Rudolf Zwirner: Give Me the Now

Rudolf Zwirner, born 1933, is an art dealer based in Cologne. He started his gallery in the 1960s and grew to show works by icons including Sigmar Polke, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and others. He is the father of the gallerist David Zwirner.Nicola Kuhn is an art critic and a features editor of Tagesspiegel. She studied art history and modern history and has taught at the Free University and the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 2013, she was awarded the Critics' Prize from the hbs Cultural Foundation, Hannover. In 2016, she coauthored the biography Hitler's Kunsthandler: Hildebrand Gurlitt, 1895-1956. She became acquainted with Galerie Zwirner while studying in Cologne and met Rudolf Zwirner in her role as a journalist in Berlin.Ge¿rard A. Goodrow is a curator, an author, and a translator based in Cologne. He studied cultural anthropology and art history at Rutgers University, New Jersey; modern and contemporary art history at the City University of New York; and art history, German philology, and English literature at the University of Cologne. Goodrow immigrated to Germany in 1987. He has held positions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Christie's, London; and Art Cologne and Cologne Fine Art. Over the past thirty years, he has curated more than one hundred contemporary art and photography exhibitions in Germany and abroad. He is the author of numerous texts and publications, including Crossing China: The Land of the Rising Art Scene (2012) and Passages: Indian Art Today (2014), and has taught and lectured extensively on international modern and contempo- rary art, photography, and the global art market.Lucas Zwirner is Head of Content at David Zwirner. He oversees the editorial vision for the gallery, its publishing house, and its web and online platforms, deepening the conversation around the gallery's artists, exhibitions, and projects through books, podcasts, videos, web content, public programming, strategic partnerships, and online sales. Lucas spearheaded David Zwirner Books's new partnership with Simon & Schuster and has grown the program to over 30 titles a year, ranging from criticism to poetry. He is also the host of Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast, a program about artists and the way they think. Lucas is also a writer and translator who has published pieces in the Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Drift. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a BA in philosophy and literature.