Culturvator Conversations

Caroline Berzi was born and resides in Egypt, where she received her degree in Business Administration. Following a 7-year career as a financial analyst, her passion for the arts led her to become a full-time artist. Caroline recently graduated from SACI Florence with a Post-Bac Studio Arts Degree in 2019, where she focused on painting, serigraph, and installation works. Berzi did one solo show, Genesis (Motion Art Gallery) on the 10th of June and participated in several group shows: Different Melodies (Ubuntu, 2019), Pendulum (Florence, 2019), The Fleeting Other (Florence, 2019), LePasha (Cairo, 2017) and Artabitta (Cairo, 2015 & 2019).

Berzi was always interested in graffiti, colorful and vibrant artworks. Her work developed from charcoal, pencil and oil paintings to the mixed media ones she does now, and using everyday materials to make art. Her work taps a lot into sustainability and raising environmental awareness and concerns, it stemmed from her interest in abstract expressionism and her inspiration from nature. 

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A conversation with Philip Machat, managing director of BARTA Art Insurance. 

“Second to none insuring art” is not only a slogan, it is the core element of Barta & Partner’s philosophy. Barta & Partner is intrinsically connected to the art market.

Barta & Partner has been managed by insurance specialist Nikolaus Barta since it was founded in 1996 in Vienna, Austria. In 1998 Barta & Partner opened offices in London, followed by Zurich in 1999, Singapore in 2005 and Sydney in 2011. Nikolaus Barta brings extensive experience to the art insurance business as prior to establishing Barta & Partner he was integral to establishing the art insurance branch of Nordstern lnsurance and subsequently worked for the AXA Group.

The Barta & Partner team consists of experienced art historians and insurance professionals with outstanding expertise and a full commitment to the client.

Barta & Partner has access to an extensive network within the art market spanning from leading international insurance companies like LLoyds of London to independent security firms, experienced restorers and appraisers working with major auction houses.

Since 20+ years Barta & Partner has been active in the Egyptian Insurance market, being in charge of the insurance of most of the major global traveling exhibitions leaving the Egyptian museums. Among those are Blockbuster exhibitions like Tut Anch Amun, Cleopatra, etc which have been traveling the worlds most important museums around the globe since decades.

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Our founder Nadine Abdelghaffar speaks to H.E Ambassador Paul Garnier, Swiss Ambassador to Egypt. They talk about his background, his incredible career trajectory, the importance of cultural diplomacy and the endeavors that the Embassy of Switzerland in Egypt support. 

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Lecture given by Prof. Dominique Lämmli, titled "How art affects society". 

Lämmli is an artist, philosopher, and educator herself, she works with a comparative and solution-oriented mindset. She has been working for over a decade on art in global contexts and the pressure being brought to bear on existing art notions. She has run practice-based and practice-led research, art and applied projects in joint learning, transdisciplinary, and transcultural settings in Switzerland, Germany, Malawi, Bhutan, India, Hong Kong, China and elsewhere as part of the FOA-FLUX (foa-flux.net) research.

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A conversation with the Egyptian contemporary artist, Rania Ezzat, in which she talks about her practice, diverse experience in the art world, and her current ongoing project. 

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Noura Abla is a Zurich-based curator, theorist and art mediator. She earned her M.A. in Curatorial Studies and Art Mediation from the Zurich University of the Arts. Abla is active in the arts and culture field in Switzerland as well as in the Middle East. She currently the curatorial assistant at the Kunstmuseum Thun in Switzerland and artistic director of the Fayoum Art Center in Egypt.

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Lecture given by Yannick Lintz, director of Islamic Art Department of Louvre Museum, about the Islamic heritage under the spotlight of today's art. 

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Amir Youssef is a visual artist, whose practice is concerned with media archaeology and robotics. He works with a variety of media including video, installation, and sculpture, always exploring aspects of movement and kinetics.

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Nadine Abdelghaffar in conversation with French Ambassador Stéphane Romatet. They discuss the importance of cultural diplomacy. 

We would like to thank the French Embassy and the French Institution in Egypt for making this podcast possible. 

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Our founder Nadine Abdelghaffar, speaks to Yannick Lintz, director of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Paris.

They will be talking about Yannick's educational background and career that spans the industries of art and education and lands at the Louvre where she is now heading the department of Islamic Art.

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