DIE GALERIE will make its first appearance at Frieze Seoul in 2026, presenting a solo selection of works by Karl Otto Götz at the fair’s September 2-5 run at COEX in Seoul. The Frankfurt am Main gallery said its preparations are “in full swing” as it readies the debut at Stand S6, Hall D, Level 3.
The presentation is centered on Götz, who lived from 1914 to 2017 and is described by the gallery as a pivotal figure in post-war German art. In the gallery’s invitation, he is also identified as the only German member of the European avant-garde group CoBrA and later as one of the pioneers of Informel. The booth will draw on a broad span of his career, with works ranging from early informal paintings to late works.
DIE GALERIE’s material emphasizes the breadth of that span, describing the selection as a museum-like overview of more than eight decades of artistic production. Rather than focusing on a single period, the presentation is intended to trace what the gallery calls Götz’s long life of creativity and innovation through different phases of his practice. The artist’s name is also linked in the invitation to individual works including 'Balän' from 1971 and 'Fleny I' from 2001.
The Frieze Seoul debut also marks a step beyond the gallery’s Frankfurt base, where it is listed on Grüneburgweg. The announcement frames the fair appearance as the start of “a new chapter in Seoul,” while keeping the focus squarely on the booth presentation and the artist it has chosen to highlight. No other fair programming is identified in the source material as part of the main presentation.
Frieze Seoul itself will take place at COEX, and the gallery directs visitors to Stand S6 in Hall D, Level 3. According to the invitation, the fair’s first two days, September 2 and 3, are invitation-only, with September 4 and 5 open from 11:00 to 19:00. The mailing also lists COEX’s address in Gangnam-gu and provides the fair website for further information.
The source material does not indicate that DIE GALERIE is pairing the Seoul booth with a separate exhibition or parallel project there. It does, however, show the gallery using the fair to present a concentrated survey of Götz’s work across the arc of his career, from early informal works to late paintings, in its debut at one of Asia’s major international art fairs.
