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

My guest today is Michael Zimmer, entrepreneur, investor, consultant, art collector, founder of the sculpture park „The Inhabited Garden“ and editor of the book „A Sculpture Garden.“ Michael is extensively involved in social issues and has initiated or founded various foundations to help people in need. We talk his upbringing and how through art he got „a room on his own“ and that art was his refu...

My guest today is Jennifer Higgie, writer and art critic. She has been Editor at Large for Frieze Magazine and is the host of Bowdown a wonderful Podcast about women in art history, she curated the Hayward touring and Arts Council exhibition „One Day, Something. Happens: Pictures of People“ and wrote and illustrated the children's book „There's Not One“. Currently she is working on various screenp...

Bettina Steinbrügge tells us how she got fascinated by art as a school kid, how she travelled Europe as a teenager with Interrail and saw all Picasso Museums and how she thinks an institution in the current times in the 2021 Century has to change and rethink to contribute to an ever changing society. We talk about the need for care and empathy, economic and cultural thinking, the need for communit...

In this first Episode of 2021 I speak with Oliver Koerner von Gustorf, writer, curator and former co-owner of gallery September in Berlin. Oliver regularly contributes to Art Magazines like Monopol and the Feuilletons of the German Newspaper landscape. Recent articles include "30 Jahre deutsche Einheit (30 years German unification) - Pop life" about the art and music scene of the 80s and 90s in Be...

In Episode 24 we talk about art and life - which is indistinguishably intertwined in the person of acclaimed painter Joanne Greenbaum. Painting since decades and knowing she is an artist since the age of 5, Greenbaum gives us an insight into painting, drawing and working with clay - through which she reveals to us who she is, how she thinks and how she expresses her brain activity to the world. To...

This a special episode in collaboration with Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. A conversation with acclaimed Artist, Professor and Winner of the Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia in 1999 -  Monica Bonvicini. It is released on the occasion of her participation in the exhibition „Empört euch! / Time for Outrage, co-curated by Linda Peitz and Florian Peters-Messer. We talk Monica's upbringing in a conserv...

In Episode 22 I speak with Alvin Hall, who is - amongst many other things - an avid collector of contemporary art by living artists, an internationally acclaimed financial educator, author and broadcaster. We talk his early years in poverty in the Panhandle of Florida, his first encounters with art, how looking at photography sharpened his visual skills, his love for art and artists and how they c...

A conversation with David Nolan, founder of the eponymous gallery, passionate advocate for the arts and art collector himself. David covers the years from his upbringing in Ireland, his first jobs in art galleries in Cologne in the 80s and his move to New York. We talk art, art fairs, politics, the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, climate change and the current situation in the US. David mentions man...

A conversation with Dr. Natasha A. Kelly, Communication Sociologist, Author, Curator, Academic Activist, Storyteller, Afrofuturist and much more. It's an enlightening talk about her personal development and her use of various media to communicate colionalism, racism and sexism. We learn how storytelling shapes thought and action - and how it can be reshaped. We talk art, science, education, femini...

GERMAN OV. A conversation with Dr. Natasha A. Kelly, Communication Sociologist, Author, Curator, Academic Activist, Storyteller, Afrofuturist and much more. It's an enlightening talk about her personal development and her use of various media to communicate colionalism, racism and sexism. We learn how storytelling shapes thought and action - and how it can be reshaped. We talk art, science, educat...

NEW! VOICES ON ART Special for Kunstpalast. For a couple of weeks I will  be talking with different people that are, each in their own way,  connected to the Museum of the City of Düsseldorf - the Kunstpalast. My second guest for these special Episodes is Linda Peitz, writer, curator and founder of the collective CCCCCOMA. Together with Florian Peters-Messer, Linda is the curator of the exhibition...

NEW! VOICES ON ART Special for Kunstpalast. For the next 4 weeks I will be talking with different people that are, each in their own way, connected to Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Starting with a conversation with Dr. Felix Krämer, general director of Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Felix Krämer speaks about his upbringing as son of a photographer and a ballet dancer, his learning to interpret images with th...

English voice over of the conversation with Dr. Nahlah Saimeh, acclaimed forensic psychiatrist and art afficionado, which was recorded on June 7, 2020. 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...

A conversation about her work with Cologne based artist Ulrike Schulze. Before Ulrike speaks about her current solo-show „Spectre“ at VAN HORN she relates her early studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, if and how her teachers had an impact on the development of her work and how she herself encounters and converses with her sculptures. Recorded 14 Sep. 2020, 43 min., Language: English

English voice over of a conversation with Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, since 2017 Director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20/K21 in Düsseldorf. Susanne also curated the German pavilion of the Biennale di Venezia 2011, which was originally planned to be designed by Christoph Schlingensief. The pavilion received the "Golden Lion", the highest award of the Biennale. In 2013 she also cur...

A conversation with Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, since 2017 Director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20/K21 in Düsseldorf. Susanne also curated the German pavilion of the Biennale di Venezia 2011, which was originally planned to be designed by Christoph Schlingensief. The pavilion received the "Golden Lion", the highest award of the Biennale. In 2013 she also curated the German contri...

A conversation with Matthew Burrows, UK based artist, founder and director of Artist Support Pledge. Matthew speaks about community, generosity, trust, sharing and the values he established when founding Artist Support Projects and, in times of Corona, Artist Support Pledge. He speaks about the eternal value of culture, how he developed the knowledge and skills to support others and realize his pl...

A conversation with Henning Boecker, Professor for Clinical Functional Neuro Imaging at the University of Bonn and at the German Center for Neuro Degenerative Disease in Bonn, collector of contemporary art and co-founder of Espace Sauvage in Düsseldorf.  Henning speaks about his scientific research, about the effects art and music can have on the brain, how he was initiated into art by his german...

A conversation with artist and activist Katie Holten. Katie lives between New York City and Ireland and right now is quarantined in California. She speaks about nature connected to her practice of drawing , how drawing helps understanding her relationship with the world and how it is her way of telling stories. She speaks about exhibitions and projects like the „Tree Museum" for the Bronx Museum o...

A conversation with Matt Packer, Director of EVA, Ireland's Biennial. Matt lives and works in Limerick, Ireland. Matt tells us about his studies of documentary photography as a young man, his becoming a curator and how being a parent changed his view of the world. He tells us about the plans for EVA in difficult times and shares a lot of thoughts on how art organisations and institutions must chan...

A conversation with Rita McBride, Artist, Professor and former Director of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Rita lives between Los Angeles and Düsseldorf.  Rita speaks about her early interest in public art, the importance of openness and collaboration in her artistic practice, the influence the teachings of the 60s and 70s had on her, the freedom they provided and her own challenges as a teacher. She sh...

A conversation with Andrew Renton, Professor of curating at Goldsmiths, University of London, writer, curator and relentless advocate for the arts. Andrew speaks passionately about his obsession with art, his strong belief in the discipline of curating, his involvement in the building of the GCCA, his admiration of the artists support pledge by Matthew Burrows, the opportunities he sees in a reset...

A conversation with Robert Müller-Grünow, founder of "Scentcommunication", author of the book "The secret power of scents" and lover of art. With his company he is one of the pioneers of scent developing and marketing in Germany and is also very active with the friends of Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Robert speaks about the psychology and physiology of scent, on how he discovered scent and art in his...

A conversation with Jessica and Evrim Oralkan, the founders of "Collecteurs", the world’s first digital museum of private collections, whose offices are based in New York City.  Jessica and Evrim speak in depth about the inspirations, ideas and aims to found this special digital platform as collectors for other collectors, they give their opinion on art and politics, how "Collecteurs" encourages t...

A conversation with Nicole Berry, executive Director of The Armory Show, New York's premier art fair. Nicole speaks about the current situation in New York City, new ideas and projects of The Armory Show and how the fair supports it's galleries. The art community, the desire to see real art and the digital shift, the impact of art in public space, the new date and location of the fair, the need fo...