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Subtext and Discourse | Art World Podcast
by Michael Dooney
The art world and associated market are famously opaque and can at times be exclusive. Berlin based gallery director and educator Michael Dooney speaks with artists, curators and other professionals who share their personal experiences of this unique field. If you have ever felt unsure about walking into a gallery, wish to understand more about creativity or better understand how this complex industry works, then tune in every second Monday to hear the insightful conversations with these inspiring individuals.
Episodes
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Challenging traditional art hierarchies and recontextualising photography with New York gallerist Bruce Silverstein
In part two of our conversation with New York gallerist Bruce Silverstein, we delve deeper into his evolving gallery vision, his commitment to challenging traditional art hierarchies, and his dedication to championing overlooked artists. Bruce reflects on the inaugural exhibition at his new…
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Joanne Leonard: Intimate Documentary, Photo Collage, and The Feminist Art Movement
Credited with inventing the "intimate documentary" style of photography, Joanne Leonard was one of the first to pivot away from street style photography adopt a more personal approach that focused on her close relationships and immediate surroundings. In this episode we delve into her unique...
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Photo Basel 10th Anniversary Edition with Sven Eisenhut-hug and Elwira Spychalska
What does it take to build and sustain Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography? In this episode, Michael Dooney is joined by Sven Eisenhut-Hug (co-founder and director of Photo Basel) and Elwira Spychalska (art historian and artistic director of Photo Basel)…
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From Conflict Zones to Community Change: Mark Neville on Photography as Activism
What happens when photography becomes a tool for social change rather than just documentation? In this episode, Michael Dooney speaks with acclaimed British photographer and artist Mark Neville about his journey from art school to the front-lines of conflict, and how he uses collaborative...
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Leaving Wall Street to open an art gallery in Chelsea, New York - Bruce Silverstein
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from...
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AIPAD On Collecting: How to start collecting fine art photography
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from...
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AIPAD London Calling: The UK photo market, Japanese Photography, and obsessive collecting
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from...
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AIPAD Millennials: The next generation of photography galleries
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from...
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AIPAD Female Leaders: Trailblazing women promoting photography in the art world
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from...
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AIPAD New York: The photographers, collectors, and dealers who grew the art market for photography
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from...
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AIPAD History: 30 years of AIPAD presidents take us behind the scenes of the world oldest photography dealer association
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from...
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AIPAD Today: Evolution of the world’s oldest photography art fair
This episode of Subtext & Discourse Art World podcast is brought to you by AIPAD and The Photography Show. AIPAD represents fine art photography galleries around the world and is proud to present the 2025 edition of its flagship event, The Photography Show. The fair will showcase photography from...
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the analogue photobooth - Rafael Hortala Vallve, AUTOFOTO
In 1925, 100 years ago, Anatol Josepho invented the first fully automated, coin-operated photobooth which he named the Photomaton. Stationed on Broadway near Times Square in New York City, over 250,000 Americans used the photobooth in its first year, paying 25 cents and waiting patiently for…
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Felix Hoffmann, artistic director FOTO ARSENAL WIEN | EP73 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Felix Hoffmann is an image and cultural scholar and the inaugural Artistic Director of the Center for Photography and Lens-Based Media FOTO ARSENAL WIEN and the Director of FOTO WIEN. From 2005 to 2022, he served as the Chief Curator of the exhibition space C/O Berlin, where he was responsible…
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Female Photoclub and European Month of Photography Berlin | EP72 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
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 increase visibility of female photographers, advocates for equality in the industry, and raises awareness of issues such as pay inequality and lack…
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Joanna Szproch, visual artist & art mediator | EP71 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Joanna Szproch is a Polish, Berlin-based visual artist and activist. Her practice blends photography as a performative and instrumental medium with archival materials, writing, and participatory projects. She explores female resilience through embodiment and conviviality. Committed to analogue...
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Enrico Stefanelli, Photolux Festival | EP70 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Enrico Stefanelli (b.1962, Lucca, Italy) is the founder and artistic director of Photolux Festival, the biennial of photography in Lucca, Italy. From 2010 to 2017, he worked as curator for the European Photo Exhibition Award (epea), a project sponsoring young photo talent, which developed as a...
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Pilar Mata Dupont, visual artist & filmmaker | EP69 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Pilar Mata Dupont is a multi-award-winning Argentinean-Australian artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice spans video, installation, performance, and photography. Using highly theatrical and cinematic methods, she uses allegory and narrative to reimagine/rework histories and...
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Pablo Giori, International Photography Festival Association | EP68 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Pablo Giori is the co-founder and director of the Experimental Photo Festival, the Ágora, School of Experimentation, and the International Photography Festivals Association (IPFA) in Barcelona. His interest in experimental analogue photography was born out of his work as a documentarian…
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Jessa Fairbrother, visual artist | EP67 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Jessa Fairbrother (b. London) is a British visual artist whose work spans stitch, photography, performance and drawing. The body is her main material. She holds an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster (2010) and trained at drama school in London in the 1990s. This laid…
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Anthony Luvera, socially engaged artist, writer, and educator | EP66 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Anthony Luvera is an Australian socially engaged artist, writer, and educator based in London. The long-term collaborative work he creates with individuals and communities has been exhibited widely in galleries, public spaces, and festivals, including the UK House of Commons, Tate Liverpool, The...
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Wiktoria Michalkiewicz, REZO Agency | EP65 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Dr. Wiktoria Michałkiewicz is an interdisciplinary expert with extensive international experience in storytelling, talent management, journalism, and photography. Alongside her academic achievements—holding five degrees, including a PhD in Sociology, an MA in Social Anthropology, and an MA in...
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W.M. Hunt, photography collector | EP64 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
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 speaker on photography. He says that photography changed his life. It gave him one. Official website where you can read Bill's series of essays…
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Freo Majer, Forecast Platform | EP63 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Freo Majer is the founder and artistic director of Forecast, an international mentorship program that transcends disciplines and geographical locations to connect cultural practitioners with renowned mentors. Trained as an opera director, Majer looks back at a career as a director and producer in...
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Philippe Garner, photography specialist | EP62 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
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, in 1970, he joined Sotheby’s Training Scheme and in 1971 started working as a specialist in late-19th-century and 20th-century decorative arts and...
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Wesley Verhoeve, photographer | EP61 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Wesley Verhoeve is an Amsterdam-based photographer and curator whose work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Washington Post, Wired, New York Magazine, Volkskrant, and others. As the founding curator of the Projected series at the...
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Tim Clark, 1000 Words | EP60 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Tim Clark is Editor in Chief of 1000 Words and Artistic Director for Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia, Italy, together with Walter Guadagnini, Director of CAMERA, Torino and Luce Lebart, curator, historian and researcher at The Archive of Modern Conflict, named as Photo Festival of the Year at...
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Boris Eldagsen, visual artist | EP59 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Boris Eldagsen was born in Pirmasens, West Germany, in 1970. He studied media and drama, philosophy, and German studies at the University of Cologne (1991–92). From 1992 to 1998 he concurrently studied philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and visual art at Mainz Academy of Fine...
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Stephanie O’Connor, photographer | EP58 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Stephanie O'Connor (she/her) is a Pākehā/tangata tiriti artist from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is currently based in Berlin, Germany. Her work uses photography as a vehicle to rework memory through obsessive editing, rearranging and compositing. Interview with Stephanie O’Connor...
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Anne Schwanz, gallerist at OFFICE IMPART | EP57 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Anne Schwanz co-founded OFFICE IMPART together with Johanna Neuschäffer in 2018. OFFICE IMPART is a multi-dimensional space and platform for contemporary art. Their activities take place on site in Berlin – or anywhere. The founders Anne and Johanna, are experts for (and on) changing the art…
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Alessa Widmer, curator | EP56 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Alessa Widmer is a young curator, PhD candidate and photography enthusiast based in Zurich, Switzerland. She is currently the artistic director of Photo Basel, Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography based art. Interview with Alessa Widmer recorded by Michael...
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Hannah Watson, gallerist & publisher | EP55 Subtext & Discourse Art World Podcast
Hannah Watson is the co-founder and director of contemporary art gallery TJ Boulting, as well as the director of independent art publisher Trolley Books. TJ Boulting was founded in 2011 by current director Hannah Watson and the late Gigi Giannuzzi, taking its name from the landmark Grade II*…
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Laura Noble, artist, writer & curator | EP54 Subtext & Discourse
Laura Noble is the Director of L A Noble Gallery (LANG) in London. The gallery focuses on contemporary positions and features a majority female representation. Laura is also a writer, author of The Art of Collecting Photography, founder of FIX Photo Festival, a multidisciplinary artist, as well…
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Barbara Wolff, photographer | EP53 Subtext & Discourse
Barbara Wolff, born in 1951 in Kyritz in the Prignitz region of the State of Brandenburg, is the daughter of photographer Werner Hinz. After completing high school she trained as a photographer in her father’s photography business and then went on to study photography at the Academy of Fine Arts,...
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Robert Morat, gallerist | EP52 Subtext & Discourse
Established in 2004, Robert Morat Galerie is a contemporary art gallery, primarily focussing on emerging positions in contemporary photography and photo-based art. Founded in Hamburg, the gallery has since moved to Berlin and is now located on Linienstrasse in the Mitte art...
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Alain Servais, art collector | EP51 Subtext & Discourse
The Belgian collector, Alain Servais, started collecting art in the late 1990s. With a strong focus on emerging artists, Alain has built up a significant contemporary art collection which is highly versatile and forward-looking. Alain is also among the first to collect digital art and support…
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Narda van ’t Veer, collector, gallerist & agent | EP50 Subtext & Discourse
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 photography was born and a few years later she graduated from her studies in marketing & economics at HTS, after which she founded an advertising agency...
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Marc Barbey, collector and founder of Collection Regard | EP49 Subtext & Discourse
Marc Barbey, Collector and Founder of Collection Regard, Berlin. Collection Regard is the photographic collection of Marc Barbey focusing on German photography, especially photography related to Berlin. Marc Barbey is administering the estate of Hein Gorny (1904-1967). Acting as an archive as…
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Christophe Guye, gallerist and art dealer | EP48 Subtext & Discourse
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 network in 2004. Since 2006 he has worked as a gallery owner and art dealer for contemporary photography. In the same year, he opened his gallery…
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Georgina Adam, art market journalist | EP47 Subtext & Discourse
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 was the Art Market Editor of The Art Newspaper where she is currently the Editor-at-Large. She is a contributor to the Financial Times Life & Arts...
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Susan Bright, curator | EP46 Subtext & Discourse
Dr. Susan Bright is an Australian/British curator currently based in London. She has a specialisation in lens-based arts and contemporary visual culture with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary and international programming. She was a curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London before…
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Michael Barnett, ArtyGent | EP45 Subtext & Discourse
Michael Barnett is the art features writer for STATE-F22 magazine and special projects lead at Arts Bermondsey Project Space Gallery SE1. Cultural live interviewer for private views and events. Salon organiser for ARTPARTY & KARMA BASEMENT. Radio & TV work and Curator Exhibitions at Sea Spirit of...
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Kerem Asfuroglu, lighting designer & graphic artist | EP44 Subtext & Discourse
Kerem Asfuroglu is a lighting designer, graphic artist and the founder of Dark Source - a lighting design studio driven by social and environmental values. Following his graduation from Wismar University - Architectural Lighting Design MA in 2010, Asfuroglu has worked at Speirs+Major as a senior...
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Saul Robbins, photographer & educator | EP43 Subtext & Discourse
Saul Robbins is interested in the ways people interact within their surroundings and the psychological dynamics of intimacy. His photographs are motivated by observations of human behaviour and personal experience, especially those related to loss, unity, failure, and the latent potential…
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Jessica Backhaus, artist & photographer | EP42 Subtext & Discourse
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 studied photography and visual communications. Here she met Gisele Freund in 1992, who became her mentor. In 1995 her passion for photography drew…
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Valerie von Meiss, founder of The Curve | EP41 Subtext & Discourse
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 Curve is a private art space and nomadic gallery exclusively dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of contemporary collage art. Young emerging as...
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Elena Feijoo, founder of Exgirlfriend and HER | EP40 Subtext & Discourse
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 provider Human Esthetic Resources HER gUG. Exgirlfriend is a contemporary art gallery showcasing experimental works from emerging artists, and HER...
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Pierre-André Podbielski, gallerist Podbielski Contemporary | EP39 Subtext & Discourse
Gallerist Pierre-André Podbielski, the founder of Podbielski Contemporary, describes himself a citizen of the world. Of Polish and German descent (father was Prussian raised in Berlin, mother Polish raised in Vienna), born in Geneva and bearing an Australian passport, he is fluent in English,...
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Anne Schwanz, co-founder of OFFICE IMPART | EP38 Subtext & Discourse
Anne Schwanz co-founded OFFICE IMPART together with Johanna Neuschäffer in 2018. She studied art and art history at Caspar David Friedrich Institute, Greifswald University and after graduating in 2004 worked at Galerie EIGEN + ART until 2018. OFFICE IMPART is a gallery, but one that hardly...
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Felix Hoffmann, chief curator C/O Berlin | EP37 Subtext & Discourse
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 and worked at the Photo Museum in Munich, the Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden and the Museum Folkwang in Essen. C/O Berlin is a charitable foundation...
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The art world and associated market are famously opaque and can at times be exclusive. Berlin based gallery director and educator Michael Dooney speaks with artists, curators and other professionals who share their personal experiences of this unique field. If you have ever felt unsure about walking into a gallery, wish to understand more about creativity or better understand how this complex industry works, then tune in every second Monday to hear the insightful conversations with these inspiring individuals.
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