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

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/

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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.

#voicesonart #independentnewyork #frankmaresca #riccomaresca #paddybedford #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast 

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  

#voicesonart #independentnewyork #jenniferbolande #magentaplains #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast

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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More on #voicesonart and #vanhorngallery on Instagram @voicesonart and @van_horn_duesseldorf

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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/

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On #instagram you find us @voicesonart and @van_horn_duesseldorf

And here in the #shownotes some more information about #brianbutler and #1301pe

Website:

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  

#danielasteinfeld #talk #storytelling #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf

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/

#voicesonart #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #anysreimann #artist

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/