With our podcast series Listening to Art, we would like to give you an insight into our work, the exhibition programme and our artists’ lives and thoughts. In the various episodes of this podcast, Alicja Schindler or interesting invited guests will talk to artists who are connected to the gallery. We will discuss contemporary artistic positions, backgrounds, ideas, theory, techniques, approaches and of course personal stories and gossip. Every episode will be different because every artist is different. If you want to subscribe to Listening to Art you can do so with your favorite podcast app. Whether it’s via Apple Podcasts or Spotify, we’re happy to receive subscribers and likes!
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Episode #4
Caroline Bachmann
In the fourth episode of our podcast, Alicja Schindler talks to the painter Caroline Bachmann. For Berlin Art Week 2024, Meyer Riegger opened her solo exhibition Le Rhin. For this series of 24 paintings, Bachmann embarked on two journeys along the river. 24 views of the Rhine are not that many, when you compare this figure with the number of pictures of Lake Geneva that Bachmann has painted to date. The artist first began painting the lake at sunrise or dawn twelve years ago. For this episode’s talk, Alicja Schindler met Caroline Bachmann in her studio in Berlin-Friedrichshain. They talk about her journey along the river, why it never gets boring to paint the same old lake and and why the area around the village where Bachmann lives today is much more important in terms of art history than she would ever have suspected.
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Episode #3
Alma Feldhandler and Julia Friedrich
In episode three, the painter Alma Feldhandler, born in a small town near Paris in 1996, talks to Julia Friedrich, Collection and Exhibition Director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Feldhandler’s melancholic and somehow nostalgic paintings are characterised by a light colourfulness and maybe remind of works by Charlotte Salomon. Her images evoke memories of the history of the department stores, hospitals and tailor shops run by Jews in Berlin during the Weimarer Republic. For her show in Berlin, Feldhandler was inspired by the photographs, paintings and artefacts from the Jewish Museum’s collection in Berlin. For this reason the painter met Julia Friedrich to talk with her about the “templates” she used from the Jewish Museum and what fascinates her so much about them.
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Episode #2
Silke Schatz and Rita Kersting
The second episode of our podcast Listening to Art is dedicated to the work of Cologne-based artist Silke Schatz (b. 1967). For this episode, Schatz met Rita Kersting, Curator and Deputy Director of Museum Ludwig Cologne, for a walk in the village of Manheim, near the Hambach open-cast mine.
Since August 2021, Schatz has been visiting Manheim (a roughly half-hour train journey from her home in Cologne) once a week to conduct her artistic field research. Manheim will be the last place in Germany in the history of lignite mining to be excavated.
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Jimmy DeSana
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Episode #1
Jimmy DeSana
The first episode of this podcast is dedicated to the life and work of the Queer American photographer Jimmy DeSana, who was working in New York during the 70s and 80s and sadly died of an AIDS related illness in 1990 at the age of 39. For the opening of his exhibition on 3 November 2023, we hosted a panel talk in the Berlin gallery with AA Bronson, Antje Krause-Wahl and Christian Liclair, which we recorded as the first episode of this podcast. Despite his recognition in artist circles in New York during his lifetime, Jimmy DeSana’s work was long overlooked. It was only last year that the Brooklyn Museum staged his first in-depth museum show under the title Submission. DeSana was a prominent figure in different scenes – such as No wave music, club culture, performance art, the Pictures Generation and mail art – and he also became a chronicler of this Queer New York subculture in the 70s and 80s through his photographs.
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