The Blind Gallerist

Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons - since childhood Johann König has been surrounded by great artists.

His father was a museum director and curator; his uncle the owner of several renowned art bookshops. Yet his own path was far from paved. As a child, he loses his eyesight in an accident. He spends his teenage years coming to terms with his disability. A career in art seems out of reach. But against all odds, at nineteen-years-old, he starts his own gallery. Today Johann König runs one of the most popular galleries based in Berlin - in a concrete church built in the sixties. Johann König shares with the reader what it is like to experience art without being able to see it, and explains how being blind was actually one of the driving forces to become a gallerist. For most people art is a solely visual experience. As König cannot rely on his eyesight to perceive art, he developed a unique sensibility to appreciate and evaluate it.