It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts (1952-2022). She died in Paris on 16th July after a short illness. Born in Philadelphia, Jill had an adventurous and international creative life, as a cultural journalist for The New York Times, working for the John Gibson Gallery and the […]
During the pandemic period, Esther Shalev-Gerz conceived her new sculpture KING & KING, a gorgeous work recently installed in a private collection in the United States. Inspired by the figurative bronze sculpture King and Queen by Henry Moore, this two-part sculpture was made from Portuguese blue marble and is placed on a dark charkcoal concrete […]
PART I The first edition of BAD+ Bordeaux + Art + Design, a new art and design salon, will launch in Bordeaux, July 6 – 10, 2022, presented in the iconic two storey concrete and steel industrial building HANGAR 14 on the banks of the Garonne. At the initiative of Jean-Daniel Compain and Congrès Bordeaux […]
“I couldn’t shake the feeling of the tap shoes in space. It was with me all the time. It created an energetic structure.” Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts on Karshan’s first walked drawing at Saatchi Gallery for Draw London Art Fair 2019. In the early evening of Friday 8th April in the Brutalist building of Murray […]
PART I New arrivals from the archives of Helmut Federle. It has been an unusual early spring here at JSVCprojects. As I am again spending all my time between the couch and my book cases under house arrest like the long months of the pandemic when it was not possible to go out the door. […]
JSVCprojects is proud to have participated with an evening dedicated to Jason Butler’s exhibition ‘One on One’ at ArtHouse Jersey, Capital House, on Wednesday, 20th of April. Bénédicte Delay led a conversation with the artist about his new works, writing in particular: Soft hues of turquoise, pink and white draw us towards Jason Butler’s new […]
More info: Mark Lammert Esther Shalev-Gerz’s exhibition at the Bauhaus-Museum, Weimar
PART I Friday 8th April 2022, 5-7pm. “Asked about his studio practice, Giacometti responded ‘two feet walking’That’s what I see in the sketch.” Linda Karshan The WALKED DRAWINGS represent the quintessence of Linda Karshan’s practice. They appeared in 2018 as a necessity. Her collaborator, poet and cinematographer Ishmael Annobil, explains: In this revolutionary genre of […]
PART I JSVCprojects is happy to announce Ishmael Annobil’s exhibition at L’Interstice Gallery, Arles, which will open on Friday, 15th of April. Location: L’Interstice – Josette Sayers 45 rue du 4 Septembre 13200 Arles Stay tuned! & Discover Ishmael Annobil’s trailer for ‘INSOMNIA’: PART II Ishmael describes himself as: a London-based poet, journalist, photographer, graphic […]
JSVCprojects is happy to participate with an opening evening, discussing this new works by Jason Butler, on Tuesday, 20th of April, at ArtHouse Jersey. Location: ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House8 Church StreetJE2 3NN Saint HelierJersey Previously we have written on his works, saying: “To simply study these paintings in spatial terms Butler with these abstract […]
In the midst of these suddenly fraught and dangerous times, we have a bit of good news to share today. I am happy to announce the print portfolio by ART & LANGUAGE that we showed in our post of 20 September 2021, published by René Schmitt has been acquired for the French national collection. This […]
After a fraught ten days watching the news of an invasion and war now in Ukraine, it feels uncanny that Esther Shalev-Gerz is on the way to Weimar where she will open an exhibition Friday, March 11, at the Bauhaus-Museum, entitled “Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin” until May 16. It is not […]
PART I I first came across Dan Graham’s work in 1980 when I began working with John Gibson. He had made a series of exhibitions earlier of Graham’s photographs at the time many of which were called “Homes for America”. John was also often talking about performance works like “Present Continuous Past(s)”; I remember seeing […]
PART I LIVE WITH ARTA Way of ThinkingA Way of Seeing Discover, Share, Exchange, Encounter, See. BAD+ brings the best galleries in art and design, photography and drawing, sculpture and installation to Bordeaux in early July to give audiences direct contact with art, in a dynamic and exciting spectrum of events. For seasoned collectors, museum […]
PART I I was holding my breath this weekend watching every day to see when exactly the magic numbers would appear letting us know that we had managed in the past two years, pandemic and all to create a loyal Instagram following of two thousand. If you had told me in March of 2020 when […]
PART I It is a day in Paris when the weather can’t make up its mind; January is like this. We have moved into a new part of Paris and the view out the window is an internal courtyard with buttery walls of a Hôtel Particulier on Île Saint-Louis. The creamy light yellow tawny stones sing […]
PART I There is something reassuring about watching an artist develop in his craft; through long days and hours in the studio, technical mishaps, lost moments of doubt, quizzical self-anhiliating fear everything shows up one way or another. We have been working with Robert Stone for sometime, and the bi-weekly pleasure of visiting and talking […]
Fridericianum – Modern Art MuseumFriedrichsplatz 18 34117 KasselGermany We remember the exhibition two years ago that Mischa Kuball made as the pandemic struck at the Draiflessen Collection in Mettingen, “Emil Nolde-a critical approach” supported by the Nolde Stiftung Seebüll. It was a masterful examination of one of the most ambivalent figures in the 20th century artworld. Following […]
Thank you to all of our collaborators for making last year so vibrant. From all of us at JSVCprojects. Much health and happiness! BONNE ANNÉE 2022 ! NOS VOEUX LES PLUS CHALEUREUX Merci à tous nos collaborateurs d’avoir rendu l’année passée si vibrante. De la part de toute l’équipe de JSVCprojects, Santé et bonheur !
“Looking for Order Painting after Covid.” Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts, Paris August 2021 PART I I began the day with grey dawn, nervous that the blue sky and sun I longed for might not appear, but then I realised it was not yet six in the morning. Another early start, in these months of awkward […]
PART I You may remember we travelled to see this exhibition in its first appearance last summer in Wolfsburg. Here now in the Ruhr region of Germany, just outside Cologne/Düsseldorf we have a new version at Museum Morsbroich which we will see early next year. The important thing here is to stress again that this […]
Something to be grateful for, I can leave my office in Paris and fifteen hours later pull up the drive to my mother’s house. You might take this for granted as I have for all the years I have lived on this side of the ocean. It was no big deal to fly around, just […]
The idea was to debut this new feature on our website after the summer but the sudden acceleration of going places again swept us off our feet quite literally. The interest in mapping our projects was definitely a pandemic response to the inability to go anywhere. Our clients and projects were out in the world […]
PART I: WHERE IT STARTED Last week, I travelled to Genk, Belgium, for the book launch of a mid-career monograph “NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, an anthology of fragments and memories of the thirty-year-long journey that saw Koen Vanmechelen create his first assemblages in the ‘80s, carry on a vast program of poultry crossbreeding and, eventually, open […]
JSVCprojects is happy to share Filmmaker Ishmael Annobil’s good news. “Just when we thought providence was done with us, it gives us four more accolades, starting with this selection late last night by the inspired Bettiah International Film Festival (Bihar, India). This selection is especially significant because Tongues on Fire, the organisation behind the festival, […]
We have been back in the art life now for two weeks since the IDE TO POLAND expedition concluded with the display of prototypes made in situ. The intensity of this roadshow deserves a bit of reflection when you unpack your bags and start anew with other projects and post-expedition follow-up. Happy to report the […]
PART I I don’t think anything prepared me for the exuberance and edgy freshness of the prototypes produced by the IDE TO POLAND, Ceramic & Food Route Expedition. After six weeks in situ, working with local makers, the three designers Eimear Ryan, Zhuo Qi and Goliath Dyevre and expert designers Mathilde Bretillot, Miska Miller-Lovegrove, Marc […]
PART I Working with Helmut Federle is not an experience of only one aesthetic practice, his reach into architecture has been a life-long part of his oeuvre. And it is also not coincidental that so many architects are profoundly attracted to his singular way of mesmerising the eye with profoundly deep painting. The week of […]
I am in Warsaw. The second trip in two months; talked to Joanna Fikus the chief curator of exhibitions at POLIN on Thursday about this very work which to my mind is one of the masterpieces of the Shalev-Gerz oeuvre. It was made on the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2005; the […]
PART I I am writing this on the eve of the opening of ART BASEL 2021. It is the first time René Schmitt Druckgraphik, Berlin, is exhibiting and he is showing a very special portfolio that we worked on together with ART & LANGUAGE (Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden) in 2016. During this time, I […]
PART I The summer has been and gone; time has a different quality right now. I can’t explain it other than to say I am ramping up my activities but nothing feels as it once did. Is this a post-pandemic new reality? There is a fluidity of shock and disturbance. Borders open and close again; […]
PART I Have just learned that I can post on JSVCprojects and IDE at the same time. So following on our road trip yesterday took us to a place called Kwaśne Jabłko where Marcin Wiechowski and his wife have bought a farm a few years ago and are now producing cider from historic orchards called […]
PART I Good morning Poland. IDE Ceramic and Food route is starting a sweet day with WARSAW HONEY at breakfast thanks to the great choice of our host and project partner Raffles Europejski Warsaw Hotel. Thick and creamy with the aroma of goldenrods the happy bees contribute to good energy early this morning. We are […]
PART I It is with great excitement that IDE TO POLAND launches today in Warsaw; the designers and experts are making their way now as I am writing this for an expedition that will be full of creative surprises and conceptual developments. For those who have followed IDE, you will know that I am the […]
PART I I have been working with ESG since starting JSVCprojects in 2013. Was grateful to be introduced to the artist and the work by then Sprengel Museum Director Ulrich Krempel with whom she had worked for many years on projects. He insited I come to the opening of her important retrospective at the Jeu […]
Part I Traveling after a hiatus of ten months. Thought you might be interested in what I have seen. You had a glimpse of Copenhagen a couple weeks ago. Was invited to Madrid for ARCO for the first time in ten years. Hard to explain how it would happen that this would be the first […]
PART I For the past year, Jason Butler ‘s large abstract paintings have evolved beyond the array of colours and forms we have come to know as his language. Following an exhibition last year of expansive field paintings, sometimes as single works, other times as two- or three-parts panels, he began to reflect as only […]
PART I I have been back from Copenhagen for well over a week. In this period many other things have happened. But in the last post I shared with you the pleasure of serious work on a catalogue raisonné project on the Kirkeby Bricks, The Unrealised Projects. But I was so taken by this that […]
PART I It was the first business trip since September; Copenhagen for three days of work on the second volume of the “Catalogue Raisonné” of Kirkeby’s Brick Works. This second volume will be the unrealised projects. The team included Susanne Ottesen, gallerist of record for the Bricks; Arne Fremmich who has been the right hand […]
PART I I remember clearly meeting Mischa Kuball at the opening of the Venice Biennale in 2009. It was a warm afternoon, which was not unusual with the Biennale over the years. I have been to every one since John Armleder’s Swiss Pavilion in 1986. John Gibson and I were there because Armleder showed in […]
PART I I was very excited when this small book arrived in the last days of the confinement. It was among a cache I had ordered in the depths of the third lockdown one afternoon when everything seemed so bleak, my mood especially dark. I was looking for something to take me away from myself, […]
PART I JSVCprojects is very excited as ASSOCIATE PRODUCER of this film. It is a pleasure to receive the recognition and support of the international film industry and the meaningful work that creative like-minded collaborations bring to light. They write: The joint project that fosters cultural exchange between visual art and expert filmmaking has a […]
PART I This is the tale of a unique visionary website team and our launch today of a new feature. REAL TIME features evolving posts from JSVCprojects weekly social media platform now live on our site highlighting what our artists, designers and galleries are doing or sometimes just what we are seeing, reading or thinking. Shout out […]
Until Sunday 6 June PART I It might appear odd to see a post here about a very short pop-up exhibition, but we are in a moment when I am delighted to see works coming out of the studio as soon as possible, even in a willy-nilly fashion, to be experienced and enjoyed. As an […]
JSVCprojects, Associate Producer, is proud to announce: Ishmael Fiifi Annobil’s latest film “LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION” has just been selected by two film festivals, Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard, in three categories. SYNOPSIS: The first Covid-19 lockdown in New York invoked artist Linda Karshan’s memory of her father’s crippling polio affliction in the 1952/53 epidemic, and […]
PART I It is with particular excitement, we announce the recent CNAP (Centre national des arts plastiques) acquisition of Esther Shalev-Gerz’s large installation “DESCRIBING LABOR”: 24 large-scale photographs, 2-channel HD video projection (58min) 7 glass objects, 1 soundtrack. I proposed this collaboration in 2011 between the Miami-based Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University in Miami and […]
In response to her PHAIDON book that has just been published, Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing. Excerpt from the PHAIDON article, Why I Draw by George Vasey and pictures by Stephen White. Who are you and what’s on your mind right now? I’m Deanna Petherbridge, a drawer and writer, and the state of […]
Third confinement in Paris, sunny weekend. IDE objects from Ceramic & Food to Puglia with Fondation d’Entreprise Martell and Politecnico di Bari out of the cupboard in the Paris Showroom. Bright colors and animated forms remind us of the heat and warmth of the expedition 2 years ago with designers Mathilde Bretillot, Pierangelo Caramia, Marta […]
Peter Blum Gallery finishes 13 March, 2021 PART I The Brooklyn Rail has published a very fine review by David Rhodes of the current exhibition of Helmut Federle: Basics on Composition that everyone should see before it closes at the end of next week. This is the fifth solo exhibition at Peter Blum Gallery, so for those who […]
PART I In 2017, Richard Milazzo writes in his opening lines of OBSzine3: “I would like to address two extreme forms of pathos as they relate to communication: those who simply lie politically, that is, within the specific bounds of the polis, which we may describe as a pathetic and shameless act; and those who […]
Part I I planned to see January as a moment of reflection –to look back at the year that ended none too soon; highlighting courage and pluck of artists with whom I work. In this year of pandemic it seemed the best we could all do was to keep our collective heads down, stay safe […]
At a time of anguish and sacrifice by so many people, we are grateful for the important creative work JSVCprojects supports with our artistic community and collaborators. We thank you all for working so hard in this very difficult year and we will continue together for 2021. We look back at the wide and varied […]
Jersey exhibition kindly hosted at a private residence by ArtHouse Jersey PART I The year finishes tonight. I look back at all we have come through. Instability underpins a quiet nerve-wracking uncertainty. Maniacs in office, political certainties cast adrift, a virus overwhelms our human community everywhere. There is no safe place, unless you just stay […]
Depth of Field Part I I have known Lior Gal over a dozen years. I have looked at his work, visited the studio, written and curated with him. More when he was based in Paris than this last period when he settled in Brussels. He was one of a very strong crew of young artists […]
Watch here “Love Letters” or clic on the image In this lockdown year 2020, and in honor of the 20th anniversary of the artist’s Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (CCP), we invite 1000 people from around the world to become a co-writer in a handwritten edition of the Book of Genomes. Vanmechelens ‘Book of Genomes’ artwork is […]
JSVCprojects is excited to share The Brooklyn Rail’s visit to Linda Karshan’s practice session at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City last week. Here is the full conversation on Instagram Linda Karshan is represented by JSVCprojects
Film Producer and Director: Ishmael Fiifi Annobil Associate Producer: Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts Part I Sometimes projects emerge from days and weeks of discussions and emails with an artist. Working with Karshan at a distance since our last in-person studio visit last December in New York has been a lesson in weekly talking. A collaboration […]
LOOKING FOR COURAGE Mark the moment. A sick feeling in the pit of the stomach comes from political upheaval. Waking in disbelief, Wednesday at dawn, again like the morning of Trump’s election in 2016, on the heels of the Brexit vote in the UK. Not like the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was still […]
Part I Simplicity takes pride of place. To be simple sounds so easy. Yet it is always the most difficult achievement for an artist, architect or designer. It takes a lifetime of self-editing to understand the rigorous difficulty involved with peeling things away. What is essential after all? Very little. The breath maybe. We reflect […]
Part I I have been interested in the work of Lukas Hoffmann since his first group show eight years ago, where a flat side wall of a suburban Swiss apartment house rose blankly up from the foreground; black and white, crisp, formalist, austere, but awkwardly tender if not registering some kind of loss. He has worked continuously over the […]
Part I Gallery weekend 11, 12 September, 2020 Everything takes longer now, including the decision to fly to Berlin after so many months staying home. Last year spent real time there with our collaborative Art & Language exhibition at Galerie Michael Janssen; I missed my friends, artists and colleagues. It seemed a moment to celebrate […]
Part I On the road. Have not flown since March; decamped to Paris mid summer, but like many I have flown weekly for three decades to Art Fairs, Openings, Studio Visits, to see clients, like getting on a school bus after a while. Not anymore. A trip to Vienna in March was cancelled. I heard […]
The world we are living in today is not the world of the 1st of February 2020. There are orders around us that are so much vaster than we are. Everyone has been fundamentally changed. JSVCprojects EPISODE III – UNCOMFORTABLE 08 September 2020 In this third episode of The Battery Channel, UNCOMFORTABLE, Jill Silverman Van […]
Jason Butler, 2020, Jersey Jason Butler Studio, New Paintings Part I I have been visiting artist Jason Butler in his Jersey studio for three years now. Watching his work evolve from a practice that was prone to elements of figuration into now a redolent and lush abstraction that is very much his own language. At […]
A studio visit, filmmaker and poet Ishmael Annobil and artist Linda Karshan, August 2020. In late December 2019, I visited Linda Karshan in New York for a long exploration of her work, and what we might do together. I could see her practice clearly as performative, though her reputation in most circles has been as […]
PART I It has been a piping heat wave in Paris this summer of Covid- 19. Went out for lunch across town on a terrace yesterday, first time in months with a friend. Also a dinner party one night, sitting at a restaurant counter. Things I never gave a second thought, exotic and fresh again. […]
Hello dear friends, summer news: JSVCprojectsis back at work in Paris and we are continuing our activities which you can follow in real time on our social media posts. Keep track of our artists and projects with BEHIND THE SCENES portraits in the studio and elsewhere. By popular demand, I will continue to amuse you […]
We are excited to announce our colleague and dear friend Rod Mengham, poet, art writer, professor at Jesus College Cambridge has been awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets. The Award is judged by poets for poets on their general body of work and contribution to poetry. The Award was founded by the late Dowager Marchioness […]
Esther Shalev-Gerz will give a talk “Between ‘The Shadow’ and ‘The Monument Against Fascism’”. Organized by the Research Forum of the Courtauld Art Institute and as a consequence of a University strike, the talk is now organized by Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts at the Freud Museum London. Please take into account the change of venue. […]
Studio visit: Linda Karshan, Winter Drawings, London, 2020. Linda Karshan is represented by Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts.
You are invited to Stefano Cigada’s “Frammenti” exhibition opening, curated by Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere, from 6.30-9.00pm. Book available. Exhibition: January, 21st – March, 8thTuesday-Saturday, 10.00am-7.00pm.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!From the team at JSVCprojects.
Per Kirkeby “Brick Sculptures” opening 14 September at Gallery Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp, through February 22, 2020.The exhibition is a collaboration with the artist’s estate and Galleri Susanne Ottesen Copenhagen, and JSVCprojects/London. Do not miss it. More information on the gallery’s website: https://www.axel-vervoordt.com/gallery/exhibitions/per-kirkeby-brick-sculptures
IDE to Puglia France-Italy-China-Poland A program conceived by International Design Expeditions and produced with Fondation d’entreprise Martell. With young designers Marta Bakowski Design Studio, Lili Gayman, Sarngsan Na Soontorn and participants and experts Mathilde Bretillot, Pierre Balsan, Miska Miller-Lovegrove, Didier Goupy, Pierangelo Caramia, Valentina De Carolis, Franco Fasano of Fasano Ceramiche CNF, Annalisa Di Roma […]
JSVC HIGHLIGHTS: Art & Language, Mel Ramsden and Michael Baldwin talking with gallerist Michael Janssen at Draw Art Fair London. Their exhibition continues in Berlin through 3 August. A great Summer weekend awaits. Don’t miss it.
One month ago, DRAW ART FAIR London opened. Such great memories. Keep in touch for the 2020 edition of the fair. Sign up now to DRAW’s newsletter here https://bit.ly/2M5k7y7 to get all the information about next year. A special thank you to all the amazing exhibitors and collaborators!58 galleries from over 13 countries and 9 […]
JSVC curates ART & LANGUAGE, Devinera qui pourra (Figure It Out Who Can) opening April 26, 6-9pm thru June 8, 2019 at Galerie Michael Janssen, Potsdamer Str. 63, Berlin. Spring 2019 ushers in another season for Galerie Michael Janssen, who proudly present Devinera qui Pourra (Figure it out who can), an exhibition of works both […]
Dr. Susanne A. Kudielka, Personal Curator, SAK Curatorial Services/ Art Collection & Exhibition Manager / Researcher / Speaker / Co Founder SOFA, writes: Often it starts without intention to built a collection. You buy a painting or a drawing you have seen and absolutely want to have. Than there are some more you add, may […]
PART I Koen Vanmechelen opens “IT’S AOUT TIME”, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä Finland. Produced in collaboration with JSVCprojects/London. Curated by Timo Valjakka.Until September 9, 2018.Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, Finland. PART II Good Summer reading! “IT’S ABOUT TIME”…ART AND POPULATION HEALTH AT A CROSSROADS LinkedIn original overview of Koen Vanmechelen’s unique artistic practice from the perspective […]
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