Voices On Art - The Van Horn Gallery Podcast | hosted by Daniela Steinfeld

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"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

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https://van-horn.net/

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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/

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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/

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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

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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