Subtext and Discourse | Art World Podcast
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Challenging traditional art hierarchies and recontextualising photography with New York gallerist Bruce Silverstein
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our conversation with New York gallerist Bruce Silverstein, we delve deeper into his evolving gallery vision, his commitment to challen...
Joanne Leonard: Intimate Documentary, Photo Collage, and The Feminist Art Movement
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Credited with inventing the "intimate documentary" style of photography, Joanne Leonard was one of the first to pivot away from street style photograp...
Photo Basel 10th Anniversary Edition with Sven Eisenhut-hug and Elwira Spychalska
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to build and sustain Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography? In this episode, Michael Dooney...
From Conflict Zones to Community Change: Mark Neville on Photography as Activism
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when photography becomes a tool for social change rather than just documentation? In this episode, Michael Dooney speaks with acclaimed B...
Leaving Wall Street to open an art gallery in Chelsea, New York - Bruce Silverstein
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography g...
AIPAD On Collecting: How to start collecting fine art photography
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography g...
AIPAD London Calling: The UK photo market, Japanese Photography, and obsessive collecting
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography g...
AIPAD Millennials: The next generation of photography galleries
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography g...
AIPAD Female Leaders: Trailblazing women promoting photography in the art world
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography g...
AIPAD New York: The photographers, collectors, and dealers who grew the art market for photography
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography g...
AIPAD History: 30 years of AIPAD presidents take us behind the scenes of the world oldest photography dealer association
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography g...
AIPAD Today: Evolution of the world’s oldest photography art fair
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography g...
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the analogue photobooth - Rafael Hortala Vallve, AUTOFOTO
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1925, 100 years ago, Anatol Josepho invented the first fully automated, coin-operated photobooth which he named the Photomaton. Stationed on Broadw...
Felix Hoffmann, artistic director FOTO ARSENAL WIEN | EP73 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Felix Hoffmann is an image and cultural scholar and the inaugural Artistic Director of the Center for Photography and Lens-Based Media FOTO ARSENAL WI...
Female Photoclub and European Month of Photography Berlin | EP72 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I am speaking with four members of the Berlin chapter of the Female Photoclub. A Germany wide professional association which aims to i...
Joanna Szproch, visual artist & art mediator | EP71 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Szproch is a Polish, Berlin-based visual artist and activist. Her practice blends photography as a performative and instrumental medium with ar...
Enrico Stefanelli, Photolux Festival | EP70 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Enrico Stefanelli (b.1962, Lucca, Italy) is the founder and artistic director of Photolux Festival, the biennial of photography in Lucca, Italy. From ...
Pilar Mata Dupont, visual artist & filmmaker | EP69 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pilar Mata Dupont is a multi-award-winning Argentinean-Australian artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice spans video, installation, ...
Pablo Giori, International Photography Festival Association | EP68 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo Giori is the co-founder and director of the Experimental Photo Festival, the Ágora, School of Experimentation, and the International Photogra...
Jessa Fairbrother, visual artist | EP67 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jessa Fairbrother (b. London) is a British visual artist whose work spans stitch, photography, performance and drawing. The body is her main material....
Anthony Luvera, socially engaged artist, writer, and educator | EP66 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Luvera is an Australian socially engaged artist, writer, and educator based in London. The long-term collaborative work he creates with indivi...
Wiktoria Michalkiewicz, REZO Agency | EP65 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Wiktoria Michałkiewicz is an interdisciplinary expert with extensive international experience in storytelling, talent management, journalism, and...
W.M. Hunt, photography collector | EP64 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
W.M. Hunt is a champion of photography: collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York City. He is also a teacher and writer and ...
Freo Majer, Forecast Platform | EP63 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Freo Majer is the founder and artistic director of Forecast, an international mentorship program that transcends disciplines and geographical location...
Philippe Garner, photography specialist | EP62 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Philippe Garner was born in Aix-en-Provence in 1949. He was brought up in Brighton. After graduating in French and Latin from Bedford College, London,...
Wesley Verhoeve, photographer | EP61 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wesley Verhoeve is an Amsterdam-based photographer and curator whose work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, National Geo...
Tim Clark, 1000 Words | EP60 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Clark is Editor in Chief of 1000 Words and Artistic Director for Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Italy, together with Walter Guadagnini, Di...
Boris Eldagsen, visual artist | EP59 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boris Eldagsen was born in Pirmasens, West Germany, in 1970. He studied media and drama, philosophy, and German studies at the University of Cologne (...
Stephanie O’Connor, photographer | EP58 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie O'Connor (she/her) is a Pākehā/tangata tiriti artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is currently based in Berlin, Ger...
Anne Schwanz, gallerist at OFFICE IMPART | EP57 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Schwanz co-founded OFFICE IMPART together with Johanna Neuschäffer in 2018. OFFICE IMPART is a multi-dimensional space and platform for contempo...
Alessa Widmer, curator | EP56 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alessa Widmer is a young curator, PhD candidate and photography enthusiast based in Zurich, Switzerland. She is currently the artistic director of Pho...
Hannah Watson, gallerist & publisher | EP55 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Watson is the co-founder and director of contemporary art gallery TJ Boulting, as well as the director of independent art publisher Trolley Boo...
Laura Noble, artist, writer & curator | EP54 Subtext & Discourse
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Noble is the Director of L A Noble Gallery (LANG) in London. The gallery focuses on contemporary positions and features a majority female repres...
Barbara Wolff, photographer | EP53 Subtext & Discourse
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Wolff, born in 1951 in Kyritz in the Prignitz region of the State of Brandenburg, is the daughter of photographer Werner Hinz. After completin...
Robert Morat, gallerist | EP52 Subtext & Discourse
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Established in 2004, Robert Morat Galerie is a contemporary art gallery, primarily focussing on emerging positions in contem...
Alain Servais, art collector | EP51 Subtext & Discourse
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Belgian collector, Alain Servais, started collecting art in the late 1990s. With a strong focus on emerging artists, Alain has built up a signific...
Narda van ’t Veer, collector, gallerist & agent | EP50 Subtext & Discourse
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Narda van ‘t Veer, gallerist, photography collector and agent. In 1977 Narda van 't Veer stumbled upon the work of Guy Bourdin. Her love for photogr...
Marc Barbey, collector and founder of Collection Regard | EP49 Subtext & Discourse
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Marc Barbey, Collector and Founder of Collection Regard, Berlin. Collection Regard is the photographic collection of Marc Barbey focusing on German ph...
Christophe Guye, gallerist and art dealer | EP48 Subtext & Discourse
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christophe Guye was the owner and managing director of a communications agency in Zurich for 15 years, which was taken over by an international agency...
Georgina Adam, art market journalist | EP47 Subtext & Discourse
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Georgina Adam is a journalist and author who has been writing about the interactions of art and finance since the 1980’s. From 2000 until 2008 she w...
Susan Bright, curator | EP46 Subtext & Discourse
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Susan Bright is an Australian/British curator currently based in London. She has a specialisation in lens-based arts and contemporary visual cultu...
Michael Barnett, ArtyGent | EP45 Subtext & Discourse
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Barnett is the art features writer for STATE-F22 magazine and special projects lead at Arts Bermondsey Project Space Gallery SE1. Cultural liv...
Kerem Asfuroglu, lighting designer & graphic artist | EP44 Subtext & Discourse
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kerem Asfuroglu is a lighting designer, graphic artist and the founder of Dark Source - a lighting design studio driven by social and environmental va...
Saul Robbins, photographer & educator | EP43 Subtext & Discourse
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saul Robbins is interested in the ways people interact within their surroundings and the psychological dynamics of intimacy. His photographs are mo...
Jessica Backhaus, artist & photographer | EP42 Subtext & Discourse
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jessica Backhaus was born in Cuxhaven, Germany in 1970 and grew up in an artistic family. At the age of sixteen, she moved to Paris, where she later s...
Valerie von Meiss, founder of The Curve | EP41 Subtext & Discourse
11 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Valerie von Meiss is the founder of The Curve a private project space and nomadic gallery in Berlin which has a focus on contemporary collage. the Cur...
Elena Feijoo, founder of Exgirlfriend and HER | EP40 Subtext & Discourse
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Elena Feijoo is the founder and managing director of the Berlin based art gallery Exgirlfriend EGF UG & the non-profit art studio building/art service...
Pierre-André Podbielski, gallerist Podbielski Contemporary | EP39 Subtext & Discourse
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gallerist Pierre-André Podbielski, the founder of Podbielski Contemporary, describes himself a citizen of the world. Of Polish and German descent (fa...
Anne Schwanz, co-founder of OFFICE IMPART | EP38 Subtext & Discourse
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Schwanz co-founded OFFICE IMPART together with Johanna Neuschäffer in 2018. She studied art and art history at Caspar David Friedrich Institute,...
Felix Hoffmann, chief curator C/O Berlin | EP37 Subtext & Discourse
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Felix Hoffmann, has been the chief curator of the C/O Berlin Foundation since 2005. He studied art history and cultural studies in Vienna and Berlin a...
Nina Ross, artist, activist & parent | EP36 Subtext & Discourse
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nina Ross is a Melbourne based artist working predominantly with video, performance and photography. Her research led practice draws on individual exp...
Maya Anner, chief curator PHOTO IS:RAEL | EP35 Subtext & Discourse
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maya Anner is a curator working in Tel-Aviv, and currently serves as the Chief Curator of PHOTO IS:RAEL, the International Photography Festival in Tel...
ZERO WASTE exhibition at Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig | EP34 Subtext & Discourse
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The group exhibition Zero Waste showcases international positions in contemporary art that point out the urgency to save resources, consume less, and ...
Ángel Luis González, founding director of PhotoIreland | EP33 Subtext & Discourse
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ángel Luis González is the director of PhotoIreland, an independent organisation dedicated to stimulating a critical dialogue around Photography in ...
Harriet Roth, art historian | EP32 Subtext & Discourse
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Harriet Roth studied Medieval History, Modern History, and Art History. She obtained her doctorate in art history in 1996 with a thesis on the Ori...
Dorothee Bienert, director of Galerie im Körnerpark & Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin Neukölln | EP31 Subtext & Discourse
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dorothee Bienert is the director of Galerie im Körnerpark and Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin Neukölln. Together with Kati Kivinen, director of Museum fo...
Fiona Sweet, festival & artistic director of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale | EP30 Subtext & Discourse
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned for inspiring and intelligent delivery of uniquely crafted festivals and arts events, Fiona Sweet is an influential and highly sought after s...
Catherine Evans, multi-disciplinary artist utilising photography, sculpture & installation | EP29 Subtext & Discourse
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Evans is a Berlin-based Australian artist who works across photography, sculpture and installation. Her work focuses on geologic time and wh...
April Gertler, social practice artist & founder of PICTURE BERLIN residency | EP28 Subtext & Discourse
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
April Gertler is an American artist who has been living and working in Berlin since 2005. She studied at University California, Berkeley (BA, Social S...
Piotr Pietrus, artist & social activist photographer | EP27 Subtext & Discourse
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Piotr Pietrus is a Polish born artist and social activist photographer. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany in 2008, and wen...
Interview with Georgie Pope | EP26 Subtext & Discourse
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Georgina Pope is a Berlin based curator who started her career working at commercial galleries and project spaces in Sydney, Australia. She is current...
Interview with David Charles Collins | EP25 Subtext & Discourse
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Charles Collins (b. 1988, Perth, Australia) is an artist examining perceptions of identity and masculinity through the mediums of photography, p...
Interview with Peggy Sue Amison | EP24 Subtext & Discourse
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peggy Sue Amison is the Artistic Director for East Wing - a platform for photography founded in Doha, Qatar. As a curator, writer, strategist, mentor ...
Interview with Joséphine Demerliac | EP23 Subtext & Discourse
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joséphine Demerliac (b.1992 Paris) is a Berlin based film director. Her first experience as a writer and producer was at 17 years old, staging a one ...
Interview with Laura Hirvi | EP22 Subtext & Discourse
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Hirvi is the director of the Finnland-Institut in Deutschland (Germany), a forum for Finnish culture & arts, academia, and business in the Germa...
Interview with Alexander Gehring | EP21 Subtext & Discourse
12 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode I catch up with Berlin based artist and photographer Alexander Gehring. We met at his shared colour darkroom in Prenzlauer Berg whe...
Interview with Lena Fließbach | EP20 Subtext & Discourse
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Still hard to comprehend how much the world has changed since this interview was recorded only four weeks ago, when I met up with Berlin based curator...
Interview with Boris Eldagsen | EP19 Subtext & Discourse
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hope that everyone is taking care in light of current events and the uncertain outcome of the corona virus. In today's episode of Subtext & Discourse ...
Interview with Marina Stanimirovic | EP18 Subtext & Discourse
16 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode of Subtext & Discourse I'm speaking with Berlin based artist Marina Stanimirovic who creates contemporary jewellery, sound and inst...
Interview with Maria Gracia de Pedro | EP17 Subtext & Discourse
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back everyone and hope that you had a great start to the New Year! It took a little longer that I had hoped to get the first episode online fo...
Interview with artist Krista Svalbonas | EP16 Subtext & Discourse
22 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In what will likely be the last interview for 2019, today I'm speaking with Krista Svalbonas. Krista not only took part in the Jarvis Dooney Postcard ...
Interview with artist couple Louise Crawford & Stéphan Guéneau | EP15 Subtext & Discourse
15 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As 2019 draws to an end we have a couple more interviews with participants of our second Postcard Salon which took place at the beginning of this year...
Interview with photographer Martin U Waltz | EP14 Subtext & Discourse
02 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode of the Subtext & Discourse podcast we'll hear from Berlin based photographer Martin Waltz. Martin is a photographer, photography ...
Interview with artist Elizabeth Gower | EP13.2 Subtext & Discourse
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of 2 - This week on Subtext & Discourse we have a two part interview with Australian artist Elizabeth Gower, who was briefly in Berlin together...
Interview with artist Elizabeth Gower | EP13.1 Subtext & Discourse
20 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of 2 - This week on Subtext & Discourse we have a two part interview with Australian artist Elizabeth Gower, who was briefly in Berlin together...
Interview with artist John R Neeson | EP12 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
13 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After a busy couple of months we're back on track with post production of the podcast. John R Neeson, who participated in the Postcard Salon, was in B...
Interview with artist Lama Ahmed | EP11 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
08 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our series of interviews with Postcard Salon participants, today's episode features young artist Lama Ahmed. Based in Cairo, Egypt, Lama is...
Interview with artist Lynne Margaret Brown | EP10.2 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This interview (part 2 of 2) with native New Yorker, and Berlin based artist Lynne Margaret Brown was recorded with Michael Dooney on 17. April 2019 i...
Interview with artist Lynne Margaret Brown | EP10.1 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This interview (part 1 of 2) with native New Yorker, and Berlin based artist Lynne Margaret Brown was recorded with Michael Dooney on 17. April 2019 i...
Postcard Salon Summary | EP9 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
18 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Subtext & Discourse I talk about the Jarvis Dooney Gallery collaborative experiment in exhibition making, the Postcard Salon. 2018 ...
Interview with artist Yasmin Nebenfuhr | EP8 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Australian photographer and artist Yasmin Nebenfuhr recorded with Michael Dooney on 17. April 2019 in Berlin, Germany; coinciding with ...
Interview with artist Cat Lamora | EP7.2 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This two part interview with Cat Lamora was recorded by Michael Dooney on 9. April 2019 in Berlin, Germany. More details: https://www.patreon.com/post...
Interview with artist Cat Lamora | EP7.1 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This two part interview with Cat Lamora was recorded by Michael Dooney on 9. April 2019 in Berlin, Germany. More details: https://www.patreon.com/post...
Interview with artist Kees Schouten | EP6 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This interview with Kees Schouten was recorded by Michael Dooney on 17. April 2019 in Berlin, Germany. First uploaded on 16. July 2019, more informati...
Interview with artist Sophie Dumaresq | EP5 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
15 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Interview with Sophie Dumaresq was recorded by Michael Dooney on Thursday 4. October 2018 in Berlin. First uploaded on 15. June 2019: https://www.patr...
Interview with artist Derek Kreckler | EP4 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
07 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Subtext & Discourse was first uploaded on 7. April 2019 - https://www.patreon.com/posts/subtext... Interview with Derek Kreckler was r...
Interview with artist Kate Robertson | EP3 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
28 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The interview with Kate Robertson & Jeffrey Noro was recorded with Michael Dooney on Saturday 29. September 2018 at Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin. Fir...
Interview with artist Torsten Schumann | EP2 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On 2. September 2018 gallerist Michael Dooney sat down with German photographer Torsten Schumann (b.1975 Dresden, Germany) to find out more about hi...
Chris Fortescue, multidisciplinary artist working across sound, installation, animation, & photomedia | EP1 Subtext & Discourse Podcast
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On 1. May 2018 gallerist Michael Dooney sat down with artist Chris Fortescue to speak about his artistic practice and back story, to coincide with his...