Barcelona is hosting the first international

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TALKING GALLERIES
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INDEX
1. What is TALKING GALLERIES?
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2. Structure
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3. Speakers and participants
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4. Content of the presentations
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5. Programme
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6. Biographies of the speakers
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7. The city of Barcelona
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8. The venue: MACBA
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9. LA FABRICA BARCELONA
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10. The TALKING GALLERIES team
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and collaborators
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12. Press contact
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11. Institutional sponsors
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INTERNATIONAL GALLERIST MEETING
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SEPTEMBER 19th - 21st 2011
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1. WHAT IS TALKING
GALLERIES?
Barcelona is hosting the first
international gallerist meeting:
an open platform for discussing and
reflecting on the present
and future of gallerism
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1. WHAT IS TALKING GALLERIES?
TALKING GALLERIES is the first international gallerist meeting, an open international platform that
establishes a foundation for reflection and discussion regarding one of the most prominent figures
on the art market: the gallerist.
TALKING GALLERIES is an annual meeting organised into three days of presentations and discussion.
The participants are some of the most important people on the international gallerist scene, coming
together for the first time for an event designed specifically for them, giving them the opportunity to
deal with the key issues in their profession.
In addition to gallerists, the speakers and moderators will include curators, art collectors, critics,
directors of art centres and other key figures from the sector.
Unlike the many art fairs proliferating in cities around the world, TALKING GALLERIES is designed to be a
meeting of professionals from the sector that transcends business-related aspects to establish a
laboratory of ideas, or think tank, that focuses discussion and reflection on current topics on the
international gallerist scene.
The aims of the meeting are as follows:
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To bring together the most prominent gallerists on the international scene to discuss
the current topics affecting them.
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To create an annual event of great interest for professionals from the sector
that can be used as an ideal meeting place for networking and exchanging experiences.
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To generate synergies among the international participants and the leading galleries
and art centres in Barcelona.
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To support gallerists so they can work with greater exposure worldwide and, as a result,
to facilitate Spanish artists' entry into international commercial channels.
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To place value on gallerists' work and the criteria that they bring to the art market.
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To turn the city of Barcelona into a think tank on the current situation of the art
marketfor three days.
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2. STRUCTURE
3 days
24 speakers coming from 10 countries
6 discussion panels
Guided tours to art centres and galleries in the city
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2. STRUCTURE
TALKING GALLERIES presents a three-day programme designed to reflect on the role of galleries in
the art market. Its basic structure is described below.
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3 days of discussion and reflection (19, 20 and 21 September 2011)
TALKING GALLERIES proposes an in-depth debate on the current issues affecting
gallerists that strives to go deep into every subject, involving gallerists in attendance
and providing different arguments and points of view for each of the topics discussed.
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6 discussion panels
Each one of these panels is composed of three or four speakers especially chosen for
their broad knowledge of the subject, who will share different opinions and
experiences on issues such as the future of art markets, the role of the gallerist in the
21st century and the financial crisis' effect on the art market. In addition to the
speakers, each panel will have a moderator (also selected from among key figures
from the sector) who will introduce the speakers, raise some fundamental issues to
discuss and close each discussion with the conclusions drawn from the same.
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Welcoming drink
MACBA, the venue hosting the event, undoubtedly the leading contemporary art
centre in the city, will also be the location for enjoying a welcoming drink for all
TALKING GALLERIES speakers and participants.
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Tours with the participants of the big contemporary art centres in Barcelona
TALKING GALLERIES is organising a series of tours of the most important art centres in
Barcelona, guided by their main leaders. The aim is to introduce the meeting's
participants to the city's art scene.
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Tours of art galleries in the city
In addition to art centres, Barceloona's galleries will open their doors to all the
participants, providing an ideal opportunity for establishing contacts among
gallerists internationally and placing value on the work of local gallerists.
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The official language of the congress will be English, with simultaneous interpretation into
Spanish / Catalan.
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3. SPEAKERS AND
PARTICIPANTS
A congress of gallerists for gallerists
that also includes as speakers curators,
art collectors and heads of art centres
and fairs from around the world.
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3. SPEAKERS AND PARTICIPANTS
SPEAKERS
TALKING GALLERIES will have some of the most important gallerists on the international scene and the
art gallery world as speakers, including also some other key figures of the sector:
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Directors of internationally renowned contemporary art galleries.
Directors and curators of museums, foundations and other art institutions, both public
and privaTE.
Public and private art collectors.
Art critics and publishers of art magazines.
Art market analysts.
The speakers and moderators for TALKING GALLERIES are as follows:
Georgina Adam
Emilio Álvarez
Eduardo Brandão
Silvia Dauder
Helga de Alvear
Estrella de Diego
Ann Demeester
Carlos Durán
Luise Faurschou
Victor Gisler
Carles Guerra
Noah Horowitz
Pierre Huber
Casey Kaplan
Soledad Lorenzo
Paul Maenz
Claes Nordenhake
Gregor Podnar
Adrian Raemdonck
Janelle Reiring
Ricardo Resende
Guillermo Romero Parra
Robert Tornabell
Carlos Urroz
Boris Vervoordt
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Journalist at The Financial Times (London
Galeria Àngels Barcelona (Barcelona)
Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo)
Galería ProjecteSD (Barcelona)
Fundación Helga de Alvear (Cáceres)
Curator and Professor of Contemporary
Art History (Madrid)
Creative Director of the De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam)
Galeria Senda (Barcelona)
Faurschou Foundation (Coppenhage, Pekín)
Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich)
Head Conservator of the MACBA (Barcelona)
Director of VIP Art Fair (Nueva York)
Galerie Art & Public (Ginebra)
Casey Kaplan Gallery (Nueva York)
Galería Soledad Lorenzo (Madrid)
Galerie Paul Maenz (Berlín)
Galerie Nordenhake (Berlín, Estocolmo)
Galerie Gregor Podnar (Ljubljana, Berlín)
Galerie De Zwarte Panter (Antwerp)
Metro Pictures Gallery (Nueva York)
Director Centro Cultural de São Paulo (São Paulo)
Galería Parra & Romero (Madrid)
Professor of International Banking and Finance
at ESADE (Barcelona)
Director of ARCOmadrid (Madrid)
Galerie Axel Vervoordt (Antwerp)
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3. SPEAKERS AND PARRTICIPANTS
PARTICIPANTS
TALKING GALLERIES is addressed to a specialised public, mainly composed of directors and heads of
art galleries, as well as other figures on the art gallery scene.
Professionals interested in attending the meeting can register through the website
www.talkinggalleries.com, where all the necessary information and requirements are specified.
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4. CONTENT OF THE
PRESENTATIONS
What should the role of the gallerist be
in the 21st century?
How is the financial crisis affecting the art market?
How can an art gallery go international?
What will the future of art galleries be like?
These questions and more will be debated in the six
TALKING GALLERIES discussion panels.
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4. CONTENT OF THE PRESENTATIONS
PANEL A
The new role of the gallerist in the art market
The role of the gallerist has so far been central to understanding the development and the different
forms of art in the 20th century, when many of the most significant exhibitions took place in art galleries.
But the 21st century, marked by the new environment of globalisation, the mass popularisation of
information technology and networking and the emergence of new artistic paradigms and practices,
necessarily requires different dynamics for the immediate future of art galleries. exige necesariamente dinámicas distintas para el futuro inmediato de las galerías. Is the role of the art gallery as a showcase for art outdated? What are the ways to adapt to a future that has already arrived? How will new
approaches to art galleries serve as a vehicle for contemporary artistic creation?
SPEAKERS
Emilio Álvarez, Galeria Àngels Barcelona (Barcelona)
Casey Kaplan, Casey Kaplan Gallery (Nueva York)
Claes Nordenhake, Galerie Nordenhake (Berlín, Stockholm)
MODERATOR
Ann Demeester, Creative Director of the De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam)
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PANEL B
Dealing with the economic crisis
Nobody discusses the effect that the financial crisis has had on each and every sector of society these
days. The art world is certainly not immune to its consequences, and the structures established over a
long period of time have shifted towards a global market in which new economic powers play a
fundamental role. According to a report by The European Fine Art Foundation, China is now confirmed as
the second world power, and the figure of the art collector in the Asia-Pacific region stands out in terms of
numbers and purchasing power; moreover, the United Kingdom has moved to third position, while still
maintaining its supremacy within the EU. The financial crisis has been a turning point and plans for
recovery in the art market depend on a process of reconfiguration the clues to which we will try to
decipher.
SPEAKERS
Georgina Adam, Journalist at The Financial Times (London)
Soledad Lorenzo, Galería Soledad Lorenzo (Madrid)
Robert Tornabell, Professor of Economics at ESADE (Barcelona)
MODERATOR
Carlos Urroz , Director of ARCOmadrid (Madrid)
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PANEL C
The future of art fairs
For years, art fairs have been an essential point of reference for the internationalisation of the sector and
one of the most important barometers of the art market. According to the European Fine Art
Foundation's latest report, a third of gallerists' business takes place at these events. Even so, oversupply
and a slump in the market due to the economic crisis are causing gallerists to rethink their role within that
market. Therefore, we need to understand the real role played by art fairs today and what their future
could be like over the short term, in addition to studying new formats, new satellite fairs, and other kinds
that are beginning to emerge in new markets and are different from those that are common today.
SPEAKERS
Victor Gisler, Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich)
Noah Horowitz , Director VIP Art Fair (New York)
Pierre Huber, Galerie Art&Public (Ginebra)
MODERATOR
Carles Guerra, Chief curator MACBA (Barcelona)
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PANEL D
The gallerist as a private collector
Gallerists' commitment as the foremost collector of their artists' work and the importance and value of
their private collections will be the subjects under discussion in this session. The approach favoured by
art market professionals is essential for analysing and reviewing many artists' work, and their contribution
to the art world often goes beyond strictly commercial aspects, personal discourses and displaying their
full commitment to contemporary arts. As is the case for the speakers on this discussion panel, many of
these gallerists/collectors end up donating their collections to public institutions or creating their own
foundations, which become international points of reference in time.
SPEAKERS
Helga de Alvear, Fundación Helga de Alvear (Cáceres)
Luise Faurschou, Faurschou Foundation (Copenhagen, Pekín)
Paul Maenz, Galerie Paul Maenz (Berlín)
Boris Vervoordt, Galerie Axel Vervoordt (Antwerp)
MODERATOR
Estrella de Diego, Proffesor of Contemporany Art
at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid)
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PANEL E
Internationalizing the gallery
In today's extremely competitive environment, and faced with the importance of breaking into
international markets, , art galleries need to open themselves to the global scene in order to give
exposure to the careers of the artists they support. Relying on the knowledge of three experienced
gallerists, this panel aims to study the paths that a gallery should take and the tools it should use to
successfully participate in the international market, thereby getting their work and those of their artists
to reach the broadest public possible.
SPEAKERS
Silvia Dauder , Galería ProjecteSD (Barcelona)
Gregor Podnar, Galerie Gregor Podnar (Berlin/Ljubljana)
Janelle Reiring, Metro Pictures Gallery (New York)
MODERATOR
Guillermo Romero Parra, Galería Parra & Romero (Madrid)
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PANEL F
Emerging Markets: Focus on Brazil
Brazil is now a paradigm of an emerging country, whether in a strictly economic sense or an artistic one.
In its attempt to get a comprehensive view of the global art market, TALKING GALLERIES will focus each
year on an expanding market, outlining new formulas for action for the art gallery scene. This first year
of the event centres on the Brazilian market, which will be analysed in depth through its stakeholders
(collectors, gallerists, curators), its internal structures and its synergies with international markets, in
addition to the present and future of the São Paulo Biennial.
SPEAKERS
Eduardo Brandão, Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo)
Ricardo Resende, Director Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo)
MODERATOR
Carlos Durán, Galeria Senda (Barcelona)
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5. PROGRAMME
20.09 TUESDAY
19.09 MONDAY
12:00 15.00
Registration
10:00
PANEL C:
The future of art fairs
15:30
Welcome address TALKING GALLERIES
11:30
Coffe break
16:00
PANEL A:
The new role of the gallerist
in the art market
12:00
PANEL D:
The gallerist as a private collector
14:00
Lunch break
17:30
Coffee break
16:30
18:00
PANEL B:
Dealing with the economic crisis
PANEL E:
Internationalizing the gallery
18:30
Departure bus shuttle to Fundació Miró
20:00
Guided tour MACBA and welcome drink
19:00
Guided tour Fundación Joan Miró and
evening reception
21.09 WEDNESDAY
10:00
PANEL F:
Emerging Markets:
Focus on Brazil
11:30
Conclusions and summary
12:30 18:00
Afternoon visits to Barcelona´s art galleries
* The program may be subject to changes
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6. BIOGRAPHIES
OF THE SPEAKERS
The speakers at TALKING GALLERIES are some
of the most influential and respected gallerists on
the international art scene
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GEORGINA ADAM
Journalist of The Financial Times (London)
Georgina Adam has spent more than 25 years writing about the art market and the arts in general. She began
in Paris, where she studied Islamic Art at the Ecole du Louvre. She spent five years in London, where she
worked for The Antique Collector, The Daily Telegraph and other publications dealing with art sales before
moving to Japan, where she lived and worked for five years. Upon leaving Tokyo, she joined The Art Newspaper
as editor of the Art Market section, and later, starting in 2008, as its chief editor. She writes a weekly column
every Saturday for The Financial Times. In addition to her specialisation in the art market, Adam is particularly
interested in emerging cultural centres, a subject she teaches classes on at the Sotheby's and Christie's
institutes in London.
EMILIO ÁLVAREZ
Galeria Àngels Barcelona (Barcelona)
Emilio Álvarez is director of Angels Barcelona art gallery and Roomservice Design contemporary design gallery,
as well as co-director of Loop video art festival and The Screen from Barcelona festival. He sits on the board of
Fundació Tot Raval (a platform that aims to improve quality of life in the Raval neighbourhood in Barcelona),
the board of directors of Orfeó Catalá – Palau de la Música Catalana, and the board of the foundation of the
same name. He has a bachelor's degree and an a Master in Bussiness Administration by ESADE in Barcelona
and has taken international business courses at the Graduate School of Business Administration in New York
and the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris.
EDUARDO BRANDÃO
Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo)
Eduardo Brandão studied photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
From 1991 to 2004, he worked as a photography and art editor at the newspaper Folha de São Paulo. Between
1989 and 1992, he gave photography classes at the EAV Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro, and from 1995 to 2007
he taught at the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), again in São Paulo. He currently works as an
independent curator, and since 2002 he has been an owning partner at the Vermelho Gallery. In addition to
other exhibitions, he has curated “Iconógrafos” (1991) at the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM);
“Horizonte Reflexivo” (1998) at the Centro Cultural Light, São Paulo; “A Medida” (1999) at the Espacio Porto
Seguro de Fotografía; “Imágenes” (2003) at the Curitiba Metropolitan Art Museum (MUMA); “Historias de
mapas, piratas y tesoros” (2010) at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo; and “Marcados Para” at the Claudia Andujar
Jewish Cultural Centre in São Paulo (2011).
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SILVIA DAUDER
Galeria ProjecteSD (Barcelona)
Silvia Dauder is the founder and director of the ProjecteSD Gallery, which opened in Barcelona in 2003.
Despite its recent arrival, ProjecteSD has already been recognised as one of the most innovative halls on the
contemporary Spanish art gallery scene. Its consistent programme and its appropriate selection of artists
(which is not solely based on commercial concerns, but always goes a step beyond the market, trends and
demand), as well as its personal outlook, have all been decisive factors for the fame it has won in recent years,
which has helped it to participate actively in the most prestigious art fairs in the world. Together with its gallery
exhibition programme, ProjecteSD pays special attention to publishing and distributing art books.
HELGA DE ALVEAR
Fundación Helga de Alvear (Cáceres)
Helga de Alvear was born in 1936 in the city of Kirn/Nahe, Germany. After several years of experience in the art
world, she opened a gallery under her own name in 1995, committed to international art and disciplines such
as photography, video and installations, which were very rare in Spain at the time. While pursuing her
professional activities, de Alvear dedicated a lot of time to her greatest passion: art collecting. June 2010 was
the beginning of the first phase of the Helga de Alvear Foundation, in Cáceres, which will house the gallerist's
entire collection (more than 2,500 pieces) and is currently putting on its second monographic exhibition,
“Historias de la vida material”. Among other distinctions, Helga de Alvear received the Medalla de
Extremadura in 2007 and the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of
Culture in 2008. She was also Ambassador of Spain at the last Art Basel fair.
ESTRELLA DE DIEGO
Curator and Professor of
Contemporary Art History (Madrid)
Estrella de Diego is an essayist and professor of Contemporary Art at the Complutense University of Madrid
(UCM), in addition to having worked as a visiting professor at many Spanish and international universities,
holding, for example, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization at New York
University during the years 1998 and 1999. Her research focuses on gender theory, visual and postcolonial
studies and the origins of modernity. She has curated many exhibitions: (“Los cuerpos perdidos. Fotografía y
surrealistas” at Fundación “La Caixa” in Barcelona; “A vueltas con los sentidos” at Casa de América in Madrid;
“Warhol sobre Warhol, at La Casa Encendida, also in Madrid) in addition to representing Spain at the 22nd São
Paulo Biennial and at the 49th Venice Biennale. She is the author of several books, a regular columnist for the
newspaper El País and the director of the Azul Mínima series for the publishing house Editorial Siruela.
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ANN DEMEESTER
Creative Director
of De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam)
After studying Germanic Literature and Linguistics Ann Demeester (Bruges, 1975) started out in the art world
as an editor and art critic for the periodicals De Morgen and De Financieel-Economische Tijd. Beginning in
2000, she worked as assistant curator to Jan Hoet, both at Ghent's Museum of Contemporary Art (SMAK) and
at the Marta Herford Museum in Germany. From 2003 to 2006, she worked as director of W139, a
contemporary art production and presentation platform in Amsterdam. In 2009 she curated the Baltic
Triennial of International Art in Vilnius with Kestutis Kuizinas, and shortly afterward she was designated
“cultural intendant” by Amsterdam City Council for the purpose of sharpening the debate over the role that art
and culture can play in urban development processes. She is currently director of the De Appel Arts Centre in
Amsterdam, and sits on the editorial boards of the journals A-Prior and FR David.
CARLOS DURÁN
Galeria Senda (Barcelona)
Carlos Durán (Barcelona, 1968) graduated in geography and history from the University of Barcelona. He has
been director of Senda and Espacio 2NUEVO2 galleries since 1991 and is co-director of Loop art fair and The
Screen from Barcelona festival. Since 2003 he has been president of Arte Barcelona, the first association of art
galleries in Spain, and formed part of the selection committees for several art fairs (ARCO, Art Brussels, Art
Forum Berlin, Pulse Miami, Pulse New York, and Pulse London). He has had links to a number of art
organisations and has been a member of Barcelona City Council's Board of Culture. He has taught for several
different master's and postgraduate courses at Barcelona International University, Elisava design school and
the University of Barcelona.
LUISE FAURSCHOU
Faurschou Foundation (Copenhagen, Beijing)
Luise Faurschou was born in Denmark in 1965, graduated in Film and Communication Arts from the University
of Copenhagen, and later specialised in Modern Culture and Cultural Communication. Along with her brother
Jens she established her first gallery, the Galleri Faurschou, in Copenhagen in 1986, and ten years later she cofounded the DCA Gallery in New York, always with the aim of raising awareness about and supporting major
international contemporary artists. She has been a member of the Danish Gallery Association and the Danish
Art Council since 2006. In 2007 she broke into the Asian market and opened a new branch of her gallery in
Beijing, China. Later, she built on her work by opening her own foundation in Copenhagen as well as Beijing:
the Faurschou Foundation. Since 2010, she has also been president of the Danish Gallery Association and a
prominent member of the Federation of European Art Galleries Association (FEAGA).
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VICTOR GISLER
Mai 36 Galerie (Zurich)
With a background in economics and business, Gisler founded the flagship space for his Mai 36 Gallery in
Lucerne in 1987, which would move six years later to its current location in Zurich in 1993. The Swiss gallerist
sat on the Art Basel Committee for 12 years, resigning in 2009. For more than 20 years, Mai 36 Gallery has
regularly participated in the main international art fairs of the world: Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze
(London), FIAC (Paris), Armory (New York) and ARCOmadrid (Madrid), among others. Married and the father
of three children, he lives and works in Zurich. His life is marked by his passion for art, architecture and modern
design.
CARLES GUERRA
Head Conservator of the MACBA (Barcelona)
Carles Guerra (Amposta, 1965) has been director of the La Virreina Centre de la Imatge since 2009 and was
recently appointed Head Conservator of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). Guerra holds
a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the New School for Social Research in New York,
he works as an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra Univeristy (UPF) in Barcelona, and has been a visiting
professor in New York and Stockholm. Some of his notable publications include N de Negri. Una conversación
con Antonio Negri (2000) and Allan Sekula habla con Carles Guerra (2005), in addition to articles in different
media. He has been a voting member on the board of directors of Barcelona City Council's Institute of Culture
(ICUB), and since 2009 he has been a member of the scientific committee at the Lieven Gevaert Research
Centre for Photography, in Belgium. That same year, he won the City of Barcelona Award in the category of
visual arts.
NOAH HOROWITZ
Director of VIP Art Fair (New York)
The American Noah Horowitz is an art historian and expert in the international art market. He has collaborated
with many publications on contemporary art and economics for institutions such as the Serpentine Gallery in
London, the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo and the United Kingdom's Intellectual Property
Office. He obtained his PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and is author of the book Art of the Deal:
Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market, published in 2011 by the University of Princeton, in which he
examines and studies in detail how the current art market is structured and where it is going. Horowitz lives in
New York, where he is a faculty member at Sotheby's Institute of Art, and he is the director of the VIP Art Fair,
the first online international art fair.
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PIERRE HUBER
Galerie Art & Public (Geneva)
Pierre Huber (Zurich, 1941) began his foray into the world of art in the 1970s when he founded a restaurant-art
gallery called L'Escapade in Cartagena, Colombia. In 1984, he opened his first gallery in Geneva, exhibiting
work by some of the most important artists of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 1992 he was appointed to the Art
Basel working committee to reorganise and create a new concept for the fair. That same year, he opened his
new gallery, Art & Public, focused on discovering and promoting young international artists. He was President
of the Association of Art Galleries in Switzerland and in 2000, he was both admitted into France's Order of Arts
and Letters and appointed Councillor of the City of Geneva, leading the creation of a working group to compile,
assess and develop specific projects with institutions and artists. In 2007, he was art director of the
ShContemporary fair in Shanghai. He currently lives in Colombia.
CASEY KAPLAN
Casey Kaplan Gallery (New York)
Casey Kaplan is the owner of the gallery of the same name, located in the Chelsea neighbourhood in New York.
Founded in March 1995, it began with a single, diaphanous space of about 150 square metres on the upper floor of
a building on Broadway. Today, his gallery operates on a street-level area of 1,500 square metres broken into three
separate exhibition halls. At first the gallery presented new artists and organised their first solo shows. Now, those
artists have become part of a global dialogue, participating in international biennials, putting on retrospective
exhibitions in important museums and even receiving awards such as the famous Turner Prize. The gallery exhibits
regularly at international art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze, and soon also at Artissima). In 2009,
Kaplan founded Gallery Week in New York as a way to bring the city's gallerist community together in a noncommercial way, demonstrating that galleries can also be agents of non-profit education and promotion.
SOLEDAD LORENZO
Galería Soledad Lorenzo (Madrid)
Born in Santander in 1937, Soledad Lorenzo began working in the art world in the 1970s at the Fernando Guereta
Gallery. After two years she joined the Theo Gallery, where she worked for seven years. When she left, the Spanish
Ministry of Culture selected her to coordinate the exhibitions of Europalia 1985, a job she held for two years until 1986,
when she opened the gallery that bears her name and where she currently works. From the start, Lorenzo has worked
with various artists who established their careers at the end of the 1980s (Txomin Badiola, Juan Uslé, Pello Irazu) and
big names on the current Spanish art scene (Adriá Juliá, Sergio Prego, Ana Laura Aláez, Jerónimo Elespe).
Internationally, the gallery collaborates with key contemporary artists in fields like painting, sculpture, photography,
video and conceptual art (Louise Bourgeois, Jonathan Lasker, Robert Longo, Adriana Varejão, Tony Oursler and Julian
Schnabel). In addition, Lorenzo's gallery has exhibited the work of masters such as Pablo Palazuelo, Antoni Tàpies and
Hernández Pijuan, among others. Soledad Lorenzo received the 2006 Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes in
June 2009 and was awarded the FEAGA European Gallery Award.
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PAUL MAENZ
Galerie Paul Maenz (Berlin)
Paul Maenz studied at the Essen design school, worked in advertising and founded the Paul Maenz Gallery in
Cologne in 1970 with Gerd de Vries, putting special emphasis on conceptual art and arte povera. In the 1980s,
he pioneered the exhibition of paintings from the Italian Transavantgarde and New German Art while also
representing artists like Keith Haring and Jeff Koons. In 1990 he closed the gallery and handed his archive over
to the Getty Foundation in Los Angeles. Since 1993 his private collection (with 450 paintings, sculptures and
installations and more than 300 drawings) has been at the Neues Museum in Weimar. Maenz has lived in
Berlin since 1993, where he is fully committed to the young scene and local galleries. He has published various
books on 20th-century art history and has made large donations to German museums, including the Neue
Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Neues Museum in Weimar and the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt.
CLAES NORDENHAKE
Galerie Nordenhake (Berlin, Stockholm)
Nordenhake opened his first gallery in the mid-1970s in Malmö, Sweden, which moved to new facilities
located in the Royal Academy of Art building in Stockholm in 1986. His gallerist work expanded in 2000 and he
opened the Nordenhake Gallery in Berlin near Checkpoint Charlie. Three years later, in 2003, he became a
member of the Art Basel Committee, where he still sits today. In 2005, he and six colleagues promoted Gallery
Weekend in Berlin, and two years later he moved his gallery in Berlin to a new location in Lufthansa's historic
central office, in Lindenstrasse, very close to the Jewish Museum. In 2007, the gallery in Stockholm also
changed location, this time to the neighbourhood of Hudiksvallsgatan. In 2008, he and his six colleagues came
together again to launch the project “abc-exhibitions” in different locations in the German capital.
GREGOR PODNAR
Galerie Gregor Podnar (Ljubljana, Berlin)
Born in 1970 in Kranj, Slovenia, Gregor Podnar obtained a degree in Art History, Ethnology and Eastern
European History from the University of Cologne. He has worked as an independent curator since 1993. From
1996 to 2003, he was the art director of the SKUC Gallery, in Ljubljana. He has been curator of the Triennial of
Contemporary Art in Slovenia, co-curator of the “Information/ Disinformation” project as part of the 24th
Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana and co-curator of the exhibition “September Horse” at the Künstlerhaus
Bethanien in Berlin, among other jobs. He has also been the sole curator for exhibitions by Raimond Chaves, CM
Von Hausswolff, Olaf Nicolai, Roman Signer and Goran Petercol, among others. In July 2003, he opened his first
gallery in his hometown, Kranj, which moved to Ljubljana two years later. In October 2007, he opened a second
gallery in Berlin. Podnar also represents artists of international renown mostly established in Eastern Europe.
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JANELLE REIRING
Metro Pictures Gallery (New York)
Born in Los Angeles, Janelle Reiring graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and moved to New
York, where she worked at the prestigious Leo Castelli Gallery between 1975 and 1980. In 1980, she opened
the Metro Pictures Gallery with Helene Winer in a small space in the Soho neighbourhood, representing a
group of young artists all putting on their first show in New York. They included Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo
and Louise Lawler. The gallery grew quickly, going from a small, low-level floorspace to a larger location in the
same neighbourhood, adding new international artists to its lists such as Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger,
Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw, John Miller and Andreas Slominski. In 1997, the gallery moved to its current location in
Chelsea, with important exhibitions and a commitment to new artists.
RICARDO RESENDE
Director Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo)
A professor of Art History at the University of São Paulo's (USP) School of Communication and the Arts, Ricardo
Resende has focused his career on the field of museography. From 1988 to 2002, he worked at the University
of São Paulo's Museum of Contemporary Art, working as an art educator, exhibition producer, museographer,
assistant curator and finally, exhibition curator. Since 1996 he has curated the Leonilson Project, devoted to
researching, cataloguing and disseminating information about the Brazilian artist José Leonilson. He has
participated as a guest critic in the artist-in-residence programme “Lugar a Dudas” in Cali, Colombia, and has
been the director of the National Foundation for the Arts' (FUNARTE) Visual Arts Centre, under the Brazilian
Ministry of Culture. He is currently the general director of the Centro Cultural de São Paulo.
GUILLERMO ROMERO PARRA
Galería Parra & Romero (Madrid)
Guillermo Romero Parra (Madrid, 1978) specialised in Modern and Contemporary Art at Christie's in London,
the city where he began his professional career in galleries like White Cube and Victoria Miro. Since 2004 he
has led the Parra & Romero Gallery, founded by his mother, Pilar Parra, in 1993. His work at the helm of the
gallery can be situated between the boundaries of minimalist art and conceptual art, committed to
internationalisation and often to young artists, in addition to curating exhibitions with a special focus. Romero
Parra is also a member of the board of the Gallery Association of Madrid (AGM).
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ROBERT TORNABELL
Professor of International
Banking and Finance at ESADE (Barcelona)
A professor of International Banking and Finance the ESADE Business School, Dr Tornabell is one of the most
respected economists in Spain and Europe as a whole. Throughout his long career, he has pursued jobs of
every kind: he has been the dean of ESADE; a professor at the World Bank, the Nijenrode Business School
(Breukelen, Netherlands) and the International Banking Institute (United States); a member of the Advisory
Council at “la Caixa” (Barcelona), of the European Financial Association and the European Foundation for
Management Development (Paris and Brussels); president of the Independent Expert Panel on Catalan
Savings Banks; and the author of 34 books on banking and finance, including El Día Después de la Crisis,
recently published by Ariel, in addition to around 1,500 articles in magazines, newspapers and specialised
publications from all over the world.
CARLOS URROZ
Director de ARCOmadrid (Madrid)
Carlos Urroz was born in Madrid in 1966. Having graduated with a degree in Business Consulting from the
Pontifical University of Comillas, he completed the Business Analysis programme at Harvard University and
obtained a Certificate in Arts Administration from New York University. Urroz was deputy director of
ARCOmadrid from 1994 to 1998. Also in 1998, he took over leadership of the Helga de Alvear Gallery, where he
actively participated in selecting artists and managing projects until 2000, working with leading museums and
both national and international institutions (Art Basel, Centre Georges Pompidou, CGAC, Hamburger Banhoff,
MUSAC, PHotoespaña, etc.). Since 2008 he has been Plastic Arts Advisor to the Community of Madrid and
since 2010 he has been the director of the International Contemporary Art Fair of the Community of Madrid,
ARCOmadrid.
BORIS VERVOORDT
Galerie Axel Vervoordt (Antwerp)
After studying in London and several years spent working as a head of customer relations, Boris Vervoordt's
rise to leadership of the Axel Vervoordt Company began in 2007 and gained momentum in 2008, years marked
by the first two exhibitions in the Vervoordt Foundation's trilogy: Artempo and Academia. Boris played a
decisive role in fundamental transformations that changed the face of the company while strengthening ties
with artists. All this work gave rise to the recent opening of the Axel Vervoordt Gallery in January 2011, which
would serve as a platform for presenting solo artist exhibitions. Vervoordt has also been a member of the
Chamber of Belgian Antiquarians since 2005.
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7. THE CITY OF
BARCELONA
Barcelona is the ideal city for hosting an event like TALKING GALLERIES. Catalonia's largest city is
appreciated the world over for its cultural dynamism, its strategic location and high-quality services,
so it is highly attractive for organising congresses and events.
TALKING GALLERIES wants to promote Barcelona's positioning as a high-level meeting place for art, so
that for three days it can become a European epicentre for debate on the current situation in the art
world, drawing a significant number of key international figures from the sector to the city.
Furthermore, one of the main aims of TALKING GALLERIES is to promote the work performed by local
and national art institutions, and to give prominence to the galleries taking part in the city's gallerist
scene, encouraging their entry into international channels and facilitating synergies between galleries
in Spain and the rest of Europe.
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8. THE VENUE:
MACBA
TALKING GALLERIES will be held in the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art's (MACBA) Auditorium,
which is undoubtedly the city's leading centre dealing with the international contemporary art scene.
The museum's significant collection covers the most significant aspects of contemporary art, reflecting
the complexities and contradictions that characterise our recent history, whether culturally or
politically.
Located in the Raval neighbourhood, in the heart of Barcelona, and officially opened in November
1995, museum has established itself as a highly important and influential art centre in Spain and
Europe and its much-admired building, designed by the American architect Richard Meier, has become
one of the symbols of Barcelona since the 1992 Olympic Games.
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9. LA FABRICA
BARCELONA
Established in Barcelona in 2008, La Fábrica was led by Llucià Homs until June 2011 to create its own
cultural projects in partnership with institutions and with the desire to position Barcelona on the
international cultural scene.
Since its foundation, some of the most prominent projects carried out by La Fábrica Barcelona have
included EUROPES, the Contemporary Culture Festival (www.europes-festival.eu), OjodePez Photo
Meeting, an international meeting of photographers closely related with the documentary
photography magazine OjodePez (www.ojodepez.org), and Plataformes, the 2nd Congress on
European Production Centres and Platforms (www.plataformes.eu).
La Fábrica Barcelona was created as the new headquarters of La Fábrica, founded in Madrid in 1994 by
Alberto Anaut, who was later joined by Alberto Fesser in 1998. La Fábrica organises activities such as
PHotoEspaña, one of the most renowned photography festivals in the world; publishes magazines
such as Matador, OjodePez o Eñe; operates a publishing company and an art gallery specialised in
photography and the visual arts; runs various Internet platforms; schedules two Master's degree
programmes in Cultural Engineering; has collaborated in creating centres such as La Casa Encendida;
and has produced initiatives like La Noche de los Libros (“Book Night”) and La Noche de los Teatros
(“Theatre Night”) in Madrid.
For further information www.lafabrica.com
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10. THE TALKING
GALLERIES TEAM
Promoter of TALKING GALLERIES
Llucià Homs
Project Coordinator for LA FABRICA BARCELONA
Maite García
Coordinator of TALKING GALLERIES
Julia Keller
Production of TALKING GALLERIES
María Ros
Ángela Anessi
Henar Ortega
Marta del Río
Giorgio Mazzetti
Press and communication
Carles Novellas
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11. INSTITUTIONAL
SPONSORS AND
COLLABORATORS
TALKING GALLERIES is organised by LA FABRICA BARCELONA a cultural management company
operating in Barcelona since 2009, and enjoys the institutional support of the Government of
Catalonia's Ministry of Culture through Catalan Institute for the Cultural Industries (ICIC), Barcelona
City Council's through its Culture Institute (ICUB), and the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and with the
special cooperation of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA).
A project by:
Institutional Sponsors:
Patners:
Official hotel:
Supporters:
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12. PRESS
CONTACT
Press and communication
Carles Novellas
[email protected]
93.467.71.62 / 620.064.078
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