Small golf villa for private use or as a rental yield object

Minkner & Partner exclusively offers a small golf villa for first time use at the golf course "Golf d`Andratx" in Camp de Mar. The semi detached house has a living area of 103 m² (living/dining room, American kitchen, 2 bedrooms with bathrooms en suite, guest toilet, roof terrace) and a small garden as well as a pergola-carport. The residential complex features a big park garden with community pool and a pool lagoon. The property is offered for a fixed reduced price, 25% less the original listed sales price. The object is perfectly apt for long term renting. Ref. No.: 4609, fixed price: 399.000 €).

2. Mallorca - construction, economy, politics, law and taxes

a) New issue on the Balearics: Wind energy

The EU Authorities in Brussels stipulate for some European regions structural energy plans for a sustainable power production by 2020. That is why the Balearic government projects the installation of wind systems to generate renewable energy for Majorca and Minorca. At present the Government attempts to find a broad consensus between the energy resort and the responsible local authority.

b) Playa de Palma: Integral reform plan meets with heavy resistance by local residents

The consortium for the urban development of Playa de Palma has recently presented the first reform plan: In Can Pastilla a complete row of buildings between the streets Carrer Sant Antoni de la Platja and Carrer Horaci shall be demolished. It concerns 91 apartments, one hotel and various gastronomic businesses at the bay of Cala Estancia which will have to give way to a green zone "Borne? and a promenade. According to the ideas of the consortium, the owners shall be offered alternative apartments in a new building nearby.

c) Balearic Islands: Tourist figures on record level

Despite all prophecies of doom, the Balearics register new record figures for the current year. In July 2010 there were 1,7 million tourists visiting Majorca. The hotels had a usage rate of 86%, a leading position all over Spain. Although the tour operators had to take up with significant price reductions, the profitability is on the same level as the previous year. It is estimated that in comparison to 2009 there was a 17% increase of visitors from Italy, France and Great Britain and a 3% increase of German tourists.

d) Swine flu: The Balearic government destroys vaccines for 960.000 €

The swine flu (Flu A) was the big media topic during autumn and spring 2009. The government of the autonomic regions of Spain stocked up on vaccines in order to be able to vaccinate area-wide. Now their date has expired. On Majorca only 22% of the population had an inoculation and 137.731 vaccine doses with a value of 960.000 € must be demolished. In the whole of Spain it is 10 million doses with a value of 70 million Euros.

e) Water resources: Majorca?s water resources at 70 % of its total capacity

The times when water of the Ebro had to be brought to Majorca are history. Especially during the past three years the water reserves have constantly grown and now have reached 70% of the total capacity. The water is collected in the two big reservoirs Embalse de Cuber and Gorg Blau. But also the ground water resources are enormous. The ground water level of Alaro and Artá for example is 90%. Thus Majorca is perfectly prepared for times of low rain fall.

f) Remember: Tax refund claims due to excessive profit tax have to be presented by 18th November 2010

As it is known by now, the Spanish authorities have charged for property sales a 35% profit tax for non resident sellers during the period of 1996 - 2007 while residents had to pay only 15% or 18%. After an inspection procedure on the possibility of discrimination carried out by the European Court, the tax for non residents was lowered to 18% (since 1.1.2010 it is 19 %). According to a final sentence of the Supreme Court in Valencia, the Spanish Treasury has to refund the overcharged taxes with interests. The dead line for the application is the 18th November 2010. Concerned parties please direct to your lawyer or tax consultant or to one of the experts named on our internet portal: www.Minkner.com, "Our partners - further experts on Majorca").

3. Galería de Arte Minkner & Culture

a) Group exhibition "Amigos III" in the Galería de Arte Minkner in Palma

Galería de Arte Minkner in Palma invites all friends of the gallery to get an overview of the pieces of the gallery?s artists. The fund of the Galería de Arte Minkner with 500 pictures can permanently be seen at the gallery in Palma. The exhibition "Amigos III? (Artists of the gallery) has been chosen from this fund.

Galería de Arte Minkner
C/. Catalunya 5, 07011 Palma de Mallorca
Phone: +34 971 220 152
Exhibition from: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

b) "RETROSPEKTIVE" - Jürgen Wölke in the Galería de Arte Minkner in Santa Ponsa

When we planned this year?s summer exhibition with Prof. Jürgen Wölke in the past year, he was full of ideas and zest for action. It were again the assemblages, the three dimensional collages, with which he wanted to form new subjects; this time of different fields of work and home environment. In the middle of the preparations for this big exhibition he succumbed to a heart attack at the age of 67 years in Majorca where he had, for the last ten years, found his second home and set up his studio.

We maintained the date for the exhibition and at the same time want to remember the very popular and renowned artist. The exhibition is now titled "Retrospektive". And apart from some new works of Wölke, the Galería de Arte Minkner shows older pieces of its stock. Wölke has been a dear friend to the entrepreneurial couple, Edith and Lutz Minkner, who presented him to a broad public in Majorca.

Wölke was a master of assemblage, the three-dimensional material image. In his home town, Berlin, he was one of the highlights of the local art scene already 30 years ago. His three-dimensional representations of corner pubs and shops, backyards, morbid facades and ruins were likewise historic documents and had an international circle of collectors including Henry Kissinger, Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand, among others. In the airports of New York and Leipzig one can admire large-format assemblages of the artist.

Majorca offered Wölke a lot of motives: Following his Berlin style he found his new topic in old town facades, cafés, bars and traditional shops. His works became impressive environmental studies with documentary value; the world in miniature version.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Avenida Rey Jaime I, 109, 07180 Santa Ponsa
Phone: +34 971 695 255
Exhibition from: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

c) Individual exhibition Falcó "My Mallorca" - Galeria de Arte Minkner in Pto. Andratx

Antonio Falcó studied philosophy in Madrid and Salamanca and graduated in 1957 with a PhD followed by teaching activities in Madrid and Alicante from 1957 to 1964. After that he studied medicine in Birmingham until he graduated with a medical doctorate in 1985. Besides his philosophic and medical studies he also studied painting in Spain and Great Britain and had his first exhibition in 1968 in New York. Nowadays Falco is considered one of the leading landscape painters in Spain and consolidated this reputation with numerous individual and group exhibitions with both national and international presentations during the past 45 years. Particular attention was paid to his illustrated book "La otra Mallorca? in which he perpetuated Majorca?s villages in their original beauty.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Avenida Gabriel Roca, 3, 07157 Pto. Andratx
Phone: +34 971 671 250
Exhibition: 1 July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

d) Individual Exhibition JOHANNES "Everlasting Blossom" - Galería de Arte Minkner in Llucmajor

The Galeria de Arte Minkner lets a hundred flowers bloom. The Pop-Artist JOHANNES who had been the Enfant Terrible of Majorca?s art scene, remains unforgotten. "His painted flower meadows radiate a heady scent and one feels the urge of biting into one of the apples or pears of his fruity still lifes?, wrote the art historian, Dr. Schiebler, in the prologue of the artist?s last catalogue.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Ronda Migjorn, 145 B, 07620 Llucmajor
Phone: +34 971 66 29 29
Exhibition: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

4. TIPS

a) 29th August 2010, Chopin Festival in Valldemossa, Rafael Blechacz

Within this year?s Chopin Festivals in Valldemossa, the Polish pianist, Rafael Blechacz, presents pieces of Karol Szymanowski, Claude Debussy and Frederik Chopin on 29th August 2010 in the charterhouse. Blechacz (25) has won numerous international music competitions and also staged with some famous orchestras. 29th August 2010, 10 pm, Cloister of the chart house of Valldemossa, tickets 18 € - 25 €, phone: +34 971 612 351

b) 5th September 2010, Chopin again, in the cultural finca Son Baulo in Lloret de Vistalegre

The cultural finca Son Baulo in Lloret de Vistalegre as well organises a concert cycle on the occasion of the Chopin-year. The next concert will take place on 5th September 2010 with the Polish pianists Anna and Ines Walachowski - piano for four hands. They will present pieces of Chopin, Brahms and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. 5th September 2010, 6 pm, cultural finca Son Baulo Lloret de Vistalegre, tickets 15 €, reservations on phone: +34 971 524 206.

c) 5th September 2010, Festival Serenata Berlin 2010, Sa Taronja - Andratx

Members of the German Symphjonic Orchestra are very welcomed guests in the cultural centre Sa Taronja in Andratx. On 5th September they will continue with their successful series of chamber music. Nikolaus Kneser - violin, Kamila Glass - violin and Annemarie Moorcroft - viola present pieces of Orlando Gibbons, Alfred Schnittke and Felix Mendelssohn. Start 9:30 pm. From 7:30 pm the restaurant Limon y Cielo offers a special menu. 5th September 2010, 9:30 pm, Festival Serenata Berlin 2010, Sa Taronja, Calle Andalucia, 23, E - 07150 Andratx, www.sataronja.com, entrance: 20 € (members 10 €), phone: +34 971 136 368

a) Staff expansion in the branch office Pto. Andratx

We are happy to welcome a new sales agent in our office in Pto. Andratx: Dustin Shanks (German, English, Spanish) joins the team of Edith Minkner. The team now is complete again and shares the following areas of responsibility:

Direction: Edith Minkner Sales: Marvin Bonitz, Christian Aundrup, Dustin Shanks
Reception/Secretary: Maria Jischke Rentals: Katja Schrapel, Oscar Chuctaya

b) Minkner & Partner cooperates with the Balearic association for court-accredited experts PEJUBA

The employees of Minkner & Partner are distinguished by qualified training and competence in the field of real estate mediation. But frequently there are issues for which it is necessary to consult a court accredited expert. Minkner & Partner therefore agreed a contract of cooperation with Pejuba (Asociacion de Peritos Judiciales de Baleares), represented by president, Rafael de Horna. In the case of a dispute between buyer and seller or between builder and developer, we can recommend professionals whose expertises are legally sound.

They can of course also help our clients in non-juridical issues, e.g.:

a) For a market value pricing of a property in the case of intention to sell, inheritance disputes or divorce proceedings.
b) For a status certificate (approx. 600 points of the property are checked). Such a certificate which, depending on the size of the property, costs between 300 € and 800 €, generally helps the buyer on decision making. And when it comes to differences later on, such expertises and certificates document the state of the property at the time of negotiations, respectively the issue of the expertise. It should be common knowledge that the British prospective buyers almost without any exception consult an expert before buying a foreign real estate.

If necessary our staff-member, Monica Duran (+34 971 695 255), can bring you in touch with the expert organisation PEJUBA.

c) Minkner & Partner presents low-energy city mansion in Cas Concos

Everybody talks about saving energy, but only few developers make use of the new technologies. In Cas Concos (close to Felanitx) a Swiss enterprise took the challenge and built a low-energy house in which an energy manager regulates the temperature: Depending on the degrees of heat and demand of hot water, the warm solar-energy heated water is being used either for the floor heating or as heat accumulator. Windows, walls and ceilings have special isolation features. The city villa with swimming pool and a living area of 416 m² is located on a 514 m² plot (Ref. 5273). For further information on this object or new energy techniques please contact our branch manager in Llucmajor, Mandy Fletling, phone: +34 971 66 29 29.

2. Mallorca - construction, economy, politics, law and taxes

a) Elton John and Andrea Bocelli promote Majorca

A giant event will take place on 4th September 2010: Andrea Bocelli and Elton John expect 34.000 concert visitors in Majorca. The organiser act in cooperation with the Balearic ministry of tourism and promote the event in all of Europe. Journalists from Great Britain, Italy and Germany were, in advance, invited to a press journey to Majorca. Various tour operators offer full packages for concert goers. A good business for the ministry of tourism: The pictures of the event in the ONO stadium can be used gratis for the promotion of the island.

b) Banco Santander buys Royal Bank of Scotland

After the Spanish Banco Santander had bought the German branches of the Swedish Bank SEB, the bank now also buys for almost 2 billion Euros the 318 branch offices of the Royal Bank of Scotland which after been struck by the financial crisis had been put under governmental control. The sales procedure is to be finalized by end 2011.

c) Master plan for Playa de Palma

Playa de Palma at present offers 46.000 hotel beds. According to the just presented master plan of the Reform Committee for the tourist zone (10,5 km settlement strip from Can Pastilla to Son Veri), these are to be reduced by 40 to 60% in the course of the integral reform and the demolition of obsolete hotels. The overall plan shall be realized by 2010.

d) Biniaraix - village protected as historic monument

In a meeting of 29.07.2010, the Majorca Island Council has put the complete village Biniaraix, close to Soller, under historic protection. The decision was justified with the extensive historic structure, the integration of the village into the landscape and the historic water channelling system. In consequence, any structural changes can only be carried out subject to strict regulations. Further villages which are already listed are: Biniali, Deia, Binissalem, Estellencs, Orient, Ses Olleries, Ses Coves, Ses Alqueries, Ruberts and Jornets.

e) First denied, now certified: Golf Santa Ponsa S.L. holds Real Golf Bendinat

The so far publicly denied take-over of the golf club Real Golf Bendinat by the Nigorra group was finally confirmed during the leave-taking ceremony of Jorge Pando, golf director in Bendinat. More precise: Die Golf Santa Ponsa S.L. which runs the 3 golf courses of Santa Ponsa has taken over 51% of the capital stock of Real Club Bendinat and thus controls this golf course. Pando?s successor will be Luis Nigorra, manager of the Santa Ponsa golf courses.

f) Long waiting lists for public moorings

It reminds me of the long waiting periods for the delivery of a Trabi-car in the German Democratic Republic when the Balearic Government announces that by now 3.360 persons are waiting for a mooring place in Majorca and the waiting time is of up to 26 years. Especially high demand is for state-owned moorings in the harbours of Soller and Pollensa. At present the price for a mooring in one of the 16 state-run marinas in Majorca is approx. 2.000 € a year. The Balearic Port Authority plans to make better use of the space in the port basins and wants to downsize the existing moorings.
3. Galería de Arte Minkner & Culture

a) Group exhibition "Amigos III" in the Galería de Arte Minkner in Palma

Galería de Arte Minkner in Palma invites all friends of the gallery to get an overview of the pieces of the gallery?s artists. The fund of the Galería de Arte Minkner with 500 pictures can permanently be seen at the gallery in Palma. The exhibition "Amigos III? (Artists of the gallery) has been chosen from this fund.

Galería de Arte Minkner
C/. Catalunya 5, 07011 Palma de Mallorca
Phone: +34 971 220 152
Exhibition from: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

b) "RETROSPEKTIVE" - Jürgen Wölke in the Galería de Arte Minkner in Santa Ponsa

When we planned this year?s summer exhibition with Prof. Jürgen Wölke in the past year, he was full of ideas and zest for action. It were again the assemblages, the three dimensional collages, with which he wanted to form new subjects; this time of different fields of work and home environment. In the middle of the preparations for this big exhibition he succumbed to a heart attack at the age of 67 years in Majorca where he had, for the last ten years, found his second home and set up his studio.

We maintained the date for the exhibition and at the same time want to remember the very popular and renowned artist. The exhibition is now titled "Retrospektive". And apart from some new works of Wölke, the Galería de Arte Minkner shows older pieces of its stock. Wölke has been a dear friend to the entrepreneurial couple, Edith and Lutz Minkner, who presented him to a broad public in Majorca.

Wölke was a master of assemblage, the three-dimensional material image. In his home town, Berlin, he was one of the highlights of the local art scene already 30 years ago. His three-dimensional representations of corner pubs and shops, backyards, morbid facades and ruins were likewise historic documents and had an international circle of collectors including Henry Kissinger, Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand, among others. In the airports of New York and Leipzig one can admire large-format assemblages of the artist.

Majorca offered Wölke a lot of motives: Following his Berlin style he found his new topic in old town facades, cafés, bars and traditional shops. His works became impressive environmental studies with documentary value; the world in miniature version.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Avenida Rey Jaime I, 109, 07180 Santa Ponsa
Phone: +34 971 695 255
Exhibition from: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

c) Individual exhibition Falcó "My Mallorca" - Galeria de Arte Minkner in Pto. Andratx

Antonio Falcó studied philosophy in Madrid and Salamanca and graduated in 1957 with a PhD followed by teaching activities in Madrid and Alicante from 1957 to 1964. After that he studied medicine in Birmingham until he graduated with a medical doctorate in 1985. Besides his philosophic and medical studies he also studied painting in Spain and Great Britain and had his first exhibition in 1968 in New York. Nowadays Falco is considered one of the leading landscape painters in Spain and consolidated this reputation with numerous individual and group exhibitions with both national and international presentations during the past 45 years. Particular attention was paid to his illustrated book "La otra Mallorca? in which he perpetuated Majorca?s villages in their original beauty.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Avenida Gabriel Roca, 3, 07157 Pto. Andratx
Phone: +34 971 671 250
Exhibition: 1 July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

d) Individual Exhibition JOHANNES "Everlasting Blossom" - Galería de Arte Minkner in Llucmajor

The Galeria de Arte Minkner lets a hundred flowers bloom. The Pop-Artist JOHANNES who had been the Enfant Terrible of Majorca?s art scene, remains unforgotten. "His painted flower meadows radiate a heady scent and one feels the urge of biting into one of the apples or pears of his fruity still lifes?, wrote the art historian, Dr. Schiebler, in the prologue of the artist?s last catalogue.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Ronda Migjorn, 145 B, 07620 Llucmajor
Phone: +34 971 66 29 29
Exhibition: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

4. TIPS

a) 21st August 2010, 9:30 pm - Geoff Evans & Band in the cultural centre Sa Taronja / Andratx

The popular band of the rock singer, Geoff Evans, who now lives in S`Arraco stages with Jan Kobrzinowski - bass, voice, Ramon del Castillo - Guitar, Fernando Rubin - Guitar, Anke Siebenhüner - percussion, voice, Patrick Shanahan - drums, voice, in the cultural centre Sa Taronja. Before the concert you have the possibility to have dinner in the function room Sa Nou from 8 pm. 21st August 2010, 9:30 pm, Geoff Evans & Band, Entrance 12 €, 10 € for members (incl. 1 drink), Sa Taronja, C. Andalucia, 23, Andratx, Phone: +34 971 235 268, e-mail: sataronja@gmail.com, www.sataronja.com

b) 25th August 2010, 7:30 pm, Charity Concert for UNICEF with pop stars in the stadium Son Moix, Palma

The association IBEROSTAR invited some superstars of the Spanish pop scene to a charity concert on 25th August 2010 at 7:30 pm on the parking of the stadium Son Moix. On stage are: Chayenne, Chenoa, El Sueno de Morfeo and Amaia Montero. The programme offers music from Latin-pop to soft rock. The proceeds will be donated to UNICEF.
25th August 2010, 7:30 pm, Entrance 6:30h, Parking Son Moix, Palma, tickets 42€ to 74€, www.servicaixa.com

c) 11th September 2010, 4 pm, Ciudadanos Europeos visit the "Fundacion Yannick y Ben Jakober"

For 11th September 2010 the association Ciudadanos Europeos de Baleares organises a special excursion with dinner and a visit to the buildings, the large gardens with sculptures and a copy of the world famous prehistoric Stonehenge construction (almost in original size), the Socrates room as well as an extraordinary collection of children?s paintings in the Foundation Yannick and Ben Jakober close to Alcudia on a secluded plot right next to the sea. The visit will be followed by a joint dinner in the nearby restaurant "La Terraza". 11th September 2010, 4 pm, Reservation to be made latest by 7th September 2010 on phone: +34 971 128 262 or via e-mail to presidente@cebaleares.eu, Participation fee including menu is 45 €.

d) Award for the Can Prunera museum

The Art Nouveau museum Can Prunera in Soller was awarded with the "Amics del Patrimoni" prize. The award will be handed over on 18th August 2010. The museum is decorated with art nouveau furniture and shows more than 100 pictures of famous artist of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Can Prunera, Soller, Carrer de la Lluna, 90, daily open from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm.

e) Until 30th September 2010: Flamenco Show in the airport

The airport operator AENA and the ministry of tourism have come up with a new promotion idea: a 3-hour flamenco show which takes place until end of September 2010 on the airport premises (in the duty free shop). There is no exact time schedule; the shows are presented when the departure area has a high passenger frequency. Similar shows are also performed in the airports of Barcelona, Alicante and Malaga.

f) 9th October 2010: Castillo Hotel Son Vida - Big Gourmet Prize Mallorca

On 9th October 2010 the Castillo Hotel Son Vida presents the first Big Gourmet Prize on Majorca. Seven star cooks (Gerhard Schwaiger - Tristan, Tomeu Caldentey - Es Moli d`en Bou, Benito Vicens - Bens d`Avall, Josef Sauerschell - Es Raco d`es Teix, Rafael Sanchez - Plat d`Or/Sheraton Arabella, Marc Fosh - Simply Fosh und Thomas Kahl - Mardavall) exhibit their culinary skills in the course of a gala event. 9th October 2010 Castillo Hotel Son Vida, tickets 185 € p.p., Reservations on: +34 971 493 493, www.gourmetgrandprixmallorca.com.

g) Until 15.11.2010: The star photographers, Daniela and Nicole Urbschat, in action on Majorca again

The Berlin star photographers Daniela and Nicole Urbschat have gained a good reputation through TV and print media. Once again they take shots under the title "Every woman is a diva? until 15th November 2010 on their finca in Algaida. For Minkner & Partner clients they offer special conditions. Call and ask for a voucher (+34 971 695 255 - Corina Keck). For more details please see: http://www.minkner.com/newsletter/Urbschat.pdf

Minkner & Partner, office Llucmajor - New sales agent

The office in Llucmajor has a further sales agent. Alexandra Blenk will, with immediate effect, complement the team of branch manager, Mandy Fletling. Alexandra Blenk had already successfully worked for Minkner & Partner in Santa Ponsa in 2007. After her maternity leave she will now again join the team with her knowledge and experience. Welcome!

2. Mallorca - construction, economy, politics, law and taxes

a) Illegal building shell at the beach of Es Trenc: first claims for indemnification being estimated

In 1994 the construction work of the residence "Ses Covetes" at the beach of Es Trenc was shut down. As determined by all judicial authorities, the license for the urbanisation was illegal. Since then these construction ruins disfigure this coastal area. Demolishing shall start as soon as a definite decision of the Supreme Court will be available. In consequence, the already highly indebted municipality of Campos will have to face considerable claims for indemnifications. One developer alone has an estimated damage of 27 million Euros.

b) Manacor: Extension of the pedestrian precinct

The pedestrian precinct of Manacor shall be extended with an expenditure of 1 million Euros. Various streets of the town shall be enhanced in order to invite visitors to go for a stroll in the car-free centre of the third-largest town of the island. The recently started construction work is supposed to be finished within 6 months and the opening is scheduled for 2011. The costs are financed with funds of the economic stimulus programme of the Spanish central Government.

c) 30% increase in cruise tourism

As already shown by the booking volume of the moorings in Palma?s harbour, Majorca will benefit from record figures in cruise tourism. During the first half year of 2010 Palma had 193 cruisers harbouring in its port - 21% more than the year before. An even more significant increase is noted in passenger volume: 474.929 passengers! - An increase of 30% in comparison to the year before.

d) Banca March: Best bank in the European stress-test

According to a report of the Financial Times Germany, the bank Banca March achieved best results in the stress-test of the European banks. Banca March is a family owned bank with its headquarters in Majorca. The bank was founded in 1926 by the banker, Juan March Ordinas. In 2009 it produced a net profit and an equity ratio of 19%.

3. Galería de Arte Minkner & Culture

a) Group exhibition "Amigos III" in the Galería de Arte Minkner in Palma

Galería de Arte Minkner in Palma invites all friends of the gallery to get an overview of the pieces of the gallery?s artists. The fund of the Galería de Arte Minkner with 500 pictures can permanently be seen at the gallery in Palma. The exhibition "Amigos III? (Artists of the gallery) has been chosen from this fund.

Galería de Arte Minkner
C/. Catalunya 5, 07011 Palma de Mallorca
Phone: +34 971 220 152
Exhibition from: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

b) "RETROSPEKTIVE" - Jürgen Wölke in the Galería de Arte Minkner in Santa Ponsa

When we planned this year?s summer exhibition with Prof. Jürgen Wölke in the past year, he was full of ideas and zest for action. It were again the assemblages, the three dimensional collages, with which he wanted to form new subjects; this time of different fields of work and home environment. In the middle of the preparations for this big exhibition he succumbed to a heart attack at the age of 67 years in Majorca where he had, for the last ten years, found his second home and set up his studio.

We maintained the date for the exhibition and at the same time want to remember the very popular and renowned artist. The exhibition is now titled "Retrospektive". And apart from some new works of Wölke, the Galería de Arte Minkner shows older pieces of its stock. Wölke has been a dear friend to the entrepreneurial couple, Edith and Lutz Minkner, who presented him to a broad public in Majorca.

Wölke was a master of assemblage, the three-dimensional material image. In his home town, Berlin, he was one of the highlights of the local art scene already 30 years ago. His three-dimensional representations of corner pubs and shops, backyards, morbid facades and ruins were likewise historic documents and had an international circle of collectors including Henry Kissinger, Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterand, among others. In the airports of New York and Leipzig one can admire large-format assemblages of the artist.

Majorca offered Wölke a lot of motives: Following his Berlin style he found his new topic in old town facades, cafés, bars and traditional shops. His works became impressive environmental studies with documentary value; the world in miniature version.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Avenida Rey Jaime I, 109, 07180 Santa Ponsa
Phone: +34 971 695 255
Exhibition from: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

c) Individual exhibition Falcó "My Mallorca" - Galeria de Arte Minkner in Pto. Andratx

Antonio Falcó studied philosophy in Madrid and Salamanca and graduated in 1957 with a PhD followed by teaching activities in Madrid and Alicante from 1957 to 1964. After that he studied medicine in Birmingham until he graduated with a medical doctorate in 1985. Besides his philosophic and medical studies he also studied painting in Spain and Great Britain and had his first exhibition in 1968 in New York. Nowadays Falco is considered one of the leading landscape painters in Spain and consolidated this reputation with numerous individual and group exhibitions with both national and international presentations during the past 45 years. Particular attention was paid to his illustrated book "La otra Mallorca? in which he perpetuated Majorca?s villages in their original beauty.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Avenida Gabriel Roca, 3, 07157 Pto. Andratx
Phone: +34 971 671 250
Exhibition: 1 July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

d) Individual Exhibition JOHANNES "Everlasting Blossom" - Galería de Arte Minkner in Llucmajor

The Galeria de Arte Minkner lets a hundred flowers bloom. The Pop-Artist JOHANNES who had been the Enfant Terrible of Majorca?s art scene, remains unforgotten. "His painted flower meadows radiate a heady scent and one feels the urge of biting into one of the apples or pears of his fruity still lifes?, wrote the art historian, Dr. Schiebler, in the prologue of the artist?s last catalogue.

Galería de Arte Minkner
Ronda Migjorn, 145 B, 07620 Llucmajor
Phone: +34 971 66 29 29
Exhibition: 1st July to 30th September 2010
Opening hours: Mo. - Fr. 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat. 9:30 am - 2:00 pm

4. TIPS

a) 1st August 2010, 6:00 pm "Do you love Chopin?". The pianist, Victoria Muchnyk, in the Cultural Centre Son Baulo

Under the title "Do you love Chopin" the cultural centre Son Baulo organises in cooperation with the Mallorca Magazin a music evening on 1st August 2010 in Son Baulo in Lloret de Vistalegre. On stage is the Ukrainian pianist, Victoria Muchnyk, who had her first solo concert at the age of 14 years and is today considered as a highly virtuoso pianist with a distinctive stylistic interpretation and an artistic potential. "Do you love Chopin?" - 1st August 2010, 6:00 pm, Cultural Centre Son Baulo in Lloret de Vistalegre, Entrance 15 €, Reservations: +34 971 524 206

b) 6th August 2010, 7:30 pm, Sabine Grofmeier in concert, Golfclub Pollenca

Come and enjoy an evening for all senses on 6th August 2010 in the golf club Pollensa with a wine tasting & tapas of the Bodega Xaloc from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm (price per person 12,50€). And from 7:30 pm the clarinettist, Sabine Grofmeier and her orchestra Viva La Musica (www.sabinegrofmeier.de) will delight the audience with music highlights from Mozart to Benny Goodman (entrance 25€). Finally, the gastronomy of the golf club offers a three-course-menu at the moderate price of 15€ to conclude a splendid evening. Sabine Grofmeier in concert, 6th August 2010, 7:30 pm h, tickets 25€, Golfclub Pollenca, Ctra. Palma-Pollenca, km 49.3, Pollenca. Reservation and tickets: Bodega Xaloc, Christina Schalock, phone: +34 971 531 910 or +34 656 607 879.

c) 3rd September 2010, 08.30 pm, Milena Wilke and Myriam Boeck in concert, Theatre of Arta

A special music event will take place at the beginning of September 2010. Milena Wilke is only 14 years old and has already won several national and international competitions with her violin. During the concert on 3rd September in the theatre in Artá she will be accompanied by 16 year old pianist, Myriam Boeck, who as well has won many music competitions. Together they will present works of Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Ysaye, Sarasate and Bazzini. 3rd September 2010, 08.30 pm, Theatre Arta, Milena Wilke and Myriam Boeck in concert, Entance: 10.00 €, Reservations via e-mail: konzert.arta@web.de (Please state name, number of persons, and contact phone). Advance sale also in the book shop CulturalArta, pedestrian precinct Arta, Phone: +34 971 835 218

d) Training with vibration plates - The key to success

You would like to practice more sports but do not have the time, lose wait, improve your condition or coordination, tighten your skin, prevent osteoporosis or improve your hormone balance? You can achieve all this and a lot more with vibration training on the vibration plates of the Swiss company Swissplate - maximum 10 minutes training 2-3 times a week. Now available in Majorca! Detailed information on www.vibrationsplatten.eu or phone: +34 971 28 11 33

e) Book recommendation: Art book WILHEM FIKISZ "LA SEU The Cathedral of Light"

The artist, Wilhelm Fikisz, who lives in Switzerland, is a maser of watercolours and has recently published the art book "LA SEU The Cathedral of Light". Just one subject, the Cathedral of Palma La Seu and yet an exposure of varying appearances, changing scenes and different atmospheric densities. The foreword was written by Lutz Minkner who will exhibit the originals of the art book from 1st October to 31st December 2010 in the Galería de Arte Minkenr in Palma. Wilhelm Fikisz, LA SEU - the Cathedral of Light, 64 pages, 29.80 Euros. Available in the offices of Minkner & Partner in Santa Ponsa, Pto. Andratx, Llucmajor und Palma.