Swiss gallerist René Meile spent the past 15 months in China and observed how the clientele shifted during the pandemic: “That’s something that interests me so much about China because the whole art system is not yet as structured as western Europe—Switzerland, Germany, France, and so forth,” he tells Swizz Art Biz. Another difference he sees is that in Switzerland everyone in the art world knows one another while in China he still needs to do a lot of field work to grasp the scene.
In this podcast, he tells Tanya König 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.
Giorgia von Albertini is one of the youngest and most successful Swiss art curators at the moment. The 29-year-old started her career in the arts between her Bachelor and Masters degrees, when she collaborated with Bice Curiger, the renowned Swiss curator and co-founder of Parkett, who was only the third woman ever to curate the Venice Biennale in 2011. Listen to this candid conversation with Giorgia von Albertini to find out her attitude toward work and why she wasn’t intimidated to collaborate with established figures in the art world.
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Swiss gallerist René Meile spent the past 15 months in China and observed how the clientele shifted during the pandemic: “That’s something that interests me so much about China because the whole art system is not yet as structured as western Europe—Switzerland, Germany, France, and so forth,” he tells Swizz Art Biz. Another difference he sees is that in Switzerland everyone in the art world knows one another while in China he still needs to do a lot of field work to grasp the scene.
In this podcast, he tells Tanya König 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.
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Giorgia von Albertini is one of the youngest and most successful Swiss art curators at the moment. The 29-year-old started her career in the arts between her Bachelor and Masters degrees, when she collaborated with Bice Curiger, the renowned Swiss curator and co-founder of Parkett, who was only the third woman ever to curate the Venice Biennale in 2011. Listen to this candid conversation with Giorgia von Albertini to find out her attitude toward work and why she wasn’t intimidated to collaborate with established figures in the art world.
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