Barcelona - MACBA 29-30 September 2014
TALKING GALLERIES BARCELONA SYMPOSIUM 29-30 September 2014
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www.talkinggalleries.com The official language is English. There will be simultaneous translation into Spanish and Catalan. 2
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Welcome to
The exciting profession of gallerist is fundamental for the dissemination of contemporary art and it is not exempt from all the drastic shifts that are occurring within the growing globalised art world. The current scale of economic, technological and sociopolitical transformations is profoundly modifying the traditional gallery practice, posing new challenges that affect all the players involved alike. In this scenario, art galleries must draw up new strategies in order to be able to adapt themselves to new ever-changing environments. Talking Galleries Barcelona Symposium is the first international meeting for gallerists, an open platform for reflection that aims to debate the most urgent issues regarding contemporary art galleries and to foster meetings between professionals internationally to share knowledge, build up a committed community and find answers to the major concerns. During two vibrating days of debates, presentations and case studies, a large roster of art world insiders will set out the most stimulating discussion topics. The symposium will feature issues such as what artists expect from their galleries, the way new agents are changing the art market and the position of the mid-sized galleries in an evolving ecosystem, among others. Talking Galleries encourages all participants at the meeting to openly take part in the debates. There will be plenty of spaces for interaction and networking to keep the talks alive and moments of down time to enjoy Barcelona’s art programming and worldwide renowned cuisine. This symposium has been possible thanks to the unconditional support of the Institut Català d’Empreses Culturals (ICEC), and the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB), as well as the dedication of the Committee members, the contribution of the gallery associations, the backing of the sponsors and the enthusiasm of the panellists and the attendees. To all of you, welcome to Talking Galleries Barcelona Symposium.
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TALKING GALLERIES COMMITTEE Talking Galleries Barcelona Symposium is possible thanks to the great and valuable contribution of renowned professional Committee members
Georgina Adam Art Market Editor at large for The Art Newspaper since 2008 & Art Market correspondent for the Financial Times. Adam currently lectures subjects on emerging cultural centers at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and at Christie’s Institute. Adam has been writing about the art market and the arts for 25 years. She began her professional career in Paris, where she studied Islamic Art at the École du Louvre. After that she worked in London for The Antique Collector, The Daily Telegraph and other publications dealing with art sales.
Emilio Álvarez Founding co-director of LOOP and Screen Projects. He is also the founder of àngels barcelona contemporary art gallery and Roomservice Design Gallery in Barcelon. Alvarez is involved in the promotion of projects related to contemporary culture at both local and international level and devoted to his passion: contemporary arts as a platform for culture and social activation. He holds a MBA by ESADE-Barcelona, International management programs at NYU Graduate School of Business Administration and H.E.C – École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris.
Carlos DurÁn Founding co-director of LOOP and Screen Projects. Director of Senda Gallery and Espai2Nou2 Gallery. From 2003 to 2013 he has been President of the galleries association Art Barcelona. He has also been vice President of the Union of Galleries Associations of Spain and member of selection committees for different art fairs, such as New Art, ARCO Madrid, PULSE Miami, PULSE New York, Art Brussels, ArtForum Berlin, among others. Since 2007, he is a member of the Culture Council of Barcelona City Council. He has a degree in Geography and History from the University of Barcelona.
Gabriela Galcerán Ball Degree in Journalism by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has worked on television in Spain, UK and USA and participated in projects such as The Fragile Feast (2009-2011), a book and exhibition resulting of a collaboration between the artist Hannah Collins and the chef Ferran Adrià, and Loop Diverse (2007-2008). Currently she lives in London where she develops cultural projects around the world.
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#TG2014 Annamária Molnár Director and owner of Ani Molnár Gallery in Budapest and Masters in Economics from the Corvinus University. She started her career as a curator organizing non-profit exhibitions and projects. In 2008 she opened her gallery focusing on emerging and mid career EasternEuropean artists. The gallery hosts non-profit public space exhibitions that received the Summa Artium Award in 2009. She was the President of the Hungarian Contemporary Galleries Association (2011-2014) and launched the international visitors program “Budapest Contemporary” in 2012. In 2013 the gallery received the Innovation and Creativity Award by FEAGA.
Moisés Pérez de Albéniz Founder of Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz. The gallery was first based in Pamplona from 1998 to 2013. In 2013 he moved to Madrid in order to cross local boundaries, promoting the work of Spanish and international artists and contributing to the revitalization of the art in a global context. He has been part of the advisory committee of ARCO for four years, President of the Consortium of Contemporary Art Galleries of Spain and President of the Association of Interior Designers of Spain.
Christian Viveros-Fauné New York-based writer and curator. As a writer, he has worked extensively about art and culture for Frieze, Art in America, The New Yorker, Departures, and Newsweek The Daily Beast. He currently writes the Free Lance column for ArtReview magazine, art criticism for The Village Voice and news and analysis for The Art Newspaper. A collection of his criticism, Greatest Hits: Arte en Nueva York 2001-2011, was issued in 2012 by Metales Pesados, S.A. He has also curated hundreds of gallery, museum, and biennial exhibitions around the world.
Dorsey Waxter Partner at Van Doren Waxter Gallery, located in New York City’s Upper East Side. She is also the current President of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). Her career began as a gallery assistant at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in 1974. After three years, she transitioned to André Emmerich Gallery, contributing to the gallery’s specialization in New York color field and postWorld War II abstraction. In 1991, she established Dorsey Waxter Fine Art, Inc., advising clients and representing prominent estates. Ms. Waxter then became Director of Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in 1998, —which became Van Doren Waxter in 2013.
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FOREWORD By Bartomeu Marí
Art galleries have traditionally had the role of “quality filters” regarding the art market and the art system. Galleries relied their work on their own “expertise” on which collectors based partially their decisions. In the last 20 years many transformations have taken place. Other actors have played the quality filter role of galleries. Agents such as art critics have profoundly changed and almost disappeared, being absorbed in part by curators. Criteria and value emerge from major international exhibitions and biennials that operate as prescribers. A large part of the art market does not flow now through the gallery circuit but has “diluted” and is everywhere. The gallery becomes a laboratory for an infinite and utopian market as it does not have a precise location and any place is likely to hold transactions. Art fairs are challenging museums as privileged places for novelty and confirmation value. Museums in fact have lost their leadership as heritage keepers in favour of large private collectors that drive their own museums. The art market absorbs heavy financial investments and therefore disrupts the traditional idea of collecting based on the passion, knowledge and long-term projects. Domestic collecting has kept its specific and traditional shapes, but financial and corporate collecting has much changed their types. Auction houses used to trade with established or dead artists and now have an essential role in the primary market. Many different formats and types of artistic production have also appeared. The interaction of agents within the art system should take into account the evolution of the market. Nowadays the institutional collectors dedicated to build a historical and educational project seek active accomplices in the private sector. When public resources management dwindle and disappear, institutions must associate themselves with their traditional partners: artists, collectors, galleries, trustees and ...galleries. The transformations of the various actors in the system, each with their respective interests, makes it increasingly necessary to analyse the ethics governing the system, its values and principles. Bartomeu Marí will open Talking Galleries Barcelona Symposium 2014 together with Georgina Adam.
Bartomeu Marí Director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). He is the President of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM) since 2013. He was the Curator of Exhibitions at the Fondation pour l’Architecture in Brussels between 1989 and 1993, and was also the curator at IVAM-Centre Julio González in Valencia from 1994 to 1996. He has been Director of Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam from 1996 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2004, Marí was the coordinator of the Centro Internacional de Cultura Contemporánea in Donostia-San Sebastián. In 2002 he co-curated with Chia-chi Jason Wang the Taipei Biennial. In 2005 he was the Curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennial where Antoni Muntadas was the invited artist. Between 2004 and 2008 he worked as Chief Curator at MACBA.
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Monday, 29 SEP Registration and accreditation Opening and Welcome Georgina Adam (Art Market Editor, The Art Newspaper, Financial Times) Bartomeu Marí (Director of MACBA, President of CIMAM)
09:00-9:30h 09:30-9:45h
THE POSITION OF THE MID-MARKET GALLERY IN TODAY’S ENVIRONMENT Strategies for Navigating the Evolving Market Speaker: Edward Winkleman (co-founder Moving Image art fair, author How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery)
09:45-11:00h
KEYNOTE LECTURE 11:00-11:30h
Coffee break / tweeting time
JOINT GALLERY EVENTS vs. GOING SOLO Organised events like Berlin Gallery Weekend or Late Opening Evenings- how effective are they? Moderator: Annamária Molnár (Director Ani Molnár Gallery, former President Hungarian Contemporary Galleries Association (2011-2014), F.E.A.G.A. Award) Speakers: Łukasz Gorczyca (Co-director Raster Gallery & Warsaw Gallery Weekend) Hans Knoll (Director Knoll Gallery, former President of Austrian Galleries Association) Jochen Meyer (founder Meyer Riegger Gallery, Berlin Gallery Weekend & abc fair) Dorsey Waxter (partner Van Doren Waxter, President Art Dealers Association of America)
11:30-13:00h
PANEL DISCUSSION
ONLINE SALES IN GALLERIES: STRATEGIES Speaker: Thomas Galbraith (online sales specialist, Paddle8)
13:00-14:00h
PRESENTATION 14:00-16:00h
Lunch break
WHO IS SETTING THE CRITICAL AGENDA TODAY? Speaker: Robert Storr (art critic and curator, Dean of the School of Art, Yale University) In conversation with Georgina Adam (Art Market Editor, The Art Newspaper, Fi nancial Times)
16:00-17:15h
KEYNOTE LECTURE, live video conference from Yale University
17:15-17:45h
Coffee Break / tweeting time
17:45-19:15h WHAT DO ARTISTS WANT FROM THEIR GALLERIES? Moderator: Christian Viveros-Fauné (art critic and curator, ArtReview magazine, The Village Voice) Speakers: Jordi Colomer (visual artist) Rainer Ganahl (visual artist.)
PANEL DISCUSSION 21:00h
WELCOME DINNER
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Tuesday, 30 Sep AFRICA, THE NEWEST ENTRANT TO MARKET Speaker: Mark Coetzee (Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa)
10:00-11.15h
KEYNOTE LECTURE 11:15-11:45h
Coffee Break / tweeting time
NEW ROLES IN THE ART MARKET Gallery Perspective: How Curators, Art Advisors, Investors and Art Funds have impacted the marketplace Moderator: Dorsey Waxter (partner Van Doren Waxter, President of the Art Dealers Association of America) Speakers: Harald Falckenberg (art collector, Falckenberg Collection) Alistair Hicks (Senior Curator & Art Advisor at Deutsche Bank) Guy Jennings (Managing Director, The Fine Art Fund Group)
11:45-13:15h
PANEL DISCUSSION 13:15h-13:30h STRENGTHENING THE GALLERY SECTOR THROUGH PRIZES Presentation of G.A.C. Awards Speaker: Ramon Sicart (Director Galeria Sicart, board member GGAC -Art Galleries of Catalunya Union-)
PRESENTATION 13:30-15:30h
Lunch break
15:30-17:00h HOW TO MAKE COMMUNICATIONS MORE EFFECTIVE AND YOUR MESSAGE HEARD IN THE CROWD Importance of arriving to your audience, learning strategies to filter information and cutting across the noise Moderator: Sylvain Levy (Professor Shanghai University, art collector DSLcollection) Speakers: Maria Marques (communications specialist, Director Brunswick Arts) Calum Sutton (communications specialist, founder and CEO at Sutton PR)
PANEL DISCUSSION 17.00-17:30h
Coffee Break / tweeting time
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE. A prospective & proactive summary Speaker: Georgina Adam (Art Market Editor, The Art Newspaper, Financial Times) FINAL CONFERENCE / CONCLUSIONS 17:30-18:30h
18:45h
COCKTAIL RECEPTION
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THE POSITION OF THE MID-MARKET GALLERY IN TODAY’S ENVIRONMENT Strategies for Navigating the Evolving Market
Keynote lecture 9:45 - 11:00h
SPEAKER: Edward Winkleman
Galleries in the top and emerging tiers of the commercial art world have reportedly bounced back from the Great Recession of 2008, while many mid-level galleries are viewed as still struggling. What are the challenges mid-level galleries face in this quickly evolving market, and how can they strategize to adapt and thrive in a business that seems to be squeezing them from all sides? Through a series of real-world cases examples, this discussion will explore strategies for succeeding even as: Collectors shift from buying out of gallery spaces to collecting at art fairs Poaching of best-selling artists by top-tier galleries and mega-galleries poses a constant risk Rampant speculation in contemporary art market shifts attention away from connoisseurship Access to images online is replacing art dealers as exclusive source for information Lower consumer confidence continues among traditional mid-level collectors The research points strongly lead to the conclusion that the traditional contemporary art gallery model isn’t broken, per se, but rather it has become much more complex and competitive. These strategy sessions are designed to help mid-tier galleries level the evolving playing field.
Edward Winkleman Co-owner of Winkleman Gallery in New York. He began his art career with a series of guerrillastyle exhibitions called “hit & run” that took place in empty warehouses in New York and London. In 2001 he co-founded Plus Ultra Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with artist Joshua Stern. Moving into Chelsea in 2006, the space became Winkleman Gallery. Murat Orozobekov became co-owner of the gallery in 2007. Both co-founded the Moving Image art fair in March 2011, focused on video and moving-image based sculptures and installations. Winkleman is the author of a blog www.edwardwinkleman.com that focuses on art (in particular, demystifying the gallery system) and politics. He has also been a contributing editor to Art World Salon and is the author of the book How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery and is currently writing a follow-up book tentatively titled Selling Contemporary Art: How to Navigate the Evolving Market.
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JOINT EVENTS vs. GOING SOLO Organised events like Berlin Gallery Weekend or Late Opening Evenings- how effective are they?
Panel discussion 11:30 - 13:00h Moderator: Annamária Molnár Speakers: Łukasz Gorczyca, Hans Knoll, Jochen Meyer, Dorsey Waxter. Contemporary art galleries are playing an increasingly significant role in the international art scene. To further enhance these positive tendencies we have to join forces and cooperate more actively. One of the biggest challenges is to find the most suitable and effective forms of cooperation amongst galleries in order to improve the market, to promote a wider appreciation of contemporary art and a broader recognition of our artists. It is clear that there is demand for cooperation among galleries both from the gallerists’ and from the visitors’ side. However, there are a wide range of possibilities to choose from. Galleries have different reasons to get involved, different aims to reach and there are various types of organisations in terms of support, management and finance. The question is which option is the most efficient, successful and satisfies most of the galleries’ needs.
Annamária Molnár Director and owner of Ani Molnár Gallery in Budapest. She received a Masters degree in Economics from the Corvinus University, Budapest in 1996. In 1993 she studied international marketing at the University of Groningen. In the late 90’, she started her career as a curator in the Hungarian contemporary art scene organizing non-profit exhibitions and projects. She won the curatorial scholarship of the Institut für Kulturwissenschaft in Vienna in 1999. In 2008 she opened her contemporary art gallery focusing on emerging and mid career Eastern-European artists. The gallery hosts non-profit public space exhibitions that received the Summa Artium Award in 2009. She was the President of the Hungarian Contemporary Galleries Association (2011-2014) and launched the international visitors program “Budapest Contemporary” in 2012. In 2013 the gallery received the Innovation and Creativity Award by FEAGA in Basel.
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Łukasz Gorczyca
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Art historian and co-founder, with Michał ´ Kaczynski, of the Raster art magazine, published from 1995 to 2003. In 2001 they opened the Raster Gallery in Warsaw, one of the world’s most recognizable galleries from 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).
Founder of Knoll Gallery in Vienna and former President of the Austrian Galleries Assotiation. He opened a second space, Knoll Gallery Budapest in 1989, which was the first private commercial gallery in the still existing East Bloc. He has been curator of many international exhibitions, often focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. From 1995 to 1999 he was professor of art management courses in Vienna, Vilnius and Bucharest. In 1999 he was editor of the book The second publicity – Art in Hungary in the 20th century. Since 1990 he has organized art tours to Budapest, Bratislava, Moscow, St Petersburg and Bucharest. In 2000 he was appointed Austrian Federal Curator for EXPO 2000 Hannover. In 2014 he organized, together with Anna Khodorkovskaya and Anastasiya Yarovenko, SAY IT – a series of exhibitions with discussions around Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Serbia and Greece.
Jochen Meyer
Dorsey Waxter
Based in Berlin, 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 or Paulo Nazareth. Meyer Riegger has has regularly participated in the main international art fairs. Since 2011 Jochen Meyer is a member of the Art Basel Committee in Basel. He is also one of the six members of the association of the Berlin Gallery Weekend which is a leading art world gathering celebrating its tenth birthday this year. In 2008 the same organization also launched the project art berlin contemporary, an annual event in which several galleries and artists participate.
Dorsey Waxter is a Partner at Van Doren Waxter, located in New York City’s Upper East Side. She is also the current President of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). Her career began as a gallery assistant at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in 1974. After three years, she transitioned to André Emmerich Gallery, contributing to the gallery’s specialization in New York color field and postWorld War II abstraction. In 1991, she established Dorsey Waxter Fine Art, Inc., advising clients and representing prominent estates. Ms. Waxter then became Director of Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in 1998—which became Van Doren Waxter in 2013. The gallery’s roster of artists and estates includes some of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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ONLINE SALES IN GALLERIES: STRATEGIES Presentation 13:00-14:00h
Speaker: Thomas Galbraith
This presentation will provide an overview of the online art space, tracking some of its checkered history, then reviewing the different approaches of leading companies in the primary and secondary markets as well as data and analysis providers: these companies will include giants like Twitter and Instagram as well as art specific companies like artnet, artspace, artsy, art binder, auctionata and Paddle8. A deeper examination will then be conducted on a core selection of the most ground breaking and innovative of these companies, looking specifically at what approaches they took to either solve existing inefficiencies in the market or bring in new perspectives and tools otherwise never before available. Thomas will then use a series of case studies to demonstrate how these online companies can be complementary to gallery business objectives and leveraging a greater online presence. By highlighting a series of potential strategic guidelines to help raise company profiles, increase traffic, draw in new clients, increase sales portals, the presentation will aim to be informative, educational and ultimately useful to business decision making. Finally the presentation will summarize the online landscape, it’s possible future, how best to participate in it by taking advantage of the efficiencies, sales potential and broad outreach the online space can afford.
Thomas Galbraith Managing Director of Auctions at Paddle8. He is responsible for managing Paddle8’s worldwide sales of art, design, and collectibles and oversees a teams of specialists based in New York, Los Angeles, and London. Thomas has deep experience in the online art landscape, having previously worked at artnet AG, where he served as Director of Global Strategy. While at artnet, Galbraith managed the build and launch of an innovative art-indexing product. He previously held positions at The Art Loss Register, AIG Private Client Group, and AXA Art Insurance Corporation. Galbraith received his MA in Art History from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He has participated in and led panels as well as given speeches in the US, Europe and Asia. He has been featured in articles in the New York Times, Financial Times, among others and formerly provided a quarterly art market update to Bloomberg Radio.
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WHO IS SETTING THE CRITICAL AGENDA TODAY? Keynote lecture, live video conference from Yale University 16:00 - 17:15h
Speaker: Robert Storr In conversation with Georgina Adam
Who were the traditional tastemakers? It is certain that the days when the great art critics like Clement Greenberg were enormously influential are gone. What are the reasons? Among them are the impact of globalisation –no-one can be everywhere at the same time, and the art world is worldwide. Newspapers have been cutting art critic positions in recent years, “culture” in many sections of newspapers today means film reviews… The art press is not strong either, so neither magazines nor newspapers can afford to send critics around the world to review shows. The public has a short attention span, and wants “quick fixes” and not considered appraisals. Museum curators, who are tethered to a single institution, are hampered by the shrinking revenues of many public institutions. Such museums are slower-moving, and cannot vie with the money-power and nimbleness of some private collectors with their own art spaces. Who are the new “tastemakers”? Are they: Collectors: in the past they might constitute collections slowly and donate at the end of their lives to a public institution. Today they put together collections much quicker, and may well found their own museums, so making their choices more public than in the past. Dealers: the “mega-galleries” have spaces in more than one country, and by being able to fund shows in public institutions – and non-selling shows in their own galleries – have international reach and influence as never before. Independent curators: their impact on the art world, for example the Venice Biennale, is extremely important. Art advisors, who put together collection for the collectors. The market itself, with its huge and highly publicised prices, leading the world to believe that the most expensive artist is also the best?
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Robert Storr
Georgina Adam
Artist and critic. Robert Storr received a M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. He was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1990-2002. He has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981 and writes frequently for Artforum, Parkett, Art Press (Paris), and Frieze (London). He has written numerous catalogs, articles, and books. He has received honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maine College of Art, as well as awards due to his practice in the field of art critism and curating. He is currently Consulting Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the commissioner of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the first American invited to assume that position. Storr was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and Dean of the School of Art, Yale University, in 2006.
Art Market Editor at large for The Art Newspaper since 2008 & Art Market correspondent for the Financial Times. Adam currently lectures subjects on emerging cultural centers, one of her main fields of interest, at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and at Christie’s Institute. Adam has been writing about the art market and the arts in general for 25 years. She began her professional career in Paris, where she studied Islamic Art at the École du Louvre. After that she worked in London for The Antique Collector, The Daily Telegraph and other publications dealing with art sales. In June 2014 she has released the book Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century, that explores the transformation of the modern and contemporary art market in the 21st century.
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WHAT DO ARTISTS WANT FROM THEIR GALLERIES? Panel discussion 17:45 – 19:15h
Moderator: Christian Viveros-Fauné Speakers: Jordi Colomer, Rainer Ganahl The ecology of the global art world is changing. Auction houses have moved deep into the primary market. Art fairs have exploded. Social media and the web have become platforms for serious promotion, editorial and sales. The art market has expanded vastly, leading to an economic bifurcation that weirdly mirrors the outlook of nations with shrinking middle classes. Like with all seismic changes, there are winners and losers that result from these transformations. Some of the ensuing fallout has become the stuff of important journalism, online discussions, and distinguished symposia—like that taking place at “Talking Galleries.” Yet few illuminating discussions have occurred which ask questions of the art world’s most essential players: “What do artists want from their galleries?” This discussion will focus on how artists believe galleries should confront the current challenges of a changing art world. Do artists need galleries anymore? Should galleries increase or decrease their participation in art fairs? Is traditional gallery representation the best path to establishing an advantageous relationship with a gallery? Is there a counterintuitive, non-market oriented aspect of gallery-making not currently being considered by galleries as a response to a changing ecology? Can the evolving playbook of socially engaged art help revitalize a stagnant gallery model? These questions and more will form the crux of this conversation, which will finally attempt to propose a few prescriptive ideas for artists and galleries looking to adapt to a rapidly changing economic and creative environment.
Christian Viveros-Fauné New York-based writer and curator. As a writer, he has written extensively about art and culture for hundreds of publications, among them Frieze, Art in America, The New Yorker, Departures, and Newsweek The Daily Beast. He currently writes the Free Lance column for ArtReview magazine, art criticism for The Village Voice and news and analysis for The Art Newspaper. A collection of his criticism, Greatest Hits: Arte en Nueva York 2001-2011, was issued in 2012 by Metales Pesados, S.A. He is currently at work on a monograph about the Guatemalan photographer and artist Lissie Habie for Edizioni Charta, S.R.L., out in Fall, 2014. Additionally, he has also curated hundreds of gallery, museum, and biennial exhibitions around the world.
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Jordi Colomer
Rainer Ganahl
Visual artist based between Barcelona and Paris. His work spans many mediums, as photography and video. In 1997 he showed his first video work at a site-specific projection room built in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. From 2001, Colomer‘s staging investigation extends to urban space and an exploration of the different scenes of social life (neighbourhoods, streets, deserts, rooftops…). This is what led to works such as ‘Anarchitekton’ (2002-2004), a travelling project involving four large global cities (Barcelona, Bucharest, Brasilia, Osaka), ‘No? Future!’ (Le Havre, 2006) or ‘Arabian Stars’ (Yemen, 2005). He has recently developed projects based on journeyworks working around the issue of movement, and where the isolated actions of a character condenses reflection on the possibilities of poetic survival offered by the contemporary metropolis.
Visual artist. Master in Philosophy, History and Fine art by Nam June Paik Academy Düsseldorf, Rainer Ganahl attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. He has participated in various biennials including Venice (1999, 2007 and 2009), the 2010 Athens Biennial, the 2008 Shanghai Biennale, the 2007 Istanbul Biennial, as well as various participations at Performa in New York. Recently, he has had solo exhibitions at Kai Matsumiya, New York; White Columns in New York. Alex Zachary Gallery, New York; Hacienda, Zurich; BCP, Shanghai; Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich; as well as The Vleeshal, Middleburg. He has also recently published DADALENIN (published by Studio Taube Berlin/Stuttgart) and El Mundo (published by Mousse Publications, Milan). In May 2014, he orchestrated Strange Teaching—Monads with Windows in an empty department store in Leipzig.
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AFRICA, THE NEWEST ENTRANT TO MARKET Keynote lecture 10:00 – 11:15h
Speaker: Mark Coetzee
While the debates rages on if one can even consider African Contemporary Art as a lexicon without falling into the trap to the homogenization of culture—the contemporary art industry in Africa is booming. New museums are being built, world class galleries developing, major collections opening private exhibition spaces, artists from Africa are included on most major international exhibitions and biennales, and their work is held in most major international contemporary art collections. Due to time restrictions this presentation cannot debate the merits or pitfalls of talking about an African Art Industry. Instead it will simply give an overview of museums in Africa and how their institutional history has impacted on the market. The discussion will then present a top line summary of the influential art galleries, auctions and collectors from or focusing on Africa. We will then consider how art markets in Africa interact with the Western market and debate the inclusions and exclusions of art galleries from Africa. Nigeria and South Africa are two countries that have recently been positioned on a global platform. The presentation will end by consider the exploding scene in South Africa and the possibility that it is fast becoming a/the gateway for the visual art market for a large majority of Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently there is a constant flow of international gallerists visiting South Africa looking for artists from Africa to include in their stable so they will be ready for this growing “Africa fascination” or “Africa Fashion”. The presentation will end with a detailed look at the players in or focused on South Africa— from gallerists to curators, collectors to museums, art schools to publishers—and the possibility that, due to a convergence of factors, Cape Town is fast becoming the port of call for the visual arts industry in or focused on Africa.
Mark Coetzee Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, (South Africa); Curator, Zeitz Collection (Switzerland); Cultural Specialist, Zeitz Foundation (Kenya); Visiting Professor, New World School of the Arts, University of Florida (Miami, USA); and Adjunct Curator at the Laumeier Sculpture Park (St. Louis, USA). He is a recognized artist in his own right as well an art historian and writer. Coetzee has published extensively on art, writing for journals including the Huffington Post, Mail & Guardian, Revue Noire and the Sunday Independent, and written over 30 monograph catalogs on various artists. His latest publications include monographs on Hernan Bas, Keith Haring, Eberhard Havekost, and John Stezaker. Coetzee studied at the University of Stellenbosch, the University of Cape Town, and the University of Paris- Sorbonne.
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NEW ROLES IN THE ART MARKET Gallery Perspective: How Curators, Art Advisors, Investors and Art Funds have impacted the marketplace.
Panel discussion 11:45 - 13:15h
Moderator: Dorsey Waxter
Speakers: Harald Falckenberg, Alistair Hicks, Guy Jennings.
In the Financial Times on Sunday, June 29, 2014, there was a prescient article written by Arts Editor Jan Dalley titled ‘New Rules, Old Game’. Dalley sumed up and presented the past role of galleries as the primary generators of artists’ exhibitions and sales, compared to the current environment where art is exhibited and sold in many arenas, including auction houses, art fairs, biennials, and the Internet. What does this mean for the survival of the bricks and mortar galleries that have been the default places to learn about and buy art? How has the changing business model affected the galleries? What are galleries doing well or what can they do better to compete in the marketplace?
Dorsey Waxter Dorsey Waxter is a Partner at Van Doren Waxter, located in New York City’s Upper East Side. She is also the current President of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). Her career began as a gallery assistant at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in 1974. After three years, she transitioned to André Emmerich Gallery, contributing to the gallery’s specialization in New York color field and post-World War II abstraction. In 1991, she established Dorsey Waxter Fine Art, Inc., advising clients and representing prominent estates. Ms. Waxter then became Director of Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in 1998—which became Van Doren Waxter in 2013. The gallery’s roster of artists and estates includes some of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Harald Falckenberg
Guy Jennings
President of the Kunstverein in Hamburg since 1998. He studied law in Freiburg, Berlin and Hamburg and works since 1979 as the General Manager of a company in the petrol business. Since 1987 he is honorary judge at the Hamburg Constitutional Court. In 2008 Falckenberg was appointed professor of art theory at the Academy of Art in Hamburg. The Falckenberg Collection of contemporary art, formed by 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 which are collected in the anthologies Ziviler Ungehorsam (Civil Disobedience), 2002, and Aus dem Maschinenraum der Kunst (From the Engine Room of Art), 2007. He was honoured with the Art-Cologne-Preis (2009) and the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award (2011).
In 1980 he joined Christie’s in London after studying Modern History and History of Art at Trinity College, Oxford. In 1986 he published the book Impressionist Painters and in 1988 a monograph on Renoir. He has been senior Director of Christies and Head of Impressionist and Modern Art in France and Deputy Chairman of Christie’s Switzerland, responsible for European Impressionist and Modern Art. In 1999, Guy left Christie’s to become Deputy Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe. In 2012 he returned to Christies working in New York as Deputy Chairman of Impressionist and Modern Paintings. He has also worked as a private dealer in London running his own business. He has a wide experience of the international art market in both Europe and America from the perspective of auction sales as well as private treaty sales. He is currently Managing Director of The Fine Art Fund Group, focused on art advisory and art investment services.
Alistair Hicks Curator and art historian. He is currently Senior Curator and Art Advisor to Deutsche Bank Collection, the largest corporate art collection in the world, with 55,000 works, and sponsors the Frieze Art Fair. He has been an art critic for such diverse publications as The Spectator, The Times and Vogue. He has been author of several books: Art Works: British and German Contemporary Art 1960-2000 (2001), The School of London: the resurgence of contemporary painting (1989), New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, (1989). His 21st survey, Global Art Compass, was published by Thames and Hudson in 2014.
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STRENGTHENING THE GALLERY SECTOR THROUGH PRIZES Presentation of G.A.C. Awards
Presentation 13.15 - 13.30h
Speaker: Ramon Sicart * This presentation will be in Catalan G.A.C. Awards, founded in 2008, are the awards given by the Art Galleries of Catalonia, currently gathering two professional gallery associations that represent nearly one hundred galleries: Gremi de Galeries d’Art de Catalunya (Catalonia Gallery Union) and Art Barcelona. They were established in order to reward relevant figures, projects and organizations for their significant contribution to both art and gallery scene in Catalonia. The awards particularly focus on those initiatives with an international impact and provide higher visibility to the role art galleries carry out within the art system. G.A.C. Awards are aimed at national and international galleries, collectors, critics, curators and artists and it count on a jury composed of professionals from different fields. Taking G.A.C. Awards as a starting point, this presentation will bring up issues such as: do awards help strengthen the gallery sector? What are the benefits in the short and long run? Which are the selection criteria? What is their actual impact on the media, the audience and the market? What other awards are given in Europe? What are the common features with other awards such as the F.E.A.G.A ones (Federation of European Art Gallery Associations)? What is the position of the gallery community concerning this issue?
Ramon Sicart Founder and Director of Galeria Sicart in Vilafranca del Penedés (Barcelona) since 2000. During the season 2011-2012, he curated a series of exhibitions entitled ¿Artistas? ¿Galerías? ¿Público? ¿Mercado? (‘Artists, Galleries, Audiences? Market?’) that took place in his gallery space and which were devoted to reflect on the mission of an art gallery and its relationship with the other agents within the art system. In 2013 he co-directed, together with Núria Miret, the contest ‘Materia Prima’ focused on innovative exhibition projects. He is a board member of Gremi de Galeries d’Art de Catalunya – GGAC, (Art Galleries of Catalunya Union). In 2013 and 2014 he has organized two editions of the talks Jornadas sobre arte y galerismo del GGAC (Conference about Art and Gallerism). Since 2013 he is the President of GAC Awards. In 2008 his gallery was awarded with the GGAC Award to the gallery with more international exposure.
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HOW TO MAKE COMMUNICATIONS MORE EFFECTIVE AND YOUR MESSAGE HEARD IN THE CROWD? Importance of arriving to your audience, learning strategies to filter information and cutting across the noise
Panel discussion 15:30 - 17:00h
Moderator: Sylvain Levy Speakers: Maria Marques, Calum Sutton
The art world has undergone tremendous changes over the past 10 years, most of which driven by unprecedented advances in technology that have in turn, created a completely new breed of art consumers. Against this backdrop, it is vital for any new art “business” to establish a memorable and distinctive identity/image in the shortest time possible. Given the enormous amount of information available, this image needs to be very clearly distinguishable, and to become “a voice above the noise”. Once this distinctive image has been created, the next step is to communicate it to the target audience through the appropriate channels. It’s not much use having a wonderful image if nobody knows about it. This panel will attempt to bring to light key issues that commonly arise when dealing with communications in the gallery daily basis practice, by posing questions and providing strategies to build up a better positioning: Is branding a significant step forward to stand out and to communicate one’s set of values? How can it be applied to galleries without becoming mere ’brands’? Is it brand content delivery a necessary evil to stand out and does it help to increase the sales? How can small and mid-sized galleries position themselves in a crowded world with a clear message, especially when aiming to reach new target collectors and to fulfill their demands? How do online and offline communications co-exist for a gallery? Do we have to choose or what is the perfect combination to carry out an optimal usage? What is the importance of building a social network community and the impact of “word of mouth” in a digital world? Is gallery business still based on personal human relationships more than anything else?
Sylvain Levy Contemporary Chinese art collector and visiting professor at the Shanghai University in charge of the Art and Management Master. The Dslcollection, founded by Sylvain and Dominique Levy, is an art collection that embraces the discovery, study and promotion of the Chinese contemporary artistic and cultural production, be it paintings, sculpture, video art, installations or new media art. The key factors that differentiate the Dslcollection are its unique acquisition policy and its use of the latest technology. Through technology, the collection is able to achieve greater visibility, upon which to build a strong personality of its own. The ultimate goal is to create a sustainable identity for the collection within the international art world, which is truly distinctive and not tied to its founding members.
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Maria Marques
Calum Sutton
Communications specialist and Director at Brunswick Arts, a leading international communications consultancy specialising in the arts and culture. She graduated from Oxford University with a first-class degree in Modern Languages. Since joining Brunswick Arts in 2008, Maria has worked with major cultural institutions including the British Museum, the Louvre and the Qatar Museums and overseen high profile PR campaigns for international art events such as The Armory Show in New York, the Sharjah Biennial and several national pavilions at the Venice Biennale. She has also advised corporate and financial organizations on developing strategic partnerships with the art sector. Prior to joining Brunswick, Maria worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, in the outreach and publications departments.
Calum Sutton is one of the world’s leading arts communication specialists, and has helped build some of the most prestigious global art brands, including Art Basel and Frieze Art Fair. He opened Sutton PR in 2006. From 2012 he is President and CEO of Sutton PR in London and New York, and of Sutton PR Asia, based in Hong Kong. Clients include many of the world’s leading art fairs, biennales, commercial galleries, festivals, institutions, museums, non-profit organizations, and corporate supporters of the arts. Prior to setting up the agency he was Head of Communications for Charles Saatchi and the Saatchi Gallery, and was previously the Press Officer at Tate Modern. Calum has a background in Art History with a degree from University College London followed by an MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
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LOOKING TO THE FUTURE A prospective & proactive summary
Final conference / Conclusions 17:30 - 18:30h
Speaker: Georgina Adam
At the end of the symposium, Georgina Adam will sum up the two days in a presentation which will condense and review the important points that the speakers and participants will have explored over the two days. As it has been the case in previous editions, Adam will debate these ideas in a proactive way, exploring their applicability in the daily based gallery practice.
Georgina Adam Art Market Editor at large for The Art Newspaper since 2008 & Art Market correspondent for the Financial Times. Adam currently lectures subjects on emerging cultural centers, one of her main fields of interest, at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and at Christie’s Institute. Adam has been writing about the art market and the arts in general for 25 years. She began her professional career in Paris, where she studied Islamic Art at the École du Louvre. After that she worked in London for The Antique Collector, The Daily Telegraph and other publications dealing with art sales. In June 2014 she has released the book Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century, that explores the transformation of the modern and contemporary art market in the 21st century.
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THE VENUES MACBA AUDITORIUM. The venue of the Symposium The whole programme of Talking Galleries Barcelona Symposium will take place at MACBA Aud¡torium. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) is an international benchmark opened in 1995 which houses one of the most remarkable collections of contemporary art in Barcelona and features temporary exhibitions by renowned artists. The Museum is also an active center for research, debate and dissemination of contemporary thought. Designed by US architect Richard Meier, the building is located right in the centre of Barcelona in the bustling Raval neighbourhood, surrounded by a wealth of galleries, institutions and art centres. How to get there Auditori MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona Plaça Joan Coromines, s/n Metro: L1, L3 (Catalunya) L1, L2 (Universitat) Renfe – FGC: L6, L7, S1, S2, S5, S55 Plaza Catalunya BUS–Lines: 7, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 20, 24, 37, 41, 42, 50, 54, 55, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 91, 120, 121, 141, H12, Aerobús
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THE VENUES HOTEL ALMA The venue of THE Welcome dinner Hotel Alma Barcelona is sponsoring the Welcome dinner that will be hosted on Monday night. The hotel chefs will be preparing a special menu for the event. Located in an elegant early 20th-century building in the heart of Barcelona’s Eixample district, next to Passeig de Gràcia, its courtyard will be the meeting place where speakers, participants and special guests will gather to exchange experiences in a vibrant setting after the symposium’s first day. How to get there Hotel Alma Barcelona Mallorca, 271 T +34 93 216 44 90 Metro: L3, L5 (Diagonal) L3 (Passeig de Gràcia) Renfe – FGC: S1, S2, S5, S55 (Provença) BUS–Lines: V15-Barceloneta / Vall d’Obrón (departuring from Plaça Catalunya)
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GALLERIES AND ART SPACES What is on From art galleries to museums, Barcelona has a wide range of cultural offerings. Talking Galleries invites you to make the most of your spare time and pop into some of the best venues of the city to get to know their engaging programming. Barcelona has set up a Contemoprary Art Tour through the most remarkable galleries, art centers, museums and foundations. To check out the exhibitions’ programme and suggested tours, get the “Barcelona Contemporary Art Circuit” brochure at the front desk in the main cultural points.
ART GALLERIES +R Galeria (*)
ÀMBIT Galeria d’Art
JOSEFA TOLRÀ, FINA MIRALLES, ÀNGELS RIBÉ, MAR ARZA, BLANCA CASAS BRULLET Y JOANA CERA “Manualment”
“Painting In Bcn”
Mon-Fri: 11-19h, Sat: by appointment C/ Sant Eusebi 40-44 + 34 93 414 15 97 www.maserre.com
ADN Galeria (*)
Tue-Sat: 10-14h; 16-20.30h C/ Consell de Cent, 282 + 34 93 488 18 00 www.ambitgaleriaart.com
Art Deal Project PACO PUENTES i MIGUEL ÁNGEL VIGO “Los mil hijos de Hypnos”
DEMOCRACIA Mo: 15-20h, Tue-Fri: 10-14h; 15-20h, Sat: 11-14; 17-20.30h
Mon-Fri: 11-14h; 17-21h C/ Llibertat 44 + 34 606207708 www.artdealproject.com
C/ Enric Granados 49 + 34 93 451 00 64 www.adngaleria.com
Galeria Atelier
alejandrogallery
PLENSA & TÀPIES “Graphic Work Plensa-Tàpies”
PEP MONTOYA “Açoes” FREDERIK NAEBLEROED, HENRIK GODSK, JAVIER RAMIREX, PEP MONTOYA, JUAN MIGUEL PALACIOS, PAULO ESCOBAR “Fresh air” Exhibition opening: 1 October, 19h
Tue-Fri: 10.30-14h; 17-20.30h Pl. Rovira i Trias, 9 +34 932 844 317 www.galeriatelier.com
Mo-Fri: 10-13h30; 15-19h C/Consell De Cent, 204 + 34 93 453 03 83 www.alejandrogallery.com
Tue-Sat: 11-19h
Galeria Alejandro Sales
Cyan Gallery (*)
ALFONSO ALZAMORA Tue-Fri: 11-14h; 17-20h, Sat: by appointment C/ Julián Romea 16 + 34 93 415 20 54 www.alejandrosales.com
Galeria Balaguer (*) ALEJANDRA ATARÉS “Retratos”
C/ Consell de Cent 315 + 34 93 487 41 99 www.galeriabalaguer.com
RIIKO SAKKINEN “Capitalistes sans frontières” Tue-Sat: 11-14h; 15.30-19.30h C/ Balmes 88, + 34 93 269 44 28 www.cyangallery.com
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Galeria Estrany de la Mota (*) JONATHAN MILLAN “Pequeño drama sobreactuado” Tue- Fri: 10.30-19h, Sat: 10.30-14.30h Passatge Mercader, 18 +34 93 215 70 51 www.estranydelamota.com
Imaginart Gallery PABLO PICASSO, SALVADOR DALÍ & JOAN MIRÓ. “Grandes Maestros. Picasso/Dalí/Miró. Obra original y gráfica” Mon-Fri 10-14h; 16-20h Avinguda Diagonal, 432 + 34 93 241 22 40 www.imaginart-gallery.com
Galeria Joan Gaspar (*) EDUARDO CHILLIDA “Obra sobre papel” Mo: 17-20h, Tue-Fri: 10-13.30h; 17-20h, Sat: 10.3013.30 Plaça Dr. Letamendi, 1 + 34 93 323 07 48 www.galeriajoangaspar.com
Galeria Joan Prats (*) LUIS GORDILLO
Estudio Nómada BARBARA ŻACH “Peeking Stories” Exhibition Opening 30 Sep, 19h
Tue-Fri: 11-14h; 16.30-20h C/Balmes, 54 + 34 93 216 02 84 www.galeriajoanprats.com
Mon- Fri: 10.30-13.00h; Wed: closed C/ Palma de Sant Just 7 622 68 90 32 www.estudio-nómada.com
Lorena Ruiz de Villa. Contemporary Art
Galeria Eude
Mon-Fri: 10-18h C/ Camp d’En Vidal 16, Local 2 + 34 93 467 54 99 www.lorenaruizdevilla.com
“Fondo de una colección” Tue-Fri: 10.30-13.30h; 17-20.30h Sat: 10.30-14h; 17-20.30h C/ Consell de Cent, 278 +34 93 487 93 86 www.galeriaeude.com
THE GREEN PARROT EVA FÀBREGAS “Unforeseen changes” The gallery will be exceptionally opened from 13.30h to 16.00h during Talking Galleries lunch break on 29-30/09 C/d’en Bot, 21 1st floor +34 647 92 99 20 thegreenparrot.org
Galeria H2O (*) FRANÇOISE POLO “Reconnexions” Mo-Fri: 16-20h C/ Verdi, 152 + 34 93 415 18 01 www.h2o.es
KIM SOOJA, TOMÁS SARACENO
Galeria Miguel Marcos CHIMO SERRANO “Self Sufficient” Mon-Fri 10.30-14h; 17-20h Sat by appointment C/ Jonqueres 10, 08003 Barcelona +34 93 319 26 27 www.miguelmarcos.com
Galeria Miquel Alzueta JUNZO SAKAKURA, SORI YANAGI, ISAMU KENMOCHI, KENZO TANGUE. “Japó 1950”
ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ Mon-Fri: 10-20h, Sat : 11-14h (since October) C/ Séneca 9-11 baixos interior + 34 93 238 97 50 galeriamiquelalzueta.es
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Galeria Toni Tàpies (*)
ANNA BELLA GEIGER
CHRISTINE BORLAND, ED PIEN I SASCHA WEIDNER “Galeria Toni Tàpies 1994 – 2014: Diàlegs d’una col.lecció”
Mo-Fri: 10.30-19h, Sat: by appointment C/ Xuclà 7 + 34 93 342 57 21 www.noguerasblanchard.com
Piramidón, Centre d’Art Contemporani. GUIM TIÓ, CARLES GABARRÓ, MIGUEL ÁNGEL PASCUAL, ESTEFANÍA URRUTIA, PERE DE RIBOT, PATRICIO REIG, LUCA BENITES, TONO CARBAJO, MILENA ROSSIGNOLI, JOSÉ RAMÓN BAS I GUILLERMO PFAFF. “Col·lectiva 2014_n2” Mon-Fri: 10-19h C/ Concili de Trento 313, planta 16 + 34 93 278 07 68 www.piramidon.com
Plom Gallery Contemporary Atr for kids Mon- Fri 10-21h; Sat: 10.30- 21h C/ Séneca 31 +34 932 377 865 www.plomgallery.com
ProjecteSD (*) IÑAKI BONILLAS “La idea del Nord” Tue-Fri: 11.00-19.00h Passatge Mercader, 8 baixos 1 + 34 93 488 13 60 www.projectesd.com
Galeria Senda (*) KARIN KNEFFEL Tue-Sat: 11h-20h C/ Consell de Cent, 337 + 34 93 487 67 59 www.galeriasenda.com
Silvia Sennacheribbo SONIA BERMUDEZ “Tapices” Mo-Fri: 10-14h; 16.15-20.15h, Sat: 11-14h C/ Enric Granados, 106 + 34 93 368 87 78 www.silviasennacheribbo.com
Mo-Fri: 10-14h; 15-19h C/ Consell de Cent, 282 + 34 93 487 64 02 www.tonitapies.com
Galeria Trama (*) LUIS CRUZ Mon: 16-20h, Tue-Fri: 10:30 – 14h; 16-20h, Sat: 10:30-14h; 16 :30-20.30h C/ Petrixol, 5 + 34 93 317 48 77 www.galeriatrama.com
Galeria Tuset Art Contemporani CARME MAGEM, MARC JESÚS, IVÀN TRIAY Summer Show 2014 Mon: 17-20h, Tue-Fri: 11-13.30h; 17-20h C/ Muntaner 187, bis + 34 93 419 68 04 www.galeriatuset.com
Galeria Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo MATTHIAS HEIDERICH, ESTHER STEWART, SALUSTIANO, MATT SHLIAN, GUSTAVO DIAZ SOSA, JAVIER LEON, JACINTO MOROS, IÑIGO ARREGI “Crossroads” POL VILADOMS “Check-In Tempelhof” Tue-Fri: 11-14h; 16.30-20.30h C/ Aribau 75 + 34 93 667 55 59 www.victorlope.com
Villa del Arte JACQUELINE BOZON, LORENA GARCÍA MATEU, CHRISTIAAN LIEVERSEJOAN PERIS, JEAN-FRANÇOIS RAUZIER. Mon-Sun: 10-23h C/ Tapineria, 39 + 34 93 268 06 73 www.villadelarte.com
(*) 3 October: Opening gallery season
Note that the galleries programme and exhibition dates may be subject to changes. Please, check their website before visiting.
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ART SPACES Admission to the following Art Spaces is free by presenting your Talking Galleries accreditation at the frontdesk.
ARTS SANTA MÒNICA ISABEL BANAL “Series: white under black, works from the imperceptible” ANTONIO BENEYTO “La Beneytoteca de Beneyto” Tues – Sat 11 – 21h Sunday & bank holidays 11-17h Rambla de Santa Mònica, 7 + 34 935 67 11 10 www.artssantamonica.cat Admission free
CAIXAFORUM “Captive Beauty: Small Gems from the Museo del Prado” “The most important thing. Portraits of an escape” Mon- Sun 10 – 20h Av. Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8 + 934 76 86 00 Admission free
FUNDACIÓ JOAN MIRÓ JOAN MIRÓ. Documents Series “From Miró to Barcelona” JOAQUIM GOMIS 2Mercè 1969” Parc de Montjuïc s/n + 34 93 44 39 470 Tues – Sun: 10 – 19h (October- June) 10 – 20h (July- September) Thu: 10 – 21:30h Sun and Bank Holiday: 10 – 14.30h Mon- Closed www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org
FUNDACIÓ SUÑOL “On Paper” Josep Suñol Collection. “Perfect Lovers. Art in the Times of Aids” Exhibition opening: 2 October. Talking Galleries participants are invited to attend the show.
CCCB
Mon – Sat: 16 – 20h Sun: Closed Passeig de Gràcia, 98 + 34 934 961 032 www.fundaciosunol.org
“Big Bang Data”
FUNDACIÓ TÀPIES
MARIAM GHANI & OMER FAST. “Under Siege”
KERRY JAMES MARSHALL. “Painting and other staff” ANTONI TÀPIES. “Collection, # 8” “Open Source Prototypes” (ongoing project)
Tues – Sun: 11 – 20h Mon – Closed C/ Montalegre, 5 + 34 93 306 41 00 www.cccb.org
FUNDACIÓN FRANCISCO GODIA
Tue – Sun: 10 – 19h Mon- Closed Aragó 255 +34 934 870 315 www.fundaciotapies.org
Works from the Permanent Collection Mon – Wed – Thu – Fri: 10 – 20h Sun: 10 – 15 h Tue- Closed C/ Diputació, 250 + 34 93 27 23 180 www.fundacionfgodia.org
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MUSEU D’ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA (MACBA) “Art & Language Uncompleted”. The Philippe Méaille Collection. JAVIER CODESAL. “Los pies que faltan”. Exhibition part of the cycle “El gran vidrio (The large glass)” “Nonument” OSKAR HANSEN “Open Form” XAVIER RIBAS “Nitrate” Plaça dels Àngels, 1 + 34 934 120 810 Mon – Wed – Thu – Fri: 11 - 19.30h Sat: 10 - 20 Sun and Bank Holiday: 10 – 15h
MUSEU NACIONAL D’ART DE CATALUNYA (MNAC) “The Painter Antoni Viladomat i Manalt (1678-1755).The Graphic Work of a Forerunner” “Ex ungue leonem. Marble heads by the Master of Cabestany” Palau Nacional. Parc de Montjuïc +34 93 622 03 76 Tue - Sat: 10 - 19 Sun and Bank Holiday: 10 - 14.30 Mon: Closed
LA VIRREINA CENTRE DE LA IMATGE RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI. “The Decline of the Empire” La Rambla, 99 + 34 933 017 775 Tues - Sun 12 – 20h lavirreina.bcn.cat Admission free
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EAT AND DRINK Barcelona offers an extensive and excellent gastronomic range. TALKING GALLERIES wants to recommend some of the best restaurants in town, with a special selection for all kinds of tastes: from the rice and fresh fish of the the Mediterranean to oriental delights, Catalan tradition and the best seasonal cuisine under the influence of Ferran Adrià, one of the world’s best chefs. Bon appétit!
EAT Talking Galleries Symposium Restaurant is Flax & Kale Tallers, 74B +34 933 175 664 Very near MACBA, it offers healthy cuisine and mainly vegeterian with some dishes that have Oliy fish. It’s a good option if you want to eat organic food. The place where the Symposium speakers will be taking their lunch breaks.
Barceloneta L’Escar 22. Molls dels pescadors +34 932 212 111 www.rte-barceloneta.com One of the most famous restaurants in the city, ideal for enjoying their fish and rice specialities and the views over the Port Vell harbour.
Comerç 24 / Tapas 24 Comerç, 24 / +34 93 319 21 02 Diputació, 269 (corner of Passeig de Gràcia) / +34 934 880 977 www.tapas24.net Carles Abellan, a pupil of Ferran Adrià, has succeeded in creating a stimulating original cuisine in his restaurants based on the tapas tradition, in both his restaurant in the Born neighborhood and at his bar on the Paseo de Gracia.
Cornelia and Co. Valencia, 225 (corner of Balmes) +34 932 723 956 www.corneliaandco.com Ideal for new gourmets, who will be reminded of the concept of Dean & Deluca in New York: restaurant + bar + delicatessen store. At breakfast, for a snack, at dinner, or any other time, don’t miss their famous Lemon Pie.
Gresca Provenza, 230 (corner of Enric Granados) +34 934 516 193 www.gresca.net One of the restaurants in town that has best succeeded in adapting the concept of bistronomy and techno-emotional cuisine created by Ferran Adrià.
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Lasarte Mallorca 259 (corner of Passeig de Gràcia) +34 934 453 242 www.restaurantlasarte.com The elegance and wisdom of the award-winning Basque chef Martin Berasategui (three Michelin stars) in the city centre. Quite an experience.
Monvínic Diputació 249 +34 932 726 187 www.monvinic.com Selected by Food & Wine magazine as one of the 5 best wine bars in the world. Undoubtedly the benchmark for wine lovers in Barcelona.
Pez Vela Passeig del Mare Nostrum 19/21 (under the Hotel W) +34 932 21 63 17 www.grupotragaluz.com/rest-pezvela.php The Tragaluz Group’s new “beach bar-restaurant” gives you the opportunity to try some of the best rice you can eat in the city just a stone’s throw from the sea.
Pinotxo Bar La Rambla, 91 +34 933 171 731 Located inside the fantastic Boqueria market, this legendary bar is the perfect place to capture the essence of Barcelona while enjoying a varied assortment of tapas and local dishes.
Shunka + Koy Shunka Sagristans, 5 / +34 934 124 991 Copons, 7 / +34 934 127 939 www.koyshunka.com Twin restaurants, both of which are essential stops for sampling the best Japanese and oriental cuisine that can be eaten in Barcelona today.
Suquet de l’Almirall Passeig Joan de Borbó, 65 +34 932 216 233 www.suquetdelalmirall.com Very near the sea, in the Barceloneta district. They offer first class fish and rice dishes, perfect for sampling on the terrace in the city sunshine.
Teresa Carles Jovellanos, 2 +34 933 17 18 29 www.teresacarles.com A restaurant in the Raval district (just 2 minutes from the MACBA), offering a healthy cuisine based on a vegeterian menu.
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DRINK BANKER’S BAR. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Passeig de Gràcia, 38 +34 931 518 888 www.mandarinoriental.com
DRYMARTINI Aribau, 162-166 +34 932 175 072 www.drymartinibcn.com
MILANO Ronda Universidad, 35 +34 934 813 327 www.camparimilano.com
VISIT UP. Hotel Pulitzer Barcelona Bergara, 8, Barcelona +34 934 816 767 www.doyouvisitbarcelona.com
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ABOUT TALKING GALLERIES Talking Galleries is an international platform for gallery professionals devoted to rethink contemporary gallery practices. It aims to provide an open platform to share knowledge, debate current issues and draw up joint strategies for the future. Talking Galleries manifest itself in different formats. From panels and debates carried out within the umbrella of an art event to publications which compile the most relevant sessions occurred during the past events, Talking Galleries is deeply committed to tackle the most challenging topics affecting the gallery world to find effective answers to its main concerns. Talking Galleries is a project by Screen Projects, a cultural agency dedicated to contemporary art and moving image.
TEAM Conrado Uribe
Emilio Álvarez
Director of Contents
Director Screen Projects
Isa Casanellas
Carlos Duran
Production Manager
Paola Ventín Symposium Coordinator
Núria Gurina Puig Communication Coordinator
Carles Novellas Press
Inoutsiel Studio Art Direction & Design
Director Screen Projects A project by
Screen Projects Enric Granados 3 08007 (Barcelona) Tel. +34 93 215 52 60 talkinggalleries@screen-barcelona.com @talkingalleries www.screen-projects.com
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