Podcast_02: The art world in the corona crisis

Podcast_02: The art world in the corona crisis

Gallery owner Rudolf Leeb in conversation with curator Walter Seidl

 

All over the world, museums, exhibition institutions, art fairs, galleries and auction houses are currently striving to keep the art business alive. Even if no technical reproduction of originals, however good, can "replace" them, virtual art presentations - especially in conjunction with further information - offer the possibility of unrestricted and free engagement with art and culture.

The location of the galleries is once again different from that of large exhibition houses. Galleries present artists at national and international art fairs and thus give contemporary art a supra-regional visibility. In addition, they permanently make large exhibition spaces available on a low-threshold basis and thus make an important contribution to the cultural offerings of the respective country.

Gallery owner Rudolf Leeb with exhibition curator Walter Seidl in front of a work by Hessam Samavatian. Untitled, pigment print, 2016, ø 140 cm

Feature picture: Letter pictures by Michael Endlicher, paint spray, acrylic / canvas, each 50 x 40 cm, 2019