‘Collecting Live: in Convesation with the Players’ (Carles Guerra in conversation with Han Nefkens)
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- Speakers
- Han Nefkens and Carles Guerra
- Language
- 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.
Han Nefkens
- Curator, Speaker
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.
Carles Guerra
- Curator, Moderator, Participant, Speaker
Carles Guerra is an artist, art critic and independent curator. He holds a PhD from Universitat de Barcelona. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universitat de Barcelona and the Media Studies Department, The New School for Social Research. His most recent profile has been associated with outstanding positions in the field of cultural management, cultural policies and curatorial activities. He has been Director of Primavera Fotogràfica de Catalunya, Director of the Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Chief curator at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona MACBA and, from 2015 through 2020, Executive director at Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
On top of a vast number of monographic exhibitions devoted to individual artists such as Ahlam Shibli, Art & Language, Allan Sekula, Susan Meiselas, Harun Farocki, Oriol Vilanova and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, he has curated projects like 1979. A Monument to Radical Instants and Antoni Tàpies. Political Biography.
Last update: 16th November, 2020
