Swizz Art Biz
A video podcast by Tanya König about the business of art—with a Swiss twist
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Hauser & Wirth operates in 16 locations around the world. The gallery, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, just announced that it will open its first space in Paris in 2023.
In this latest episode of Swizz Art Biz x Löwenbräukunst, Tanya König sits down with Barbara Corti, who is a partner at the gallery.
We are AIA Awareness in Art is a Zurich-based non-profit association with a space at Löwenbräukunst Zurich. The current show, The Mouth Is for Speaking, deals with the topic of human rights. Martina Huber, who founded the non-profit, is the first guest of the series Swizz Art Biz x Löwenbräukunst.
Galerie Urs Meile became one of the first Western galleries to establish itself in China. René Meile is co-director and mainly responsible for the operations in Beijing. He tells us why he tries to understand China through its art and culture rather than just geopolitics, why not every show is shut down immediately when showing sensitive content, and why it’s not always easy to work with Ai Weiwei.
Next Tuesday the boutique fair Nomad will get underway in St. Moritz through March 6. Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte tells us how the committee picks their exhibitors, why they need to communicate their choices diplomatically, and why Hans Ulrich Obrist called Nomad the future of fairs.
Giorgia von Albertini is one of the youngest and most successful Swiss art curators at the moment. She started her career by collaborating with the renowned curator Bice Curiger, who was only the third woman ever to curate the Venice Biennale in 2011.
Belgian art collector Alain Servais started collecting photography, installations, and digital and video pieces 25 years ago. Everything, that is, except paintings. He tells Tanya König why, what art should do, and why he’s not a fan of NFTs.
Photo: Michel Loriaux
Digital artist Alice Bucknell focuses her work around the topics of architecture, cryptocurrencies, the environment, and capitalism. Bucknell recently showed her piece “Swamp City” in Zurich which was also part of the Venice Biennale for Architecture this year. In this latest Swizz Art Biz podcast she discusses what motivates her work, why she boycotts the Ethereum blockchain, and how NFTs can make a difference.
Noah Davis was one of the people behind the Beeple NFT record-sale and has since been known as “the NFT guy at Christie’s.” He joins Swizz Art Biz from his office in New York and tells Tanya König how business has changed for the auction house since it opened up to NFTs.
Johann König is one of Germany’s most innovative art dealers at the moment. His eponymous gallery has a spin-off called MISA, which started as a fair in his gallery bringing the primary and the secondary art market together and has grown into an online platform. He tells us how he is exploring new ways of offering art to a wider audience.
Photo: Marco Fischer
Kenny Schachter is one of the most outspoken figures of the art world. The artist, curator, lecturer, writer, and very recently also NFT-evangelist sits down with Swizz Art Biz and tells Tanya König why he is so enthusiastic about non-fungible tokens.
