Guelman und Unbekannt Gallery

The gallery will focus on digital art, primarily on art created by humans with the assistance of AI Guelman and Unbekannt is largely about time.

In April 2023, Marat Guelman and his partner will open a gallery in downtown Berlin. The gallery will focus on digital art, but primarily on art created by humans with the assistance of artificial intelligence. At Guelman und Unbekannt, we envision our space as a crucial player in the current revolutionary period in art. As the age-old rift between physicists and poets, humanists and technologists

dissolves, we aim to integrate digital art into the broader artistic context. Our gallery strives to serve as a launching pad for new artists, whose innovative creations have the potential to transform the course of art history. Through our programming and curation, we are proud to contribute to this exciting and transformative era in the art world. Only yesterday, rejected digital artists created their own infrastructure in the digital underground. They were rejected not because of the quality of their work, but simply because there was no such concept as an original or a copy. Today, this problem is solved, and with the help of blockchain technologies, we can track the "provenance" of a digital work more accurately than the history of a painting made with oil paint on canvas. Over the past thirty years, the Internet has accumulated a huge number of images with the status of works of art. This quantity often scares art lovers. There are many talented artists and groundbreaking art out there, but there is practically no consensus among professionals that can help us navigate it. On the one hand, it is understandable that the digital environment not only produces art but also criteria by which it should be evaluated, and these criteria are new in some ways and traditional in others. On the other hand, the essentially democratic, hierarchy-rejecting digital community has not yet been able to create a functioning art evaluation mechanism. We, Guelman and Unbekannt, see our mission not only as placing digital art in an artistic context but also as educating a broad audience and professionals on how to appreciate this new art and understand its development. The brief history of digital art (since the mid-90s) is a unique adventure, and we see the art created by artists and artificial intelligence as its pinnacle. This is why our gallery is not just a virtual platform. It has walls, high ceilings, and an exhibition program for the year. We see it as a bridge between the traditional art world and the digital. In its first year, the gallery will introduce the public to various strategies for human-AI interaction. We plan to expand our interests into the realm of generative art and dive deeper into the phenomenon of digital art as a whole. But Guelman and Unbekannt is not just a gallery. Following Joseph Beuys' words that "every person is an artist," we provide a meeting place for humans and AI, where anyone can create their first artwork, come as a layman, and leave as an artist. Herr Unbekannt, an artificial intelligence trained in evaluating digital art, is Mr. Marat Guelman's public partner in this project. Every artist, not just digital artists, can receive their first review here, based on our thirty years of experience in evaluating works of art. We are inspired by the processes taking place in art today, and our ambition is to become an integral part of this new era. But we also want to become an integral part of Berlin. It is essential that it is here, not in Silicon Valley or London with Basel, that the AI gallery is opening. The air in Berlin is filled with interest in the new.

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08/06/2026

VOLTA BASEL 2026
17–21 June 2026
Congress Center Basel, Hall 4.U
Basel, Switzerland

Guelman und Unbekannt is honored to invite you to visit its presentation of contemporary Moldovan art at VOLTA Basel 2026.

The gallery's booth will feature works by leading Moldovan artists:

Tudor Zbârnea
Victor Guțu
Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter
Mihail Țăruș

VIP Preview
17 June 2026
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

To attend the fair, please register using your personal VIP invitation via the following link:

https://www.seetickets.com/ch/event/volta-basel/hall-4-u-congress-center/3621382?OfferCode=VIPVOLTA

We look forward to welcoming you in Basel.

31/05/2026

Welcome, See you in Frankfurt !

DAS ALTE HAUS

YURY KHARCHENKO VITALY KOMAR & the group ÷-Komma

Die Ausstellung DAS ALTE HAUS bringt zwei künstlerische Positionen zusammen, den bekannten Konzeptkünstler
Vitaly Komar und den Maler Yury Kharchenko. Die von Marat Guelman kuratierte Ausstellung untersucht die Architektur
als die verletzlichste Membran der menschlichen Existenz - Architektur als den Behälter, der sich zwischen dem Bedürfnis
nach Schutz und der harten Realität globaler Umwälzungen befindet.

DAS ALTE HAUS invite.jpeg

Wir laden Sie herzlich zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung ein.

Vernissage: 5.6.2026, 19:00 Uhr

Ausstellungsdauer: 5.6 – 5.7.2026

ORT: KVFM – Kunstverein Familie Montez e.V.
Honsellbrücke am Hafenpark
Honsellstraße 7
60314 Frankfurt am Main
www.kvfm.de/das-alte-haus

Öffnungszeiten:
Dienstag - Sonntag von 13:00 bis 19:00 Uhr - April bis September
Dienstag - Sonntag von 13:00 bis 18:00 Uhr - Oktober bis März

17/04/2026

Today’s the day ✨
Berlin, we’re ready — are you?

We’re waiting for you at Affordable Art Fair — come by and don’t miss it.

Find us at Guelman und Unbekannt — Booth G1

📍 Arena Berlin
Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick, Germany

Opening hours today:
12:00–22:00

Free entry with our code:
G-GUGVE

Skip the steps, use the link:
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Come by. Stay a while. We’re waiting for you 🤍

13/04/2026

3 days to go ✨

We’re almost there.
Very soon, the doors will open — and we’ll finally meet.

We’re waiting for you at Affordable Art Fair
at Guelman und Unbekannt — Booth G1

📍 Arena Berlin
Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick, Germany
Opening hours:
April 16: 17:00–22:00
April 17: 12:00–22:00
April 18: 11:00–20:00
April 19: 11:00–18:00

Use our code for a free ticket:
G-GUGVE

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Come find us.
We’ll be there.

11/04/2026

Only 5 days to go✨
Berlin, are you ready?

We’re bringing our artists to Affordable Art Fair — and you really don’t want to miss this.

Find us at Guelman und Unbekannt — Booth G1

📍 Arena Berlin
Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick, Germany

Opening hours:
April 16: 17:00–22:00
April 17: 12:00–22:00
April 18: 11:00–20:00
April 19: 11:00–18:00

Free entry with our code:
G-GUGVE

Skip the steps, use the link:
[https://shop.paylogic.com/18089b69cb924a31a0e849fd50e931d2?access_code=G-GUGVE](https://shop.paylogic.com/18089b69cb924a31a0e849fd50e931d2?access_code=G-GUGVE)

Come by. Stay a while. See what we’ve been working on.

Booth G1 🤍

09/04/2026

Dear followers,
only 7 days left until the fair ✨
We are looking forward to welcoming you — and so are our artists.

Join us at Affordable Art Fair and visit Guelman und Unbekannt at Booth G1

📍 Arena Berlin
Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick, Germany

Opening reception: Thursday, April 16th, 6–10 pm

Use our invitation code for your free ticket:
G-GUGVE

Get your ticket here:
https://shop.paylogic.com/18089b69cb924a31a0e849fd50e931d2?access_code=G-GUGVE

See you soon 🤍

07/04/2026

We’re happy to invite you to Affordable Art Fair✨ 16-19 April 2026

Come visit us at Guelman und Unbekannt — Booth G1

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday, April 16th, from 6–10 pm, and explore the fair throughout the following days.

📍 Arena Berlin
Eichenstraße 4, 12435 Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick, Germany

To get your free ticket, use this code:
G-GUGVE

You can either:
• enter the code in the ticket shop by clicking “Invitation Code"
• or simply use this direct link:
[https://shop.paylogic.com/18089b69cb924a31a0e849fd50e931d2?access_code=G-GUGVE]

The code is valid for the opening night as well as all other days of the fair.

See you at Booth G1 🤍

31/03/2026

SAVE THE DATE in NY!

Marat Guelman and the group ±Komma

First of all, it’s beautiful

Ethan Cohen Gallery | 251 West 19th Street, New York, NY

April 23 – May 30, 2026
Opening Reception: April 23, 2026, 6 – 8 pm

AI art as the aesthetics of the end of the world and a new perspective on identity

NEW YORK, NY – Ethan Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce First of all, it’s beautiful, a new project by artist, curator, cultural strategist, Marat Gelman, developed in collaboration with the international art group ±Komma (Ruslan Solopeev, Boban Marković Jr., and Jean Jules). The exhibition considers AI not simply as a tool but as a co-author, a partner in articulating the aesthetics of an anxious age and offering a renewed perspective on identity.
The project was inspired by the observation that the theme of nuclear threat is used as a tool of political pressure. First of all, it’s beautiful reframes collective dread, specifically the nuclear threat, without resorting to direct political rhetoric. Instead, Gelman proposes a lucid acceptance of finitude, much as one accepts personal mortality. From this stance, clarity and freedom emerge. First of all, it's beautiful is not about destruction, but rather a new form of inner stability. It explores how culture can transform fear into conscious experience and threat into the language of art.

17/11/2025

Urgent update!!!

Dear all,

Please note that the press conference with Marat Guelman and the presentation of the project "First of all, it's beautiful" has been rescheduled to April 1, 2026 at Ethan Cohen Gallery, located at 251 West 19th Street, New York, NY.

The opening of the exhibition will now take place on April 4, 2026 at KuBe Art Center, located at 20 Kent Street, Beacon, NY.

We will inform you about the exact time closer to the dates.

Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to seeing you there.

10/11/2025

Save the date!

Upcoming on 13. November
Where? Bunker West, Hohenzollerndamm 120, 14199 Berlin
Opening: at 7 PM

Art Spiegelman, Yury Kharchenko, Michail Grobman, Alex Melamid, Marat Guelman

Curated by Aljoscha Samjatin and Yury Kharchenko.

Admission by appointment only.
Please send a private message.

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Adresse

Mittelstraße 51/52
Berlin
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Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	10:00 - 17:00
Mittwoch	10:00 - 17:00
Donnerstag	10:00 - 17:00
Freitag	10:00 - 17:00
Samstag	10:00 - 17:00
Sonntag	10:00 - 17:00