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Unfiltered: Kenny Schachter’s Take on the Art World

Renowned for his unfiltered opinions, relentless energy, and wit that has disrupted galleries and auction houses alike, Kenny Schachter has carved out a unique space where art, critique, and cultural commentary collide. The 62-year-old shares how he discovered art, why he never takes no for an answer, and why, as long as you act ethically, you can do whatever you want.

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Catalyzing art with Valeria Diaz Granada

Valeria Diaz Granada represents a new generation of art entrepreneurs, curating museum-quality exhibition programs without the need for a physical gallery space or even a fixed country of operation. Instead, rossogranada, the «art catalyzer» she founded, focuses on the artists themselves, organizing seemingly spontaneous pop-up exhibitions around the world with the support of Switzerland's agency for innovation, Innosuisse.

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Marie Livie: Shaping the Zurich Art Scene

Marie Livie is the woman behind her namesake LIVIE gallery, situated in Zürich’s Claridenstrasse. First opening its doors to the public in 2019, the gallery represents the emergence of a new generation of art dealers within the city, with all that they might bring. In this episode she tells us how she entered the art world and became a gallerist, and what she is planing for Zurich Art Weekend.

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Exploring the Art World with Michèle Sandoz

Michèle Sandoz, a prominent figure in the art world, served as the Global Head of VIP Relations at Art Basel for nearly a decade and is now the Managing Director of Grisebach Switzerland. Sandoz began her art market career at Koller Auktionen. In the first episode of season 2, she discusses her career, her impressions of the Venice Biennale, her trip to Art Basel Hong Kong, and her plans with Grisebach Switzerland.

Image: © Noé Cotter

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Swizz Art Biz x Löwenbräu: Martina Huber

We are AIA Awareness in Art is a Zurich-based non-profit association with a space at Löwenbräukunst Zurich. The current show, The Mouth Is for Speaking, deals with the topic of human rights. Martina Huber, who founded the non-profit, is the first guest of the series Swizz Art Biz x Löwenbräukunst.

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Swiss gallerist René Meile on working in China

Galerie Urs Meile became one of the first Western galleries to establish itself in China. René Meile is co-director and mainly responsible for the operations in Beijing. He tells us why he tries to understand China through its art and culture rather than just geopolitics, why not every show is shut down immediately when showing sensitive content, and why it’s not always easy to work with Ai Weiwei.

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‘You need to love the work and put in the work.’

Giorgia von Albertini is one of the youngest and most successful Swiss art curators at the moment. She started her career by collaborating with the renowned curator Bice Curiger, who was only the third woman ever to curate the Venice Biennale in 2011.

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Alain Servais poses the age-old question: What is art?

Belgian art collector Alain Servais started collecting photography, installations, and digital and video pieces 25 years ago. Everything, that is, except paintings. He tells Tanya König why, what art should do, and why he’s not a fan of NFTs.

Photo: Michel Loriaux

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Artist Alice Bucknell on the near-future, capitalism, and NFTs

Digital artist Alice Bucknell focuses her work around the topics of architecture, cryptocurrencies, the environment, and capitalism. Bucknell recently showed her piece “Swamp City” in Zurich which was also part of the Venice Biennale for Architecture this year. In this latest Swizz Art Biz podcast she discusses what motivates her work, why she boycotts the Ethereum blockchain, and how NFTs can make a difference.

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Noah Davis and the next Beeple NFT sale at Christie's

Noah Davis was one of the people behind the Beeple NFT record-sale and has since been known as “the NFT guy at Christie’s.” He joins Swizz Art Biz from his office in New York and tells Tanya König how business has changed for the auction house since it opened up to NFTs.

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Johann König on exploring new ways of selling art

Johann König is one of Germany’s most innovative art dealers at the moment. His eponymous gallery has a spin-off called MISA, which started as a fair in his gallery bringing the primary and the secondary art market together and has grown into an online platform. He tells us how he is exploring new ways of offering art to a wider audience.

Photo: Marco Fischer

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Why Kenny Schachter loves NFTs

Kenny Schachter is one of the most outspoken figures of the art world. The artist, curator, lecturer, writer, and very recently also NFT-evangelist sits down with Swizz Art Biz and tells Tanya König why he is so enthusiastic about non-fungible tokens.

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Georg Bak and the CryptoPunks

Georg Bak organized the very first art exhibition of Larva Lab's CryptoPunk's. Now some of those NFT's artworks are being sold in the London auction of Sotheby's this month. Find out more about NFT's and the history of it.

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