Yianna Grammatopoulou
Members of the board: George Kartalos, George Georgakopoulos, Yiannis Kaligas,
Marina Athanassiadou.
5. Articles
202103 - The Art Market, An Art Basel & UBS Report
202009 - German Fine Art Galleries 2020 by IFSE and BVDG, September 2020
202005 - 24 Ore: Galleries in the lockdown period in Italy​​​​​​​
2019
Galerie Nordenhake, Germany/Sweden/Mexico; Rodeo Gallery, Great Britain
2018
Annemarie and Gianfranco Verna Galerie, Switzerland; Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Belgium
HUNGARY
Association of Hungarian Contemporary Art Galleries
Magyar Kortárs Művészeti Galériák Országos Egyesülete
President: Agnes Taller
Members of the board: Krisztina Dian, Erzsebet Plinger
ITALY
Associazione Nazionale Gallerie d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (ANGAMC)
Email office: info@angamc.com
President: Andrea Sirio Ortolani
Vice-Presidents: Giovanni Bonelli, Claudia Ciaccio
Members of the board: Antonio Addamiano, Marco Niccoli, Pietro Vallone, Paola Verrengia
Delegates: Christian Akrivos, Alfonso Artiaco, Giuseppe Filippo Biasutti, Paola Forni, Simone Frittelli, Giordano Raffaelli, Sara Zanin
2017
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Austria; Galleria Massimo Minini, Italy
2016
Galerie Klüser, Germany; Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Estonia
PORTUGAL
Portuguese Galleries Association EXHIBITIO – ASSOCIAÇÃO LUSA DE GALERISTAS
President: Frederick Lemann
Vice-President: Jorge Viegas
Members of the Board: Mercedes Céron, Ana Matos, Miguel Nabinho, Rita Alves, Francisco Fino, Pedro Magalhães, Paola Capata
2015
Galerie Fons Welters, The Netherlands; KOW, Germany
THE NETHERLANDS
Nederlandse Galerie Associatie (NGA)
President: Philip de Jong
Secretary: Loes van Campen
Members of the board: Klaas-Jan Visser (treasurer), Jaring Dürst Britt, Geert van der Meulen, Jorien de Vries, Frank Delissen, Berthe Schoonman.
2014
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Germany; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, France
RUSSIA
Association of Galleries (AGA)
Chairman: Sofia Trotsenko
Director: Daria Morgacheva
Members of the board: Marina Gisich, Alexander Sharov, Ksenia Podoynitsyna, Emelyan Zakharov, Elena Selina, Sergey Popov
2013
Leslie Waddington, Great Britain; Ani Molnár Gallery, Hungary
SLOVAKIA
Association of Slovak Private Galleries (ASGS)
President: Katarina Sobolĉiaková (Roman Fecik Gallery, Bratislava)
2012
Galerie Krinzinger, Austria; Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Switzerland
SPAIN
Idoia Fernández - President: idoia@nfgaleria.com
Olga Adelantado - Vicepresident: olga@luisadelantado.com
Guiomar DÃez: contacto@consorciodegalerias.com
Website: http://www.consorciodegalerias.com/
2011
Studio La Città , Italy
2010
Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Finland; V1 Gallery, Denmark
SWEDEN
Swedish Gallery Association: Svenska Galleriförbundet
President: Ola Gustafsson
Members of the board: Johanna Malm, Martin Lilja, Gert-Olle Göransson,
Substitute board members: Ben Loveless, Cecilia Hillström.
SWITZERLAND
VERBAND SCHWEIZER GALERI EN (VGS)
ASSOCIATION DES GALERIES SUISSES (AGS)
President : Fabian Walter
Members of the board: Fabian Walter, Diego Stampa, Alex Schlesinger.
Secretary: Sylva Denzler
Revisor: Serge Ziegler
2009
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Spain; Galerie BQ, Germany
2008
Galerie Hans Mayer, Germany; Layr/Wüstenhagen, Austria
2007
Annely Juda Fine Art, Great Britain; Zeno X Gallery, Belgium
2006
Galerie Denise René, France; Ellen de Bruijne Projects, The Netherlands
2005
Ernst Beyeler, Switzerland; Galerie Esther Schipper, Germany
Support for Ukraine
We are deeply shocked by the events in Ukraine and want to support the Ukrainian people. If you are looking to aid Ukrainian artists and musea, we advise the following charities/ support actions:
https://www.ne-mo.org/advocacy/our-advocacy-work/museums-support-ukraine.html
Our German member, BVDG, has advised the Deutsch-Ukrainische Gesellschaft für Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft as an organisation that wants to protect Ukraine's cultural heritage.
To help developing art gallery associations
FEAGA is committed to supporting its members who do not yet have an association, or wish to further develop theirs. We know from experience that gallery weekends can be a good way to make connections between different galleries. Therefore, we are committed to developing a project that can help galleries in this regard. This project is still in its early stages. We will gladly keep you informed about it.
Policymaking & Lobbying
FEAGA is committed to support her members and the European Art Market in a multitude of ways. This is achieved through lobbying for issues such as a reduced VAT rate on cultural goods, clear regulations and influence policymakers. We share all relevant information among our members and try to help those who's national situation is unclear.
