‘Collecting Live: in Convesation with the Players’ (Carles Guerra in conversation with Han Nefkens)
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- Speakers
- Carles Guerra i Han Nefkens
- 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.
In the context of this conversation, Han Nefkens outlines his activity as an activist, his tireless and disinterested support to the arts and his relationship to the Moving Image. More than a collector, Nefkens is an ‘arts patron and benefactor’, whose commitment is aimed at accompanying artists througout the very process of conceiving and later producing a work. Rather than being interested in the acquisition of a finished work, Nefkens indeed puts his effort to literally ‘give birth’ to a piece, in this way becoming a proactive co-producer of artists’ ideas. Accordingly, the artists films and videos he collects become means towards social and political reflection.
Carles Guerra
Carles Guerra (1965) és crític d’art, docent i investigador. Ha estat director de la Fundació Antoni Tàpies (2015-2020), conservador cap de Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA (2011-2013), Director de La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (2009-2011) i Director de la Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya (2004). Entre les exposicions que ha comissariat destaca “Després de la notícia. Pràctiques documentals postmèdia” (2003), “Antifotoperiodisme” (2010), “1979. Un monument a instants radicals” (2011), “Ahlam Shibli. Dead” (2012), “Xavier Ribas. Nitrat” (2013), “Harun Farocki. Empatia ” (2016), “Oriol Vilanova. Diumenge” (2017), “La plaz aplazada” (2017), “Allan Sekula. Sísif col·lectiu” (2017), “Susan Meiselas. Mediacions” (2017) i “Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Errata” (2019). És professor associat de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra i ha format part de l’equip docent del Center for Curatorial Studies CCS de Bard College.
14 novembre 2020
Han Nefkens
Han Nefkens is a Dutch writer and art activist. In 2000 he began collecting international contemporary art, and his Han Nefkens H+F Collection comprising approximately 500 works is now housed in a number of European museums. He later set up ArtAids, which employs art in the fight against the stigma surrounding HIV. Through the Han Nefkens Foundation, he also supports young artists, writers and fashion designers with commissions, residencies, prizes and stipends.In Spain, the Han Nefkens Foundation-MACBA Award focuses on artists from the Mediterranean area while the Han Nefkens Foundation-BACC Award for Contemporary Art in Bangkok is given to promising young Asian artists.
For many years, Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge has been organizing highly distinctive exhibitions at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam with works by established and up-and-coming fashion talents. The Han Nefkens Fashion Award is given every two years to young designers exploring the area between fashion and art.