Darling Killers is a podcast where we interrogate artists about a specific artwork they killed during the artistic process. Something with personal meaning to the artist, yet no commercial price tag, something they would not otherwise exhibit or sell.
In the podcast, we single out individual artists who plead guilty of killing a darling, we poke and prod to find out the circumstances, search for the motive and eventually, we strive to redeem the artwork in question through an online âResurrauctionâ.
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Uta Eisenreich is an Amsterdam-based artist and visual researcher. Born in Germany into a family of teachers â a forgetful mathematician, an erratic elementary school teacher, a dancer, and a teenage amateur magician â she grew up channeling these diverse influences. She graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, with humorous photographic works that reveal and question the hidden rules and structures of order (that's the cutting edge of German humour of course). She also works with performance and video. Her critically acclaimed books are artworks in-and-of-themselves, and for the Resurrauction, she offers the world two unique volumes as a set. A not B and AS IF, made together with award winning Julia Born, were subject to mysterious âfuck upsâ in production ten years apart, and for very different reasons. Killed not by the artist, but by external circumstances, these darlings are as desirable as they are obscure! Listen to their stories and join our online auction!
Teaser: book-nerds and collectors: Be excited! This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire these very special editions, even more unique than the official collectable books, offered by the author at the symbolic price of one euro.
Darling Killers #06 - Lieve Hakkers
Season 1 · Episode 7
Thursday, September 18, 2025 âą Duration 34:39
"I had the pleasure of sitting down in the studio with Lieve Hakkers, recipient of the prestigious Royal Award for Free Painting in 2025. Layered and mysterious, her work draws you in with its melancholic intensity. We talk about method, paint, and the body. We talk about her large-scale work, Circle Jerk - a bold painting in six panels that came with a sexual content warning! Lieve is a painterâs painter. Hours of study, research, experimentation and solitude, mix with her bold and original colour palette to create her distinct visual language."
The utterly enchanting, dark little painting she chose for this monthâs Resurrauction, is titled Metallica II. By bidding here you support the artist and Darling Killers directly.
Darling Killers #05 - Ruth van Beek
Season 1 · Episode 6
Thursday, August 21, 2025 âą Duration 32:23
For this episode of Darling Killers, I sit down with the illustrious Ruth Van Beek, and it immediately becomes painfully obvious that I can barely disguise my greed for the small sculpture she brought along as her contribution to this monthâs Resurrauction. Well, I am only human! Ruthâs collages obfuscate and reveal in equal measure. Ruth doesnât hesitate to destroy images in order to create images. She lives and works in a seaside town with her family and a formidable collection of clocks.
Working with an eclectic archive as raw material, she creates playful and painterly works that more often than not, end up in one of her delightful and widely acclaimed artist books. Blue figure is a rare three-dimensional rendering of one of her collages that doubles as a kind of talisman that has served its time watching over the artist's studio.
Darling Killers #04 - Jacopo Calonaci
Season 1 · Episode 5
Thursday, June 12, 2025 âą Duration 30:08
A tall impeccably dressed red headed Italian man with an uncanny resemblance to Vincent van Gogh, and the gift of the gab, is currently working on a series of collectable sculptures and prints, based on a delirious yet adorable inner world. J is for jaded. A is for art lover, C for cringe. O for omg, and the final "P-O" stands for Premature Osteoporosis. Born and raised in Firenze, the cradle of the Renaissance, Jacopo Calonaci, a reformed painter, ended up in Amsterdam, the king-sized bed of art funding, but he never quite got comfortable in that bed. Instead he carved his own path. Check out his Etsy store: @Studio Giggly, where your cutest hallucinations will come to life, and for godâs sake give the seal of excellence, your seal of approval.
Charlott Markus didnât so much kill this darling, as wish to resurrect it! Pygmalion 09, a work from her exam show at the Rietveld Academy, is for all intents and purposes âdead to the worldâ, buried in the past, yet already containing the seeds of themes and patterns that reappear and evolve throughout her work. Extended still lives, activism, textiles, memento mori, the colour blue and last but not least, the coded autobiographical references in seemingly abstract works. Woven into the fabric of her oeuvre, are the people, the places and the ideas that left their mark on her. Informed by a background in psychology and theology, the spirituality contained within this beautifully constructed photographic composition is palpable, and this archival print has been generously offered up for auction at the symbolic starting price of one euro.
Darling Killers #01 - Finn Godwin
Season 1 · Episode 2
Thursday, March 27, 2025 âą Duration 33:07
Our first guest on Darling Killers, Finn Godwin wakes up every morning and gets to work. His embracing of the ethos of homework on the kitchen table is admirable, and his ârestless hand syndromeâ requires that he keeps busy. Ink drawings in the morning, paintings in the afternoon, intricate collage work in the evening. A lot of time and craftsmanship goes into creating each and every elaborate vignette. The truth of the image lies in the detail. Nature is very much his thing, and for our âResurrauctionâ he is offering an incredible piece that took over two years to make, Autumn Garden (unfinished) is a typical specimen of his work, one however he has recently given up on. We urge you to pick up where he left off! The work is available at our âResurrauctionâ at the symbolic starting price of one euro.
Introduction
Season 1 · Episode 1
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 âą Duration 21:42
Hanna, Lina, Tania and Jessie, aka the Dead Darlings Collective, got together in Amsterdam to record a conversation about things to come! We talk about our origins, the ideas baked into the work we do, and we introduce Darling Killers, the podcast where artists are interrogated about an artwork they killed. This work will subsequently be available on our website, where anyone can bid for it at our monthly âresurrauctionâ. Follow, subscribe, stay tuned!