… this is Eugen Lendl’s answer to the question about what that special quality is that predestines one for the occupation of the gallery owner. However, “most of them originate from rich parents”, he says.

About the development of the gallery. Part 1

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About the relation between artists and galery owners in time. Part 2

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As a gallery owner, Eugen Lendl has experienced the limits of the handling of art, the artists with special gifts, and the impressive consistency and power of expression, which enriches his life. He is also familiar with the commercial aspects of art and its value, which translates into a lasting relationship with the customer. more »

In the art world, one thing leads to another—this is the principle by which Hans Knoll began his career as an art dealer, which remains his guiding principle up until today. Knoll began in the early 80s with a space, a weekly dinner among friends, artists, and accompanying guests, and the possibilities that arose from this set-up led to exhibitions, performances, and music. These events were at the time more along the lines of occasions for bonding. However, they eventually turned into serious gallery events and the subsequent realization that one must expand beyond Vienna in order to truly develop in the art world.

Hans Knoll - Art as a Form of Mediation, Interview Part 1

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Hans Knoll - Art as a Form of Mediation, Interview Part 2

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Hans Knoll - Art as a Form of Mediation, Interview Part 3

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Hans Knoll - Art as a Form of Mediation, Interview Part 4

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In the first half of the 1980s, the young art dealer was already getting involved with the art world in Hungary. He founded an artists’ co-op in Budapest as a kind of communist counterpart to his gallery and thereby set himself apart in the art world from the surrounding East European countries. more »

Juraj Carny is a gallery owner, curator, and art critic. Since the late ’90s, he has been running the Galerie Priestor in Bratislava, which is also called Gallery Space, and uses the gallery, among other purposes, for the promotion of art from the countries of the Visegrad Group.

Juraj Carny - Slovakian Perspectives, Part 1

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It was not only his early commitment to art from and in Eastern Europe that established his standing in the international gallery culture. In particular, Carny made a name for himself through his innovative approaches to the presentation of recent and experimental art. Projects such as Crazycurators, Nomadspace, Billboart Gallery Europe, Gallery Evolution de l’ Art, the release of the Slovakian and Czech versions of Flash Art, RentArt, and his artist-in-residence program through Gallery Space, more »

“If somebody would come and wash my car, it would be nice. It would be nice, it would be done, but I wouldn’t pay for it. Sometimes I think that for many people, this is the same with art.”

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Eva Jiricka, video and performance artist from Prague, translates intellectual concepts into everyday life in her work. She deals with concepts of others, of sexuality, of the menace of the stranger, of cities, as well as of the artist’s existence. There often exist prejudices which we consciously or unconsciously carry around with us and whose traces we leave behind in the form of actions, objects, writings, and visual templates, which we are fed to us by the media and which we gladly consume. In her video work, Jiricka reenacts these collective pictures. She represents them. She exposes them. She realizes them for us. She opens our eyes. Wide. more »

Art is there for people and for the most part, people will come to the art. Sometimes, however, art comes to the people–provided that someone has enough of the enthusiasm and commitment to bring it to them. We had an interview with one such “gallery nomad” in the name of art.

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Ivana Madariová, curator of the Galerie Space, occasionally leaves the premises of her gallery on Stefánikova Road in Bratislava and goes on the road with her art. Then the Space becomes Nomadspace, in order to get closer to the people, in order to bring art onto the streets and into public spaces, and to get passers-by interested in the young artists of the gallery. In order to render the art mobile, a small transporter was converted in 2007, and the first destinations were multimedia and film festivals in Slovakia, in addition to Re:Sonance in Vienna, Artissima in Turin, Zurich, and the 9th International Festival of Contemporary Art for Women in the Slovenian capital, Laibach. more »

Rudolf Budja owns pictures which are usually only available to most of us in the form of cheap reproductions. He is an art collector, owner of the Artmosphere Galleries, and an internationally renowned dealer of Pop art. CastYourArt was interested in how one can become so successful in the art trade. After our four-part interview with Rudolf Budja, we learned a bit about his path to success, as well as the following: an art collector is not only an art collector. Rudolf Budja considers himself to be a kind of psychotherapist and “soul surgeon” for the wealthy who are seeking meaning in their lives. Art therefore provides not only a way of seeking, but also of healing. If the price of a piece of art is so high that even the rich and ruthless can feel its sting, it can plant the seed of an emotion on which that they had almost given up—the joy of discovering some kind of meaning in life. (wh/jn)

Rudolf Budja - Business and Passion, Part 1

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Rudolf Budja - Business and Passion, Part 3

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Rudolf Budja - Business and Passion, Part 4

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