Darren Flook on art, sobriety, and amplifying other voices

In this very personal and wide-ranging conversation Daniela speaks with gallerist, curator and writer, Darren Flook about art, identity, sobriety, and the changing realities of the contemporary art world. They discuss Darren's journey in the art world, from hisworking-class background in England to co-founding the gallery Hotel in London in 2003, which later closed in 2012. Darren expands on his decision to stop making art himself, preferring to focus on curating and supporting other artists. The conversation also turns deeply personal as Darren shares his personal struggles with alcohol, ultimately achieving sobriety. He describes how alcohol shaped his confidenceand relationships, and how becoming sober transformed both his life and his perspective on art and community. The conversation explores how the art world has evolved over the decades, with both participants reflecting on the changes in art fairs, commercial pressures, and the challenges of maintaining authenticity in the contemporary art market. They also discuss the importance of art as a form of expression and community building, beyond commercial transactions and highlight the enduring impact of art, particularly focusing on art's ability to create an emotional response beyond its physical materials.

At its core, this episode explores what art can offer: meaning,emotional resonance, human connection, experiences that resist easy explanation and a way to live ones life with purpose.

Topics include:

• ​Growing up working class and entering the art world
• ​Founding and closing Hotel Gallery
• ​The evolution of art fairs and collecting culture
• ​Curating versus making art
• ​Alcohol, recovery, and rebuilding a life
• ​Why art matters in a commercial world
• ​Emotional responses to art beyond meaning or material
• ​Community, artists, and sustaining creative ecosystems

Book pick: Hermann Hesse, Siddharta, a novel about growth, transformation and becoming yourself.

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From Global Hustle to Local Soul: A Return to Meaning & Connection

In this episode, Anna and Daniela take us deep into therealities of working in the contemporary art world—sharing personal stories, professional turning points, and honest reflections on how the industry has evolved over the past decades.

Anna recounts her early entry into the art scene, from her firstencounters with major figures like Yoko Ono to building her owngallery career across Europe and Los Angeles. Together, they explore the contrasts between museum and gallery work, the rise of the LA art scene in the early 2000s, and the pressures of running a gallery in a globalized market.

The conversation also dives into the changing role of art fairs,the increasing business demands placed on artists, and the importance of maintaining a sustainable work-life balance—especially for women navigating both family and career.

As the episode unfolds, Anna reflects on closing her gallery toprioritize family, her experience with large-scale galleryoperations, and her decision to return to a more intimate, locallygrounded gallery model in Zurich.

The discussion closes with thoughts on collaboration, shifts inthe art market, and a shared vision for a more human-centered future in the art world.

Topics include:

• Entering the art world & early influences

• Gallery vs. museum careers

• The LA art scene in the 2000s

• Art fairs and global market dynamics

• Work-life balance in a demanding industry

• Cultural differences in professional life

• Supporting mid-career and female artists

• Future collaborations and evolving gallery models

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This episode is created in cooperation with the Independent 20th Century. It will be part of the fairs OVR.

Thiago Gomide is a founding partner of Gomide&Co, a gallery based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Artists Julia Isídrez, Paraguay and Maria Lira Marques, Brazil, will feature jointly in a presentation by Gomide&Co at Independent 20th Century this September.

Interested in art since his childhood, Thiago first followed another passion by studying architecture. Having to make a living in Brazil this seemed to cover basic needs and interests. His career in the art world started at the age of 20 with founding a small gallery for modern Brazilian furniture in his hometown Belo Horizonte, following an agreement with his mother. Out of sheer curiosity he contacted collector Bernardo Paz, started working for him and was deeply involved in the creation and construction of the Inhotim, a world famous collection of contemporary art. After 7 years he felt it was time to move on, so he moved to São Paulo, where he created the contemporary art and photography department at the renowned auction house Bolsa de Arte. In 2013, Thiago co-founded his own gallery. Thiago talks his diverse stations of working and learning, the special situation in Brazil, his personal relations with the art community and the influence of the big international art fairs.

He talks in depth about the two artists Julia and Maria Lira, whose works Gomide&Co. will show for the first time at the Independent 20th Century. Thiago follows his own insights, his need to grow and develop and his passionate interest for art, design and architecture. In this he paved his own path from Brazil into the international markets and vice versa. He never forgets his community, the people that follow and support the gallery, and always invents new ideas and approaches to accommodate artists and collectors and to enhance and extend these profound relations into the future.

41 min., Recorded August 13, 2024, language english

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Book recommendation:

Brazilian Modern Design | Móvel Moderno Brasileiro

by Alberto Vicente, Marcelo Vasconcellos, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos

ISBN-13 978-8562114755

A conversation with the internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka. He speaks about his different artistic identities, his recent and upcoming projects, his connection with the artworld and his ecological engagement. June 2020, 45 min., Language: English

A conversation with Dr. Nahlah Saimeh, acclaimed forensic psychiatrist and art afficionado. Dr. Saimeh speaks about her research on radicalisation from the point of view of a forensic psychiatrist, her passion for art, the spiritual roots of religion - and art - and about the invaluable meaning art and artists have for a civilized society. June 2020, 41 min., Language: German Ein Gespräch mit Dr. Nahlah Saimeh,  anerkannte forensische Psychiaterin und Kunstafficionado. Dr. Saimeh spricht über ihre Forschung zur Radikalisierung aus der Sicht einer forensischen Psychiaterin, über ihre Leidenschaft für die Kunst, über die spirituellen Wurzeln der Religion - und der Kunst - und über die unschätzbare Bedeutung, die Kunst und Künstler für eine zivilisierte Gesellschaft haben.  Juni 2020, 41 Min., Sprache: Deutsch

A conversation with Carolin Scharpff-Striebich, collector of contemporary art and Director of The Scharpff Collection and the Scharpff Family Foundation. Carolin talks about her upbringing with collecting parents,  her personal connection with art, her ideas for developing the collection and many more things. She gives us an insightful glimpse into her thoughts and reflections as a collector. May 2020, 37 min., Language: english

New York City based artist Wendy White tells us her story how she became an artist, what her inspirations and aspirations are and what she is engaged with right now. She shares some personal and insightful observations into making and reflecting about art and the processes that are just starting to be instigated in this special time. May 2020, 38 min. Language: english

A conversation with Andrew Jensen, the founder and co-owner of the galleries Fox Jensen McCrory in Auckland, NZ and Fox Jensen in Sydney, AUS. Andrew tells us about the history of the gallery and how he developed into being a gallerist as a young man. He continues with narrating about how his visions and ideas for the gallery evolved in the past 32 years and reveals very personal and emotional insights into his life with art. He reflects the challenges, but also the new possibilities for the artworld in our current situation and gives us a glimpse into the future.  Episode 2, recorded May 2020, 41 min., language english

For this first VAN HORN Podcast I welcome the artist Henrike Naumann, whose work "Das Reich" is on view in the exhibition "Deutschland" at VAN HORN in Düsseldorf through end of June 2020 and Bettina Steinbrügge, the director of Kunstverein Hamburg. Henrike Naumann tells us about the way she researches for her art, what makes her think and inspires her and how she realizes her installations in real space. Bettina Steinbrügge shares her experience of Naumann's art and reveals her thoughts and her wish to create new ideas and vision for an (art)world facing major changes. May 2020, 41 min. Language: German

Talking about art, life and being human. This bi-weekly/monthly Podcast is about my personal and also a lot of other people's enthusiasm for art. What these people have in common is their love for art and their life with art. Art will be at the center of all our talks and as art touches on all parts of life - we talk about all parts of life. May it be society, politics, feminism, identity, personal growth, inspiration, spirituality and much more. This Podcast wants to open up a space for inspiration and also to tell you interesting stories you might enjoy listening to. We’re recording via the internet, please excuse any glitches in sound quality. For more information on „Voices On Art - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast“ follow us on instagram @voicesonart and @van_horn_duesseldorf, there you can also leave a comment. Or visit our website van-horn.net and subscribe to „Voices On Art“ on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or the platform of your choice. If you want to, leave us a rating. Stay tuned and connect.

This episode is created in cooperation with the Independent 20th Century art fair. It will be part of the fairs OVR.

Brad Kahlhamer is an artist of indigenous descent, adopted by German-American parents. Being a free spirit, a wanderer and a person with unquenchable curiosity, profoundly shaped his multidisciplinary work. Kahlhamer's art often incorporates themes and imagery from indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, aiming to modernize traditional forms and present them in a contemporary context. In the early 1990s, he used materials like inner tube rubber for sculptures and later transitioned to oil paintings, characterized by thick layers, song lyrics, and primitive figures. His integration of ledger drawings, viewed by him as America’s first graphic novels, is a significant aspect of his work.

Growing up in Arizona, Brad enjoyed a childhood filled with freedom and outdoor adventures, which later fueled his creative expression. Music was integral to his early life, and he pursued it alongside visual arts, deeply influenced by differents bands and musical styles from rock, beat and soul to punk.

In the early 1980s, Kahlhamer moved to New York to immerse himself in the vibrant art scene. There, he worked at Topps Chewing Gum, where he met Art Spiegelman and became involved in the underground comic scene.

Currently, Kahlhamer is working on the Nomadic Studio project, creating a series of 100 Moleskine notebooks filled with drawings and ideas.

Kahlhamer's art uniquely fuses his personal history, and a wide array of cultural influences, making it both deeply personal and broadly resonant. His work spans various media, including monumental paintings, intricate sculptures, installations, and drawings, drawing inspiration from cartoons, pop art, graphic novels, indigenous art, and his prolific sketchbooks.

Brad will showcase paintings and drawings from the 1990s at the Independent 20th Century with Venus Over Manhattan and has a solo show planned with the gallery in 2025.

Recorded July 23, 2024, 32 min., language english, artist portrait Doug Miles

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Squeak Carnwath, *1947, is an artist, painter and printmaker based in Oakland, California. She will be showing with Jane Lombard at the Independent 20th c, exhibiting her rarely seen works from the 1990s. We're talking how Squeak discovered her love for making art as a young girl through her curiosity for the materials surrounding her. She would empty her mother's kitchen cabinets and create big pictures on the kitchen floor, resulting in her first art experience. Growing up on the east coast, the family was moving a lot due to her fathers job, who would support Squeak's artistic talent by bringing back all kinds of art supplies from his business trips. Squeak reflects on her determination and the rebellious act of becoming a woman artist in these times, as well as what it takes to make art on a psychological and material level. Having gone through numerous painting classes at different times in her life and years of training at different universities, she realized that for her the true revelation lies in doing and experiencing for herself. Her art touches on life without imitating it but questioning it, dwelling upon it, not to find answers but to address things and topics that are meaningful to her . Squeak is not interested in replicating what she sees, she considers painting as kind of a „spiritual extension of the soul". Carnwath's works are a hybrid between recognizable images, text and abstraction, sometimes imitating materials to the point of trompe l'oeil. 38 min., recorded July 2 , 2024, language english, artist portrait by Kurt Fishback https://www.independenthq.com/ https://www.squeakcarnwath.com/ https://www.janelombardgallery.com/squeak-carnwath Your host: https://van-horn.net Instagram: @independent_hq @squeakcarnwath @janelombardgallery @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf #VoicesOnArt #Independent20thCentury #IndependentHQ #Podcast #Talk #storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld #VoicesOnArt #SqueakCarnwath #artist #painting #JaneLombardGallery

Welcome back to the Voices On Art Podcast. This is the 90th Episode, created in cooperation with Independent 20th Century. My guest is Alma Luxembourg, partner of Luxembourg & Co., with galleries in New York City and London and head of the London branch. Luxembourg & Co. already exhibited two times at the Independent 20th Century and will again bring a specially curated project to the 2024 edition of the fair. Alma grew up in an household filled with art, both parents being avid collectors and friends of artists. Her mother Danielle working for an auction house, being co-chief in an auction house, before founding Luxembourg & Dayan with Amalia Dayan, of which Alma later became a partner as well. Alma had to find her own way into the art world though and reflects deeply and insightful about this in our talk. Although first studying politics she learned all art related skills in the diverse institutions she worked for – may it be museum like entities, galleries or auction houses. In 2011 Amalia Dayan asked her to partner up with Luxembourg & Dayan, which later was to become the gallery it is now – Luxembourg & Co. The gallery is co-owned by Daniella and Alma Luxembourg, concentrating on private sales and museum-style curated exhibitions by leading modern and contemporary artists. Alma talks her initial hesitation to follow in the footsteps of her mother, discovering on the way her own passion for art, understanding what she didn't know yet and what she had to learn and meeting people who shared their knowledge, expertise and insights with her. For Alma and Luxembourg & Co. passion is at the core of everything they do, a deep rooted desire to know more, to dig deeper and to always do the best one can – or not to do it at all. She reflects in depth about her past 20 years in the art world and gives us a glimpse of her plans for the future, in which she hopes she can continue what she already does, just to have the opportunity to do more of it. For Alma collaboration, dialogue and a personal, individual approach is key. The talk was recorded between London and Düsseldorf on June 20, 2024. It was held in english and is about 49 min. long. If you like Voices On Art please share it with your friends and give us a good rating on your podcast platform. The book I mentioned in this Episode is: “Großes Ey” a novel about the life of Johanna Ey, a Dusseldorf based baker in the first half of the 20th century, who became an important art supporter and dealer. This book is in german, but you may find information about her in english as well. https://www.independenthq.com/ https://luxembourgco.com/ Your host: https://van-horn.net Instagram: @independent_hq @luxembourg_co @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf #VoicesOnArt #Independent20thCentury #IndependentHQ #Podcast #Talk #storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld #VoicesOnArt #AlmaLuxembourg #Luxembourg_Co #Gallery

Janis Provisor is a New Yorker, residing between Connecticut and New York City.

Janis is an accomplished artist with a vast career in the arts, showing in galleries all over the world as well as having her work in many museum collections. Janis will be having a solo-presentation of her work with Halsey McKay at the Independent 2024.

Now in her seventies Janis gathered a lot of experience in art and life and shares her wisdom in our talk.

Being very young she was taken to Museums by Family members. She already felt then she wanted to be an artist, not knowing at all what that was about. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, right after the Summer of Love, receiving her MFA in 1971. Although the 70s were a great time for experimenting and going new ways in the arts and society, it was not a great time for women resp. women artists. Janis reflects on how the status of women has changed in the past decades and how much there is still to do.

In 1989, along with her husband and son, she left New York for an adventure in China and Hong Kong, they ended up staying for nine years, running their own company Fort Street Studios in China in the 1990s, designing, manufacturing, and selling hand-knotted silk carpets. Through all these years she constantly developed and experimented, which helped her finding her individual voice as artist and woman.

Janis often starts her paintings with writing and putting her thoughts, her feelings out on the canvas. In the process of painting those words often get obscured and a physical and emotional process starts, in which Janis let's loose and allows her body to paint the way it needs to. Being jewish, she now processes and expresses her torn feelings about the war and the humanitarian crisis in the near east.

For the presentation at the Independent she is now creating a new body of work, which will be as free and open as possible, while still being very concentrated and essential to fit the format of a fair presentation.

41 min., recorded February 21, 2024, language english

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Vian Sora b. 1976 in Baghdad, Iraq, is an iraqi-american painter, living and working in Louisville, Kentucky. Growing up in Baghdad in a kurdish arab family coming from academia and culture, the great and rich Mesopotamian foundation of her cultural heritage is fundamental to her. Her life was enriched by both cultures as well as threatened by the persecution her family experienced. War, violence and death were part of those years, as was the beauty and sublimity her parents tried to install in her life through exposure to culture and art. Life and death were always on the same plate. One can't approach Vian's work and her narrative without touching upon her background, which informed her life and now is also lending itself as backdrop of the work. She uses herself, the bodily, emotional and psychological experiences she had to go through to transform the hurt and pain into an utterly positive and energetic lust for life, which is brought into the world through her body and flows into her paintings. Her aim is to bring beauty and richness out of the horrific past. Vian talks her migration through many countries, her studies (including Computer Science), her painterly process, her obsession with color, form, texture, painting and her love for different cultures. She opens herself up to a cornucopia of influences, landscapes, experiences, filtering it all through the microcosmos of every cell in her body and releasing it onto the canvas. Her deep color sense, the patterns she finds are beautiful with a very sophisticated sense of composition, however frequently a dark form lurks in the shadows. Vian also discusses her solo presentation with David Nolan Gallery at the Independent, which she intends to be an immersive experience for the viewer – a booth with large scale, vibrant paintings one can't only look upon, but has to fully encounter. Recorded February 20, 2024, 32 min., language english https://www.independenthq.com/ artists website and instagram: https://www.viansora.com/ https://www.instagram.com/viansora/ interview with Vian Sora: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVyo_c8-dJc&t=847s gallery website: https://www.davidnolangallery.com/artists/vian-sora your host: https://van-horn.net/podcast/ #IndependentNY #independent_hq #artfair #VianSora #DavidNolan #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld

This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent NYC. Anton Svyatsky (b. 1991, Moscow) is an American philosopher, curator, artist studio manager and gallery owner based in NYC. He has worked on, among others, parallel program exhibitions for different Biennials and has organized exhibitions at galleries in Europe and the US. He has been a guest lecturer at diverse Universities and is the studio director of the art collective AES+F. Anton founded his gallery „Management“ in 2021 partly as reaction on the Covid crisis, partly because his credentials didn't fit into other galleries job descriptions and partly because his threshold for taking risks has always been exceptionally low. Having the mind of a thinker, being a studied philosopher, he nevertheless turned out to be a self-taught maker and entrepreneur, first in his own design studio as well as now in his gallery. Anton reflects on him growing up as the son of a famous artist, dropping out of high school, studying philosophy and, after wearing many hats, „wiggling“ his way into the art world. He believes in serendipity and that doors open for somebody taking risks while at the same time having a plan. Quoting Hannibal Smith of the A-Team, Anton says: „ I love it when a plan comes together“. Still, he doesn't take the easy road, he is interested in complicating things, playing the devils advocate and therefore chooses artists purely relying on his own taste and unique reaction to their work. Artists whose voices have the potential of becoming loud and being heard. He says: „You want to be part of something great and a gallery is a legitimate way of doing it.“ In our conversation, Anton covers the entire gamut of the art world, leaving us with smart reflections on art, the general gallery model, the voice of artists, the importance of art fairs and their intertwined relations. At the Independent Art Fair „Management“ will show a solo presentation by Anastasia Komar, on which Anton reflects in depth. He explains the scientific background of her work, it's connections with something like the „divine“, how the works are executed and mentions their eerie beauty. Anastasia's practice is highly original in both subject matter and execution. It looks at a field that is impenetrable to the layman and translates it into the realm of visceral visual communication that literally halts people in their tracks. With progress toward "divine powers" accelerating at an ever-increasing pace, from genetic modification to artificial intelligence, it is important to occasionally pause and ponder its implications. For Independent, Anastasia is preparing her most ambitious work to date which aims at nothing less than to ensnare the public and lead them to these urgent reflections. Recorded January 23, 2024, 33 min., language english Links:https://management.nyc/ https://www.independenthq.com/ https://van-horn.net/podcast/

Lingzhi Zhuang is a chinese exhibition maker, project space and gallery owner based in Shanghai. Her gallery LINSEED was established in 2022, focusing on a younger generation of asian and international artists. Having studied at Goldsmith's in London, Lingzhi received the call to take a post at Pearl Lam Galleries, one of the most acclaimed galleries in Asia, asking her to move to Shanghai. After several other stations Lingzhi decided during Covid to open her own space and ultimately her gallery LINSEED in 2022. The gallery highlights emerging artists and fuses asian and western approaches. Lingzhi relates the beginnings of her project space, the support she received to realize her vision and how she founded her gallery LINSEED in challenging times. She reflects a new generation in China, to which she herself belongs to. Young people leading nomadic lifes, often going abroad to study in the UK, the US or elsewhere and bringing back those manifold influences to their home country. She herself attaches great importance on friendship, trust and community. Although having learned her skills in galleries with a more corporate background, she believes in a new way of working together, while still not losing view of the business side of things. Lingzhi also talks about the solo presentation of Asami SHOJI (b.1988, Japan) which LINSEED will show at Independent New York 2024. It will be featuring Shoji's latest series of daily and gestural paintings that encapsulate the passing of time and life. Each painting in this series, created in a continuous sequence, represents a specific day or moment, reflecting the artist's state and her environment. Recorded January 29, 2024, 32 min., language english Links: https://www.linseedprojects.space/https://www.independenthq.com/ https://van-horn.net/podcast/ #VoicesOnArt #IndependentSpecial #IndependentArtFair #NewYorkCity #LingzhiZhuang #Linseed #Shanghai #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #DanielaSteinfeld #Art #Talk #Storytelling #Podcast

Koen Delaere, b. 1970 Brugges, Belgium is an artist, painter and professor. He lives and works in Tilburg, Netherlands. For Delaere the body, it‘s unique expressions and sensitivities, the conditions under which it creates etc. are crucial in creating his bold material paintings. Koen talks his childhood, being a kind of outsider, his need to create and invent from an early age on and his artistic roots in the world of music and punk. His paintings are made from a realm of physical experience, of direct contact with and reactions on the nature of specific materials (like paint) and an almost performative element of execution. His exhibition „Just Kids“, with Elisabeth Vary, is on view at VAN HORN, Düsseldorf through March 9, 2024. Recorded January 10, 2024, 43 min., language english https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/ Instagram: @koendelaere @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf #KoenDelaere #Artist #Painting #exhibition #van_horn_duesseldorf #VanHornGallery #VoicesOnArt

A very happy new year and welcome to the first episode of 2024, which at the same time is the last episode of 2023, as it was recorded November 29, 2023. My guest Tobias Zielony is an artist, photographer, filmmaker, writer and Professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Tobias relates his background and upbringing in the former industrial area of the Ruhrgebiet, the inheriting of his first camera from his older brother and the different stations of his studies - from his beginnings at one of the best schools for documentary photography in Wales in the UK to studying with Timm Rautert at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Tobias talks his approach towards his artistic projects, building trust with his protagonists and the way he conducts his research. He addresses the small – and big – changes that happened within the media of photography and image making itself during the last decades and reflects this framework and his working within it from the 1990ies to the present day and beyond. This Episode was recorded on 29 November, 2023 and published on 2 January 2024. 44 min, language english. Portrait photo by Halina Kliem. Shownotes: https://van-horn.net/https://kow-berlin.com/artists/tobias-zielonyhttps://liarumma.com/artists/tobias-zielonyhttps://marta-herford.de/en/ausstellungen/dark-data/https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/collect/artists/tobias-zielony.php #TobiasZielony #Photography #Images #Media #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #Art #Life #Talk #Interview #Storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld

Thinking Together

Recorded live on February 7, 2026 – This episode is in German.

In this live conversation, I speak with Nicolaus Schafhausen — gallerist, curator, author, and exhibition maker. Nicolaus began his career as an artist before consciously stepping into other roles within the art world, shaping institutions and discourses from multiple perspectives.

Over the decades, he has co-founded the gallery Lukas & Hoffmann in Berlin and Cologne and has held numerous influential positions: Artistic Leader at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Director of Frankfurter Kunstverein, Founding Director of the European Kunsthalle in Cologne, Director of Witte de With in Rotterdam, Strategic Director of the Shorefast Foundation on Fogo Island, Commissioner of the German Pavilion at the 52nd and 53rd Venice Biennales, Director of Kunsthalle Wien — and most recently, Founder and Director of KIN, a gallery for contemporary art in Brussels.

We begin briefly with the question of how Nicolaus carved out his own path in the arts — and then move directly into the present moment and its challenges.

Who buys art today — and why?

How has that changed in recent years?

What shifts do we see coming?

And how do we, as gallerists, respond?

But also: To whom do we sell? Is there something like a moral radar when placing artworks? What responsibility do we carry toward artists, collectors, institutions — and toward one another?

We speak openly about relationships: between artists and galleries, between money and values, between conviction and compromise. There are more questions than answers — but we both agree that thinking together, publicly and honestly, is a powerful place to begin.

After the book recommendation, there is a bonus Q&A with the audience.

Book Pick

I recommend the Gereon Rath series by Volker Kutscher, the literary basis for the acclaimed TV series Babylon Berlin.

Published in Germany by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, in English by Sandstone Press, and as an audiobook by OsterwoldAudio.

The novels paint a vivid portrait of Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s — a city vibrating with jazz, avant-garde art, nightlife, and radical political energy during the Weimar Republic. What begins as a time of cultural freedom and experimentation gradually gives way to fear, propaganda, and conformity. Art and the press come under pressure — and with them, free thought itself.

Kutscher shows how quickly an open society can erode when extremism, economic instability, and disinformation converge. It is a powerful reminder that art and culture are never neutral — they are deeply tied to freedom, and therefore often the first to be threatened.

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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Schafhausen

https://van-horn.net/podcast/

My guest is Christina Végh, who since 2020 is the first woman director of Kunsthalle Bielefeld and before that was the first woman director of Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover. Earlier on she headed the Bonner Kunstverein and worked as a curator at Kunsthalle Basel. Having been brought up in Switzerland in a cultured family, with relatives in Austria, Hungary, the former Czech Republic and the US, Christina learned early how to brigde differences and translate between languages, cultures and styles of communication. She tried herself in quite some fields, including goldsmithing, but in each of them ended up being fascinated by the historical aspects. Questioning how what happened before affects us know and shapes what is to come. She realized exhibitions with artists like Monica Bonvicini, Monika Baer, John Baldessari, Rita McBride, Haegue Yang, Charline von Heyl, Annette Kelm, James Richards, Franz Erhard Walther, Christopher Williams and Nicole Eisenman, to name but a few. She also was responsible for extensive group exhibitions, like „Where art can happen, the early years of Cal Arts“, co-curated by Philipp Kaiser – who was also a guest on this podcast - and „Made in Germany Drei“. Christina is also active on numerous committees and juries. In our conversation she talks about the different needs of a Museum vs. a Kunstverein and how art and exhibitions are related to specific places. One of her core interests, besides art and art history, was always architecture, which is the reason she felt drawn to the post at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, an architectural landmark by Philip Johnson. She reflects in depth on how she and her team will take on the task of renovating and extending the Museum in a meaningful and functional way. She speaks about the programming during the time the museum is under construction, in which there will be more projects in the city space, „meeting the city on new terms“ and including new types of audiences. She reflects on the deep need of humans to be connected with art and culture, especially in times of hardship. Christina Végh is mother of two children and lives with her family in Bielefeld, Germany. This Episode was recorded on 30 October, 2023 and published on 7 December 2023. 45 min, language english. Shownotes: https://kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/ https://kunstaspekte.art/person/christina-vegh https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_V%C3%A9gh https://van-horn.net/ #ChristinaVegh #KunsthalleBielefeld #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #Art #Life #Talk #Interview #Storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld

Marina Faust is an always curious, open minded, experimental, self-taught artist and photographer. Raised in Vienna in an culturally interested household, she left her hometown following love and art, living in New York City, Italy and Paris. She often was at the right time at the right place, walking into the right situations and meeting the right people. Her openness and sensitivity led her through open doors and gave her a career start as press, documentary and interior photographer. Her skills and curiosity made her the main photographer for Martin Margiela for almost 20 years. Through the years she developed her unique approach to art making and photo printing, exhibiting in galleries and institutions worldwide. Recently she had an extensive exhibition at the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg and Gallery Xippas in Paris, which is up right now. The talk was recorded September 19, 2023. 45 min., language english. Shownotes: https://marinafaust.com/ http://material-magazine.com/marina-faust-martin-margiela/ https://www.xippas.com/exhibitions/marina-faust-in-the-effort-to-keep-day-and-night-together/ http://giannimanhattan.com https://van-horn.net/ #MarinaFaust #Art #Photography #Collage #MartinMargiela #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast @van_horn_duesseldorf @voicesonart

Hello again! Happy to be back after the break. This is a special Episode, a live talk between artist Gerold Miller and me on the occasion of his exhibition "modern sculpture" at VAN HORN in Düsseldorf. Apologies to my english speaking listeners - the talk is in german. We will soon provide a video of the talk with english subtitles on the VAN HORN youtube channel. Gerold talks the gamut of his life, from his studies in the south of Germany in the 1980's, to travelling the world, while developing his work and making new inventions, to the current show at the gallery. It's a great talk in which Gerold very openly reveals what he does, what is his drive and what it means for him to be an artist. 26 min., recorded September 3, 2023, language german A big thank you goes to our friend Lars Monshausen, who provided his skills and the technical equipment to record the talk. To see Gerold‘s show got to our website: https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/ more about the artist here: https://geroldmiller.de/ #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #DanielaSteinfeld #GeroldMiller

In this special anniversary Independent art fair Episode artist Beverly Semmes talks her methodist upbringing, the influence her grandma's craftmansship had on her work, the friends and colleagues she met on the way and how all of this contributed to the development of her work. She shares her feeling the need to "fix pornography" in some of the paintings she will present at the Independent art fair and discusses the work in depth which she will be showing in the joint booth of Susan Inglett Gallery and Specific Object, as well as Kapp Kapp. Beverly shares which artists inspired her and the inspiration and connection she experiences in her long lasting friendships and how essential these relations are in her life and art. 34 min., recorded April 6, 2023 Portrait photo Ross collab Shownotes: https://beverlysemmesstudio.com/ https://www.independenthq.com/ https://www.inglettgallery.com/ #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #BeverlySemmes #SusanInglettGallery #KappKapp #NewYorkCity #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling

My guests for this special Independent art fair episode are Susan Inglett, founder of the eponymous gallery, since 1994 in New York and David Platzker, an expert in artists' books and related ephemera. Susan Inglett Gallery provides representation for a range of artists, emerging to established, working across media and develops a program of surprising juxtapositions. David Platzker is President of Specific Object, a gallery, bookstore and think-tank dedicated to art post 1959, archiving and selling a range of items from art to counterculture. From 2013 to 2018 David was Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art. Susan and David will have a joint presentation with artists Yayoi Kusama, Lynda Benglis and Beverly Semmes at this years Independent. Susan and David lead us through an exciting, in depth story about the New York art world of the 1960s and 70s. The talk covers artists projects in pornographic publications, explores their backgrounds, discusses feminist liberation vs. the male gaze and reveals what we can learn through those analog ways of communication in our digital age. David talks the (acclaimed) artists he met on the way, which were engaged with those special publications and covers the joint booth with Susan Inglett at the Independent, highlighting three feminist artists from different generations, addressing nudity and porn, reclaiming sexuality. Susan shares insights about her path as a gallerist and the special work gallery artist Beverly Semmes will contribute to their three artists booth. 37 min., recorded April 5, 2023 Susan Inglett portrait by Grace Roselli, Pandora's BoxX Project David Platzker portrait by Martin Seck Shownotes: https://www.independenthq.com/ https://specificobject.com/ https://www.inglettgallery.com/ #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #SusanInglett #SusanInglettGallery #DavidPlatzker #SpecificObject #NewYorkCity #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling

My guest for this special Independent art fair Episode is Nina Johnson, who runs her eponymous gallery in Miami since more than 15 years. Nina was born into a family of business owners on the maternal side, dealing being a part of her DNA. As a child she developed a deep interest in the history and charging of objects and the stories that could be told through them. She decided to become an art dealer and knew, to excell in that field, she needed a deeper understanding of the way artists make work. From her teenage years on she learned and worked at galleries, while through studying art she got the deep knowledge she desired. Nina discusses the importance of personal, long lasting relationships and her dedication to find "her people". For her, place and space of a gallery have to be interrelated and match the hosting City and it's local indvidual characteristics - Nature, Architecture, Neighborhood. She shares her take on art fairs and explores her special admiration for the Independent, where she will show a solo-presentation by artist Rob Davis.

38 min., recorded March 8, 2023, Portrait photo by Gesi Schilling

Shownotes:

https://www.independenthq.com/

https://ninajohnson.com/gallery/

About

Founded by Nina Johnson in 2007, the eponymous Nina Johnson gallery is both a pillar of Miami’s contemporary art community and an internationally recognized art space known for its eclectic and intuitive program. The gallery has produced renowned exhibitions by a diverse range of emerging and established artists from around the world, including Judy Chicago, Awol Erizku, Rochelle Feinstein, Derek Fordjour, Emmett Moore, Woody De Othello, and Katie Stout. Nina Johnson is dedicated to the discovery of hidden pockets of talent and divergence in the art world, priding itself on artist-driven relationships that center on authenticity and variety. #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #NinaJohnson #Miami #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling

On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair I’m speaking with Tara Downs, who has been working as a gallerist in different cities and developed her own approach through many phases and stages. Tara talks her passion of working in the artworld, the benefits and the downfalls, her philosophy on team building, excellence, embracing challenges and being invigorated by change. She states that her gallery is much bigger than her - the team, the artists and collectors being part of a greater whole. At the Independent Tara Downs will show four women artists dealing with sexuality, pornography and feminism, opening up spaces for discourse and dispute. This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition. Recorded March 7, 2023, 33 min. Shownotes https://taradowns.com/fairs/independent-new-york https://www.independenthq.com/ #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #TaraDowns #NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling

On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair I’m speaking with D’Angelo Lovell Williams (b. 1992, Jackson, Mississippi) who is a Black, HIV-positive artist expanding narratives of Black and queer intimacy through photography. D'Angelo will have a presentation with Higher Pictures Generation at the Independent. We talk their upbringing in Jackson, Missisippi, their early love for images and objects and how the path lead through years of art courses to Art School and creating work as artist and photographer. They discuss being black and queer and how the representation of black, queer and non-mainstream bodies in mainstream visual culture is lacking. They identify as non-binary, they don’t want to be identified as male ore female as they feel these terms are limiting, creating prejudices and expectations of male and female roles and make only sense for animals in a biological way. D'Angelo creates images they themselves want to see - being aware they might not be for everybody. Images that speak of family, history, black men, love, sex, softness, tenderness, beauty and maybe sometimes sadness or pain. This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition. Recorded February 27, 2023, 45 min. Shownotes: https://www.dangelolovellwilliams.com/ https://higherpictures.com/artists/dangelo-lovell-williams-2/ https://www.independenthq.com/ #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #HigherPicturesGeneration #DAngeloLovellWilliams #NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling

On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair in New York im speaking with Jessica Stoller. She is an artist working in an elaborate way with clay. She mines the rich and complicated history of porcelain, which she often displays in overwhelming installations and tableaus. Jessica will be having a solo exhibition with PPOW at this years Independent. Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit the lure and power of making things things with her own hands created meaning and served as a refuge and escape from monotony and conformity of Suburbia for Jessica. She was very comfortable spending time alone having her own inner world and being fascinated with materials and beautiful objects. Growing up catholic, she discusses how the imagery of catholizism influenced her and how visiting an all girls catholic school was very intense, but also empowering and subtly feminist. We discuss her manifold interests and her research about the female body, her own body, the relationship to the world, girl culture, materialism, the meaning of objects, sexism and sexist language, authoritarian regimes and misogyny, decoration, beauty, the grotesque, witch trials, wise women - to which her work at Independent will speak to. She talks her love of clay as material and the special care and attendance it needs and how she explores through it what it means to be a human, a woman in the world at this time and place. This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition. Recorded February 27, 2023, 36 min. Shownotes https://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/jessica-stoller#tab:thumbnails Working in the realm of figurative sculpture, Jessica Stoller (b. 1981) mines the rich and complicated history of porcelain, harnessing its links to power, desire, and taste. Synthesizing the cultural, historical, and corporeal notions of the female body, Stoller expands the feminist visual vernacular and makes space for subversion, defiance, and play. For Stoller the ‘grotesque’ becomes a powerful tool to challenge patriarchal power structures, as female figures flaunt what they are told to hide, reveling in their own pleasure and abjection. Stoller lives and works in West New York, NJ. https://www.independenthq.com/ #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #PPOW #JessicaStoller #NewYork #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling

On the occasion of this years' Independent Art fair in New York I'm speaking to John Corbett co-founder – with Jim Dempsey - of the gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago. John discusses his deep and ongoing interest in experimental and improvised music, his getting in touch with art through teaching at the Art Institute and how meeting Jim, with his background in film, led to a natural collaborative spirit in founding the gallery (with it's own record label) which carries through until today. Corbett vs. Dempsey were coming up in Chicago, a city within which culture is often undertaken as a Community based practice and their working together reflect that respect for all people involved. John speaks about the importance that the history and cultural legacy of Chicago has in forming the galleries attitude and programm and the special working condition Chicago provides. He explains the unexpected ways in which the artists and musicians they work with inspire each other. The gallery is deeply interested in the historical, not only referring to histories of the past, but also paying attention to histories being written right now and being part of that new history being written. They highlight the role Archives play in writing and re-writing histories and making things visible. John and Jim only do and show what they love, their gallery runs on enthusiasm and the belief in what they're doing. This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition. 43 min., recorded February 21, 2023, Portrait photo by Joe Mazza Shownotes: Corbett vs. Dempsey LLC was founded by Jim Dempsey and John Corbett in Chicago in September 2004. Since opening, Corbett vs. Dempsey has presented a range of international artists and artists connected with the historical and contemporary legacy of Chicago. Creative music has always been a feature of the gallery's activities; in addition to having its own record label, CvsD is proud to represent Peter Brötzmann and the estate of Sun Ra. Corbett vs. Dempsey's record label features a mixture of new recordings and CD reissues of out-of-print LPs, CvsD's offerings focus on jazz, free jazz, and improvised music; occasional rock and rock-related noise; artist-related projects; sound art; and some experimentally minded dub. Many of the releases continue the archival work that John Corbett did with his Unheard Music Series, released under the Atavistic label starting in the late '90s. Corbett has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) since 1988.  He was artistic director of Berlin JazzFest 2002, co-curated the Empty Bottle Jazz Series from 1996 to 2005, and was co-curator of Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn, and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968. For over 20 years, Dempsey was the house manager and occasional programmer at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago. He is an alumnus of SAIC. Together Corbett and Dempsey have been involved in many independent curatorial projects. https://corbettvsdempsey.com/ https://www.independenthq.com/ #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #CorbettvsDempsey #JohnCorbett #JimDempsey #Chicago #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling

"Always Learning, Always Looking: Collecting Art as an Endless Journey"

I'm celebrating Episode 100 - a personal milestone, with a special guest and an honest conversation about art, power, and belonging.

In this episode, I sit down with Jeff Magid—former songwriter and music producer turned art collector—for a wide-ranging conversation about creativity, access, and power in the art world.

Jeff shares his path from growing up immersed in music and film in Boston to discovering the art world later in life while living in Brooklyn. What began as curiosity—sparked by friendships with art handlers and mentorship from artists like Slater Bradley—soon became a deeper commitment to learning, collecting, and questioning how the art world functions.

Together, we explore:

• The differences between the music industry and the visual art world

• Why access to the art world often depends on who you know

• The importance of mentorship and cross-disciplinary learning

• Art openings, collectors, and the invisible social hierarchies in galleries

• Why inclusivity does not mean simplifying art

• The tension between commercial success and artistic merit

• Challenges faced by young and emerging collectors

• Why collecting should be driven by genuine connection—not status or speculation

• Quality over quantity in building meaningful art collections

The conversation also looks forward, touching on emerging global art scenes, focused on collaboration, exchange, and community-driven art practices.

A candid, thoughtful episode for artists, collectors, and anyone curious about how the art world is built—and how it might be reimagined.

69 min., Language english, recorded January 25, 2026

Portrait photo by Courtney Sofiah Yates for FRIEZE

Links:

Jeff on Instagram @magideye

https://totalanimalsoup.substack.com/archive?sort=top

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/opinion/art-market-open-door-policy-jeff-magid-1234753579/

https://www.frieze.com/article/jeff-magid-collecting-frieze-masters-magazine-2025

https://van-horn.net

On the occasion of this years‘ Independent Art fair in New York City I’m speaking to Jonny Tanna and Linda Mognato. Jonny is a creative director at Harlesden High Street in London, which is a BIPOC experimental space that has an art programme as well as a public one and challenges questions of gender, race, wealth, class and generation. Linda is an art researcher and curator who is Gallery manager at Harlesden High Street and an integral part of the team. Jonny and Linda speak each about their background in the UK resp. Italy, the different phases in their lives being an artist/film maker and an art researcher/curator, how they met and what is special and unique about Harlesden High Street. The pair discusses the important issue of class and it’s correlation to having access to arts and culture experiences. They cherish diversity and open their doors for all kinds of different people, so they chose an unusual location to house the gallery/project space in London. They talk about the need of letting go of one‘s ego and encourage others to shine within the art world. For Jonny and Linda galleries should be givers and enable the diverse talents and experiences of artists audiences. Quote: „Harlesden High Street was founded with the mission of facilitating access between experimental/outsider artists and the traditional gallery system. We host several spaces across London exhibiting contemporary art by local and international artists, centering work by people of colour. In addition to our exhibition venues, we host a cultural outreach programme with an aim to reach audiences in ungentrified neighborhoods who might be less likely to engage with typical gallery programming. Our main space in Harlesden proudly only hosts people of colour in our programme, external and offsite spaces hosts an experimental programme transcending borders.“ This Episode is produced in cooperation with Independent Art Fair, New York City and will be part of the fairs OVR for it's upcoming 2023 edition. 42 min., recorded February 21, 2023. Shownotes: https://harlesdenhighstreet.com/ http://www.jonnytanna.com/ https://www.independenthq.com/ #IndependentArtFair #IndependentNewYork #Independent2023 #HarlesdenHighStreet #HarlesdenHighSchool #JonnyTanna #LindaMognato #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #DanielaSteinfeld #Podcast #Talk #Storytelling

Gil Bronner is an avid and passionate collector of contemporary art, with his own Museum - Sammlung Philara - in the arts and gallery district Flingern in Düsseldorf, Germany. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Friends of the Kunstpalast, which is the Museum of the City of Düsseldorf. He and his family support art, artists and institutions in Germany as well as Israel. Although his interest in art was instilled by his collecting parents, he had to find his own way and sense to get into it himself. To be with art seems to be his kind of calling and he spends most of his private time visiting exhibitions, meeting artists, gallerists, museum people and other collectors - many of whom became his friends. His collecting is for sure connected to the quality of art itself - many acclaimed and young international artists are part of the collection and the curated exhibitions at Sammlung Philara. Nevertheless one major Focus of his actions is to be connected to the art and culture of his hometown Düsseldorf and to make a difference in this special field. Gil talks about his wishes for the art scene in Düsseldorf and the Rhineland and strives for more visibility and interconnection in the future. This talk is not so much about what to collect, but rather how and why. None of this is answered really, but Gil gives his honest personal insight into his thoughts and feelings, the drive that makes him do what he does. Is there a way to distinguish bad from good art - maybe... What are the reasons for collecting art in such a wide array - who knows... Episode 72, recorded February 2, 2023, 38 min. Portrait photo by Albrecht Fuchs SHOWNOTES: https://www.philara.de/en https://freunde.kunstpalast.de/ https://van-horn.net/ #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #Talk #Interview #Storytelling #GilBronner #SammlungPhilara #PhilaraCollection #Kunstpalast #FreundeDesKunstpalast #Düsseldorf 

This is a special talk recorded on January 22, 2023 in front of a live audience at the premises of Le Bureau, a unique art space by collectors Lars Monshausen and Silke Haars. It is also available as video on the youtube channel of Le Bureau and the different VAN HORN channels.

We spoke on the occasion of the fourth solo-exhibition by NYC based artist Wendy White at VAN HORN, Düsseldorf. We talk Wendy's approach toward art making, the importance she places on objects and how people express their personalities through those. We exchange our thoughts on how the inner psychological space changed and how creativity was channeled in new ways during Covid. We talk selected singular works, her exhibition "Interior Exotics" which just opened at VAN HORN and - cars.

Wendy reveals her process, her inspirations and let's a lot of her individual personality shine through. It was my first Podcast talk in front of a live audience and with Wendy as guest and partner I enjoyed it very much.

44 min., language english. Recording and video still by Lars Monshausen.

#WendyWhite #InteriorExotics #Exhibition #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #Video #Talk #Storytelling #LeBureau111

Shownotes

The talk at Le Bureau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGhtk1uBKbE

https://lebureau111.de/interior-exotics-the-talk?

https://www.wendywhite.net/

https://van-horn.net/

This is a special anniversary Episode, our 70th release and the first one in 2023 - therefore it is with a special person. Patrizia Dander recently took on the post of head of the curatorial department at the acclaimed Kunstsammlung NRW K20K21 in Düsseldorf. Her path into the arts was an individual and unusual one. Always being interested in the humanities, she first started studying psychology and more and more discovered how art not only fulfilled a personal inclination, but also gave her new insights and instilled a deep curiosity, that didn't leave her until today. Patrizia talks her early life, her fathers interest in art, how she left her studies for an internship at the Kunstverein in Düsseldorf, how the support of people and the collaboration with them shaped and paved her way into the arts and how she was learning by doing. Patricia covers her career stations from the beginnings and talks in depth about each space and institution. She openly gives insights about the possibilities and challenges she faced at the respective institutions and what her attitude is in dealing with new spaces and situations. Portrait photo by Andreas Endermann. 46 min., recorded December 22, 2022, language english. Shownotes: https://www.kunstsammlung.de/de/ https://www.museum-brandhorst.de/ https://www.hausderkunst.de/ https://van-horn.net/

This is the first Episode after a winter break and the last one of 2022. It‘s a special one indeed, hosted by Mills Morán. I am switching sides, being the guest interviewed by Mills. We talk my upringing, my first encounters with art and which meandering path I took from being an artist to becoming a gallerist and Podcast host - and all the steps on the way. We also touch on our friendship, which came to us through this Podcast and how communication and the words we use change our interaction with the world and our relationship with people. As always, art is at the beginning and the end of our conversation. Please find more info in the shownotes below. You can subscribe to the Podcast on platforms like #spotify and #applepodcasts give #voicesonart your rating and follow @voicesonart and @van_horn_duesseldorf on #instagram #millsmoran #moranmoran #danielasteinfeld #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #podcast #talk #interview #storytelling Shownotes Exhibtion Daniela Steinfeld „Full Horn“, Haubrok Foundation: https://haubrok.org/ausstellungen/daniela-steinfeld/ VAN HORN exhibitions: https://van-horn.net/past-exhibition/ Voices On Art Episode #35 Mills Moran: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2roqSgpTlvm3JhYqnyt5Iw?si=oQQ3FhC5Q1CHKCbAbuvn2g

Peter Gorschlüter, director of Museum Folkwang in Essen since 2018, is one of the youngest museum directors in Germany. Peter talks his early, formative years, growing up in a household with an affinity for culture. He talks his almost becoming a gallerist and how unexpectedly then the course was set to pursue a career as curator - and later director - of art institutions. He talks in depth about his working in different international art institutions through the years with a focus on developing an approach for Museum Folkwang that honors the history of the museum, as well as opens up new ways in corresponding with the time and the needs of the people. The demuseumization of the museum is an essential question for him and he would like to transfer the Folkwang (= hall of the people) vision of the museum founder Karl Ernst Osthaus into our times, thinking across genres and and epochs. Therefore he considers participation, transparency and putting people in the center of attention to be very important tasks. He sees himself not only as museum manager, but also as someone who intitiates content impulses.

Peter studied Theater, Film and Television Studies, also German Studies and Philosophy in Cologne. He started organizing exhibitions early on, worked at a gallery for contemporary art and then was invited to the post of curator and research assistant at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. He spent some important years being chief curator of Tate Liverpool where he headed the Collection and Exhibitions Department. In 2010 he was co-curator of the Liverpool Biennial. After that he was appointed as deputy director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK in Frankfurt a.M. from 2010 to 2018. Since 2018 he works as director of the internationally acclaimed Museum Folkwang in Essen. In 2021 Peter was awarded an honorary professorship for "Art and the Public" at the Folkwang University of the Arts. 

35 min., recorded Sep. 19, 2022, language english.

Photo credit: Peter Gorschlüter, Direktor Museum Folkwang, Foto: Tanja Lamers ( BILD IM AUSSTELLUNGSKONTEXT)

Shownotes (mostly german):

https://www.museum-folkwang.de/en

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/peter-gorschlueter-neuer-chef-des-folkwang-ein-museum-fuer-100.html

https://polis-magazin.com/2022/08/prof-peter-gorschlueter-besser-in-essen/

https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr3/wdr3-mosaik/audio--jahre-folkwang---musemsdirektor-ueber-jubilaeumsausstellung-100.html

https://soundcloud.com/sparkasse-essen/zuhause-in-essen-8-peter-gorschluter

https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/

#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #PeterGorschlueter #MuseumFolkwang #Art #Talk #Storytelling 

Dr. Magnus Resch is passionate about the economics of the art market. He studied at Harvard, the London School of Economics and the University of St. Gallen, holds a Ph.D. in economics and was awarded scholarships by both the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Swiss National Foundation. He is Professor at Yale University and one of the world’s leading art market economists. He is also a bestselling book author and serial entrepreneur. Magnus published in Science, the world’s leading academic journal, and has written seven books on the art market, including three bestsellers.

In this Episode Magnus talks his personal background and his take on buying art as a monetary investment vs. buying art as investment into ones emotional wellbeing vs. buying art to support a community of artists and galleries. His school days in Düsseldorf, which he spent opposite the world famous Kunstakademie, gave him the opportunity to meet a group of young art students that became his friends and later on well known artists themselves. Meeting these artists made him realize how hard it is to be successful as an artist and let him develop the ideas that led to his books, lectures and courses. He finds very clear words on what works - and what doesn't - in an art market that includes (and excludes) many different players and how those different players have to develop their own strategies to achieve success.

Articles, Podcasts and all information on Magnus on his website:

https://www.magnusresch.com/

Instagram @magnusresch

https://van-horn.net

https://vanhornshowroom.com/viewingroom/podcast/

Instagram @van_horn_duesseldorf @voicesonart

#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #MagnusResch

The Museum and the City. Since 2004 Susanne Titz is director of Museum Abteiberg, the Museum of the City of Mönchengladbach, which is known internationally for it's unique architecture and also the special collection it holds. Susanne talks her early fascination with art as experience, art as part of life. She talks in depth the role space and architecture play to exhibit and also understand art and the different approaches the Museum develops to reach it's diverse audiences. The team of Museum Abteiberg creates multifaceted exhibition and educational formats and establishes deep connections to the civic community of the city, it's people, the schools, the administration and politics etc. to ensure the Museums relevance for the society of the future. For her, contemporary art and the artists that create it are role models for young people to experience freedom of spirit, empowerment and building a hopeful future. The Museum therefore provides a space - physically as well as psychologically - in which these other visions of society and humanity can be experienced.

Recorded 22 August, 2022, 43 min., language english, Portrait photo Stefanie Genenger

Shownotes (mostly german):

https://museum-abteiberg.de/

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Abteiberg

https://www.moenchengladbach.de/de/museum-abteiberg

https://www.hausderkunst.de/entdecken/videos/susanne-titz-die-phaenomenologie-des-machens-ein-aufruf-zur-emanzipation

https://van-horn.net/

#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #Podcast #DanielaSteinfeld #SusanneTitz #MuseumAbteiberg

How to build, sustain and develop an Enterprise with integrity? Tony Karman, founder and president of Expo Chicago, Chicago's art fair, talks in a personal and open way about the importance art fairs have within the eco system of the art world as well as for the civic society of a city. Tony talks his special relation to Chicago, his commitment to the city, the art fair and the participating galleries and artists and why Expo Chicago is the ideal canvas for him to realize artistic as well as civic visions in a diverse and inclusive way. 

Tony Karman is since many years an influential contributor to the Chicago art world. He has been active in the civic, business and cultural communities of Chicago for almost 40 years.

Recorded between Chicago and the Island of Sylt on 17 July, 2022, 40 min., language english.

Shownotes:

Expo Chicago
https://www.expochicago.com/

"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

The book I mentioned in the talk and which I highly recommend is by Author Rutger Bregman "Humankind - a hopeful history"
https://www.rutgerbregman.com/

Info on gallery and Podcast
https://van-horn.net/

#TonyKarman #ExpoChicago
#VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #Podcast #talk #storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld

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/ #voicesonart #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf #podcast #heatherhubbs #nada #newartdealersalliance

„A Punk in thinking - but not in production“

In this episode of Voices On Art I talk with Claus Föttinger, an artist based in Düsseldorf, known for developing a unique artistic language rooted in craft and a deep interest in diving into a variety of relevant themes.

Föttinger creates objects that are artworks designed for use—social sculptures in the form of bars, tables, chairs, and especially lamps. His work is informed by extensive travel and long-term research, addressing themes that range from the deeply personal to questions of society, politics, the humanities, and culture.

Wespeak about his early years growing up in Nuremberg his formative studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf,and his reflections on past, present, and future. Claus also shares why he decided to stop making work directly responding to current global developments.

This episode was recorded in March 2025 in German language and serves as a personal recap of the year 2025, as well as an glimpse on what's to come.

It took place on the occasion of Claus Föttinger’s solo exhibition at VAN HORN.

We're recording on site, so please excuse glitches in sound quality.

We wish you a wonderful end to 2025 and a very happy New Year.

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Links:

https://van-horn.net/exhibition/claus-foettinger/https://van-horn.net/exhibition/2016-claus-foettinger/https://www.wz.de/nrw/duesseldorf/nachbau-der-wm-bar-ist-reif-fuers-museum_aid-29030571https://park-der-sinne.com/unsere-kuenstler/claus-foettinger/

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/ #voicesonart #podcast #polasieverding #artist #photography #danielasteinfeld #talk #storytelling #vanhorngallery #van_horn_duesseldorf

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 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. 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  #voicesonart #independentnewyork #rjmessineo #moranmoran #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast #stopwar #supportukraine

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

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/ 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 #audiemurray #fazakasgallery #vanhorngallery #danielasteinfeld #podcast #stopwar #supportukraine