VOICES ON ART - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast, hosted by Daniela Steinfeld: Recent Episodes
Daniela Steinfeld
This Podcast is about my personal, but also about a lot of other peoples enthusiasm for art. What these people have in common is their love for art and their life with art. Art will be at the center of all our talks and as art touches on all parts of life - we talk all parts of life! I hope to get you on board, to inspire you and also to tell you interesting stories you might enjoy listening to.
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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 artsand 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 silkcarpets. 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 feelingsabout 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:
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https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9788891829627/
Gallery:
https://www.halseymckay.com/artists/janis-provisor
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Vian Sora b. 1976 in Baghdad, Iraq, is an iraqi-american painter, living and working in Louisville, Kentucky.Growing up in Baghdad in a kurdish arab family coming from academia and culture, the great and rich Mesopotamian foundation of her cultural heritage is fundamental to her. Her life was enriched by both cultures as well as threatened by the persecution her family experienced. War, violence and death were part of those years, as was the beauty and sublimity her parents tried to install in her life through exposure to culture and art.Life and death were always on the same plate.One can't approach Vian's work and her narrative without touching upon her background, which informedher life and now is also lending itself as backdrop of the work. She uses herself, the bodily, emotional andpsychological experiences she had to go through to transform the hurt and pain into an utterly positive andenergetic lust for life, which is brought into the world through her body and flows into her paintings. Her aimis to bring beauty and richness out of the horrific past.Vian talks her migration through many countries, her studies (including Computer Science), her painterlyprocess, her obsession with color, form, texture, painting and her love for different cultures. She opensherself up to a cornucopia of influences, landscapes, experiences, filtering it all through the microcosmos ofevery cell in her body and releasing it onto the canvas. Her deep color sense, the patterns she finds are beautiful with avery sophisticated sense of composition, however frequently a dark form lurks in the shadows.Vian also discusses her solo presentation with David Nolan Gallery at the Independent, which she intends to bean immersive experience for the viewer – a booth with large scale, vibrant paintings one can't only lookupon, but has to fully encounter.Recorded February 20, 2024, 32 min., language englishhttps://www.independenthq.com/artists website and instagram:https://www.viansora.com/https://www.instagram.com/viansora/interview with Vian Sora:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVyo_c8-dJc&t=847sgallery website:https://www.davidnolangallery.com/artists/vian-sorayour host:https://van-horn.net/podcast/#IndependentNY #independent_hq #artfair #VianSora #DavidNolan#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld
This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent NYC. 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 hiscredentials 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 inhis 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 HannibalSmith 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 englishLinks:https://management.nyc/https://www.independenthq.com/https://van-horn.net/podcast/
Lingzhi Zhuang is a chinese exhibition maker, project space and gallery owner based in Shanghai.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 andfuses 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 paintingsthat 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 englishLinks:https://www.linseedprojects.space/https://www.independenthq.com/https://van-horn.net/podcast/ #VoicesOnArt #IndependentSpecial #IndependentArtFair #NewYorkCity #LingzhiZhuang #Linseed #Shanghai #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #DanielaSteinfeld #Art #Talk #Storytelling #Podcast
Koen Delaere, b. 1970 Brugges, Belgium is an artist, painter and professor. He lives and works in Tilburg, Netherlands. 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 englishhttps://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/Instagram:@koendelaere @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf#KoenDelaere #Artist #Painting #exhibition #van_horn_duesseldorf #VanHornGallery #VoicesOnArt
A very happy new year and welcome to the first episode of 2024, which at the same time is the last episode of 2023, as it was recorded November 29, 2023.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: https://van-horn.net/https://kow-berlin.com/artists/tobias-zielonyhttps://liarumma.com/artists/tobias-zielonyhttps://marta-herford.de/en/ausstellungen/dark-data/https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/collect/artists/tobias-zielony.php#TobiasZielony#Photography #Images #Media #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast#Art #Life #Talk #Interview #Storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld
My guest is Christina Végh, who since 2020 is the first woman director of Kunsthalle Bielefeld and before that was the first woman director of Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover. Earlier on she headed the Bonner Kunstverein and worked as a curator at Kunsthalle Basel. 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 upbeing 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:https://kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/https://kunstaspekte.art/person/christina-veghhttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_V%C3%A9ghhttps://van-horn.net/#ChristinaVegh #KunsthalleBielefeld #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #Art #Life #Talk #Interview #Storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld
Marina Faust is an always curious, open minded, experimental, self-taught artist and photographer. Raised in Vienna in an culturally interested household, she left her hometown following love and art, living in New York City, Italy and Paris. She often was at the right time at the right place, walking into the right situations and meeting the right people. Her openness and sensitivity led her through open doors and gave her a career start as press, documentary and interior photographer. Her skills and curiosity made her the main photographer for Martin Margiela for almost 20 years. Through the years she developed her unique approach to art making and photo printing, exhibiting in galleries and institutions worldwide. Recently she had an extensive exhibition at the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg and Gallery Xippas in Paris, which is up right now.The talk was recorded September 19, 2023. 45 min., language english.Shownotes:https://marinafaust.com/http://material-magazine.com/marina-faust-martin-margiela/https://www.xippas.com/exhibitions/marina-faust-in-the-effort-to-keep-day-and-night-together/ http://giannimanhattan.comhttps://van-horn.net/#MarinaFaust #Art #Photography #Collage #MartinMargiela #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast @van_horn_duesseldorf @voicesonart
Hello again! Happy to be back after the break. This is a special Episode, a live talk between artist Gerold Miller and me on the occasion of his exhibition "modern sculpture" at VAN HORN in Düsseldorf. Apologies to my english speaking listeners - the talk is in german. We will soon provide a video of the talk with english subtitles on the VAN HORN youtube channel. 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 his show got to our website: https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/ more about the artist here: https://geroldmiller.de/
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In this special anniversary Independent art fair Episode artist Beverly Semmes talks her catholic upbringing, the influence her grandma's craftmansship had on her work, the friends and colleagues she met on the way and how all of this contributed to the development of her work. She shares her feeling the need to "fix pornography" in some of the paintings she will present at the Independent art fair and discusses the work in depth which she will be showing in the joint booth of Susan Inglett Gallery and Specific Object, as well as Kapp Kapp. Beverly shares which artists inspired her and the inspiration and connection she experiences in her long lasting friendships and how essential these relations are in her life and art.
34 min., recorded April 6, 2023
Portrait photo Ross collab
Shownotes:
https://beverlysemmesstudio.com/https://www.independenthq.com/https://www.inglettgallery.com/
IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #BeverlySemmes #SusanInglettGallery #KappKapp #NewYorkCity #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
My guests for this special Independent art fair episode are Susan Inglett, founder of the eponymous gallery, since 1994 in New York and David Platzker, an expert in artists' books and related ephemera. Susan Inglett Gallery provides representation for a range of artists, emerging to established, working across media and develops a program of surprising juxtapositions. David Platzker is President of Specific Object, a gallery, bookstore and think-tank dedicated to art post 1959, archiving and selling a range of items from art to counterculture. From 2013 to 2018 David was Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art. Susan and David will have a joint presentation with artists Yayoi Kusama, Lynda Benglis and Beverly Semmes at this years Independent.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, 2023Susan Inglett portrait by Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoxX ProjectDavid Platzker portrait by Martin SeckShownotes:https://www.independenthq.com/https://specificobject.com/https://www.inglettgallery.com/#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #SusanInglett #SusanInglettGallery #DavidPlatzker #SpecificObject #NewYorkCity #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
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
On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair I’m speaking with Tara Downs, who has been working as a gallerist in different cities and developed her own approach through many phases and stages. Tara talks her passion of working in the artworld, the benefits and the downfalls, her philosophy on team building, excellence, embracing challenges and being invigorated by change. She states that her gallery is much bigger than her - the team, the artists and collectors being part of a greater whole. At the Independent Tara Downs will show four women artists dealing with sexuality, pornography and feminism, opening up spaces for discourse and dispute. 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.Shownoteshttps://taradowns.com/fairs/independent-new-yorkhttps://www.independenthq.com/#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #TaraDowns #NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair I’m speaking with D’Angelo Lovell Williams (b. 1992, Jackson, Mississippi) who is a Black, HIV-positive artist expanding narratives of Black and queer intimacy through photography. D'Angelo will have a presentation with Higher Pictures Generation at the Independent.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:https://www.dangelolovellwilliams.com/https://higherpictures.com/artists/dangelo-lovell-williams-2/https://www.independenthq.com/#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #HigherPicturesGeneration #DAngeloLovellWilliams #NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair in New York im speaking with Jessica Stoller. She is an artist working in an elaborate way with clay. She mines the rich and complicated history of porcelain, which she often displays in overwhelming installations and tableaus. Jessica will be having a solo exhibition with PPOW at this years Independent.
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.
In her work Jessica synthesizes the cultural, historical, and corporeal notions of the female body. She 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. (quote PPOW)
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
https://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.
https://www.independenthq.com/#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #PPOW #JessicaStoller #NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair in New York I'm speaking to John Corbett co-founder – with Jim Dempsey - of the gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago. 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 MazzaShownotes: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.https://corbettvsdempsey.com/https://www.independenthq.com/#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #CorbettvsDempsey #JohnCorbett#JimDempsey #Chicago #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair in New York City I'm speaking to Jonny Tanna and Linda Mognato. Jonny is an artist and curator and director at Harlesden High Street in London, which is a BIPOC experimental space that has an art programme as well as a public one and challenges questions of gender, race, wealth, class and generation. Linda is an art researcher and curator who is artist liaison at Harlesden High Street and an integral part of the team.Jonny and Lind 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. They talk the important issue of class and how that shapes having access to art and culture. 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 having less ego and letting other people shine and how galleries should be givers and enablers for artists and their audience.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:https://harlesdenhighstreet.com/http://www.jonnytanna.com/https://www.independenthq.com/#IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #HarlesdenHighStreet #HarlesdenHighSchool#JonnyTanna #LindaMognato #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling
Gil Bronner is an avid and passionate collector of contemporary art, with his own Museum - Sammlung Philara - in the arts and gallery district Flingern in Düsseldorf, Germany. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Friends of the Kunstpalast, which is the Museum of the City of Düsseldorf. He and his family support art, artists and institutions in Germany as well as Israel.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 FuchsSHOWNOTES:https://www.philara.de/enhttps://freunde.kunstpalast.de/https://van-horn.net/#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #Talk #Interview #Storytelling#GilBronner #SammlungPhilara #PhilaraCollection #Kunstpalast #FreundeDesKunstpalast #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/
This is a special anniversary Episode, our 70th release and the first one in 2023 - therefore it is with a special person. Patrizia Dander recently took on the post of head of the curatorial department at the acclaimed Kunstsammlung NRW K20K21 in Düsseldorf. Her path into the arts was an individual and unusual one. Always being interested in the humanities, she first started studying psychology and more and more discovered how art not only fulfilled a personal inclination, but also gave her new insights and instilled a deep curiosity, that didn't leave her until today. Patrizia talks her early life, her fathers interest in art, how she left her studies for an internship at the Kunstverein in Düsseldorf, how the support of people and the collaboration with them shaped and paved her way into the arts and how she was learning by doing. Patricia covers her career stations from the beginnings and talks in depth about each space and institution. She openly gives insights about the possibilities and challenges she faced at the respective institutions and what her attitude is in dealing with new spaces and situations.
46 min., recorded December 22, 2022, language english.
Shownotes:
https://www.kunstsammlung.de/de/
https://www.museum-brandhorst.de/
https://www.hausderkunst.de/
https://van-horn.net/
This is the first Episode after a winter break and the last one of 2022. It‘s a special one indeed, hosted by Mills Morán. I am switching sides, being the guest interviewed by Mills. We talk my upringing, my first encounters with art and which meandering path I took from being an artist to becoming a gallerist and Podcast host - and all the steps on the way. We also touch on our friendship, which came to us through this Podcast and how communication and the words we use change our interaction with the world and our relationship with people. As always, art is at the beginning and the end of our conversation.Please find more info in the shownotes below.You can subscribe to the Podcast on platforms like #spotify and #applepodcasts give #voicesonart your rating and follow @voicesonart and @van_horn_duesseldorf on #instagram#millsmoran #moranmoran #danielasteinfeld #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #podcast #talk #interview #storytellingShownotesExhibtion Daniela Steinfeld „Full Horn“, Haubrok Foundation:https://haubrok.org/ausstellungen/daniela-steinfeld/VAN HORN exhibitions:https://van-horn.net/past-exhibition/Voices On Art Episode #35 Mills Moran:https://open.spotify.com/episode/2roqSgpTlvm3JhYqnyt5Iw?si=oQQ3FhC5Q1CHKCbAbuvn2g
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
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
VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #MagnusResch
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
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. Hehas 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
In this Episode Heather Hubbs, Director of NADA, NYC talks her upbbringing in a small town near Chicago and how she started discovering her interest in art. She explores her early days in Chicago, working in different fields of the art world where she realized that the big event of an art fair - where one is exposed to so many different things at the same time - was exactly what inspired her. She gives an overview of the first years of NADA, which is having it's 20th anniversary, and shares how the visions for the alliance developed and changed over the years, with a focus on the learning process of those past years during and after Covid. Heather and her team are in a continously evolving learning process, finding solutions for the current need of galleries to share resources and information in a non-competitive way. She thinks there needs to be more education among (younger) people about what galleries are, the whole eco-system galleries operate in, what they exactly do and why galleries are so important. Heather is a passionate promoter of the arts, artists and galleries and explores how important the political climate, the freedom in a society and a stable democracy are, to ensure a field in which art and culture can be thriving. Recorded July 6, 2022, 33 min., language english. Portrait photo by Emily Assiran for Observer Shownotes: https://www.newartdealers.org/about-mission https://bmw-art-guide.com/categories/insiders/interview-with-heather-hubbs https://www.collecteurs.com/article/heather-hubbs-on-nadas-latest-initiative-new-york-gallery-open https://news.artnet.com/market/nada-fair-art-fair-online-1861374 https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
voicesonart #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #podcast #heatherhubbs #nada #newartdealersalliance
In Thomas Seelig's life and career photography takes center stage. Originally taking off to become a Photo Journalist and Photographer himself, Thomas soon understood that working with photography can take many forms and that photography itself is a fluid, ever changing medium. During his studies, still practicing the art himself, Thomas set out, with a couple of Companions, to run an exhibition space at his University. Their curiosity and pro-activity led them to internships in New York City and opened up the whole field in before unknown ways. For himself Thomas realized that communicating with people, exchanging knowledge and placing himself in larger networks, enabled him to research and campaign for photography in an extended way. His fields of work included SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne, Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Fotomuseum Winterthur. Since 2018 Thomas serves as Head of Collection at Museum Folkwang in Essen, where he looks at the history of the collection from the standpoint of the present moment, envisioning contemporary developments as well as the directions creating, exhibiting and collecting photography and it's many expressions may lead to. 44 min.,recorded 3 June, 2022, language english. Portrait photo by Anne Morgenstern. Shownotes: https://www.museum-folkwang.de/de/sammlung/fotografische-sammlung https://www.top-magazin.de/ruhr/2019/04/02/hans-martz-trifft-thomas-seelig/ https://fotografie-neu-denken.podigee.io/s2e60-seelig https://van-horn.net/ https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
voicesonart #podcast #thomasseelig #museumfolkwang #photography #danielasteinfeld #talk #storytelling #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf
Berlin based artist Pola Sieverding learned to see the world through the lens of cultural production from a very young age, as she stems - already in the third generation - from a family of photographers and artists. After first having explored her wish to become an actress, she decided to stay behind the camera, instead in front of it. Pola talks her family and upbringing, her own work and deep interest in stories and idividual narration. One of the keys to her work are the body and it's performance in society and the social realm in general. Themes she has long explored are the usually male connotated areas of wrestling and boxing. She is very much interested in an individual, new narration about masculinity, femininity and all other genders. This includes the expression of sensuality, openness and fluidity. Her work does not exist without the relations she builds with the people who trust her so much that they lend her their image. Her art and life are inextricably interwoven. Recorded 19 May 2022, 29 min., language english. Portrait Photo by Marc Comes, Berlin Shownotes: Images and texts on the site of her gallery: https://officeimpart.com/pola-sieverding
Text by https://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): https://fotografie-neu-denken.podigee.io/s3e82-sieverding-pola https://www.duesseldorfphotoplus.de/info https://van-horn.net/ https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
voicesonart #podcast #polasieverding #artist #photography #danielasteinfeld #talk #storytelling #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf
My guest today is Esther Schipper, who founded her eponymous gallery in 1989 and since then never stopped to evolve, adapt and develop content and aims of the gallery correlating with the requirements of the times. In the more than 30 years of it's existence the now Berlin based gallery has been at the forefront of a global development of the art world and the art market. 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:
https://www.estherschipper.com/ https://www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de/esther-schipper/ https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/gallery/1265/Esther-Schipper https://van-horn.net/ https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent New York for the OVR of the upcoming edition of the fair from May 5, 2022 on. 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: https://www.agentilcarioca.com.br/en/artists/103-vinicius-gerheim/ Instagram: @agentilcarioca https://www.artbasel.com/news/year-49-interview-marcio-botner-a-gentil-carioca https://www.independenthq.com/ https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/ https://van-horn.net/ This Podcast comes to you for free. If you enjoyed it and in the light of the current war in Ukraine we kindly ask you to consider donating to a cause of your choice to support the victims of war in the Ukraine. Voices On Art and Independent New York will each make a matching donation in partnership with Ukraine. You find a link to a guide how to support Ukraine that includes several organisations that provide support to the people in the Ukraine below in the shownotes. You find the section about donations in the lower half of the text. Ukraine help https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Donations-VPN-Refugee-Aid-a-guide-to-support-Ukraine-6527106.html #voicesonart #independentnewyork #peternadin #offparadise #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast #stopwar #standwithukraine
This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent New York for the OVR of the upcoming edition of the fair from May 5, 2022 on. 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: https://offparadise.com/exhibitions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nadin
https://www.independenthq.com/
https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/ https://van-horn.net/ This Podcast comes to you for free. If you enjoyed it and in the light of the current war in Ukraine we kindly ask you to consider donating to a cause of your choice to support the victims of war in the Ukraine. Voices On Art and Independent New York will each make a matching donation in partnership with Ukraine. You find a link to a guide how to support Ukraine that includes several organisations that provide support to the people in the Ukraine below in the shownotes. You find the section about donations in the lower half of the text. Ukraine help https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Donations-VPN-Refugee-Aid-a-guide-to-support-Ukraine-6527106.html
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This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent New York for the OVR of the upcoming edition of the fair from May 5, 2022 on. 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: https://moranmorangallery.com/artists/rj-messineo/ https://bombmagazine.org/articles/second-surfaces-rj-messineo-interviewed/ https://www.independenthq.com/ https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/ https://van-horn.net/ This Podcast comes to you for free. If you enjoyed it and in the light of the current war in Ukraine we kindly ask you to consider donating to a cause of your choice to support the victims of war in the Ukraine. Voices On Art and Independent New York will each make a matching donation in partnership with Ukraine. You find a link to a guide how to support Ukraine that includes several organisations that provide support to the people in the Ukraine below in the shownotes. You find the section about donations in the lower half of the text. Ukraine help https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Donations-VPN-Refugee-Aid-a-guide-to-support-Ukraine-6527106.html
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This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent New York for the OVR of the upcoming edition of the fair from May 5, 2022 on. A conversation with Nick Olney, Director of Kasmin Gallery, founded by the late Paul Kasmin in 1989 in Soho, with at present four locations in Chelsea and since Paul Kasmin's death in 2020 lead by a team of dedicated people into the future. Nick talks his life, his career and the past, present and future of Kasmin Gallery. Coming from a family deeply interested in culture, he first chose a scholarly path studying anthropology and philosophy. His thesis encompassed human culture, human perception - really what humankind is made of in a very broad way, with a focus on the times of cultural upheavals and fundamental shifts of paradigms - like our current times. His first job was to handle art at Bergruen Gallery and he soon discovered his love for being a gallerist and how the manifold skills he developed over the years equipped him perfectly to work in that field. He talks why gallery work is so exciting and satisfying and how important a new storytelling is for the field of culture as well as for the world in general. He also talks the importance of art fairs, not only as commercial venues, but also as places of exchange and dialogue. He dips into the history of Kasmin Gallery and his founder Paul Kasmin and relates how working with Paul was then and how it is without him now. The team at Kasmin dedicates themselves to developing the vision for the gallery from the past into the future, staying true to the gallery's identity and still keeping it's programm fresh and alive. Nick gives an insight into artist vanessa german's work, who Kasmin will present at this years Independent in a solo show. Nick is a comprehensively educated man and it is exciting to follow his thoughts about our times, humanity, galleries and art and artists. Recorded March 14, 2022, 36 min., language english. Shownotes: https://www.kasmingallery.com/artist/vanessa-german https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/kasmin-director-nick-olney-on-paul-kasmin-painter-william/id899636200?i=1000472411220 https://www.independenthq.com/ https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/ https://van-horn.net/ This Podcast comes to you for free. If you enjoyed it and in the light of the current war in Ukraine we kindly ask you to consider donating to a cause of your choice to support the victims of war in the Ukraine. Voices On Art and Independent New York will each make a matching donation in partnership with Ukraine. You find a link to a guide how to support Ukraine that includes several organisations that provide support to the people in the Ukraine below in the shownotes. You find the section about donations in the lower half of the text. Ukraine help https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Donations-VPN-Refugee-Aid-a-guide-to-support-Ukraine-6527106.html #voicesonart #independentnewyork #nickolney #kasmingallery #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast #stopwar #supportukraine
This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent New York for the OVR of the upcoming edition of the fair from May 5, 2022 on.
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
https://fazakasgallery.com/artists/audie-murray/
Tania Willard on Audie Murray
https://www.alternatorcentre.com/essay/getting-old-in-the-hills
https://www.independenthq.com/
https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
https://van-horn.net/
This Podcast comes to you for free. If you enjoyed it and in the light of the current war in Ukraine we kindly ask you to consider donating to a cause of your choice to support the victims of war in the Ukraine. Voices On Art and Independent New York will each make a matching donation in partnership with Ukraine. You find a link to a guide how to support Ukraine that includes several organisations that provide support to the people in the Ukraine below in the shownotes. You find the section about donations in the lower half of the text.
Ukraine help https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Donations-VPN-Refugee-Aid-a-guide-to-support-Ukraine-6527106.html
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This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent New York for the OVR of the upcoming edition of the fair from May 5, 2022 on. 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.
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Shownotes: Ricco Maresca https://www.riccomaresca.com/ Interview with Frank Maresca https://www.jenniferlaurengallery.com/projects/frank-maresca-interview Frank Maresca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Maresca_(art_dealer) Paddy Bedford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Bedford Independent New York https://www.independenthq.com/ https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/ https://van-horn.net/ This Podcast comes to you for free. If you enjoyed it and in the light of the current war in Ukraine we kindly ask you to consider donating to a cause of your choice to support the victims of war in the Ukraine. Voices On Art and Independent New York will each make a matching donation in partnership with Ukraine. You find a link to a guide how to support Ukraine that includes several organisations that provide support to the people in the Ukraine below in the shownotes. You find the section about donations in the lower half of the text. Ukraine help https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Donations-VPN-Refugee-Aid-a-guide-to-support-Ukraine-6527106.html
This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent New York for the OVR of the upcoming edition of the fair from May 5, 2022 on. 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
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Shownotes: Alison Jacques https://alisonjacques.com/artists/sophie-barber Artforum https://www.artforum.com/picks/sophie-barber-86679
Mousse Magazine https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/sophie-barber-rosie-cooper-2021/
Independent New York https://www.independenthq.com/ https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/ https://van-horn.net/
This Podcast comes to you for free. If you enjoyed it and in the light of the current war in Ukraine we kindly ask you to consider donating to a cause of your choice to support the victims of war in the Ukraine. Voices On Art and Independent New York will each make a matching donation in partnership with Ukraine. You find a link to a guide how to support Ukraine that includes several organisations that provide support to the people in the Ukraine below in the shownotes. You find the section about donations in the lower half of the text. Ukraine help https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Donations-VPN-Refugee-Aid-a-guide-to-support-Ukraine-6527106.html
This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent New York for the OVR of the upcoming edition of the fair from May 5, 2022 on. Jennifer Bolande, Los Angeles based artist and Professor of new genres at the art department of the UCLA will present an overview of her works with Magenta plains. Jennifer talks in depth about her work - covering the span of more than 30 years. Jennifer started with dance and movement and discovered at some point that she wants to incorporate movement in her work through stillness. She talks about the embodiment of photography, about perception, creating a language through art, moving in space and creating new perspectives. She talks how her own vulnerability opens up unkown spaces and that the role of artists may be to explore unknown territories and that artists locate or expose a kind of truth. In times of crisis the voice of artists might be more important than ever. Recorded March 6, 2022, 37 min., language english
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Shownotes:
Magenta Plains
https://magentaplains.com/artists/jennifer-bolande
Bolande website
https://jbolande.com/
Desert X
https://desertx.org/dx/archive/visible-distance-second-sight
Independent New York
https://www.independenthq.com/
https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/
https://van-horn.net/
This Podcast comes to you for free. If you enjoyed it and in the light of the current war in Ukraine we kindly ask you to consider donating to a cause of your choice to support the victims of war in the Ukraine. Voices On Art and Independent New York will each make a matching donation in partnership with Ukraine. You find a link to a guide how to support Ukraine that includes several organisations that provide support to the people in the Ukraine below in the shownotes. You find the section about donations in the lower half of the text.
Ukraine help https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Donations-VPN-Refugee-Aid-a-guide-to-support-Ukraine-6527106.html
In February 2022 Kathleen Rahn, former Director of Kunstverein Hannover, takes on her new post as Director of the Museum Marta Herford. In our conversation Kathleen talks her background, coming from a family with deep interest in music and being taken to exhibitions early on in her life. Kathleen talks the different stages of her career in the arts, how important it was to meet artists during her studies in Kassel, what she learned from them and how she applies these learnings even to her exhibition making today. During her years as Curator and Director she regularly moved to different places, each place needing an adjusted approach to address cultural, architectural, geographical differences and also differences in mentality. She reflects on what is needed to run an art institution today to build a fruitful future and how important it is to include everybody involved - the artists, the team at the Museum and the regional as well as the international public and to still make space to having a private life and a family. Kathleen is deeply interested in communication and wants to bring people together. Recorded January 25, 2022, 39 min., Language english. Portrait photo by Birgit Streicher, Kunstverein Hannover 2020
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Shownotes:
The new Museum Kathleen will be heading from today on https://marta-herford.de/ The past seven years she was Director here https://www.kunstverein-hannover.de/
Some earlier places https://kunstvereinnuernberg.de/ https://kunstverein-duesseldorf.de/ http://www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de/content/
We’re staying in Los Angeles. Brian Butler's gallery 1301PE will be celebrating it's 30th anniversary this year, so we are covering a lot - from his early beginnings, coming from an artist's family to his studies, travelling the world, working in Germany, founding Brain Multiples and later 1301, which turned into 1301PE, then leaving the US to lead an institution in New Zealand, coming back and lots and lots in between. He talks about how he found the artists he worked with over the years - from Angela Bulloch and Jorge Pardo to Jessica Stockholder and Pae White to Rirkrit Tiravanija - to name just a few (full list on the gallery’s website in the shownotes below). Brian always cared about encouraging people to take their time and taking a deeper look at art, to have the patience to let art's impact unfold. In the second half of our conversation Brian reveils a lot about his thoughts on art fairs, the art world in general and his personal way how to stay fluid, creative and in tune with his own compass. Recorded January 14, 2022, 52 Min., Language english The Podcast is available on our website: https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/ and on most platforms. You're welcome to follow #voicesonart on #applepodcasts or #spotify and kindly give us a rating. On #instagram you find us @voicesonart and @van_horn_duesseldorf And here in the #shownotes some more information about #brianbutler and #1301pe Website: https://www.1301pe.com/home/
Interview on Stanford Daily: https://stanforddaily.com/2019/08/06/in-conversation-with-brian-butler-of-la-arts-and-poster-gallery-1301pe/ Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_D._Butler
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This is a special anniversary Episode - it's not only the first talk of the new year 2022, it's also our No. 50! 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. If you like the talk kindly give us a rating on #applepodcasts or #spotify and leave a comment on our Instagram @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf
More about Philipp here in our #shownotes https://www.mariangoodman.com/news/539-marian-goodman-announces-new-partners-and-new-leadership/ A complete list of his exhibitions: https://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: https://vimeo.com/78074764 Art Review (2017): Medium-length questionnaire pertaining to the 2017 Venice Biennale https://artreview.com/2017-venice-13-philipp-kaiser-switzerland/
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This last Podcast of the year 2021 is a special one. Artist Anys Reimann and me met when we were both kids at age 15/16. Although we just connected again recently, we share an exciting past in the Düsseldorf Pub and Club scene of the 1980's. Therefore this talk turned out quite personal and private. Anys talks about her family and her upbringing as an Afro-german girl born in the 1960's in West Germany. She shares the different paths she travelled, the jobs she had and the developments she went through to become the woman and artist she is at this point in time - in her "nowness". She talks her studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a "late bloomer", her art, the process she experiences when working and the many layers of meaning that drive her. I'm happy to share that Anys just joined the artist team of VAN HORN and can't wait to see what's to come - I'm sure it's the best! If you like the talk kindly give us a rating or leave a comment on our Instagram @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf 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 https://www.philara.de/de/aktuell Anys on the VAN HORN website https://van-horn.net/artist/anys-reimann/?sW=1
Interview with Anys at WDR Mediathek / WestArt (from min. 20:00) https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/westart/westart/wdr/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLTM5MTI1MTNiLWM5MGItNGNjYy1iZDQ1LTEzMWZkZmUwMWQ5Mg/
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On her birthday Brooklyn based artist Meg Lipke took the time to talk in depth about her early influences, her family, her art and the body in all meanings and possible expressions. She finds her inspirations in art history, other artists, but also in the women of her own family, which once owned a textile mill. Her grandmother, mother and aunt expressed themselves - their grief and joy - through creating art and craft with textiles and yarn. Meg is deeply interested in bodily experiences, the perceptions of the female body, the need to inhabit and embrace our bodies wholly and consciously to be fully alive and especially the body of painting, which she explores since many years. Meg found her own way in painting by leaving the flat plane of the canvas, creating stuffed, bulgy, organic forms that carry paint and color and give the impression of each having it's own individual personality. As a painter Meg is obsessed with art history, with iconography and with the way how through pigment and surface stories can be created that are about our humanity - and our bodies. Episode 48, recorded November 17, 2021, 39 min., language english. More information about Meg in the shownotes: https://www.meglipkestudio.com/ https://www.broadwaygallery.nyc/exhibition/meg-lipke/ Instagram: @meglipke https://van-horn.net/exhibition/can-you-see-the-real-me03-jul-21-aug-2021/
Brigitte Kölle, curator and head of collections of contemporary art at Hamburger Kunsthalle talks how she became first interested in art through one of her schoolmates, who went on to study art. She then took art classes herself before deciding to go into art history and cultural studies. She describes the art world of the late 1980s and 90s in detail - an impactful internship at Konrad Fischer Galerie, meeting some of the important artists of that time, before going to New York and encountering for the first time woman curators like Lynne Cook and Marcia Tucker. To once have had practical experiences in creating art enables her now to understand art on a profound level and to look deeply at it, which makes a big difference in her own exhibition making. She talks the process of curating exhibitions, working with and rearranging the collection of the Museum and the discussions and teamwork this requires. She shares some personal and private thoughts about her life as a curator, head of collections, woman and mother. In her practice art always comes first. Recorded November 18, 2021, Language english, 35 min. For more information about the topics Brigitte discusses here some links: https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/ausstellungen/trauern https://www.konradfischergalerie.de/
Julieta Aranda, Berlin based artist and filmmaker is since many years contributor, co-director and collaborator with Anton Vidokle of the online platform e-flux. She is also organizing this years conversations for Art Basel. Julieta has exhibited her works internationally including the Venice Biennial, Berlin Biennial, documenta, the Guggenheim etc. She talks her background, growing up in Mexico and leaving home at fourteen, paving a path on her own. She talks her artistic process, how she took up the task to look at the dark side of things, the hidden underbelly of society, themes and movements and that she only feels drawn to create a work of art when language fails her to understand the topic - when it is beyond words. Every work of art requires a different medium, a different strategy to be created and Julieta listens intently to each work to find the right means to bring it into the world. If not creating works of art she writes, communicates with people, brings them together and tries to find ways to collaborate and make the life of each person easier. You will find many interviews, videos and information on Julieta online. Follow our Instagram @van_horn_duesseldorf or @voicesonart The Podcast is vailable on https://van-horn.net, Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and many other platforms. Portrait photo by Peyton Fulford. Recorded November 4, 2021, 36 min., Language english
Artist Tim Shaw founded, together with his partner Niamh White, a curator, Hospital Rooms after a close friend of them had to be hospitalized in a mental ward. Hospital Rooms brings great art into spaces where it is really making a difference - working with psychiatric units all over the UK. Listen to Tim’s truly inspiring story how artists and art can shape difficult spaces in an energizing way and how the personal empathy and engagement of, in the beginning, just two people, creates a field that affects society and humanity in a profound way. Recorded October 18, 2021, 35 min., language english.
Coming from finance and with a deep rooted interest in the arts, politics, sociology, philosophy and the humanities, collector Alain Servais speaks his mind and does not hold back. He talks finding his own voice and becoming really good at something by having the right fractures. He found himself in art because it opened his mind to new dimensions and new kinds of people. Being exposed to other people's view of the world greatly improved his vision of the world. Art for him is not contemplation or pleasure, art is having to make an effort, to work on oneself and pushing oneself to the limit - to feeling comfortable being uncomfortable. He is especially interested in contemporary art, young art, the art that needs to be preserved today because nobody understands or values it. By collecting it he is preserving a slice of humanity. Art changed his life and for him art is a way of living, not separated from life, politics and the larger society. Recorded September 30, 2021, 57 min., language english
For over 50 years, New York-based artist and activist Judith Bernstein has created expressive drawings and paintings that boldly critique militarism and machismo in a manner that is at once humorous and threatening. Since graduating from Yale in 1967, Bernstein has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly provocative artists of her generation. Steadfast in her cultural, political and social critique she surged into art world prominence in the early 1970s with her monumental charcoal drawings of penis-screw hybrids. In this Episode Judith talks the inspiration of men's bathrooms, the glass ceiling women had to face in the artworld of the 60s and 70s, the founding of A.I.R. the first all women's art gallery, her rage at injustice and her partcipating in activist groups like the Guerilla Girls. She talks her family background, her first exhibitions, the long years of being out in the water, her coming back and her upcoming exhibitions and she reveals that the strongest relationship in the world she has is with art. The talk was recorded 23 September 2021, 45 min., language english.
This is a special Episode produced in collaboration with the Independent Art Fair, New York City. Vito Schnabel, art dealer, gallerist and curator, with gallery branches in New York City and St. Moritz, talks his early years and young adulthood, playing Basketball on the streets of New York City and visiting art exhibitions. He talks his insecurities and challenges and how those helped him to grow. He shares how the dialogue with his sister Lola, who is an artist, and her artist friends shaped his own understanding of art and highlights how important the support of his mother and her belief in him was. He relates how him being open, listening intently and evaluating what happened around him helped him finding his own language in the arts. Early on he started curating and met important artists like Ron Gorchov or the great René Ricard who became friends and mentors and whose expertise and wisdom he was soaking up and valued greatly. Vito talks friendship, his passion for painting and their capacity to be portals also in the 21st Century for anybody who wants to see. This years Independent Art Fair will be the first fair Vito is attending in his home town. There he will show new paintings by extraordinary painter Jorge Galindo in a solo-presentation. Recorded August 10, 2021, 33 min., language english.
“A WORLD WHERE I CAN THINK ANYTHING” This is a special Episode produced in collaboration with the Independent Art Fair, New York City. Artist and painter Maysha Mohamedi talks her background in science, the similiarities between science and art - and the differences. She gives a very clear analysis what it means for her to be an artist, her need to express herself in her paintings, how she wants to create believable marks and lines and that she needs to have a large percentage of her life to herself in her studio, which is a world where she can think and do anything. She talks her desire to become exceptional at something, to be an expert and sees artists in line with highly trained, specialized athletes, who need to concentrate on one special skill to be able to be exceptional. She talks her first experiences with art through seeing an exhibition of paintings by her mother, her life in the studio and at home with her kids and husband and relates her own painting process, using found or created tools and bodyparts to create marks that make up her energetic, large-scale abstractions. At the Independent Art Fair franklin parrasch gallery / parrasch heijnen will present an intergenerational show of her paintings in juxtaposition with a work by John Wesley, who is one of her favourite artists and on whom she completed her graduate dissertation. Recorded August 3, 2021, 41 min., language english.
“I’M NEVER BORED” This is a special Episode produced in collaboration with the Independent Art Fair, New York City. Karla Knight, artist and painter based in Connecticut, is a force onto herself. In this Episode she talks her growing up in a family that was very interested in the otherworldly, the occult and the spiritual - which inspired Karla to dive deep into the unknown within her own paintings. From an early age on she knew who she is - an artist - never tiring to follow her own path and being utterly independent in life and art. In her paintings she developed her own imaginary language, inspired by her son’s early lettering. At this year’s Independent Art Fair she will debut her new tapestries, which are influenced by Lakota Winter counts, in a solo-presentation with Andrew Edlin Gallery. Following this will be her first institutional solo exhibition with a survey of her work at the Aldrich, opening Fall 2021. The Podcast is available on most platforms, on https://van-horn.net and on the Independent’s OVR at https:/www.independenthq.com recorded July 21, 2021, 31 min., Language: english
This is a special Episode produced in collaboration with the Independent Art Fair, New York City. My guest is Nicelle Beauchene, founder of the eponymous gallery in New York, former president of the board of NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) and co-founder, with Franklin Parrasch, of Parts & Labor in Beacon. In this talk Nicelle covers her life, from growing up in a farm town in Connecticut, becoming a competitive snowboarder, competing against men and falling in love with art through a certain painting at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Her curiosity drew her to roam broader spaces and finally pursuing a career in the arts. She tells how it was for her being a professional woman in the art business while raising three kids. She talks competition vs. collaboration, how she took adversities and disencouragement as challenge and stepping stone. She opened up her gallery while being pregnant, running a succesful art business and having a family. She relates in depth how collaboration and integrity are her core values in working with artists, other galleries, institutions and collectors. She talks passion, ambition, gut feeling and new opportunities coming up, like moving with the gallery to a new space in Tribeca and her upcoming project at Independent, where she will present new works by Louise Despont, the artist she originally opened her gallery with. Nicelle gives an enlightening insight into her relentless support for the artists she works with. Listen to a clear minded and inspirational woman who knows and does what she wants. Recorded July 22, 2021, 36 min. Language: English
This is a special Episode created in co-production with Independent Art fair, NYC. Hana Ward is a painter, ceramicist and founder of the ceramic brand Uno + Ichi from Los Angeles, California. Hana talks about how growing up in an artistic household helped her finding her own way into the arts. She witnessed an educational system in the US that - in her own words - fails black students in manifold ways and through being a teacher herself - and not liking it at all - she understood that painting is what makes her happy. She talks in depth about how she finds inspiration in special books and that relating to her lineage and to the earth helps her go deeper into her painting practice, which she considers to be connected to her spiritual path. Her paintings often touch on themes of liberation, memory, history and diaspora. Through her landscape paintings, she documents focal, yet disappearing parts of her native city while her graphic portraits pay praise to unsung heroes of our collective legacy. Hana relates in a very personal and honest way what it means to find her way as an artist. Her presentation at Independent Art Fair with Mrs. gallery in NYC will be a premiere for her. Recorded June 23, 2021, 32 min., Language: english
This is a special Episode created in co-production with Independent Art fair, NYC. Susanne Zander, founder and co-owner - with Nicole Delmes - of Delmes Zander in Cologne talks in great detail not only about her personal story, but especially about the story of the so called "outsider artists", whose work is often misunderstood and not appreciated fully when given labels like "self taught", "outsider", "naive" or "Art Brut". Susanne grew up with collecting parents and a strong and fearless mother, who not only funded a collection of the artists mentioned above, but also just did what she wanted to do in a time when this was even harder for women than it is now. Susanne fell in love with art and artists from an early age on and is taking the exact same approach - forward and fearless. She is a relentless supporter and agent for the special artists Delmes Zander are discovering, working with and bringing - sometimes for the first time - in front of the eyes of an audience. She runs a gallery since 30 years and talks changing times, open and closed minds and the special role the Independent Art Fair played for the gallery. In crossing over genres and labels, in expanding ideas and concepts about art and in bringing the so called "outsider artists" into a contemporary art context, Delmes Zander hold a unique place among galleries. Listen to a passionate, opinionated and outspoken woman and gallerist. This talk will also be part of the Independent Art Fair's OVR in September 2021. Recorded June 16, 2021, 38 min., Language: english
This is a special Episode created in co-production with Independent Art Fair, NYC. LaTiesha Fazakas, founder of the eponymous gallery for contemporary indigenous art in Vancouver, Canada tells her personal story. LaTiesha talks her childhood and youth, from growing up in a working class household, quitting highschool and becoming a teenage mom, to her young adult years in which she decided to finish her education and by a leap of destiny enrolled in an art history class, which ultimately changed the course of her life. After having worked for 11 years at a gallery for indigineous art, LaTiesha realized that her approach towards this art and culture is much more open and inclusive then was provided by dealers and art historians until then. LaTiesha talks in detail about Beau Dick, one of the artists from which she learned a lot, who was included in documenta 14 in Athens, how she founded her gallery in 2012 and how she set up a fluid and individual business model that suited the particular needs of all parties involved. She is convinced that art and art history will benefit greatly from including other voices, cultures and especially those by these skilled and evolved indigenous artists. She gives a glimpse into the future and talks her presentation at Independent in September and her plans to move to a bigger space in 2022. Listen to this enlightening and personal talk with a passionate promoter and lover of contemporary indigenous art. This talk will be also part of the Independent Art Fair OVR in September 2021. recorded June 12, 2021, 47 min., Language: english
In this special Episode, created in collaboration with Independent Art Fair, my guest is Mills Morán, co-founder of the gallery Morán Morán with his brother Al and, together with collector Dean Valentine, of Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles. Mills talks about his childhood in El Salvador, the reasons the family had to leave the country and the different places they settled, before living in Miami and finally in Los Angeles. He talks about how he connected with the artist community and how knowing artists led him and his brother to first found a project space and ultimately the gallery. Mills relates the history of the gallery, giving every aspect of developing the family business together with his brother, his relations to the artists, other galleries and the collectors. He talks how work and relations changed and developed in times of the pandemic and gives an outlook into the future for the gallery as well as the fair. Listen to this informative and engaging talk with a passionate gallerist and supporter of artists. This talk will be also part of the Independent Art Fair OVR in September 2021. Recorded June 3, 2021, 38 min. Language: english
A talk with Florian Peters-Messer, passionate collector of contemporary art. Florian co-curated the exhibitions "Fuck Your Fear" at VAN HORN in 2019 and "Empört Euch!/Time For Outrage" with Linda Peitz at Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf in 2020, where he also serves as member of the boards of the friends of the museum. Florian is the author of two books and runs a family business with seat in Viersen, Germany. He talks about how his art teacher at school ignited the deep and lasting interest for contemporary art in him, how meeting artist Thomas Hirschhorn in the 1990's changed his whole outlook on art and that he feels more and more drawn to political, social and psychological art. He talks about his process of collecting, citing examples like "Rotterdam Rostock" by artist Erik van Lieshout and talks about feeling a certain kind of responsibility to collect and preserve these more complicated works of art for the public. We talk in depth about how anger can be a destructive force and a danger for democracy, as well as a source of creativity when expressed in works of art, like in the installations by artist Henrike Naumann. Florian reminds us that art plays an important role in understanding and reflecting society and the human condition and that preserving our environment and having real human contact are what we need just now. Recorded May 9, 2021, 42 min, Language: English
My guest today is Joanna Kamm, Founder and Owner of the eponymous gallery from 2001 to 2014 in Berlin and since 2018 Director of Liste Art Fair, Basel. Joanna moved to Berlin in 1989, shortly before the wall came down. She talks about how that changed everything and that the atmosphere of "everything is possible" opened up many opportunities for a whole generation. Joanna studied german Literature and Philosophy before she fell for art, first opening a project space before founding the gallery. She talks about the development of the gallery, that she always loved to discover artists and how her experiences as gallerist and as board member of ABC Berlin were invaluable for her current post at Director of Liste Art fair. She truly believes in humanistic values and the importance art has for Society. She gives some first hand and personal insights into the meaning galleries have for art, artists and cultural production. In the second half of the Podcast she talks about new ideas and projects for Liste, analog as well as digital, and some new and exciting plans for the upcoming fair in September 2021. Episode 33, recorded March 15, 2021, 31 min. Language: english
My guest today is Mareike Dittmer, Director of Public Engagement at TBA21-Academy, Zürich, Switzerland. Mareike's skill is communication and she takes us onto an elaborate journey through her life. In the first part of this Episode Mareike talks her upbringing in East Germany, why she first trained in banking before attending art school and her diving into the underground artworld of 90s Berlin, working in London, her years at Frieze Magazine and her engagement with the 9th Futurological Congress and the Museum Susch in Engadin, Switzerland. In the 2nd half of the Podcast she speaks in depth about TBA21 Art Foundation and Academy, the Ocean Uni, the past year under Corona measurements and her plans and wishes for the future. She mentions many people she cherishes and cooperated with and shares her belief in serendipity, that she keeps her doors open for luck to come in and how she's very glad that there seems to be a new sense of togetherness. Recorded April 15, 2021. 53 min. Language: english
There are as many ways to become a gallery owner as there are galleries. A perfect example of somebody who treaded a completely individual path is my current guest Grant Wahlquist, owner of the eponymous gallery for contemporary art in Portland, Maine since 2017. Grant has a broad education and studied a variety of topics. He seriously learned to play classical piano for 15 years, holds degrees in Philosophy, Art and Religion and even attended the fuller theological seminary. Grant is a doctor of law, he was an associate at a law firm and worked as a freelance attorney before he became an art critic and a curatorial assistant at the Orange County Museum of Art, where he worked on exhibitions by artists like i.e. Peter Saul and Mary Heilman. Grant talks about his studies and inclinations as a young man, the opportunities and challenges of opening a gallery outside of the big commercial hubs, his fascination with mid-career artists and how to combine business with cultural and philosophical integrity. It's a pleasure to listen to his reflections and insights about art, the gallery business and living a good life. Language: english, 36 min., recorded March 22, 2021
In this talk, my guest is Haley Mellin, a painter and land conservationist. Haley founded "Art into Acres", a non-profit initiative supporting artists and artworks in conserving large-scale landscapes for a positive impact on climate, biodiversity and irreplaceable ecosystems. She also founded conserve.org as a platform for people to be able to permanently conserve a single acre of land for the cost of a dinner out. Her own painting practice happens "on the road“ while attending to conservation projects. She’s working with institutions like Hauser & Wirth, MOMA PS1, MOCA L.A., the Guggenheim and - very recently - the Kunstmuseum Bonn, to name just a few. A large part of her work is dedicated to supporting artists and smaller organisations like non-profits or galleries with their carbon footprints and how to reduce them. Being an artist, she is the perfect intermediary between the land conservation organisations and the art world and entertains strong, trustful relations with the artists that donate their artworks and participants from the art community who are learning and looking into their carbon emissions through calculation and reduction approaches. We discuss her upbringing and love for being outdoors, nurtured by her father, who held the view that "giving back is a large part of being alive.“ We talk about how she started painting and exhibiting at a young age and how art and conservation interlace in her life and practice. She shares her profound knowledge and deep insights into how art and conservation, both meant to last, go hand in hand. This talk celebrates the 30th Episode of "Voices On Art," with Haley Mellin as a special guest and with a small "bonus track“: Haley unexpectedly started asking me questions herself. Enjoy this 38 min. in-depth talk with Haley, plus an extra 10 minutes of Haley Mellin interviewing Daniela Steinfeld. Recorded March 24, full length 49 min. Language: English.
My guest for this talk is Elizabeth Dee, co-Founder of the Independent Art Fair and Director of the John Giorno Foundation. She ran her eponymous Gallery in NYC for 18 years and founded the X Intiative, from which Independent developed. Elizabeth now sees herself in a variety of roles - a Collector, an Artist, a Curator, a Teacher, a Lecturer, a Strategist, an Advocate, an Entrepreneur, a Publisher, a Writer, an Advisor and the Director of an art fair. This is an almost one hour in depth talk about Elizabeth's background, her upbringing and her studies at an all women's college, her beginnings as an artist (and cellist) and the many decisions she made and the uncounted doors she went through in a more than 20 years career in the artworld. Coming from a non-privileged background she had to face some hardships and learned everything from scratch, which gave her knowledge about almost all fields of the artworld. She shares her expertise in how to run a gallery, how to develop an art fair - even under dire circumstances - and above all, her deep passion for art and artists. She is very honest and let's us partake in her personal feelings, thoughts and experiences and thus gives us a lot to think and learn about. Recorded March 8, 2021, 57 min., Language: english.
My guest today is Michael Zimmer, entrepreneur, investor, consultant, art collector, founder of the sculpture park „The Inhabited Garden“ and editor of the book „A Sculpture Garden.“ Michael is extensively involved in social issues and has initiated or founded various foundations to help people in need. We talk his upbringing and how through art he got „a room on his own“ and that art was his refuge as a young man. He relates how he first studied art history before going into real estate and how he merged these two fields in his life. We talk in depth about his sculpture garden, what the main ideas are behind this unique project, how the international artists are selected and that it’s roots in Northrhine-Westphalia are very important to him. His deep interest lies with the human condition, so he is listening to his guests and extends his hospitality to the artists, their sculptures and anybody who visits the garden. To learn more go to their website: https://www.derbewohntegarten.de/, there you find also information about the beautiful book „A Sculpture Garden“. Recorded February 9, 2021. 35 min. Language: english
My guest today is Jennifer Higgie, writer and art critic. She has been Editor at Large for Frieze Magazine and is the host of Bowdown a wonderful Podcast about women in art history, she curated the Hayward touring and Arts Council exhibition „One Day, Something. Happens: Pictures of People“ and wrote and illustrated the children's book „There's Not One“. Currently she is working on various screenplays and writing projects. Her book „The Mirror and the Palette: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits“ is forthcoming at Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2021. We discuss her art studies in Australia, her moving to London, her transition from artist to writer and her love for painting. We talk the importance of art criticism, the need to highlight all kinds of inequality, including gender inequality. We talk her Bowdown Podcast about women in art history, which is one of the best art Podcasts around and new upcoming book "The Mirror and the Palette: 500 years of Women Self-Portraits", to be published in March 2021 at Weidenfeld & Nicolson. It's a personal and insighful talk and I loved speaking to Jennifer. Recorded February 6, 2021. 38 min., language english.
Bettina Steinbrügge tells us how she got fascinated by art as a school kid, how she travelled Europe as a teenager with Interrail and saw all Picasso Museums and how she thinks an institution in the current times in the 2021 Century has to change and rethink to contribute to an ever changing society. We talk about the need for care and empathy, economic and cultural thinking, the need for community and how the digital helps us to communicate and stay in touch with each other. She stresses the necessity to pose new questions and utters her wish that society and politics make a statement for the arts. Recorded on January 30, 2021, 31 min. Language: english
In this first Episode of 2021 I speak with Oliver Koerner von Gustorf, writer, curator and former co-owner of gallery September in Berlin. Oliver regularly contributes to Art Magazines like Monopol and the Feuilletons of the German Newspaper landscape. Recent articles include "30 Jahre deutsche Einheit (30 years German unification) - Pop life" about the art and music scene of the 80s and 90s in Berlin, of which he was a part of and "Commons retten die Kunst - Plädoyer für eine gewöhnliche Kultur (Commons save the arts - plea for a commons culture)", both published in Monopol Magazine. We talk his early years in the Berlin subculture of Punks, squatting, clubs and dilettante art making. He reveals his personal struggle, taking care of his boyfriend who suffered of HIV/AIDS and ultimately died of it and how he became a writer in the course of an exhibition of the band "Die tödliche Doris (deadly Doris)" of which his late boyfriend was a member. We get a deep insight into the attitudes of the art scene of these years in Berlin. From there on Oliver was invited to write for the TAZ and even started writing for the art department of Deutsche Bank. We talk art, language, books, identity, capitalism, poverty, money, art fairs, galleries - the full gamut. As a writer Oliver reflects and verbalize his experiences deeply and gives them to us in an extraordinary way. Enjoy. This Episode was recorded January 2, 2021. 60 min. Language: English
In Episode 24 we talk about art and life - which is indistinguishably intertwined in the person of acclaimed painter Joanne Greenbaum. Painting since decades and knowing she is an artist since the age of 5, Greenbaum gives us an insight into painting, drawing and working with clay - through which she reveals to us who she is, how she thinks and how she expresses her brain activity to the world. To use the words of philosopher Ludger Schwarte, Greenbaum in her paintings is "thinking in color", creating a world which is full of vibrant visual energy and non verbal meaning and content. The talk was recorded 17 December 2020, 38 min. Language: english
This a special episode in collaboration with Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. A conversation with acclaimed Artist, Professor and Winner of the Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia in 1999 - Monica Bonvicini. It is released on the occasion of her participation in the exhibition „Empört euch! / Time for Outrage, co-curated by Linda Peitz and Florian Peters-Messer. We talk Monica's upbringing in a conservative Italy, her studies at Cal Arts and in Berlin, how meeting Isa Genzken at the University let painting slip away from her work, the creative power of female anger and the inclusion of all people working in a museum or institution in the planning of exhibitions. Monica gives personal insights into how she develops her work and how the isolation in times of Corona created a space for her to return to essential drawing. The Episode was recorded August 3, 2020. 37 min., Language: English
In Episode 22 I speak with Alvin Hall, who is - amongst many other things - an avid collector of contemporary art by living artists, an internationally acclaimed financial educator, author and broadcaster. We talk his early years in poverty in the Panhandle of Florida, his first encounters with art, how looking at photography sharpened his visual skills, his love for art and artists and how they can shape the world, why finance is full of creativity, his advice to new collectors and the current political situation. It's a very personal and in depth talk about Alvin's insights, inspirations and intuitions. The talk was recorded on November 24, 2020. 56 min. Language: english
A conversation with David Nolan, founder of the eponymous gallery, passionate advocate for the arts and art collector himself. David covers the years from his upbringing in Ireland, his first jobs in art galleries in Cologne in the 80s and his move to New York. We talk art, art fairs, politics, the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, climate change and the current situation in the US. David mentions many artists and companions he worked with over the years and expresses the hope for a learning process that leads to more respect, transparency and cooperation. Recorded on November 7, 2020 in the hours before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared President elect and Vice President elect of the USA. 48 min. Language: english
A conversation with Dr. Natasha A. Kelly, Communication Sociologist, Author, Curator, Academic Activist, Storyteller, Afrofuturist and much more. It's an enlightening talk about her personal development and her use of various media to communicate colionalism, racism and sexism. We learn how storytelling shapes thought and action - and how it can be reshaped. We talk art, science, education, feminism, racism, colionalism, patriarchy, capitalism, Black Lives Matter, Corona and the epidemic from 1918, anger, emotional intelligence and empowerment. She shares profound knowledge from the perspective of an Afro-German woman and researcher. She explains her works "Giftschrank/Poison Cabinet", which is exhibited in „Empört Euch!/Time for Outrage!" at Kunstpalast, sadly now closed for lockdown, and her film „Millie‘s Awakening“. She talks about Afrofuturism and her new book "The Comet - Afrofuturism 2.0". The conversation was recorded on October 12, 2020. 38 min., Language: German, with english voice over
GERMAN OV. A conversation with Dr. Natasha A. Kelly, Communication Sociologist, Author, Curator, Academic Activist, Storyteller, Afrofuturist and much more. It's an enlightening talk about her personal development and her use of various media to communicate colionalism, racism and sexism. We learn how storytelling shapes thought and action - and how it can be reshaped. We talk art, science, education, feminism, racism, colionalism, patriarchy, capitalism, Black Lives Matter, Corona and the epidemic from 1918, anger, emotional intelligence and empowerment. She shares profound knowledge from the perspective of an Afro-German woman and researcher. She explains her works "Giftschrank/Poison Cabinet", which is exhibited in „Empört Euch!/Time for Outrage!" at Kunstpalast, sadly now closed for lockdown, and her film „Millie‘s Awakening“. She talks about Afrofuturism and her new book "The Comet - Afrofuturism 2.0". The conversation was recorded on October 12, 2020. 47 min., Language: German.
NEW! VOICES ON ART Special for Kunstpalast. For a couple of weeks I will be talking with different people that are, each in their own way, connected to the Museum of the City of Düsseldorf - the Kunstpalast. My second guest for these special Episodes is Linda Peitz, writer, curator and founder of the collective CCCCCOMA. Together with Florian Peters-Messer, Linda is the curator of the exhibition "Empört Euch!/Time for Outrage!" at Kunstpalast, on view from October 2020 on. Linda tells her personal story of how she developed from writer to curator, what role photography played in her development, how collaboration and dialogue are essential to her practice and how she approaches the curating of the extensive exhibition "Empört Euch!", which deals with outrage and anger expressed through the arts. We speak in depth about this special exhibition and Linda explains some of the artists and artworks which are included. The conversation was recorded on October 10 and 11, 2020. 31 min., Language: English
NEW! VOICES ON ART Special for Kunstpalast. For the next 4 weeks I will be talking with different people that are, each in their own way, connected to Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Starting with a conversation with Dr. Felix Krämer, general director of Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Felix Krämer speaks about his upbringing as son of a photographer and a ballet dancer, his learning to interpret images with the help of Stern Magazine, his activities at different museums in Germany, the acquisition of the controversially discussed inventory collection of the Galerie Kicken, the difference between beeing a curator and the general director of a Museum and his plans for the future of Kunstpalast. Before taking on his responsibilities in Düsseldorf Felix Krämer was the head of the collection of modern art at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt a.M.. He is also recipient of the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. This episode was recorded on October 1, 2020. 41 min. Language: English
English voice over of the conversation with Dr. Nahlah Saimeh, acclaimed forensic psychiatrist and art afficionado, which was recorded on June 7, 2020. Dr. Saimeh speaks about her research on radicalisation from the point of view of a forensic psychiatrist, her passion for art, the spiritual roots of religion - and art - and about the invaluable meaning art and artists have for a civilized society. 34 min. Language: german with english voice over
A conversation about her work with Cologne based artist Ulrike Schulze. Before Ulrike speaks about her current solo-show „Spectre“ at VAN HORN she relates her early studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, if and how her teachers had an impact on the development of her work and how she herself encounters and converses with her sculptures. Recorded 14 Sep. 2020, 43 min., Language: English
English voice over of a conversation with Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, since 2017 Director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20/K21 in Düsseldorf. Susanne also curated the German pavilion of the Biennale di Venezia 2011, which was originally planned to be designed by Christoph Schlingensief. The pavilion received the "Golden Lion", the highest award of the Biennale. In 2013 she also curated the German contribution to the 55th Venice Biennial. Susanne gives personal insights and speaks about the moment in which she understood how deeply art is connected with life, when encountering works by Mike Kelley or Bruce Nauman during her studies in the early 1990ies. She relates in depth what art means for her personally and reveals that she is driven by the wish to move things. She also explains what it takes to lead an institution with a world class collection into the future - on the human, as well as political and structural level and leaves us with a very positive outlook into whats coming next. Düsseldorf, August 2020, 42 min., Language: german with english voice over
A conversation with Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, since 2017 Director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20/K21 in Düsseldorf. Susanne also curated the German pavilion of the Biennale di Venezia 2011, which was originally planned to be designed by Christoph Schlingensief. The pavilion received the "Golden Lion", the highest award of the Biennale. In 2013 she also curated the German contribution to the 55th Venice Biennial. Susanne gives personal insights and speaks about the moment in which she understood how deeply art is connected with life, when encountering works by Mike Kelley or Bruce Nauman during her studies in the early 1990ies. She relates in depth what art means for her personally and reveals that she is driven by the wish to move things. She also explains what it takes to lead an institution with a world class collection into the future - on the human, as well as political and structural level and leaves us with a very positive outlook into whats coming next. Düsseldorf, August 2020, 43 min., Language: german
A conversation with Matthew Burrows, UK based artist, founder and director of Artist Support Pledge. Matthew speaks about community, generosity, trust, sharing and the values he established when founding Artist Support Projects and, in times of Corona, Artist Support Pledge. He speaks about the eternal value of culture, how he developed the knowledge and skills to support others and realize his platform, which went viral in the past couple of months. It's an enlightening and in depth talk about the opportunities for artists, culture and the market to create an economy which is more open and generous and enables more creators to participate in. 47 min., August 2020, Language: English
A conversation with Henning Boecker, Professor for Clinical Functional Neuro Imaging at the University of Bonn and at the German Center for Neuro Degenerative Disease in Bonn, collector of contemporary art and co-founder of Espace Sauvage in Düsseldorf. Henning speaks about his scientific research, about the effects art and music can have on the brain, how he was initiated into art by his german teacher and Dadaism. He speaks about the older artists that inspired him, why he wanted to relate to his own generation of artists, the individuality of the artistic experience and the reason to open up an art space. He shares how Corona highlights and accelerates certain developments and how collaboration is key in these special times. 34 min., August 2020, Language: English
A conversation with artist and activist Katie Holten. Katie lives between New York City and Ireland and right now is quarantined in California. She speaks about nature connected to her practice of drawing , how drawing helps understanding her relationship with the world and how it is her way of telling stories. She speaks about exhibitions and projects like the „Tree Museum" for the Bronx Museum or her recent exhibition "Irish Tree Alphabet" at Visual Carlow. She also speaks in debth about the climate emergency, the „wood wide web“, the street trees of New York City, how we’re all connected on the planet and how we need to create a new way of story telling.
A conversation with Matt Packer, Director of EVA, Ireland's Biennial. Matt lives and works in Limerick, Ireland. Matt tells us about his studies of documentary photography as a young man, his becoming a curator and how being a parent changed his view of the world. He tells us about the plans for EVA in difficult times and shares a lot of thoughts on how art organisations and institutions must change for the better, be more open and inclusive and support artists and all people involved. Listen to an interesting insight into the irish art scene. 34 min. Language: English
A conversation with Rita McBride, Artist, Professor and former Director of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Rita lives between Los Angeles and Düsseldorf. Rita speaks about her early interest in public art, the importance of openness and collaboration in her artistic practice, the influence the teachings of the 60s and 70s had on her, the freedom they provided and her own challenges as a teacher. She shares personal insights and the emotions arising from her everyday life in Los Angeles and gives her honest assessment about the current political situation in the US. July 2020, language: english
A conversation with Andrew Renton, Professor of curating at Goldsmiths, University of London, writer, curator and relentless advocate for the arts. Andrew speaks passionately about his obsession with art, his strong belief in the discipline of curating, his involvement in the building of the GCCA, his admiration of the artists support pledge by Matthew Burrows, the opportunities he sees in a reset, the generosity and help that was provided in the artworld in the last couple of months, the electrifying bodily encounter when standing physically and intensively in front of a great work of art and why he never loses his optimism. Language: english
A conversation with Robert Müller-Grünow, founder of "Scentcommunication", author of the book "The secret power of scents" and lover of art. With his company he is one of the pioneers of scent developing and marketing in Germany and is also very active with the friends of Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Robert speaks about the psychology and physiology of scent, on how he discovered scent and art in his life, what the special skills and techniques are to create scents for challenging spaces and how his company collaborates with different artists on their exhibitions and projects. 31 min. Language: english
A conversation with Jessica and Evrim Oralkan, the founders of "Collecteurs", the world’s first digital museum of private collections, whose offices are based in New York City. Jessica and Evrim speak in depth about the inspirations, ideas and aims to found this special digital platform as collectors for other collectors, they give their opinion on art and politics, how "Collecteurs" encourages to develop new collaborations and enhanced visibility for it's members and it's benefit for the public. July 2020, 36 min., Language: english
A conversation with Nicole Berry, executive Director of The Armory Show, New York's premier art fair. Nicole speaks about the current situation in New York City, new ideas and projects of The Armory Show and how the fair supports it's galleries. The art community, the desire to see real art and the digital shift, the impact of art in public space, the new date and location of the fair, the need for collaboration, cooperation and the spirit of empathy and compassion. She gives her personal and professional view on how to shape an art fair in an ever changing world. June 2020, 43 min., Language: english
A conversation with the internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka. He speaks about his different artistic identities, his recent and upcoming projects, his connection with the artworld and his ecological engagement. June 2020, 45 min., Language: English
A conversation with Dr. Nahlah Saimeh, acclaimed forensic psychiatrist and art afficionado. Dr. Saimeh speaks about her research on radicalisation from the point of view of a forensic psychiatrist, her passion for art, the spiritual roots of religion - and art - and about the invaluable meaning art and artists have for a civilized society. June 2020, 41 min., Language: German Ein Gespräch mit Dr. Nahlah Saimeh, anerkannte forensische Psychiaterin und Kunstafficionado. Dr. Saimeh spricht über ihre Forschung zur Radikalisierung aus der Sicht einer forensischen Psychiaterin, über ihre Leidenschaft für die Kunst, über die spirituellen Wurzeln der Religion - und der Kunst - und über die unschätzbare Bedeutung, die Kunst und Künstler für eine zivilisierte Gesellschaft haben. Juni 2020, 41 Min., Sprache: Deutsch
A conversation with Carolin Scharpff-Striebich, collector of contemporary art and Director of The Scharpff Collection and the Scharpff Family Foundation. Carolin talks about her upbringing with collecting parents, her personal connection with art, her ideas for developing the collection and many more things. She gives us an insightful glimpse into her thoughts and reflections as a collector. May 2020, 37 min., Language: english
New York City based artist Wendy White tells us her story how she became an artist, what her inspirations and aspirations are and what she is engaged with right now. She shares some personal and insightful observations into making and reflecting about art and the processes that are just starting to be instigated in this special time. May 2020, 38 min. Language: english
A conversation with Andrew Jensen, the founder and co-owner of the galleries Fox Jensen McCrory in Auckland, NZ and Fox Jensen in Sydney, AUS. Andrew tells us about the history of the gallery and how he developed into being a gallerist as a young man. He continues with narrating about how his visions and ideas for the gallery evolved in the past 32 years and reveals very personal and emotional insights into his life with art. He reflects the challenges, but also the new possibilities for the artworld in our current situation and gives us a glimpse into the future. Episode 2, recorded May 2020, 41 min., language english
For this first VAN HORN Podcast I welcome the artist Henrike Naumann, whose work "Das Reich" is on view in the exhibition "Deutschland" at VAN HORN in Düsseldorf through end of June 2020 and Bettina Steinbrügge, the director of Kunstverein Hamburg. Henrike Naumann tells us about the way she researches for her art, what makes her think and inspires her and how she realizes her installations in real space. Bettina Steinbrügge shares her experience of Naumann's art and reveals her thoughts and her wish to create new ideas and vision for an (art)world facing major changes. May 2020, 41 min. Language: German
This Podcast is about my personal and also a lot of other people's enthusiasm for art. What these people have in common is their love for art and their life with art. Art will be at the center of all our talks and as art touches on all parts of life - we talk about all parts of life. May it be society, politics, feminism, identity, personal growth, inspiration, spirituality and much more. This Podcast wants to open up a space for inspiration and also to tell you interesting stories you might enjoy listening to. We’re recording via the internet, please excuse any glitches in sound quality. For more information on VOICES ON ART - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast follow us on instagram @voicesonart and @van_horn_duesseldorf, there you can also leave a comment. Or visit our website van-horn.net and subscribe to VOICES ON ART on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or the platform of your choice. If you want to, leave us a rating. Stay tuned and connect.