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Art WorldsArt Worlds: JapanEpisode 21 meets Daisuke Miyatsu, a collector based in Japan, who has amassed an enviable art collection famously on his modest salary. Working in advertising by day and as a hotel receptionist at night, he has made art his life, collecting widely and inventively since the early 1990s. His collection is founded on the close relationships he’s built with artists and has been shared with public exhibitions at institutions including the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Japan and Daelim Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul. Now teaching and writing on contemporary art and...
2023-02-2220 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: JapanteamLab, an international art collective, are world renowned for creating immersive environments through digital technology. Exploring the intersection of art, technology, science and natural worlds, in Hiroshima they’ve created an interactive ‘Future Park’ where audiences are encouraged to co-create and make drawings that are transformed into installations. In Sao Paulo, they’ve filled rooms with eternal cycles of budding and blossoming flowers. Last year teamLab made their scenographic debut, confounding the boundaries between the stage and audience with a sculptural space of light in a Puccini opera at the Grand Théatre de Genève in Switzerland. Ahead of this ope...
2023-02-1520 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: JapanEpisode 19 visits Japan and speaks with Mami Kataoka, director of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, a space dedicated to contemporary art and architecture. Part of the founding team, Mami has earned international renown for her curatorial approach, teaching and writing. She’s been consistently listed in ArtReview’s Power 100 and was the first Asian curator to direct Sydney’s Biennale in 2018. Last year saw her open the Aichi Triennale, one of Japan’s largest international art events. Mami joined me from her office in Tokyo to discuss her impressive work and the concept of ‘Asian’ art. Ho...
2023-02-0219 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: AlgeriaEpisode 18 meets Natasha Marie Llorens, an academic and curator focused on North African and Middle Eastern contemporary art and film. She has written for numerous publications including ArtReview, ArtForum and Frieze. In 2019, Llorens opened a significant group exhibition at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery that addressed contemporary art from Algeria and its diaspora. The exhibition has since seen iterations at the Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille and will soon open in Grenoble. The accompanying catalogue, Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora is published by Sternberg Press. Llorens is cu...
2023-01-1831 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: AlgeriaEpisode 17 features artist Massinissa Selmani. He is known for his seemingly irreverent pencil drawings and animations that converge documentary and fiction, often starting with a press cutting taken from his long standing personal archive. Massinissa leaves his figures and objects stranded in large areas of white space as an invitation for the viewer to fill in the gaps and consider how the circulation of media images affect our perception of events. Massinissa’s work has been shown internationally including at Palais de Tokyo, the 56th Venice Biennale where he received a special mention, Dakar Biennial, Modern Art Oxford and Ce...
2022-12-1617 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: AlgeriaEpisode 16 visits Algeria to speak with Myriam Amroun and Khaled Bouzidi who established rhizome, an arts organisation in 2017. Their model has developed and now, with a space in a Haussmannian apartment block in downtown Algiers, they combine being both a commercial gallery and independent art entity. Rhizome’s programming focuses on supporting artists in Algeria and its diaspora with emphasis on intergenerational exchange. They’ve had a busy year showing at Art Dubai, Liste Art Fair Basel and Paris Internationale, among others. Myriam and Khaled discuss the challenges they’ve encountered and their long term ambitions. Hosted on Acast...
2022-12-0921 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: United Arab EmiratesEpisode 15 visits Dubai to meet Vilma Jurkute, the executive director of Alserkal Initiatives, a Dubai-based arts and culture enterprise that comprises the cultural district Alserkal Avenue, Alserkal Advisory, and Alserkal Arts Foundation. First founded in 2007 by patron and businessman Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal, Vilma joined the team in 2012 and has driven both the organisation’s physical expansion and the breadth of its programming. From supporting research and scholarship to co-commissioning art projects with partners across the world and hosting arts festivals in Dubai, Alserkal is an integral part of the UAE’s art world. Vilma discusses Alserkal’s approach and it...
2022-11-3019 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: United Arab EmiratesArtist Maitha Abdalla is a consummate storyteller. Inspired by theatre, folklore, tradition and ritual, her multidisciplinary practice is underpinned by her fictional writing. Paintings, typically worked on with her fingers, feature fantastical creatures and figures often angst ridden and vulnerable. Maitha studied at the Zayed University in Abu Dhabi after which she came together with fellow artists to establish an artist-run studio and exhibition space called BAIT 15. Since then she has been part of the Abu Dhabi Art Fair’s Beyond Emerging artists showing at Cromwell Place in London, at the fair and in Venice. Maitha recently completed the An...
2022-11-2320 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: United Arab EmiratesArt Worlds is back! The second series starts in the United Arab Emirates with Maya Allison, the founding executive director of The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery and chief curator at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Integrated within the NYU campus, the gallery has at its forefront an educational mission to expand scholarship of the area’s long tradition of artistic practice. As part of this remit, Allison has delved into the art communities that pre-date the international focus on the UAE. Her seminal exhibition ‘But We Cannot See Them’ surveyed avant-garde artists...
2022-11-1625 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: Trinidad and TobagoArt Worlds meets Adeline Gregoire, an artist and curator who co-founded CultureGo, a platform dedicated to showcasing art and design from Trinidad & Tobago. She’s made it her mission to amplify the work of Trinbagonian creatives and over the last year has been developing Hot Sun, an online community of Caribbean contemporary artists. On the website you’ll find artworks, recorded talks and articles. She talks about Hot Sun's inception and how she's energised by T&T's artists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-05-2325 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: Trinidad and TobagoChristopher Cozier, one of Trinidad and Tobago’s leading artists, speaks to Art Worlds. His practice is grounded in the island’s post independence conditions. This context provides an entry point to exposing wider cultural shifts, historical erasures and international economic policies that have affected the broader Caribbean region. Aside from his artwork, which has been shown most recently at Liverpool Biennale and Sharjah Biennale, Christopher also writes, teaches and co-founded Alice Yard, an experimental project space in the country’s capital Port of Spain. The space is a focal point for many artists, curators, architects and writers. From his studio...
2022-05-0434 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: Trinidad and TobagoIn Episode 10, Art Worlds visits Trinidad and Tobago and speaks with Nimah Muwakil-Zakuri, curator of the the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago's Money Museum and Art Collection. The collection was the vision of the island country's artists and now includes over 200 works of art brought together since 1965. It is an unparalleled collection. From her office in Port of Spain, the country's capital, Nimah discusses the array of art works including those by pioneering artist Sybil Atteck. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-04-1316 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: IndonesiaArt Worlds speaks with ruangrupa, a collective founded in 2000 and based in the south of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, who along with two other collectives, Serrum and Grafis Huru Hara, have formed Gudskul, a public learning space and educational platform. They see the project as an ecosystem and founded on the idea of collectivism, all resources are pooled and shared. This includes equipment, money and books. From their vast warehouse complex, ruangrupa’s Farhid Rakun, an architect and investigator, and Gudskul's Gesyada Siregar and Cella Kencana Putri talk about how they run their abundant activities and programmes. Hosted on A...
2022-03-1723 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: IndonesiaAaron Seeto, the director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum Macan) talks to Art Worlds about this ambitious private initiative. Masterminded by businessman and major art collector Haryanto Adikoesoemo, Museum Macan opened in 2017 in Jakarta. It’s Adikoesoemo's collection of around 800 works, built over two decades, that forms the museum’s holdings. As the first institution of its kind in Indonesia, there's been a lot of planning around cultivating a local audience and developing the museum's educational values. Aaron spoke from Jakarta about how their exhibitions strive to make cross-cultural connections and nurture Indonesia's arts.
2022-03-0923 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: IndonesiaTromarama—a collective composed of Febie Babyrose, Herbert Hans and Ruddy Hatumena—speak to Art Worlds from their studios in Bandung and Jakarta, Indonesia. They first came together to produce a music video for a local rock band that ended up as a stop motion animation film comprising hundreds of woodcut boards and was simultaneously displayed as an installation. They’ve gone on to continue working with video, sculptural forms and digital technologies in inventive and humorous ways, showing ambitious work at galleries including the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Tromarama talk about their process, w...
2022-03-0218 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: CambodiaYves Zlotowski, co-founder of Batia Sarem, one of Cambodia’s leading contemporary art galleries, takes us through how a conversation one day in Paris with gallerist Lyvann Loeuk that lead them both to Siem Reap. It's a tranquil place famed for the Ankor Wat temple complex and where a cluster of galleries are taking shape. Yves talks through what its like to work in this context and explains how the country’s abundance of NGOs have shaped artistic practices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-02-2320 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: CambodiaVuth Lyno, a Cambodian artist, curator and educator, speaks about one of the country's significant project spaces: SA SA art projects that he co-founded in 2010 with the collective Stiev Selapak. SA SA oversee extravagant performances, city-wide festivals, innovative art history workshops and an artist residency programme. As they prepare to be a part of documenta 15, Vuth talks about the work the group do and reflects on the legacy bequeathed by the Khmer Rouge, which left a deep void in art historical knowledge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-02-1615 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: CambodiaSopheap Pich, one of Cambodia's most innovative artists, speaks from his studio about his ‘non-wastage' approach. Working from his farm in Cambodia’s mountains he makes use of the materials around him. This might mean he creates pigment from soil, weaves with rice sacks or softens bamboo and rattan to create his monumental woven sculptures. We discuss in detail the trajectory of his practice—including his studies in America to returning to Cambodia—as well as hosting vast ‘Art on the Farm’ evening for the country’s artists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-02-0925 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: IndiaFeroze Gujral, one of India's leading art philanthropists, speaks to us about steering the Gujral Foundation and striking a balance between supporting artists at home and working on projects internationally. In a country with limited government art funding and nothing that comes close to the UK’s Arts Council, private initiatives take up the slack. Feroze talks candidly about fitting the arts into India’s wider political agenda and establishing their value when humanitarian disasters are, rightly, at the forefront of the country’s concerns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-02-0218 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: IndiaThe brilliant and bold performance artist Nikhil Chopra speaks from his studio in Goa. Nikhil's practice is world-renowned, and he's been supporting performance artists in India with the residency space, Heritage Hotel Art Spaces, which he co-founded. But it might be his alias, Yog Raj Chitrakar, you're better acquainted with. The artist transforms into this starchy, upright gentleman—a Victorian throwback who would seem better placed in the Charles Dickens Museum than the contemporary art galleries, biennales, and museums he haunts. We talk about Nikhil's characters, their appearance, and extended stay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as the v...
2022-01-2617 minArt WorldsArt Worlds: IndiaCurator and Director Pooja Sood talks about Khoj, India's unique artist led workshop and studio complex in New Delhi. The place has nurtured experimentation for more than a quarter of a century, and numbers many of India's leading artists and curators among its alumni. Pooja talks us through it all - from sourcing warm goat lungs for a performance to navigating geopolitical frictions- in this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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