‘Collecting Live: In Conversation with the Players’ (Ángel & Clara Nieto in conversation with Montse Badia)
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- Speakers
- Ángel / Clara Nieto i Montse Badia
- Idioma
- English
By gathering together international collectors to participate into one-to-one conversations, ‘Collecting Live’ resulted into a concise yet insightful roundup on different collecting strategies.
Starting by introducing their recently born project ‘A Window in Berlin’ (2013), Ángel and Clara Nieto talk about collecting as a ‘statement’, as a fundamental act that irremediably mirrors one’s identity and beliefs. Accordingly, their collection literally features as a window into Iberian-American culture, providing the city of Berlin with powerful visual insights into a foreign dimension. Through this project, the act of collecting ultimately translates into a tool to merge and mingle diverse cultural universes, while it functions as way to open up a space for international collaboration, too.
Ángel / Clara Nieto
Ángel and Clara Nieto, respectively economist and a lawyer, live and work between Berlin and Madrid. They started acquiring contemporary art in the 2000s, and their collection now features pieces by internationally renowned artists such as Sergio Prego, Santiago Serra, Teresa Margolles, Iran do Espirito Santo, Melanie Smith, Lawrence Weiner, Cerith Wyn Evans, Mark Manders, Marcel Dzama, Katharina Grosse, Luisa Lambri, Ceal Floyer among others. In 2013, they founded A Window in Berlin, a non profit project conceived to exhibit and promote Iberian-American video art, through an old container set up as a screen in the street of the city. The project enjoys an itinerant nature, as it is meant to be travelling around Berlin, without its structure or content being affected by the changes in location.
Montse Badia
Montse Badia is an Art Historian, Art Critic and Curator. She is the Co-Director of A*DESK, Independent Institute of Criticism and Contemporary Art, Artistic Director of the contemporary art collection Cal Cego and a member of the advisory committee of Fundación Yaxs.