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

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 https://www.independenthq.com/ https://gomide.co/ Your host: https://van-horn.net Instagram: @independent_hq @gomide.co @thiagogomide @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf #VoicesOnArt #Independent20thCentury #IndependentHQ #artfair #Podcast #Talk #storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld #VoicesOnArt #VanHornGallery #ThiagoGomide #GomideCo #Gallery #SaoPaulo #Brazil Book recommendation: Brazilian Modern Design | Móvel Moderno Brasileiro by Alberto Vicente, Marcelo Vasconcellos, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos ISBN-13 978-8562114755

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

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 https://www.independenthq.com/ artist website: https://www.janisprovisorstudio.com/ artist history: https://fortstreetstudio.com/founders/ https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9788891829627/ Gallery: https://www.halseymckay.com/artists/janis-provisor Your host: https://van-horn.net Instagram: @independent_hq @janisprovisor @halseymckaygallery @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf #VoicesOnArt #IndependentSpecial #IndependentHQ #Podcast #Talk #storytelling #DanielaSteinfeld #VoicesOnArt #JanisProvisor #Artist #HalseyMacKayGallery

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/

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

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

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

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