About Us

(Urban) Contemporary Art

We represent a limited number of artists to give them our full attention. With our database of Art-collectors and our private exhibition space in the center of Amsterdam we can give our Artists a solo show every year.

Founder Monica Pohlen, born in the South of Holland. After her study Art and Architecture she was asked to collaborate in Exhibitions in the Netherlands for the Rembrandt-Mondriaan Project on the Museumplein in Amsterdam in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum as a curator and architectural coördinator as well abroad in Slovakia, Bratislava ‘Focus on Bratislava’ and Austria, Vienna ‘Focus on Vienna’ for an exhibition and opening of a new underground station, as a curator. After these projects she worked in the artworld and organised solo exhibitions for several artists.

Co-founder Peter Gramberg, born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands has his roots in the Urban Contemporary art scene as a former fashion turned portrait photographer, who in the early 1980’s met and started to make portraits and hang out with hip hop musicians, graffiti artists and actors in New York and Amsterdam like Rammellzee, Kenny Scharf, Mark Kostabi, Ronnie Cutrone, Grand Master Melle Mell, The Beastie Boys, Chris Isaak, Mickey Rourke amongst others.


The merging of Monica and Peter’s background together with their experience for over 20 years on several projects resulted in starting Collection M Gallery in 2019 showcasing (Urban) Contemporary Art with a solid (post)Graffity and Photography base and their shared Love of Art! and their dog Noodles!

ADDRESS INFO AND INQUIRIES
Kerkstraat 324 hs
1017 HC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone +31 6 54350588
Phone +31 6 46428299
Email [email protected]

Collection M Gallery endorses the 
Gallery Fair Practice Code

1. The gallery in question records in writing the relationship between the gallery and the artist, including agreements regarding the duration of the agreement, prices and any applicable discounts. Other matters that may be recorded in this document include: monitoring and evaluation of the agreements, both parties’ targets (e.g. regarding international visibility), the relationship with a second gallery, agreements regarding the settlement of any discounts, regarding commissions from third parties, or the settlement of other expenses such as for transport, photography, insurance or the construction of an exhibition. Model contracts are available on the Dutch Gallery Association (NGA) website.
2. The artist remains the owner of their work until the full amount is paid to the gallery, with the exception of secondary trading. This also applies in the case of gallery bankruptcy or attachment.
3. The gallery shall transfer the full artist’s share of the sales price agreed with the customer within 60 days following the sale of the artist’s work, and provide the artist with the buyer’s name and address details, and a copy of the invoice.
4. Unsold artworks in the charge of the gallery must always be returned to the artist within a month, if requested by the artist.
5. The relationship between galleries may involve competition and rivalry, but in the case of different galleries representing the same artist, the galleries should in all respects remain loyal to the interests of the artist in question. If a gallery exclusively represents an artist, thereby acting as their ‘mother gallery’, and another gallery would like to organise an exhibition with this artist, the involved parties should make written agreements regarding the conditions under which the exhibition can be held (see appendix for a Dutch Gallery Association (NGA) model contract).
6. The gallery is expected to be professional and competent, and to maintain this professionalism and competence.
7. The gallery vouches for the authenticity of the work that they are selling.* In the case that a work is adjudged to be fake by a recognised independent party, the customer may return the work to the gallery owner and have the amount paid for the work refunded.
8. A gallery states the following on their website: their objectives, programme, working method and the artists that they represent.
9. A gallery is expected to act in accordance with the Fair Practice Code (fairpracticecode.nl), which includes an assurance against inappropriate behaviour at the gallery and elsewhere.
*If desired, certificates of authenticity can be requested from the Dutch Gallery Association (NGA)

mondriaanfonds.nl/gallery-fair-practice-code