Arterritory Conversations with Collectors No 7

Grażyna Kulczyk, Johanna and Friedrich Gräfling, Joop van Caldenborgh, Piotr Bazylko, Sandra Hegedüs, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, Hans Furer, Alexander Ramselaar, Petr Pudil, Stuart Evens, Enzo Enea, Madeleine Bessborough.

Art and art patronage are a fragile matter, one that is clearly affected negatively by crises. In this respect, the role of a collector capable of supporting artists who are spiritually akin and interesting to him at an existentially challenging time becomes more important than ever. For the collectors represented in this issue, it is not the ownership of works by global star artists, valued at seven digit prices, that seems so important. What matters more is art that speaks to them, correlating with their own views on the world and people. It is this kind of art that finds permanent place in their collection, and it is artists capable of creating this kind of art whom they support.

“Collecting for us is not just going to Art Basel, spending money and getting an artwork. It’s really about being involved and getting to the essence of it. It’s not necessary to be friends with the artist, but really having a discourse, an exchange. (…) Art is a kind of key that offers both information and a different perspective on the political, economic and social processes going on in the world,” say German art collectors Johanna and Friedrich Gräfling. By using art as a medium, they are documenting the times they are living in: the thoughts, visions, contradictions, passions, trends and life itself in Europe within the span of their own lifetimes.


Publisher: Arterritory.com
Year of publication: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 176

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Arterritory Conversations: Detox and Healing for the Planet / digital version

Arterritory Conversations: Detox and Healing for the Planet

What does it mean to be a human and to be alive? What is the footprint we leave on the world, and is it within our power to change that footprint? Is it possible to restart the biosphere, and is that what is happening right now? What is the next step after the demystification of the “crown of creation”? How do we escape the frame of the “economic robot”, or will artificial intelligence push us even deeper into it? Is science the tool that helps us understand the world, or is it perhaps art, in some way, that helps us to do so? What can each of us do, personally, to make this world better?

“It’s finally time that we wake up and realise that all of us – men, women, children – are part of the Big Forest,” we are reminded in one of the interviews in this publication by Puwe Puyanawa, the spiritual leader of the Puyanawa tribe in Brazil.

In this journal, seventeen vivid personalities – artists, philosophers, anthropologists, shamans, designers, curators, architects, directors and scientists – try to find answers to these questions. We believe that genuine, in-depth conversation is one of the last remaining, foolproof sources of meaning in an age of fake news and information overload; it is also, at the same time, a tool for such transformation. According to Theodore Zeldin, valuable conversations are those from which one is “willing to emerge a slightly different person”. We hope that these conversations are worthy of such willingness. Among Arterritory.com’s conversation partners in this publication the reader meets anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis; doctor of pharmacy Vija Eniņa; artists Ernesto Neto, Marguerite Humeau, Miķelis Fišers, Lin May Saeed and Anton Vidokle; director Stefan Kaegi, who is a co-founder of the Rimini Protokoll project; the PROLOG +1 architecture collective; ecologist and geophilosopher David Abram; and others.

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Arterritory Conversations No 7

It is important to us to ask our interlocutor the best-aimed question. One that would help them reveal their outlook on the world and the role of art in it. ‘How do you think your work differs from a child’s scribble?’ ‒ we asked the British artist David Shrigley. ‘Do you think as you talk, or have you already thought everything out beforehand?’ ‒ we asked Hans-Ulrich Obrist, one of the best-known curators on the contemporary art scene. This time, we have put a whole variety of different questions to eighteen brilliant personalities, including the painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, the art collective Slavs and Tatars, director of Fondation Beyeler Sam Keller and many others.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2019

Language: English

Pages: 288


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Arterritory Conversations No 6

What and how do we speak about contemporary art? Why are our discussions on the subject important and what do they influence? We talk about it with Artistic Director of PinchukArtCentre Björn Geldhof, the Polish artist Artur Żmijewski, the Flemish Jan Fabre and Belgian Hans Op de Beeck. The Israeli artist Sigalit Landau tells us about her experience of artistic collaboration with the Dead Sea. The issue also features curator of the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art Katerina Gregos, architect Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Director of Art Cologne Daniel Hug and many others.


Publisher: Arterritory.com
Year of publication: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 248


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Arterritory Conversations No 5

How does contemporary art feel in the world of post-truth (according to the Oxford English Dictionary, Word of the Year 2016)? Could we say that it is art that becomes ‘truth’ in this reality ‒ exactly for the reason that it makes no claim to realism? Between the covers of the fifth issue, you will find compiled our conversations on the subject with Tony Oursler, Jake Chapman, Ernesto Neto, Tino Sehgal, Joana Vasconcelos, Wilhelm Sasnal, Hedwig Fijen and a whole range of other important artists, curators and gallerists.


Publisher: Arterritory.com
Year of publication: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 288


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Arterritory Conversations No 4

‘What would be the perfect or ideal world for you?’– we asked the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. ‘More freedom, more tolerance, less orthodox structures coming back in politics and relations, more enlightenment; yes – more freedom’, – he said. The subject of freedom of thought and artistic gesture is developed in our conversations with the Polish artist Mirosław Bałka, cult heroes of the British art scene Gilbert and George, the French ‘feminist icon’ ORLAN, as well as Olafur Eliasson, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Lev Manovich. We also present two Baltic stars ‒ Miķelis Fišers and Raul Keller.


Publisher: Arterritory.com
Year of publication: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 140


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Arterritory Conversations No 3

Christian Boltanski tells us: ‘The job of an artist is to finish the work, but at the same time, to leave it open – unlocked.’ Antony Gormley assures us that ‘art can shift our thought and feeling patterns in a new direction’. Others who talk to us and share their thoughts on art include Udo Kittelman, Sune Nordgren, Thaddaeus Ropac, Marcel Wanders, as well as the director, artist and genuine avant-garde figure that is Jonas Mekas, whose name is a symbol both in the Baltic States and the USA. Plus ‒ Alvis Hermanis, Signe Baumane, Olga Sviblova and others.


Publisher: Arterritory.com
Year of publication: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 136


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Arterritory Conversations No 2

While the first issue was a compilation of our best interviews from 2012, the second one presented the most important conversations that had taken place in 2013. We were lucky to sit down for a chat with Jan Fabre, the Belgian artist expressing himself not only in contemporary visual art but also in the performance genre, with the pioneer of Finnish video art Eija-Liisa Ahtila, the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, world-class curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Estonian artist Raoul Kurvitz, gallerist Andrew Renton (Marlborough Contemporary art gallery), Czech sculptor David Černý, Latvian artist Maija Kurševa and others.

Publisher: Arterritory.com
Year of publication: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 104

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Arterritory Conversations No 1

Interviews with artists and curators are more than just condensed summaries of world views. It is an intellectual spark that is born between collocutors and starts the fire of conversation. It is something like a photograph, a snapshot capturing the state of mind of the people talking. The first issue features our ‘pictures’ with the British artist Mike Nelson, Ragnar Kjartansson from Iceland, Henrik Vibskov from Denmark, Marat Gelman and Viktor Misiano from Moscow, as well as Director of the Whitechapel Gallery Iwona Blazwick and Turner Prize winner Martin Creed.

Publisher: Arterritory.com
Year of publication: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 104

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Arterritory Conversations with Collectors No 6

Valeria Napoleone, Stefan von Bartha, Leopold Weinberg, Han Nefkens, Aeneas Bastian, Artemy Troitsky, Ramin Salsali, Christian Kaspar Schwarm, David Roberts, Péter Küllői, Giorgio Fasol, Sebastian Köpcke and Volker Weinhold


There is no doubt that collectors complement and perfect the art world. And art helps them and everybody who is ready for that to become more aware of themselves and everything around them, to expand the boundaries of imagination and perception. ‘Imagine spaces without art. Imagine churches without art. Imagine all the history, all the creative people – without art. It just doesn't work’ – believes the Swiss gallerist and collector Stefan von Bartha.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2019

Language: English
Pages: 176

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Arterritory Conversations with Collectors No 5

Thaddaeus Ropac, Joseph Kouli, Wildried and Yannicke Cooreman, Gil Bronner, Valérie Bach, Meda Mládek, Agah Uğur, Roman Babichev, Tony Cragg, Marc&Josée Gensollen, Heidi Goëss-Horten, Dieter and Gertraud Bogner, Viktoras Butkus, Venke and Rolf Hoff


Only collectors are ready to take a risk and invest in artists who are in need of support “here and now”. In addition, a collector’s collection is a statement of sorts. It cannot be described with a single word or phrase; a collection’s logic is much more complex and individual. Turkish art collector Agah Uğur tells us: “I am responsible for the collection to achieve its mission. Not my own personal mission, but I have a responsibility to help the collection achieve its own mission.”


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2018

Language: English
Pages: 184

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Arterritory Conversations with Collectors No 4

Robert M. Rubin, Erika Hoffmann-Koenige, Noemi Givon, Frederic de Goldschmidt, Al Shands, Candida Gertler, Amos Schocken, Timo Miettinen, Galila Barzilaï-Hollander, Vilius Kavaliauskas, Patricia Vergaz, Andrew&Christine Hall, Bernar Venet


Is it true or just a legend? It’s difficult to tell. But in this issue of Arterritory Conversations with Collectors we talk about whether there is such a thing as a “collector gene”. And if yes, where is this gene located in a person? There can be various opinions about this, but we like the idea that it might reside in the eyes and visual system. Because this system operates a bit differently in art experts, apologists and collectors.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2017

Language: English
Pages: 176

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Arterritory Conversations with Collectors No 3

Walter Vanhaerents, Rebecca Russo, Daniel Wolf, Diane Venet, Francesca von Habsburg, Pierre Pradié, Riivo Anton, Erling Kagge, Michael Klaar, Désiré Feuerle, Axel Haubrok


In today’s art world, collectors have become just as influential as art critics and curators. The collector enters the art environment through his or her passion and is ready to share it with others just as passionately. The way in which collectors speak about art and display their collections allows art to enter other people’s worlds as well. “I don’t think of the things in my collection as of things that I own,” Daniel Wolf told us in New York. “No, I think about having them for a period of time to learn from them, and then they move on. Owning is not the goal. Learning is.” The eleven conversations in this issue tell eleven very personal stories about how art expands the space for thought and about how art can change as well as heal us.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 128


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Arterritory Conversations with Collectors No 2

Alain Servais, Giuliano Gori, Isabelle Maeght, Jean Pigozzi, Ryutaro Takahashi, Gilles Fuchs, Igor Tsukanov, Jānis Zuzāns, Julia Stoschek, Egidio Marzona, Takeo Obayashi


The protagonists of this issue are people of all ages and of different opinions about contemporaneity. But one element nevertheless unites them: they share not only a passion for art but also a distinct ability to focus and turn their attention and energy to a specific goal they have set for themselves. They are all guided by a vision that they strive to embody in reality. “You have to be focused. You can’t do everything; it doesn’t work,” says Jean Pigozzi, who owns the world’s largest collection of contemporary African art.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2015

Language: English

Pages: 136

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Arterritory Conversations with Collectors No 1

Petter Stordalen, Dakis Joannou, Christian Rignes, Ingvild Goetz, Dimitris Daskalapoulos, Luciano Benetton, Robert&Nicky Wilson, Isabelle&Jean-Conrad Lemaître, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Joaquin Diez-Cascón, Harald Falckenberg


This publication offers an insight into some superb art collections as well as conversations about art and how the passion for collecting art has changed the lives and world views of the people linked with these collections. These are conversations about causes and effects, about the process and each individual’s personal path to the collection, about how art can become an integral part of everyone’s life. The people featured in this first issue of Arterritory Conversations with Collectors are united by a result: the creation of a prestigious art collection. These are personalities who, due to their status and investment in art, have become authorities whose opinions are taken into account not only by the art market but by the art world in general.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2014

Language: English

Pages: 136


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MAREUNROL'S / digital version

The book contains the essence of seventeen collections created by Latvian fashion duo MAREUNROL'S between 2005 and 2019 as well as other projects, such as theatre and opera productions, films and exhibitions, that they have worked on during this period. The publication illustrates the creative process involved in this work, from the first sketches to full characters and the environments they inhabit.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2019

Language: English, Latvian

Pages: 616

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MAREUNROL'S

The book contains the essence of seventeen collections created by Latvian fashion duo MAREUNROL'S between 2005 and 2019 as well as other projects, such as theatre and opera productions, films and exhibitions, that they have worked on during this period. The publication illustrates the creative process involved in this work, from the first sketches to full characters and the environments they inhabit.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2019

Language: English, Latvian

Pages: 616

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Artists' Jewellery: From Picasso to Koons. Diane Venet's Collection

An exhibition catalogue of 113 works from the Diana Venet’s jewellery collection by 82 legendary 20th and 21st century artists. The publication includes reproductions of the jewellery pieces on display, as well as concise descriptions of each artist's creative work and comments by the collector on the inclusion of some pieces in her collection and her private relationships with some of the authors. The publication is prefaced by a conversation between Una Meistere and Diane Venet.


Catalogue

Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2017

Language: English, Latvian

Pages: 354


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Dreams And Dramas

Dreams And Dramas / Intensities of Contemporary Israel


An exhibition catalogue focusing on the story of modern Israel – its vitality, directness and vulgarity, its high dreams and silent dramas. This publication offers an insight into the work of 14 contemporary Israeli artists, as well as features text On Israeliness by Ruth Margalit, a Jewish writer based in New York, the exhibition’s conceptual basis Discordant Harmony by its curator Roy Brand, and a comic book, Life in Beige, by Tamar Blumenfeld.


Catalogue

Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2017

Language: English, Latvian

Pages: 120



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The Purvītis Prize 2019

The Purvītis Prize 2019 exhibition catalogue reviews the eight artworks nominated for the prize, as well as includes interviews with their authors. The Purvītis Prize is the most prestigious visual arts award in Latvia.


Catalogue

Publisher: Mākslas Platforma Association / Arterritory.com

Language: English, Latvian

Pages: 216

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Ornamentalism. The Purvītis Prize. Latvian Contemporary Art

Catalogue of the exhibition Ornamentalism. The Purvītis Prize. Latvian Contemporary Art, curated by Viktor Misiano, is introduced by the curator's philosophical essay-outline of the subject and continues with conceptual basis and representations of eight works created by Latvian artists or groups of artists. The exhibition was included in the Collateral Events programme of the 56th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale.


Publisher: Culture project agency INDIE

Year of publication: 2015

Language: English

Pages: 92

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Chair as an Artwork. Galila’s Collection, Belgium

Catalogue of the exhibition Chair as an Artwork. Galila’s Collection, Belgium, produced by Arterritory.com, focuses on the extensive nature of chair, transforming this seemingly quotidian object into an almost boundless field for creative inspiration and experimentation. The publication reproduces a total of 50 chairs, their authors are both well-known and emerging artists as well as designers and architects. The catalogue’s introduction is written by Una Meistere, followed by her conversation with Belgian collector Galila Barzilaϊ-Hollander.


Catalogue

Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2019

Languages: English, Latvian

Pages: 184

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Amber in Contemporary Jewellery

Catalogue of the exhibition Amber in Contemporary Jewellery by Putti Gallery presents the jewellery pieces of the exhibition and reviews the work of their 20 authors. The publication is preceded by Una Meistere’s text The Renaissance of Amber?.
Publisher: Arterritory.comYear of publication: 2014Language: English, Latvian, RussianPages: 140
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Purvitis Award: 2007 - 2012

The anthology of Latvian contemporary art that includes a listing and description of 89 artists who have gone through on or more of the three following steps: being recommended of consideration, considered and then nominated for the Purvitis Award, Latvia's most prestigious award in visual arts, form 2007 to 2012.


Publisher: Arterritory.com

Year of publication: 2012

Language: English

Pages: 336

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