Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast

The new podcast by Gallery Weekend Berlin is hosted by renowned art critics Enuma Okoro (FT Weekend) and Silke Hohmann (monopol). It will bring monthly deep dive conversations with artists and other protagonists from Berlins vivid art scene to you.

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Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast

Latest episodes

Episode 6 – Simon Denny

Episode 6 – Simon Denny

52m 32s

NEW PODCAST EPISODE WITH SIMON DENNY
In this episode, journalist Silke Hohmann sits down with Simon Denny, born in New Zealand in 1982. The internationally acclaimed artist explores complex contemporary issues, transforming them into multi-layered installations. His work spans sculpture, photography, painting, and NFTs. In 2015, he represented New Zealand at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Episode 5 - Nadya Tolokonnikova

Episode 5 - Nadya Tolokonnikova

40m 46s

In this episode, art critic Silke Hohmann talks to artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova, whose art is inseparable from her political activism. She shares how her critique has shaped her artistic practice, and why it is a great feeling to reproduce her former prison cell as an art installation.

Episode 4 - Melissa Joseph

Episode 4 - Melissa Joseph

56m 42s

In our next episode, Enuma Okoro sits down with artist Melissa Joseph to dive into her upcoming exhibition No Words at Soy Capitan. The exhibition opening during Gallery Weekend Berlin is the first solo presentation in Europe by the New York-based artist. They explore the artist’s journey as a wanderer, her reflections on global unrest, and how Dante’s Inferno and her time spent in Berlin shaped her latest work.

Melissa shares how felting — her favorite medium — allows her to translate thought into texture, offering a quiet, tactile form of visual poetry. Together, they reflect on the importance of...

Episode 3 – Zuzanna Czebatul

Episode 3 – Zuzanna Czebatul

45m 41s

Bildhauerin und scharfsinnige Beobachterin von Macht, Ideologie und kultureller Mythenbildung – Zuzanna Czebatul spricht mit uns über ihre künstlerische Praxis.

In ihrer ersten Einzelausstellung bei Dittrich & Schlechtriem mit dem Titel „All the Charm of a Rotting Gum“, die zum Gallery Weekend Berlin eröffnet, denkt sie den Pergamonaltar als konzeptuellen Raum neu. Ihre Arbeiten fordern dazu auf, kulturelle Mythen, staatliche Macht und die Fragilität vermeintlich dauerhafter Strukturen zu hinterfragen.

Im Gespräch mit der Kunstkritikerin Silke Hohmann spricht Zuzanna über Berlin als widersprüchliche Bühne, über das Verblassen von Monumenten und die Poesie im Bröckeln. Über Uniformen als Auslöschung des Subjekts, das...