Beez And Honey

Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala is an art historian and curator and [Ph. D. Cornell University] Master’s of Arts in Curating, Goldsmith College, London], and the founding director/curator of Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India. Her recent museum curatorial projects include The Future is Here: Art and Technology in Millennial Age [2019], Beyond Transnationalism: The Legacy of Post –Independent from India at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai [April 2017] and Raza Foundation, Delhi [January 2017], India Re- Worlded: Seventy Years of Investigating a Nation [2017] for which she was awarded the curator of the year award by India Today, Given Time: The Gift and Its Offerings [2016] both at Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai. After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997 [2015] at the Queens Museum, and Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema Cricket: The New Cultural Icons of India for the RPG Foundation in Mumbai, and Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India at the Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi [2011]. She was been teaching South Asian Feminism in the Art Institute of Chicago, USA in the Art History department since 2019. She has curated over 150 shows at Lakeeren Gallery, which included an international program of artists from India, Pakistan, Iran, and Germany & Mexico City. She was been teaching South Asian Feminism in the Art Institute of Chicago, USA in the Art History department since 2019. Dr. Lokhandwala writes on globalization, feminism, performance and new media with a specialization in biennale and large-scale exhibitions. Arshiya Lokhandwala lives and works in Mumbai and New York.

Olivier Varenne is a curator and independent art dealer with over 20 years experience working with leading contemporary artists, sourcing and placing quality artworks on behalf of individual collectors and art institutions, and curating exhibitions for museums and galleries.

Olivier has collaborated with established artists including Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Wim Delvoye and Gilbert & George as well as championed emerging contemporary artists like Toby Ziegler, Ryoji Ikeda, Chiharu Shiota and Conrad Shawcross at the start of their career.

Olivier is currently Director of Acquisitions and Curator at MONA (Museum of Old and New Art), after having held the position of Director of Exhibitions and Collection for 13 years. Prior to joining the new museum in 2006, Olivier spent his formative years in London working amongst the Gagosian sales team. Olivier Varenne will be at Art Geneve 2021. www.Varenne.art

ArtXPuzzles is the brainchild of Rachel Vancelette who is currently the owner of Vancelette Global Art Acquisitions Corp, a multi-faceted contemporary art and fashion creative agency dedicated to uniting contemporary and modern art, art, travel, lifestyle, design, and fashion. Vancelette provides global art acquisition services focusing on both modern and contemporary art markets and provides consultation to international art collectors and art and fashion industry clientele. She has remained a contributor for Vogue Italia since 2010, along with Vogue International reaching multiple global markets. She continues to contribute as a top art industry specialist for both arts and fashion industry magazines including Metropolitan Magazine, Mandatory, Urban Mindz, Sculpture among others, focusing on the ongoing conversation between the art and fashion industries.

With experience in the international art market in France, Italy, Spain, London, Korea, Japan and New York, Ms. Vancelette has held positions as senior director including Curatorial Director De Buck Gallery, NYC, Managing Director at fordPROJECT, Curator/Manager of the Domus Collection Beijing/New York, Senior Director of Barbara Gladstone’s 21st Street Gallery, and Senior Director for Yvon Lambert, New York. In 2007, she opened Yvon Lambert Gallery 21st Street location with artist Richard Jackson, working alongside noted architect Richard Gluckman. Ms. Vancelette launched the Gladstone Gallery 21st Street location in 2008 with artist Anish Kapoor, a gallery designed by architect Annabelle Selldorf. With a certification in art appraisal and expertise in blue-chip, mid-career and emerging artist sectors of the contemporary art market, she has provided private art consultation services including acquisition, sales, appraisal, and curatorial management for leading art collectors, artists and art advisors; multiple private and public art collections; non-profits, art foundations and museums in Asia, Europe, South America and the United States. ArtXPuzzles.com for more info

Dim Zayan is an artist and creator of the Bitcoin fable and graphic novel Bulltardia. Out now on Citadel21 www.citadel21.com/bulltardia-ep1 and www.Bulltardia.com for free this graphic novel is reflective of our time and current world situation. You can also purchase Bulltardia with Bitcoin.

Kristian Mondrup is a writer, composer, and visual artist, who lives and works between Copenhagen and Beijing. In 2012 Kristian released his first solo al- bum under the moniker Kala-OK. Since then, his artistic practice has moved towards the field of video, Painting, and installation, often in collaboration with his wife Liu Shiyuan.

The work of Kristian Mondrup has been featured in exhibitions at Louis Vitton Foundation, M-Woods, in Frieze Magazine, Art Review Asia, amongst others.

Hans Op de Beeck (BE) produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts. His work is a reflection on our complex society and the universal questions of meaning and mortality that resonate within it. He regards man as a being who stages the world around him in a tragi-comic way. Above all, Op de Beeck is keen to stimulate the viewers’ senses, and invite them to really experience the image. He seeks to create a form of visual fiction that delivers a moment of wonder, silence and introspection.

Hans Op de Beeck was born in Turnhout in 1969. He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Op de Beeck has shown his work extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world.

He had substantial institutional solo shows at the GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, NL (2004); MUHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE (2006); Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL (2007); Towada Art Center, Towada, JP (2008); Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US (2010); Kunstmuseum Thun, CH (2011); Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, ES (2011); Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, IE (2012); Kunstverein Hanover, DE (2012); Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, US (2013); Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, US (2013); FRAC Paca, Marseille, FR (2013); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US (2014); MOCA, Cleveland, US (2014); Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE (2014); Screen Space, Melbourne, AU (2015); Château de Chimay, Chimay, BE (2015); Espace 104, Paris, FR (2016); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE (2017); Fondazione Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, IT (2017); Kunstraum Dornbirn, DE (2017); Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE (2017); Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, FR (2018); Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, NL (2018); Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, AT (2019); …

Op de Beeck participated in numerous group shows at institutions such as The Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, US; ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE; MACRO, Rome, IT; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, GB; PS1, New York, US; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln, DE; Hangar Bicocca, Milano, IT; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP; 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, US; The Drawing Center, New York, NY, US; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, CN; MAMBA, Buenos Aires, AR; Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE; Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, IT; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE; Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK; Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, BE; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE; Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, DE; …

His work was invited for the Venice Biennale, Venice, IT; Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, CN; Aichi Triennale, Aichi, JP; Singapore Biennale, Singapore, SG; Art Summer University, Tate Modern, London, GB; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, IN, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, US; Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, CH, Setouchi Triennale, Shodoshima, JP, and many other art events.

Paul Laster is a writer, editor, independent curator, artist, and lecturer.

He is a New York desk editor at ArtAsiaPacific and a contributing editor at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. He was the founding editor of Artkrush and Artspace; started The Daily Beast's art section; and was previously art editor of Flavorpill and Russell Simmons OneWorld Magazine.

He is a frequent contributor to Art & Object, Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie, Sculpture, Architectural Digest, Surface, Garage, New York Observer, Cultured, ArtPulse, Upstate Diary, Conceptual Fine Arts, and has written for Art in America, Artnet, Interview, Paper, Flash Art, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Bomb Magazine, Flatt Magazine, ArtInfo, Avenue, Tema Celeste, amNew York, 99 Percent, Two Coats of Paint and On-Verge.

A former Adjunct Curator at New York’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), Laster has organized exhibitions for galleries and nonprofit institutions since 1985. His curatorial projects from the past five years include Santero: Sculptural Works by Jorge A Valdes (2015) at Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn; Adam Frezza & Terri Chaio: Paper Islands (2015) at Humanities Gallery, LIU Brooklyn; A Weekend in the Country (2015) at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York; Maker, Maker (2017) at Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York; Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (2019) at Outsider Art Fair, Paris; Relishing the Raw: Contemporary Artists Collecting Outsider Art (2020) at Outsider Art Fair, New York; Five Artists, Five Mediums, Five Days – A Curated Selection for One Thing (2020) at Intersect Aspen; An Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art (2020) at Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York; Now's the Time: Eight African Painters (2020) at Scope Immersive; and The Desire for Transparency: Contemporary Artists Working with Glass (2020) at Intersect Chicago.

An exhibiting artist, Paul Laster has had 17 solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and participated in numerous group shows worldwide. His works are in many public and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Art Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art.

As a lecturer and visiting critic, Laster has spoken on art and curatorial practices and the use of the Internet and social media for building careers at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Sandberg Institute, New York University, New York’s School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, California Institute of the Arts, Otis Art Institute, University of California in Riverside and Santa Barbara, Florida Atlantic University, Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn Museum, National Academy Museum, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Cyan Museum of Art, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Art Omi, Expo Chicago, the Armory Show, Art Chicago, Marc Straus Gallery, New York Academy of Art, Tyler School of Art, Residency Unlimited, Soho Beach House, Rizzoli Bookstore, Wave Hill, ESKFF at Mana Contemporary, Outsider Art Fair, Trestle Art Space, Pioneer Works, Intersect Aspen, Scope Art Fair and Intersect Chicago.

Relatedly, Laster worked in Publications (1977-88) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and was Publications Manager (1995-98) at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.

LINKS to writing online:

https://www.artandobject.com/authors/paul-laster

https://whitehotmagazine.com/contributors/paul-laster/750

https://www.galeriemagazine.com/author/paul-laster/

https://muckrack.com/paul-laster

Mathias Kessler’s installations and photography draw inspiration from Nature and with his work he highlights Man’s place as co-creator and collaborator in the unfoldment of the Planet.

In these challenging times we must all acknowledge the great work of gallerists showing up everyday to support artists and the creative life of NY. Ronni Anderson is one such gallerist; showing up and doing great work. Visit her at http://www.andersoncontemporary.com/

Guto Ajayu was born in La Paz, Bolivia and now shares his studio time between Madrid, Spain and Paris, France. Listen to him speak about his work and future projects and be inspired by art history in the making.