TALKING GALLERIES / BERLIN, Booklet

TALKING GALLERIES / BERLIN 18 - 19 September 2015 | 11.00h – 12.30h at abc art berlin contemporary / Station Berlin

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TALKING GALLERIES is a platform for gallerists and art professionals to discuss and exchange ideas about new trends and issues specific to the art gallery sector. Leading figures from the art world and art professionals will be brought together to discuss the subsequent impact of these changes, share experiences and rethink existing models, creating an ideal environment for investigation and sharing knowledge.

Berlin Art Week and TALKING GALLERIES are proud to cooperate for the first time in creating a site specific event, presenting two discussion panels especially devised to reflect and contrast upon international trends and the particular gallery landscape in Berlin.

Berlin is home to a large number of galleries and a very vital and exciting art scene. TALKING GALLERIES/ BERLIN will offer the opportunity to consolidate the city’s leading position in exploring new gallery practices. However, the art system is going through profound economic, technological and sociopolitical changes that have great impact of the place of galleries in this still shifting reality. This new environment affects and challenges the very nature of the gallery’s role. Therefore, there is a need to create a forum for debate and share knowledge amongst professionals.

Held as morning sessions, the programme of TALKING GALLERIES / BERLIN appeals to both gallery professionals and art enthusiasts alike.

It is an exciting addition to Berlin Art Week taking place at abc art berlin contemporary, Hall 8. The entrance for the panels is free.

PROGRAMME

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FRIDAY, 18 SEP 11.00-12.30h

THE ADDED VALUE OF WORKING ALONGSIDE A GALLERY PANEL DISCUSSION

Moderated:

Chris Dercon Speakers:

Sabine Breitwieser Angela Choon Harald Falckenberg

SATURDAY, 19 SEP 11.00-12.30h

HOW TO GROW WITH YOUR ARTISTS? DIFFERENT GALLERY MODELS PANEL DISCUSSION

Moderated:

Chus Martínez Speakers:

Victor Gisler Łukasz Gorczyca Jochen Meyer

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FRIDAY, 18 SEP

THE ADDED VALUE OF WORKING ALONGSIDE A GALLERY Discussion led by Chris Dercon The role of the gallery is not only determined by the market but is also related to the introduction of cultural products into the commercial sphere. The process of mediation that the gallery has carried out since its origins has changed. It has moved on from reading the established codes and narratives to creating interpretative spaces, generating codes and narratives by itself. Contemporary art galleries nowadays propose debates between artists and the community, building up their careers and new critical memories of the present in the process. Art dealing, curating, exhibiting, publishing, promoting and educating are amongst their responsibilities, generating a unique kind of knowledge which must be communicated as an asset for the art ecosystem at large.

This panel will explore why it is better to work with a gallery as counterpart when preparing exhibitions, compiling catalogues and generally dealing with an artists’ work.

In order to fully tackle these issues, the session will take into account the viewpoints of a different agents / players in the field.

Chris Dercon Chris Dercon, director of Tate Modern, is an art historian, documentary filmmaker, and curator. In 2015 he was named to play a leading role at Berlin’s Volksbühne as of 2017.

Previously serving as director at Haus der Kunst in Munich, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Witte de With – Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, and New York’s PS1 Museum, he has curated exhibitions showing the work of André Cadere, Dan Graham, Konstantin Grcic, Hans Haacke, Carlo Mollino, Helio Oiticica, Paul Thek, Ai Weiwei and Franz West. He has edited and written contributions for many catalogues and art publications, and held lectures and interviews worldwide. His current interest lies particularly in reflecting about the future of the museum. On July 4, 2012, he was named Officier dans l’Ordre National des Arts & Lettres.

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Sabine Breitwieser Sabine Breitwieser, director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg since September 2013, previously served as chief curator of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and as founding director and chief curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna. Breitwieser has curated retrospective and solo exhibitions with artists including Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Harun Farocki, Simone Forti, Andrea Fraser, Isaac Julien, Mary Kelly, Christian Marclay, Edward Krasiński, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, and Allan Sekula. She recently organized a large survey on E.A.T. - Experiments in Art and Technology and is preparing a retrospective Carolee Schneemann. In 2012 Breitwieser was a recipient of the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award.

Angela Choon Angela Choon, a senior partner at David Zwirner active in both the primary and secondary markets, joined the gallery a year after it’s founding in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. In 2002, the gallery moved to Chelsea and over the past two decades it has experienced tremendous growth in terms of artists and estates joining the gallery and has added additional spaces, designed by New York-based German architect Annabelle Selldorf. In 2012, Choon moved to London to open Zwirner’s first European location. Situated in the heart of Mayfair, the city’s fine arts district, the gallery is based in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse. Throughout her career, Choon has worked with a range of artists, including Stan Douglas, On Kawara, Chris Ofili, and Luc Tuymans, and has overseen and collaborated on numerous major museum exhibitions in the United States and Europe.

Harald Falckenberg President of Hamburger Kunstverein since 1998, Harald Falckenberg studied law in Freiburg, Berlin and Hamburg and has worked as the general manager of a company in the fueling industry since 1979.

In 2008, Falckenberg was appointed professor of the Hamburg’s Hochschule für bildende Künste. Sammlung Falckenberg, consisting of over 2000 works, is shown at the exhibition center Deichtorhallen Hamburg, a 62,000 square feet former factory building in Hamburg.

Falckenberg has written numerous essays on art and artists, collected in the anthologies Ziviler Ungehorsam (Civil Disobedience), 2002, and Aus dem Maschinenraum der Kunst (From the Engine Room of Art), 2007.

He is the recipient of the Art-Cologne-Preis (2009) and the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award (2011).

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SATURDAY, 19 SEP

HOW TO GROW WITH YOUR ARTISTS? DIFFERENT GALLERY MODELS Discussion led by Chus Martínez Relationships between gallerists and artists are close commitments and collaborations that can involve passion and aversion, trust and legal relations, great risks and money profits for both parts. It is a very particular type of relationship that gallerists really have to cultivate while thinking about possible collateral consequences. Gallerists need to be available to respond effectively to artists’ demands and listen to what they want to convey. The art gallery’s mission is to help artists to find their place in terms of audience and market in the context of contemporary art production, even if the market is reluctant.

Gallerists therefore become interfaces at different levels for the artists, supporting them and also helping them deal with their ambition, anxieties, emulation, rivalries, etc. Due to this proximity with the artists, gallerists act as their managers, advisors and professional developers. They not only have to deal with the tensions of the creativity process itself, but also with propositions coming from museums and institutions, art fairs and even other galleries. It is necessary to have entrepreneurial skills along with intellectual and critical capacities in order to hold up to these pressures and at the same time to cope with the necessities of building up the artist’s career.

This panel will have representatives of some internationally recognised contemporary art galleries in order to share their best practices, models and ways of working.

Chus Martínez Martínez, who has directed the Institute of Art at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel since April 2014, studied art history and philosophy and held a position as chief curator at New York’s El Museo del Barrio from 2012 to 2014. Prior to that she was head of the department of artistic direction and a member of the core agent group for dOCUMENTA(13). In her former capacities as chief curator at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA (2008–2010), director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005–2008) and artistic director at Sala Rekalde in Bilbao (2002–2005), she has organized numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists. Martínez curated the Cypriot Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and in 2010 she was curatorial advisor for the 29th Bienal de São Paulo.

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Victor Gisler Victor Gisler (born 1960) holds a degree in economics and business.

In 1987, he founded Mai 36 Galerie in Lucerne. Six years later, Mai 36 Galerie moved to Zurich. Over 25 years, he has been engaged in showing and promoting a wide program of international contemporary artists. He strives to work in close collaboration with the artists and continuously present their works in solo exhibitions, publications, as well as at the international art fairs of Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Madrid and Mexico. Mai 36 Galerie organizes six shows a year, and hopes to enrich Zurich’s cultural scene with a number of interesting projects. Victor Gisler is married and is the father of three children.

Łukasz Gorczyca Art historian and co-founder (with Michał Kaczyński) of Raster art magazine, published from 1995 to 2003. In 2001 he and Kaczyński opened the Raster Gallery in Warsaw, one of the most internationally recognized galleries in Poland. He has curated various exhibitions, including Relax at the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok (2001) and De Ma Fenetre at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris (2004). As an art writer Gorczyca has published numerous articles and essays and has worked with many national and international art journals. His publications also include two books: The Best Polish Short Stories (1999) and the novel Half Empty, co-written by Łukasz Ronduda (2010). As co-director of Raster Gallery Gorczyca he has been involved in the organization of collaborative projects: Villa Warszawa (2006), Villa Reykjavik (2010), Villa Tokyo (2011) and Warsaw Gallery Weekend (from 2011).

Jochen Meyer Based in Berlin, Jochen Meyer has a background in literature and history. In 1997 he founded the art gallery Meyer Riegger together with Thomas Riegger in Karlsruhe. In 2008 the gallery opened a second space in Berlin. Many of the represented artists had their first solo show in the gallery. Meyer Riegger represents young to mid-career artists including Franz Ackermann, Rosa Barba, Katinka Bock, Miriam Cahn, Eva Kotatkova, Helen Mirra, Jonathan Monk, John Miller, Melvin Moti, and Paulo Nazareth. Meyer Riegger has regularly participated in the main international art fairs. Since 2011, Jochen Meyer has been a member of the Art Basel Committee, and Meyer Riegger is also one of the six galleries behind Berlin Gallery Weekend, a leading even in the art world celebrating the tenth anniversary of its founding this year. In 2008, the same galleries launched the project art berlin contemporary, an annual event in which many galleries and artists participate.

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DATES Friday, Saturday 18/19 September, 2015 11.00-12.30h VENUE At abc art berlin contemporary / Station Berlin, Hall 8 Luckenwalder StraĂ&#x;e 4-6, 10963 Berlin REGISTER Free entrance.

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