ART COLOGNE has detailed two special exhibitions for its 59th edition, which runs from November 5 to 8, 2026, in a press release dated October 22. The fair will host "What Moves Us," a special presentation of the LBBW Collection curated by Barbara Thomann, alongside a special exhibition staged by ZADIK, the Cologne-based Central Archive of the International Art Trade. The fair has announced 164 participating galleries from 22 countries for this year's edition.

"What Moves Us" (Hall 11.2, Stand B319) gathers current artistic positions from the LBBW Collection that address central questions of the present: identity and cultural memory, economisation, digitalisation, the power of language, the aestheticization of everyday life, strategies of image appropriation, and environment and sustainability. Works by Yalda Afsah, Jody Korbach, Mona Schulzek, Julius von Bismarck, Sophia Süßmilch and Ivana de Vivanco, among others, present art as a mirror of a present marked by ruptures, superimpositions and blind spots — negotiating memory culture and medial images, nature and cultural attributions, rituals and social roles, and terrestrial and cosmic perspectives.

The LBBW Collection, owned by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, holds more than 3,000 works and ranks among Germany's largest corporate collections, built over more than five decades with a current focus on works created in Germany or by German artists within the last decade. The bank describes the collection as an expression of its cultural engagement and social responsibility. Alongside it, ZADIK's special exhibition adds an art-historical strand to a fair program that reaches beyond the commercial gallery booths.