Voices On Art - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast | hosted by Daniela Steinfeld
By Daniela Steinfeld
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Voices On Art - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast | hosted by Daniela SteinfeldSep 01, 2020
#89 JANIS PROVISOR | artist, painter, Connecticut / NYC | Independent Special 2024
Janis Provisor is a New Yorker, residing between Connecticut and New York City.
Janis is an accomplished artist with a vast career in the arts, showing in galleries all over the world as well as having her work in many museum collections. Janis will be having a solo-presentation of her work with Halsey McKay at the Independent 2024.
Now in her seventies Janis gathered a lot of experience in art and life and shares her wisdom in our talk.
Being very young she was taken to Museums by Family members. She already felt then she wanted to be an artist, not knowing at all what that was about. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, right after the Summer of Love, receiving her MFA in 1971. Although the 70s were a great time for experimenting and going new ways in the arts and society, it was not a great time for women resp. women artists. Janis reflects on how the status of women has changed in the past decades and how much there is still to do.
In 1989, along with her husband and son, she left New York for an adventure in China and Hong Kong, they ended up staying for nine years, running their own company Fort Street Studios in China in the 1990s, designing, manufacturing, and selling hand-knotted silk carpets. Through all these years she constantly developed and experimented, which helped her finding her individual voice as artist and woman.
Janis often starts her paintings with writing and putting her thoughts, her feelings out on the canvas. In the process of painting those words often get obscured and a physical and emotional process starts, in which Janis let's loose and allows her body to paint the way it needs to. Being jewish, she now processes and expresses her torn feelings about the war and the humanitarian crisis in the near east.
For the presentation at the Independent she is now creating a new body of work, which will be as free and open as possible, while still being very concentrated and essential to fit the format of a fair presentation.
41 min., recorded February 21, 2024, language english
https://www.independenthq.com/
artist website:
https://www.janisprovisorstudio.com/
artist history:
https://fortstreetstudio.com/founders/
https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9788891829627/
Gallery:
https://www.halseymckay.com/artists/janis-provisor
Your host:
https://van-horn.net
Instagram:
@independent_hq
@janisprovisor
@halseymckaygallery
@voicesonart
@van_horn_duesseldorf
#VoicesOnArt #IndependentSpecial #IndependentHQ #Podcast #Talk #storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld #VoicesOnArt #JanisProvisor #Artist #HalseyMacKayGallery
#88 | VIAN SORA | artist, painter, Louisville, Kentucky | Independent Special 2024
#87 | ANTON SVYATSKY | Management, NYC | Independent Special 2024
Anton Svyatsky (b. 1991, Moscow) is an American philosopher, curator, artist studio manager and gallery owner based in NYC. He has worked on, among others, parallel program exhibitions for different Biennials and has organized exhibitions at galleries in Europe and the US. He has been a guest lecturer at diverse Universities and is the studio director of the art collective AES+F.
Anton founded his gallery „Management“ in 2021 partly as reaction on the Covid crisis, partly because his
credentials didn't fit into other galleries job descriptions and partly because his threshold for taking risks has always been exceptionally low. Having the mind of a thinker, being a studied philosopher, he nevertheless turned out to be a self-taught maker and entrepreneur, first in his own design studio as well as now in
his gallery.
Anton reflects on him growing up as the son of a famous artist, dropping out of high school, studying philosophy and, after wearing many hats, „wiggling“ his way into the art world. He believes in serendipity and that doors open for somebody taking risks while at the same time having a plan. Quoting Hannibal
Smith of the A-Team, Anton says: „ I love it when a plan comes together“. Still, he doesn't take the easy road, he is interested in complicating things, playing the devils advocate and therefore chooses artists purely relying on his own taste and unique reaction to their work. Artists whose voices have the potential of becoming loud and being heard. He says: „You want to be part of something great and a gallery is a legitimate way of doing it.“
In our conversation, Anton covers the entire gamut of the art world, leaving us with smart reflections on art, the general gallery model, the voice of artists, the importance of art fairs and their intertwined relations.
At the Independent Art Fair „Management“ will show a solo presentation by Anastasia Komar, on which Anton reflects in depth. He explains the scientific background of her work, it's connections with something like the „divine“, how the works are executed and mentions their eerie beauty.
Anastasia's practice is highly original in both subject matter and execution. It looks at a field that is impenetrable to the layman and translates it into the realm of visceral visual communication that literally halts people in their tracks. With progress toward "divine powers" accelerating at an ever-increasing pace, from genetic modification to artificial intelligence, it is important to occasionally pause and ponder its implications. For Independent, Anastasia is preparing her most ambitious work to date which aims at nothing less than to ensnare the public and lead them to these urgent reflections.
Recorded January 23, 2024, 33 min., language english
Links:https://management.nyc/
www.independenthq.com/
van-horn.net/podcast/
#86 LINGZHI ZHUANG | LINSEED, Shanghai | Independent Special 2024
Her gallery LINSEED was established in 2022, focusing on a younger generation of asian and international artists.
Having studied at Goldsmith's in London, Lingzhi received the call to take a post at Pearl Lam Galleries, one of the most acclaimed galleries in Asia, asking her to move to Shanghai. After several other stations Lingzhi decided during Covid to open her own space and ultimately her gallery LINSEED in 2022. The gallery highlights emerging artists and
fuses asian and western approaches.
Lingzhi relates the beginnings of her project space, the support she received to realize her vision and how she founded her gallery LINSEED in challenging times.
She reflects a new generation in China, to which she herself belongs to. Young people leading nomadic lifes, often going abroad to study in the UK, the US or elsewhere and bringing back those manifold influences to their home country.
She herself attaches great importance on friendship, trust and community. Although having learned her skills in galleries with a more corporate background, she believes in a new way of working together, while still not losing view of the business side of things.
Lingzhi also talks about the solo presentation of Asami SHOJI (b.1988, Japan) which LINSEED will show at Independent New York 2024. It will be featuring Shoji's latest series of daily and gestural paintings
that encapsulate the passing of time and life. Each painting in this series, created in a continuous sequence, represents a specific day or moment, reflecting the artist's state and her environment.
Recorded January 29, 2024, 32 min., language english
Links:
www.linseedprojects.space/https
van-horn.net/podcast/
#VoicesOnArt #IndependentSpecial #IndependentArtFair #NewYorkCity #LingzhiZhuang #Linseed #Shanghai #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #DanielaSteinfeld #Art #Talk #Storytelling #Podcast
#85 KOEN DELAERE | artist, painter, teacher | a bodily experience
For Delaere the body, it‘s unique expressions and sensitivities, the conditions under which it creates etc. are crucial in creating his bold material paintings.
Koen talks his childhood, being a kind of outsider, his need to create and invent from an early age on and his artistic roots in the world of music and punk.
His paintings are made from a realm of physical experience, of direct contact with and reactions on the nature of specific materials (like paint) and an almost performative element of execution.
His exhibition „Just Kids“, with Elisabeth Vary, is on view at VAN HORN, Düsseldorf through March 9, 2024.
Recorded January 10, 2024, 43 min., language english
van-horn.net/current-exhibition/
Instagram:
@koendelaere @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf
#KoenDelaere #Artist #Painting #exhibition #van_horn_duesseldorf #VanHornGallery #VoicesOnArt
#84 TOBIAS ZIELONY | artist, photographer, filmmaker | between darkness and light
My guest Tobias Zielony is an artist, photographer, filmmaker, writer and Professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Tobias relates his background and upbringing in the former industrial area of the Ruhrgebiet, the inheriting of his first camera from his older brother and the different stations of his studies - from his beginnings at one of the best schools for documentary photography in Wales in the UK to studying with Timm Rautert at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.
Tobias talks his approach towards his artistic projects, building trust with his protagonists and the way he conducts his research. He addresses the small – and big – changes that happened within the media of photography and image making itself during the last decades and reflects this framework and his working within it from the 1990ies to the present day and beyond.
This Episode was recorded on 29 November, 2023 and published on 2 January 2024. 44 min, language english.
Portrait photo by Halina Kliem.
Shownotes:
van-horn.net/https
#TobiasZielony
#Photography #Images #Media #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast
#Art #Life #Talk #Interview #Storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld
#83 CHRISTINA VÉGH | Director, Kunsthalle Bielefeld | Translating between cultures
Having been brought up in Switzerland in a cultured family, with relatives in Austria, Hungary, the former Czech Republic and the US, Christina learned early how to brigde differences and translate between languages, cultures and styles of communication. She tried herself in quite some fields, including goldsmithing, but in each of them ended up
being fascinated by the historical aspects. Questioning how what happened before affects us know and shapes what is to come.
She realized exhibitions with artists like Monica Bonvicini, Monika Baer, John Baldessari, Rita McBride, Haegue Yang, Charline von Heyl, Annette Kelm, James Richards, Franz Erhard Walther, Christopher Williams and Nicole Eisenman, to name but a few.
She also was responsible for extensive group exhibitions, like „Where art can happen, the early years of Cal Arts“, co-curated by Philipp Kaiser – who was also a guest on this podcast - and „Made in Germany Drei“. Christina is also active on numerous committees and juries.
In our conversation she talks about the different needs of a Museum vs. a Kunstverein and how art and exhibitions are related to specific places.
One of her core interests, besides art and art history, was always architecture, which is the reason she felt drawn to the post at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, an architectural landmark by Philip Johnson.
She reflects in depth on how she and her team will take on the task of renovating and extending the Museum in a meaningful and functional way. She speaks about the programming during the time the museum is under construction, in which there will be more projects in the city space, „meeting the city on new terms“ and including new types of audiences.
She reflects on the deep need of humans to be connected with art and culture, especially in times of hardship.
Christina Végh is mother of two children and lives with her family in Bielefeld, Germany.
This Episode was recorded on 30 October, 2023 and published on 7 December 2023.
45 min, language english.
Shownotes:
kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/
kunstaspekte.art/person/christina-vegh
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_V%C3%A9gh
van-horn.net/
#ChristinaVegh #KunsthalleBielefeld #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #Art #Life #Talk #Interview #Storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld
#82 MARINA FAUST | artist, photographer | Vienna
The talk was recorded September 19, 2023. 45 min., language english.
Shownotes:
marinafaust.com/
material-magazine.com/marina-faust-martin-margiela/
www.xippas.com/exhibitions/marina-faust-in-the-effort-to-keep-day-and-night-together/
giannimanhattan.com
van-horn.net/
#MarinaFaust #Art #Photography #Collage #MartinMargiela #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast @van_horn_duesseldorf @voicesonart
#81 GEROLD MILLER | artist, Berlin/Pistoia | live talk with Daniela Steinfeld (in german)
Gerold talks the gamut of his life, from his studies in the south of Germany in the 1980's, to travelling the world, while developing his work and making new inventions, to the current show at the gallery. It's a great talk in which Gerold very openly reveals what he does, what is his drive and what it means for him to be an artist.
26 min., recorded September 3, 2023, language german
A big thank you goes to our friend Lars Monshausen, who provided his skills and the technical equipment to record the talk.
To see Gerold‘s show got to our website:
van-horn.net/current-exhibition/
more about the artist here:
geroldmiller.de/
#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #DanielaSteinfeld #GeroldMiller
#80 BEVERLY SEMMES | Artist, NYC | Independent Special 2023
34 min., recorded April 6, 2023
Portrait photo Ross collab
Shownotes:
beverlysemmesstudio.com/
www.independenthq.com/
www.inglettgallery.com/
#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #BeverlySemmes #SusanInglettGallery #KappKapp
#NewYorkCity #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
# 79 SUSAN INGLETT / DAVID PLATZKER | Gallerist / President of Specific Object, NYC | Independent Special 2023
Susan and David lead us through an exciting, in depth story about the New York art world of the 1960s and 70s. The talk covers artists projects in pornographic publications, explores their backgrounds, discusses feminist liberation vs. the male gaze and reveals what we can learn through those analog ways of communication in our digital age. David talks the (acclaimed) artists he met on the way, which were engaged with those special publications and covers the joint booth with Susan Inglett at the Independent, highlighting three feminist artists from different generations, addressing nudity and porn, reclaiming sexuality. Susan shares insights about her path as a gallerist and the special work gallery artist Beverly Semmes will contribute to their three artists booth.
37 min., recorded April 5, 2023
Susan Inglett portrait by Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoxX Project
David Platzker portrait by Martin Seck
Shownotes:
www.independenthq.com/
specificobject.com/
www.inglettgallery.com/
#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #SusanInglett #SusanInglettGallery #DavidPlatzker #SpecificObject
#NewYorkCity #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
#78 NINA JOHNSON | Gallerist, Miami, FL | Independent Special 2023
My guest for this special Independent art fair Episode is Nina Johnson, who runs her eponymous gallery in Miami since more than 15 years. Nina was born into a family of business owners on the maternal side, dealing being a part of her DNA. As a child she developed a deep interest in the history and charging of objects and the stories that could be told through them. She decided to become an art dealer and knew, to excell in that field, she needed a deeper understanding of the way artists make work. From her teenage years on she learned and worked at galleries, while through studying art she got the deep knowledge she desired. Nina discusses the importance of personal, long lasting relationships and her dedication to find "her people". For her, place and space of a gallery have to be interrelated and match the hosting City and it's local indvidual characteristics - Nature, Architecture, Neighborhood. She shares her take on art fairs and explores her special admiration for the Independent, where she will show a solo-presentation by artist Rob Davis.
38 min., recorded March 8, 2023, Portrait photo by Gesi Schilling
Shownotes:
https://www.independenthq.com/
https://ninajohnson.com/gallery/
About
Founded by Nina Johnson in 2007, the eponymous Nina Johnson gallery is both a pillar of Miami’s contemporary art community and an internationally recognized art space known for its eclectic and intuitive program. The gallery has produced renowned exhibitions by a diverse range of emerging and established artists from around the world, including Judy Chicago, Awol Erizku, Rochelle Feinstein, Derek Fordjour, Emmett Moore, Woody De Othello, and Katie Stout. Nina Johnson is dedicated to the discovery of hidden pockets of talent and divergence in the art world, priding itself on artist-driven relationships that center on authenticity and variety. #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #NinaJohnson #Miami #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
#77 TARA DOWNS | Gallerist NYC | Independent Special 2023
This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition.
Recorded March 7, 2023, 33 min.
Shownotes
taradowns.com/fairs/independent-new-york
www.independenthq.com/
#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #TaraDowns
#NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
#76 D'ANGELO LOVELL WILLIAMS | artist, Brooklyn, NY | Independent Special 2023
We talk their upbringing in Jackson, Missisippi, their early love for images and objects and how the path lead through years of art courses to Art School and creating work as artist and photographer. They discuss being black and queer and how the representation of black, queer and non-mainstream bodies in mainstream visual culture is lacking. They identify as non-binary, they don’t want to be identified as male ore female as they feel these terms are limiting, creating prejudices and expectations of male and female roles and make only sense for animals in a biological way.
D'Angelo creates images they themselves want to see - being aware they might not be for everybody. Images that speak of family, history, black men, love, sex, softness, tenderness, beauty and maybe sometimes sadness or pain.
This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition.
Recorded February 27, 2023, 45 min.
Shownotes:
www.dangelolovellwilliams.com/
higherpictures.com/artists/dangelo-lovell-williams-2/
www.independenthq.com/
#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #HigherPicturesGeneration #DAngeloLovellWilliams
#NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
#75 JESSICA STOLLER | artist, New York, US | Independent Special 2023
Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit the lure and power of making things things with her own hands created meaning and served as a refuge and escape from monotony and conformity of Suburbia for Jessica. She was very comfortable spending time alone having her own inner world and being fascinated with materials and beautiful objects. Growing up catholic, she discusses how the imagery of catholizism influenced her and how visiting an all girls catholic school was very intense, but also empowering and subtly feminist.
We discuss her manifold interests and her research about the female body, her own body, the relationship to the world, girl culture, materialism, the meaning of objects, sexism and sexist language, authoritarian regimes and misogyny, decoration, beauty, the grotesque, witch trials, wise women - to which her work at Independent will speak to. She talks her love of clay as material and the special care and attendance it needs and how she explores through it what it means to be a human, a woman in the world at this time and place.
This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition.
Recorded February 27, 2023, 36 min.
Shownotes
www.ppowgallery.com/artists/jessica-stoller#tab:thumbnails
Working in the realm of figurative sculpture, Jessica Stoller (b. 1981) mines the rich and complicated history of porcelain, harnessing its links to power, desire, and taste. Synthesizing the cultural, historical, and corporeal notions of the female body, Stoller expands the feminist visual vernacular and makes space for subversion, defiance, and play. For Stoller the ‘grotesque’ becomes a powerful tool to challenge patriarchal power structures, as female figures flaunt what they are told to hide, reveling in their own pleasure and abjection. Stoller lives and works in West New York, NJ.
www.independenthq.com/
#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #PPOW #JessicaStoller
#NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
#74 CORBETT VS. DEMPSEY | John Corbett, Chicago, US | Independent Special 2023
John discusses his deep and ongoing interest in experimental and improvised music, his getting in touch with art through teaching at the Art Institute and how meeting Jim, with his background in film, led to a natural collaborative spirit in founding the gallery (with it's own record label) which carries through until today.
Corbett vs. Dempsey were coming up in Chicago, a city within which culture is often undertaken as a Community based practice and their working together reflect that respect for all people involved. John speaks about the importance that the history and cultural legacy of Chicago has in forming the galleries attitude and programm and the special working condition Chicago provides. He explains the unexpected ways in which the artists and musicians they work with inspire each other. The gallery is deeply interested in the historical, not only referring to histories of the past, but also paying attention to histories being written right now and being part of that new history being written. They highlight the role Archives play in writing and re-writing histories and making things visible. John and Jim only do and show what they love, their gallery runs on enthusiasm and the belief in what they're doing.
This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition.
43 min., recorded February 21, 2023, Portrait photo by Joe Mazza
Shownotes:
Corbett vs. Dempsey LLC was founded by Jim Dempsey and John Corbett in Chicago in September 2004. Since opening, Corbett vs. Dempsey has presented a range of international artists and artists connected with the historical and contemporary legacy of Chicago. Creative music has always been a feature of the gallery's activities; in addition to having its own record label, CvsD is proud to represent Peter Brötzmann and the estate of Sun Ra. Corbett vs. Dempsey's record label features a mixture of new recordings and CD reissues of out-of-print LPs, CvsD's offerings focus on jazz, free jazz, and improvised music; occasional rock and rock-related noise; artist-related projects; sound art; and some experimentally minded dub. Many of the releases continue the archival work that John Corbett did with his Unheard Music Series, released under the Atavistic label starting in the late '90s.
Corbett has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) since 1988. He was artistic director of Berlin JazzFest 2002, co-curated the Empty Bottle Jazz Series from 1996 to 2005, and was co-curator of Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn, and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968.
For over 20 years, Dempsey was the house manager and occasional programmer at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago. He is an alumnus of SAIC.
Together Corbett and Dempsey have been involved in many independent curatorial projects.
corbettvsdempsey.com/
www.independenthq.com/
#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #CorbettvsDempsey #JohnCorbett
#JimDempsey #Chicago #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
#73 HARLESDEN HIGH STREET | Jonny Tanna & Linda Mognato, London, UK | Independent Special 2023
Jonny and Linda speak each about their background in the UK resp. Italy, the different phases in their lives being an artist/film maker and an art researcher/curator, how they met and what is special and unique about Harlesden High Street.
The pair discusses the important issue of class and it’s correlation to having access to arts and culture experiences. They cherish diversity and open their doors for all kinds of different people, so they chose an unusual location to house the gallery/project space in London. They talk about the need of letting go of one‘s ego and encourage others to shine within the art world. For Jonny and Linda galleries should be givers and enable the diverse talents and experiences of artists audiences.
Quote:
„Harlesden High Street was founded with the mission of facilitating access between experimental/outsider artists and the traditional gallery system. We host several spaces across London exhibiting contemporary art by local and international artists, centering work by people of colour. In addition to our exhibition venues, we host a cultural outreach programme with an aim to reach audiences in ungentrified neighborhoods who might be less likely to engage with typical gallery programming. Our main space in Harlesden proudly only hosts people of colour in our programme, external and offsite spaces hosts an experimental programme transcending borders.“
This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition.
42 min., recorded February 21, 2023.
Shownotes:
harlesdenhighstreet.com/
www.jonnytanna.com/
www.independenthq.com/
#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #HarlesdenHighStreet #HarlesdenHighSchool
#JonnyTanna #LindaMognato #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
#72 GIL BRONNER | Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf | Collecting and connecting
Although his interest in art was instilled by his collecting parents, he had to find his own way and sense to get into it himself. To be with art seems to be his kind of calling and he spends most of his private time visiting exhibitions, meeting artists, gallerists, museum people and other collectors - many of whom became his friends.
His collecting is for sure connected to the quality of art itself - many acclaimed and young international artists are part of the collection and the curated exhibitions at Sammlung Philara. Nevertheless one major Focus of his actions is to be connected to the art and culture of his hometown Düsseldorf and to make a difference in this special field. Gil talks about his wishes for the art scene in Düsseldorf and the Rhineland and strives for more visibility and interconnection in the future.
This talk is not so much about what to collect, but rather how and why. None of this is answered really, but Gil gives his honest personal insight into his thoughts and feelings, the drive that makes him do what he does. Is there a way to distinguish bad from good art - maybe... What are the reasons for collecting art in such a wide array - who knows...
Episode 72, recorded February 2, 2023, 38 min.
Portrait photo by Albrecht Fuchs
SHOWNOTES:
www.philara.de/en
freunde.kunstpalast.de/
van-horn.net/
#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #Talk #Interview #Storytelling
#GilBronner #SammlungPhilara #PhilaraCollection #Kunstpalast #FreundeDesKunstpalast #Düsseldorf
#71 WENDY WHITE | Interior Exotics | a talk about art, life and an exhibition at VAN HORN, Düsseldorf
This is a special talk recorded on January 22, 2023 in front of a live audience at the premises of Le Bureau, a unique art space by collectors Lars Monshausen and Silke Haars. It is also available as video on the youtube channel of Le Bureau and the different VAN HORN channels.
We spoke on the occasion of the fourth solo-exhibition by NYC based artist Wendy White at VAN HORN, Düsseldorf. We talk Wendy's approach toward art making, the importance she places on objects and how people express their personalities through those. We exchange our thoughts on how the inner psychological space changed and how creativity was channeled in new ways during Covid. We talk selected singular works, her exhibition "Interior Exotics" which just opened at VAN HORN and - cars.
Wendy reveals her process, her inspirations and let's a lot of her individual personality shine through. It was my first Podcast talk in front of a live audience and with Wendy as guest and partner I enjoyed it very much.
44 min., language english. Recording and video still by Lars Monshausen.
#WendyWhite #InteriorExotics #Exhibition #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #Video #Talk #Storytelling #LeBureau111
Shownotes
The talk at Le Bureau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGhtk1uBKbE
https://lebureau111.de/interior-exotics-the-talk?
https://www.wendywhite.net/
https://van-horn.net/
#70 PATRIZIA DANDER | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20K21 | head of the curatorial department
46 min., recorded December 22, 2022, language english.
Shownotes:
www.kunstsammlung.de/de/
www.museum-brandhorst.de/
www.hausderkunst.de/
van-horn.net/
#69 MILLS MORAN asks DANIELA STEINFELD | Owner VAN HORN Gallery & Host Voices On Art Podcast
Please find more info in the shownotes below.
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Shownotes
Exhibtion Daniela Steinfeld „Full Horn“, Haubrok Foundation:
haubrok.org/ausstellungen/daniela-steinfeld/
VAN HORN exhibitions:
van-horn.net/past-exhibition/
Voices On Art Episode #35 Mills Moran:
open.spotify.com/episode/2roqSgpTlvm3JhYqnyt5Iw?si=oQQ3FhC5Q1CHKCbAbuvn2g
#68 PETER GORSCHLÜTER | Museum Folkwang, Essen | Director
Peter Gorschlüter, director of Museum Folkwang in Essen since 2018, is one of the youngest museum directors in Germany. Peter talks his early, formative years, growing up in a household with an affinity for culture. He talks his almost becoming a gallerist and how unexpectedly then the course was set to pursue a career as curator - and later director - of art institutions. He talks in depth about his working in different international art institutions through the years with a focus on developing an approach for Museum Folkwang that honors the history of the museum, as well as opens up new ways in corresponding with the time and the needs of the people. The demuseumization of the museum is an essential question for him and he would like to transfer the Folkwang (= hall of the people) vision of the museum founder Karl Ernst Osthaus into our times, thinking across genres and and epochs. Therefore he considers participation, transparency and putting people in the center of attention to be very important tasks. He sees himself not only as museum manager, but also as someone who intitiates content impulses.
Peter studied Theater, Film and Television Studies, also German Studies and Philosophy in Cologne. He started organizing exhibitions early on, worked at a gallery for contemporary art and then was invited to the post of curator and research assistant at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. He spent some important years being chief curator of Tate Liverpool where he headed the Collection and Exhibitions Department. In 2010 he was co-curator of the Liverpool Biennial. After that he was appointed as deputy director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK in Frankfurt a.M. from 2010 to 2018. Since 2018 he works as director of the internationally acclaimed Museum Folkwang in Essen. In 2021 Peter was awarded an honorary professorship for "Art and the Public" at the Folkwang University of the Arts.
35 min., recorded Sep. 19, 2022, language english.
Photo credit: Peter Gorschlüter, Direktor Museum Folkwang, Foto: Tanja Lamers ( BILD IM AUSSTELLUNGSKONTEXT)
Shownotes (mostly german):
https://www.museum-folkwang.de/en
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/peter-gorschlueter-neuer-chef-des-folkwang-ein-museum-fuer-100.html
https://polis-magazin.com/2022/08/prof-peter-gorschlueter-besser-in-essen/
https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr3/wdr3-mosaik/audio--jahre-folkwang---musemsdirektor-ueber-jubilaeumsausstellung-100.html
https://soundcloud.com/sparkasse-essen/zuhause-in-essen-8-peter-gorschluter
https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #PeterGorschlueter #MuseumFolkwang #Art #Talk #Storytelling
#67 MAGNUS RESCH | Professor, Entrepreneur, Author, NYC | Art and the Market
Dr. Magnus Resch is passionate about the economics of the art market. He studied at Harvard, the London School of Economics and the University of St. Gallen, holds a Ph.D. in economics and was awarded scholarships by both the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Swiss National Foundation. He is Professor at Yale University and one of the world’s leading art market economists. He is also a bestselling book author and serial entrepreneur. Magnus published in Science, the world’s leading academic journal, and has written seven books on the art market, including three bestsellers.
In this Episode Magnus talks his personal background and his take on buying art as a monetary investment vs. buying art as investment into ones emotional wellbeing vs. buying art to support a community of artists and galleries. His school days in Düsseldorf, which he spent opposite the world famous Kunstakademie, gave him the opportunity to meet a group of young art students that became his friends and later on well known artists themselves. Meeting these artists made him realize how hard it is to be successful as an artist and let him develop the ideas that led to his books, lectures and courses. He finds very clear words on what works - and what doesn't - in an art market that includes (and excludes) many different players and how those different players have to develop their own strategies to achieve success.
Articles, Podcasts and all information on Magnus on his website:
https://www.magnusresch.com/
Instagram @magnusresch
https://van-horn.net
https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
Instagram @van_horn_duesseldorf @voicesonart
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#66 SUSANNE TITZ | Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach | Director
The Museum and the City. Since 2004 Susanne Titz is director of Museum Abteiberg, the Museum of the City of Mönchengladbach, which is known internationally for it's unique architecture and also the special collection it holds. Susanne talks her early fascination with art as experience, art as part of life. She talks in depth the role space and architecture play to exhibit and also understand art and the different approaches the Museum develops to reach it's diverse audiences. The team of Museum Abteiberg creates multifaceted exhibition and educational formats and establishes deep connections to the civic community of the city, it's people, the schools, the administration and politics etc. to ensure the Museums relevance for the society of the future. For her, contemporary art and the artists that create it are role models for young people to experience freedom of spirit, empowerment and building a hopeful future. The Museum therefore provides a space - physically as well as psychologically - in which these other visions of society and humanity can be experienced.
Recorded 22 August, 2022, 43 min., language english, Portrait photo Stefanie Genenger
Shownotes (mostly german):
https://museum-abteiberg.de/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Abteiberg
https://www.moenchengladbach.de/de/museum-abteiberg
https://www.hausderkunst.de/entdecken/videos/susanne-titz-die-phaenomenologie-des-machens-ein-aufruf-zur-emanzipation
https://van-horn.net/
#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #DanielaSteinfeld #SusanneTitz #MuseumAbteiberg
#65 TONY KARMAN | Expo Chicago | President and Founder
How to build, sustain and develop an Enterprise with integrity? Tony Karman, founder and president of Expo Chicago, Chicago's art fair, talks in a personal and open way about the importance art fairs have within the eco system of the art world as well as for the civic society of a city. Tony talks his special relation to Chicago, his commitment to the city, the art fair and the participating galleries and artists and why Expo Chicago is the ideal canvas for him to realize artistic as well as civic visions in a diverse and inclusive way.
Tony Karman is since many years an influential contributor to the Chicago art world. He has been active in the civic, business and cultural communities of Chicago for almost 40 years.
Recorded between Chicago and the Island of Sylt on 17 July, 2022, 40 min., language english.
Shownotes:
Expo Chicago
https://www.expochicago.com/
"Even in better times, the simple act of collaboration is the bedrock of success".
Quote from an interview with MCW projects
https://www.mcw-projects.com/thepathforward/2020/4/27/the-path-forward-interview-series-the-art-fair-president-tony-karman
The book I mentioned in the talk and which I highly recommend is by Author Rutger Bregman "Humankind - a hopeful history"
https://www.rutgerbregman.com/
Info on gallery and Podcast
https://van-horn.net/
#TonyKarman #ExpoChicago
#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #talk #storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld
#64 HEATHER HUBBS | New Art Dealers Alliance, NYC | Director
Shownotes:
www.newartdealers.org/about-mission
bmw-art-guide.com/categories/insiders/interview-with-heather-hubbs
www.collecteurs.com/article/heather-hubbs-on-nadas-latest-initiative-new-york-gallery-open
news.artnet.com/market/nada-fair-art-fair-online-1861374
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
#voicesonart #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #podcast #heatherhubbs #nada #newartdealersalliance
#63 THOMAS SEELIG | Head of the Photographic Collection at Museum Folkwang, Essen | Thinking Photography
Shownotes:
www.museum-folkwang.de/de/sammlung/fotografische-sammlung
www.top-magazin.de/ruhr/2019/04/02/hans-martz-trifft-thomas-seelig/
fotografie-neu-denken.podigee.io/s2e60-seelig
van-horn.net/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
#voicesonart #podcast #thomasseelig #museumfolkwang #photography #danielasteinfeld #talk #storytelling #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf
#62 POLA SIEVERDING | artist and curator, Berlin | Narrating bodies
Recorded 19 May 2022, 29 min., language english. Portrait Photo by Marc Comes, Berlin
Shownotes:
Images and texts on the site of her gallery:
officeimpart.com/pola-sieverding
Text by www.signsandsymbols.art/artists/pola-sieverding
pola sieverding (b. 1981) is a visual artist working in the field of lens-based media. With photography, video and sound, she investigates the physical body as bearer of historical narratives that shape a contemporary discourse on the social body. By defining the body linguistically as an alternative to words, she exploits the classical ideal of the body as locus of pleasure and power. She is attracted to extremes and socialized emotions, something felt when the body switches between looking and being looked at, touching and being touched. Her images explore the body as an expressive element, the way we alter our behavior when we feel ourselves to be acting, a performance of just being.
A Podcast about photography (in german):
fotografie-neu-denken.podigee.io/s3e82-sieverding-pola
www.duesseldorfphotoplus.de/info
van-horn.net/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
#voicesonart #podcast #polasieverding #artist #photography #danielasteinfeld #talk #storytelling #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf
#61 ESTHER SCHIPPER | Founder and CEO of the eponymous gallery, Berlin | Around the world
Growing up in a very cosmopolitan and culturally educated and interested household, being born and raised in Taipeh and later growing up in Paris, she was early on aware of and very open minded towards the diversity and richness of different cultures.
Esther talks in depth about her background, her growing up and her awareness of the changing of the times. She talks the early days of her gallery and how she felt the need to grow and adapt in accordance with an ever changing world.
Staying true to the DNA of the gallery, keeping long lasting relationships with artists and showing loyalty towards their ideas over the years she also developed strategies for her gallery becoming an globally functioning business, with specialists in every field from art history to sales to accounting, marketing and management.
It is very instructive and highly interesting to follow the development of her gallery through the decades in her very own words.
Recorded May 3, 2022, 55 min., Language english.
Shownotes:
www.estherschipper.com/
www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de/esther-schipper/
www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/1265/Esther-Schipper
van-horn.net/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
#60 MARCIO BOTNER | A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo | gallerist and artist
My guest today is Marcio Botner, gallerist, artist and co-founder - together with artist collegues Ernesto Neto and Laura Lima - of A Gentil Carioca, since 2003 Rio de Janeiro based gallery which recently opened a branch in Sao Paulo. A Gentil Carioca is a unique intitiative in Brasil.
Marcio talks the the special spirit of an artist founded gallery and the initial impulse that made them embark on such an enterprise. From it's beginning on the gallery initiated community projects and Marcio talks the importance of community, dedication and location. He thinks the more people from different cultures and backgrounds mix, the more ideas are exchanged and discussions stimulated, the better we will understand each other and ultimately create a better life together. Marcio gives a brief insight into the projects of the past 20 years, how the gallery developed new concepts in the past two years and how they will continue to do so. A Gentil Carioca is an influential cultural hub in Brazil, an important part of the brazilian cultural scene as well as participant in the greater global art world. Marcio talks in depth the importance of art fairs for the gallery. To him fairs are more than commercial market places, they enable people to meet and mingle, to exchange ideas and collaborate in creating new art and cultural projects together and also to bring brazilian artists abroad and new ideas back. Marcio talks the importance of continuity, independence, liberty and love for what you do to create a great gallery. He believes that art can open up our perspective on life, bring people together in different ways and ultimately change our way of living.
At Independent A Gentil Carioca will present in a debut exhibition works by brazilian based artist Vinicius Gerheim.
Recorded March 16, 2022, 32 min., Language english.
Shownotes:
www.agentilcarioca.com.br/en/artists/103-vinicius-gerheim/
Instagram: @agentilcarioca
www.artbasel.com/news/year-49-interview-marcio-botner-a-gentil-carioca
www.independenthq.com/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
van-horn.net/
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#59 PETER NADIN | artist and farmer, NYC and the Catskills | Getting to the bottom of things
Peter Nadin *1954 is an artist, poet, farmer and avid observer of human and animal nature. He talks his beginnings in England, his moving to NYC as a young man and his experiences and observations on consciousness and perception through the years. Peter was a key figure of the the New York City downtown art world of the late 1970s and 1980s. After realising that he needed more time to get to the bottom of things, he decided to leave New York City to live and work on his own farm in the Catskills. For quite some years he didn’t exhibit his works at all or only in special places. The direct experience of life resonated in a more profound way with him than the cultural interpretation of it. To him there is no hierarchy between art making, farming or sanding the floor. He acknowledges the different pereception systems of humans and animals and realized that the beauty of this is, that no one perception is more real than another.... Peter's primary focus in his own art is and was the representation of consciousness and direct life experience through painterly marks. When he uses cashmere wool of his own goats in a painting, the painting does not show the goat - it kind of is the goat itself. To him the time and dedication that are spent to create a painting leave traces in the surface, in the paint itself, which enables us to understand - in a quite deep way - someone else's experience. Theres still a lot to do for him and a lot to understand, so he continues working, experiencing and observing the world with a humble and loving eye.
His exhibition "The Distance from a Lemon to Murder" is up at Off Paradise through May 8, 2022 and he will show his paintings with the gallery in a two-person presentation with Maximilian Schubert at the upcoming edition of Independent New York.
Recorded March 15, 2022, 39 min., language english. Portrait photo by Alon Koppel.
See and read more on the rich experiences of Peter Nadin at the site of Off Paradise and Wikipedia. Links in the shownotes below.
Shownotes:
offparadise.com/exhibitions/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nadin
www.independenthq.com/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
van-horn.net/
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#58 RJ MESSINEO | painter, Massachusetts and NYC | Chasing the experience
In this Episode painter RJ Messineo talks the "Aha" moment when they realized that drawing can be a way to transcend things and creating new experiences. RJ craves the experience of painting, the state of being it evokes, like sugar. RJ talks in depth the process of working in the studio, the material connection they have with painting, the construction of their work and how their physical limitations after an accident made them have to find new ways to construct works and therefore created opportunity from hindrance. Observation, physicality, the scale, the space of the studio and the time it takes to observe and make it, the season in which a painting is created - all of this play a crucial role for the artist. They understand paintings as a kind of motor that propel themselves forward and RJ follows them by listening in the spirit of receiving and paying attention to the process. Painting is what they do, it get's them through the days and years, step by step on to the next thing.
RJ will have a solo presentation of their new works with Morán Morán at the uopcoming Independent New York.
Recorded March 14, 2022, 35 min., language english.
Shownotes:
moranmorangallery.com/artists/rj-messineo/
bombmagazine.org/articles/second-surfaces-rj-messineo-interviewed/
www.independenthq.com/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
van-horn.net/
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#57 NICK OLNEY | Kasmin Gallery, New York City, Director | Back to the future
#56 AUDIE MURRAY | artist, Regina, Canada | Ancient and modern
Audie Murray (b. 1993) is a multi-disciplinary Métis artist from Saskatchewan currently based in Regina. Working with themes of contemporary Indigenous culture and ideas of duality and connectivity, Murray draws on time-honoured techniques and contemporary concepts to inform her material choices. She often uses found objects from daily life, and then modifies them with special materials and techniques as a way to reclaim or work-through the cultural content of the object. Text: Fazakas Gallery
At Independent 2022 Fazakas Gallery will present a solo-show by Audie Murray in her NYC debut.
In our conversation Audie talks about her background in the Métis culture, the influence the women in her family had on her work and how she combines the tradition of her people with contemporary art. She talks her practice in which she listens to the materials, cherishes their characteristics and gives great value to the process of working and the many hours she spends with that process. Audie is aware of her cultural background and researches with great joy the history of traditional materials and objects, but also finds inspiration in the works of artists like Eva Hesse or Hilma af Klint. She surfs with ease and earnestness through the different cultures, playing with their differences as well as their similarities and ultimately finds a lot of common ground in their artistic expressions. Audie Murray is part of an ancient tradition as well as a young contemporary artist in the 21st Century and merges both in her art, creating new relationships with culture and communicating those to us through her art. Recorded March 11, 2022, 34 min., language english.
Shownotes:
Fazakas Gallery
fazakasgallery.com/artists/audie-murray/
Tania Willard on Audie Murray
www.alternatorcentre.com/essay/getting-old-in-the-hills
www.independenthq.com/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
van-horn.net/
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#55 FRANK MARESCA | Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NYC | Messenger of art
Frank Maresca, co-founder of Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York City started his career as a professional photographer, he now is a collector, a scholar, an educator and dealer. He talks the different stages of his life and career and the insights he gathered on the way. From an early age on he was fascinated by art and artefacts - and the stories they relate. He talks his passion for australian indigenous and oceanic art and why this art, that exists outside of the academia, transports him and shakes him to his deepest core. He talks about the importance of education, of storytelling and the role of the gallerist as mediator, guide and messenger. Frank talks in depth about the late Paddy Bedford, one of the most important australian indigenous artists, whose works Ricco/Maresca will present for the first time in the US at the Independent as well as in an exhibition at Ricco/Maresca Gallery. Frank is a wonderful storyteller himself, having the urge and the capacity to pass his profound knowledge on to a new generation, keeping the stories going in a continous stream from the past, through the present to the future. Recorded March 11, 2022, 43 min., language english.
#voicesonart #independentnewyork #frankmaresca #riccomaresca #paddybedford #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast
Shownotes:
Ricco Maresca
www.riccomaresca.com/ Interview with Frank Maresca www.jenniferlaurengallery.com/projects/frank-maresca-interview
Frank Maresca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Maresca_(art_dealer)
Paddy Bedford
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Bedford
Independent New York
www.independenthq.com/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
van-horn.net/
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#54 SOPHIE BARBER | artist, Hastings, UK | Right here, right now
South Essex based artist Sophie Barber *1996 will show her new paintings in a solo-presentation at the booth of Alison Jacques, which marks her New York debut. Sophie is a young painter with an unconventional and refreshing new voice. She only does what she wants to do - may it be baking, painting or hatching ducklings. She browses through Instagram, the tabloids, art catalogues and went bird watching with her dad. The world is full of images, but for the ones she decides to paint she has to develop a kind of obsession. She talks her painting, the things her daily life are made of - feeding the dog, having breakfast, chasing the canary, watching her partner doing Judo - and after having found enough destractions, painting calls her again. She talks the weight of her paintings, the pillow-like fatness of their body, their scale from miniature to massive, the oilstick she might apply with her hands, the studio in which those paintings lie on the floor and how things randomly get attached to them. She ultimately talks her acceptance of life and the current moment. Her Charisma and that of her paintings is intriguing. Cheers Sophie, I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation.
Quote: "Barber's subjects are both personal and highly incongruous: celebrities, word games and songbirds meet iconic works from art history. The dimensions of her works make similar leaps – from the comically miniature to the strikingly oversized . Indeed, aside from their unifying texture, the only constant amongst these works is Barber’s herself, gathering images from the world as she goes. Barber’s source images are often appropriated from social platforms and screens...In this, Barber’s thick applications of paint make heavy and felt an experience of the world that is, by design, fleeting. It lends visibility and physicality to the way in which images glide over us online, leaving the hazy, at times distorted, memory of their form. ‘It’s not about the image being right’, Barber says of her coalescing portrait of Justin Bieber, ‘it’s about how you remember it’."
Recorded March 7, 2022, 30 min., language english, Portrai photo by Ben Urban
#voicesonart #independentnewyork #sophiebarber #alisonjacques #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast
Shownotes:
Alison Jacques
alisonjacques.com/artists/sophie-barber
Artforum
www.artforum.com/picks/sophie-barber-86679
Mousse Magazine
www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/sophie-barber-rosie-cooper-2021/
Independent New York
www.independenthq.com/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
van-horn.net/
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#53 JENNIFER BOLANDE | artist and professor, LA | Following images
#voicesonart #independentnewyork #jenniferbolande #magentaplains #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast
Shownotes:
Magenta Plains
magentaplains.com/artists/jennifer-bolande
Bolande website
jbolande.com/
Desert X
desertx.org/dx/archive/visible-distance-second-sight
Independent New York
www.independenthq.com/
vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
van-horn.net/
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#52 KATHLEEN RAHN | Marta Herford, Director | Bringing people together
Portrait photo by Birgit Streicher, Kunstverein Hannover 2020
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Shownotes:
The new Museum Kathleen will be heading from today on
marta-herford.de/
The past seven years she was Director here
www.kunstverein-hannover.de/
Some earlier places
kunstvereinnuernberg.de/
kunstverein-duesseldorf.de/
www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de/content/
#51 BRIAN BUTLER | 1301PE, LA, Founder and Owner | Encouraging people to look
Recorded January 14, 2022, 52 Min., Language english
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On #instagram you find us @voicesonart and @van_horn_duesseldorf
And here in the #shownotes some more information about #brianbutler and #1301pe
Website:
www.1301pe.com/home/
Interview on Stanford Daily:
stanforddaily.com/2019/08/06/in-conversation-with-brian-butler-of-la-arts-and-poster-gallery-1301pe/
Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_D._Butler
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#50 PHILIPP KAISER | Marian Goodman Galleries, Partner and President | Accessing New Territories
Philipp Kaiser, Partner and President at Marian Goodman Galleries worldwide, is accordingly a very special guest.
As a curator he did almost everything one could think of. He relentlessy and with great passion follows his intuition and curiosity. Philipp considers art and history being in constant flux and in his practice combines concentration with dedication and bravery with openness. Recently he prepared the extensive exhibition, archive, and library about the life and work of Harald Szeemann at the Getty, he was curator of the Swiss Pavillion for the 2017 Venice Biennial, and served as curator at the Museum for Gegenwartskunst in Basel as well as senior curator at the MOCA in Los Angeles and last but not least Philipp was director of Museum Ludwig in Cologne from 2012 to 2014 and that's just the tip of the iceberg...
Philipp talks his early days, first desiring to find an alternative lifestyle for himself through art and then traveling the world, realizing exhibitions, working with different institutions, finally coming to the place he is at in his life and work right now - a place of freedom and the opportunity to access new territories.
44 min., recorded December 17, 2021, language english.
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More about Philipp here in our #shownotes
www.mariangoodman.com/news/539-marian-goodman-announces-new-partners-and-new-leadership/
A complete list of his exhibitions:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Kaiser
Museum Ludwig (2013): Short video of Philipp Kaiser speaking mostly about the installation of the exhibition “Not Yet Titled, but also a bit about his experience one year into the position of director:
vimeo.com/78074764
Art Review (2017):
Medium-length questionnaire pertaining to the 2017 Venice Biennale
artreview.com/2017-venice-13-philipp-kaiser-switzerland/
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#49 ANYS REIMANN | artist, Düsseldorf | Layers Of Meaning
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Episode 49, 35 min., recorded December 18, 2021, Language: english
More about Anys art here in the shownotes: Instagram @anysreimann
"Attempts To Be Many", exhibition at Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, on view through Jan. 23, 2022
www.philara.de/de/aktuell
Anys on the VAN HORN website
van-horn.net/artist/anys-reimann/?sW=1
Interview with Anys at WDR Mediathek / WestArt (from min. 20:00)
www.ardmediathek.de/video/westart/westart/wdr/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLTM5MTI1MTNiLWM5MGItNGNjYy1iZDQ1LTEzMWZkZmUwMWQ5Mg/
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#48 MEG LIPKE | artist, Brooklyn | Paintings with body
More information about Meg in the shownotes:
www.meglipkestudio.com/
www.broadwaygallery.nyc/exhibition/meg-lipke/ Instagram: @meglipke van-horn.net/exhibition/can-you-see-the-real-me03-jul-21-aug-2021/
#47 BRIGITTE KÖLLE | curator, head of collections | contemporary art, Hamburger Kunsthalle
For more information about the topics Brigitte discusses here some links:
www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/ausstellungen/trauern
www.konradfischergalerie.de/
#46 JULIETA ARANDA | artist, filmmaker, co-Director of e-Flux | Works beyond words
Recorded November 4, 2021, 36 min., Language english