“There’s no industry,” added Ms. Huttrop, whose gallery in a historic house has yet to attract significant collectors from Berlin’s tech sector. “For us it’s the most important weekend,” said Ms. Huttrop, who was hoping to greet at least 20 of the gallery’s most important international clients. But some Gallery Weekend regulars noticed a more general shortage of foreign visitors. “I never saw so few international buyers,” said Magnus Resch, the founder of Magnus, an app likened to Shazam for the art world, who is based in New York but has an apartment in Berlin. The art world calendar is saturated with events, particularly with 2019 being a year of the Venice Biennale, which attracts droves of international collectors hoping to discover the next big names before the market does.

Source: International New York Times April 29, 2019 13:52 UTC