KOLLER TRX-293 TRINITY 18 April 2023

ABOUT THE ‘OUT OF THIS WORLD’ DEPARTMENT Cabinets of curiosities, also called ‘Wunderkammer’, were popular among the European royalty, aristocracy and scholars since the beginning of the Italian Renais- sance. They contained a wide variety of fantastic ob- jects and artefacts, with an emphasis on the rare, eclec- tic and esoteric. Through the vast selection of objects, these collections told a particular story about theworld and its history. An exciting department at Koller presents items fromamodern cabinet of curiosities: meteorites, dino- saur fossils, geological wonders, as well as treasures fromthe history of space exploration and rarememora- bilia fromthe filmandmusic industries. The head of the new depar tment is ar t dealer and collector Christian D. Link, who started the Wun- derkammer Gallery in Zurich twelve years ago. Fasci- nated by all sorts of strange and beautiful otherworldly objects since hewas a small child, Link was also attract- ed to the world of dealing and collecting from a very young age. After an almost 20-year career as a success- ful close-upmagician, he became a full-time art dealer eight years ago. ‘COLLECTORS CUT A PATH THROUGH TIME, PRESERVING HISTORY AND STORIES. THAT’S WHAT REALLY FASCINATES ME’. ChristianD. Link 7 ChristianD. Link, Out of thisWorld, Head of Department and ofWunderkammer Zurich