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

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 i...

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 figu...

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...

"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...

„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 la...

In today’s episode, my guest is Felicity Korn , Head of the 20th/21st Century Collection and Deputy Director to FelixKrämer at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf . Art has always been Korn’s driving force. After her studies in Glasgow and Karlsruhe, she gained formative experience at institutions such as the ZKM and the Städel Museum Frankfurt before joining Felix Krämer at the Kunstpalast. Having worked...

In this episode of "Voices on Art", I talk to Daniel Hug, Artistic Director of Art Cologne. Dan’s story is deeply rooted in art and culture — born into a Swiss and American family, growing up in an academic and artistic household as grandson of the legendary László Moholy-Nagy, one of the key figures of the Bauhaus. Our conversation flows from his upbringing and personal connections to a...

'Die Kunst gehört allen' | ‘Art belongs to everyone’ In this episode, I talk to Reinhard Ernst – entrepreneur,philanthropist, art collector and founder of the Reinhard Ernst Museum in Wiesbaden. We follow his journey: from humble beginnings to building a successful business to the years-long project of planning and realising his own museum. This raises some interesting questions: How do you get in...

„Collecting with the female side“ In this episode, I speak with Belgian art collector Walter Vanhaerents, who began collecting art in the mid-1970s and was named one of the top 200 collectors of our time by artnews. What started as a personal passion has evolved into a dynamic, multigenerational project. Over the decades, the collection has undergone several realignments, reflecting not only shift...

„Buy What You Love“ This is Episode 94 of the Voices On Art Podcast, created in cooperation with the Independent New York. Susan and Michael Hort have been collecting contemporary art for 40 years, with a focus on young artists, whom they follow in depth. They often buy early in an artist’s career and usually acquire at least five to seven pieces by any given artist. Susan and Michael are also the...

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 childhoo...

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 cu...

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 p...

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...

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 an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, C...

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 thro...

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 lif...

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 fa...

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 o...