The »Büro für Fotos« or Office for Photos, founded in Cologne’s Agnes quarter, quickly advanced from an off-space to a commercial gallery that in 2002 moved into the center city with Franz and Nadia van der Grinten heading the way. With this step, the »Van der Grinten Galerie« expanded its program to include drawing and works on paper, sculpture and installation.

Along with long years of successful collaboration with artists such as Pierre Faure, Izima Kaoru and Gábor Ösz, who primarily became known in the medium of photography, new positions were taken up with Simon Schubert, Robert Currie, Rebecca Stevenson and Wolfgang Flad.
In the wake of the above, many publications have come about.

The gallery offers exclusively Modern Prints of architectural photographs by Karl Hugo Schmölz in collaboration with the Archiv Wim Cox.

The gallery has participated in international fairs such as Art Brussels, Art Cologne, Paris Photo and Art Hong Kong. A partnership from 2007 to 2012 with the Cologne gallerist Martin Kudlek allowed additional developments.

On 26 October 2012 the new »Van der Grinten Galerie« reopened in the former presentation rooms of Sotheby’s in Sankt-Apern-Strasse in the center of Cologne.

Franz and Nadia van der Grinten are once again pleased to share their passion for art with a growing number of collectors.

Robert Currie, Pierre Faure, Wolfgang Flad, Izima Kaoru, Ruth Marten, Gábor Ösz, Marcus Neufanger, Karl Hugo Schmölz, Simon Schubert