July 25th 2022

JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS, FOUNDER JSVCprojects

May 30th 2022

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

May 23rd 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,
KING & KING
A new sculpture
Installed in the United States

May 16th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
SAVE THE DATE
BAD+
July 6-10 2022
HANGAR 14

May 9th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Backstage filming ‘Two Feet Walking’
By Ishmael Annobil, Filmmaker
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College
Cambridge University
8th April 2022

May 2nd 2022

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE

April 25th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BENEDICTE DELAY WITH JASON BUTLER
‘ONE ON ONE’
Exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
14 April – 2 May 2022

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April 11th 2022

NATURE NOTES:
HELLO TO SPRING, PARIS

April 4th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
A WALKED DRAWING, ‘TWO FEET WALKING’,
By Linda Karshan
In collaboration with Filmmaker, Ishmael Annobil
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge

March 28th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ISHMAEL ANNOBIL, 'INSOMNIA'
Coming soon at L'Interstice, Arles
Opening on April 15, 2022

March 21st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JASON BUTLER, ‘ONE ON ONE’
Launch new ArtHouse exhibition space
Jersey, England

March 14th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, "THESE SCENES", 2016
Acquired by Centre Pompidou

March 7th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
Bauhaus-Museum,
Weimar, Germany

February 21st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LOSING DAN GRAHAM
1942-2022

February 14th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAD+
BORDEAUX + ART + DESIGN
New dates: July 6-10 2022, at HANGAR 14

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February 7th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
2000 THANK YOU NOTES
7 February 2022

January 31st 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
NEW SPACE FOR JSVCPROJECTS

January 24th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROBERT STONE
Debut with Haines Gallery at FOG Design + Art 2022
San Francisco, CA

January 17th 2022

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
nolde / kritik / documenta
A project by documenta archiv, Draiflessen Collection and Mischa Kuball
NEW DATE: FALL 2022

January 10th 2022

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

January 3rd 2022

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!
WARM WISHES AND NEW ADVENTURES

December 13th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MINYADES
An exhibition of paintings by Richard Höglund
The Bonnier Gallery, Miami
December 2021
A Catalogue Essay

December 6th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
ReferenzRäume
Museum Morsbroich
5 December – 24 April 2022

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November 29th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ABOUT THE TREES
Thanksgiving 2021

November 25th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

November 15th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE WORLD MAP
Thanks to Mr Hide

November 8th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN LABIOMISTA, GENK (BELGIUM)
The book launch and debate
“NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, November, 4th

October 25th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
OCTOBER 2021
"Linda Karshan: The Covid-19 Conversation"
Still in the limelight

October 18th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
POSTSCRIPT PARIS

October 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND III
Out of the oven
Warsaw Sept 28-Oct 3

October 5th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE
NOVARTIS Campus – Forum 3, Basel
DIENER & DIENER - WIEDERIN
2005

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October 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BETWEEN LISTENING AND TELLING
Esther Shalev Gerz
Nuit Blanche Paris,
Tonight

September 27th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

September 20th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART BASEL HALL 2.0C1
René Schmitt and ART & LANGUAGE
THESE SCENES, 2016

September 6th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
Wolfsburg and Utopias

September 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE

August 30th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Bright blue and white ceramics fill the dining room with warmth and visual appeal

August 23rd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Starts today in Warsaw through 3 October

August 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
SUMMER IN PARIS

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July 30th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 26th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ARCO MADRID,
1st Art Fair in 2 years

July 23rd 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 19th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 16th 2021

UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.

July 12th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
JASON BUTLER "THE COLLAGES"
Pop-Up Exhibition, Jersey

July 5th 2021

STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK'S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen

June 28th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY UNREALISED BRICK PROJECTS
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen

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June 21st 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL

June 18th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE NIETZSCHE-HAUS SILS-MARIA
Schwabe AG Basel, 2004 Peter André Bloch & Jan Thorn-Prikker
on the occasion of Helmut Federle's "Edelweiss im Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria" exhibition in Nietzsche's Haus, Sept 2004 to July 2005

June 14th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
L'INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless

June 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
CONGRATULATIONS ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
DIRECTOR for "LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"​
WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AT MYKONOS INTL FILM FES

June 4th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE LAUNCH OF REAL TIME AND THE 3BS

May 31st 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
FLOWERS OF PERHAPS
LIOR GAL
ENGELS PLEIN, LEUVEN BELGIUM

May 24th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT DESIGNS NEW MUSEUM FOR LA MANUFACTURE DE GIEN

May 17th 2021

THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:
DRAW ART FAIR, LONDON, 2019, DESIGNER MATHILDE BRETILLOT AND ARCHITECT MISKA MILLER-LOVEGROVE

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May 10th 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
WETTERLING, STOCKHOLM

April 25th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF AMERICA AND EUROPE
Ritter Verlag, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, 1988

April 11th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LUKAS HOFFMANN, CNAP ACQUISITION AND TWO EXHIBITIONS

April 9th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021

April 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
"LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
selected by Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard Festivals

March 29th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
CNAP ACQUISITION,
"Describing Labor", 2012

March 26th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
A STUDIO VISIT WITH DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE

March 22nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXPEDITIONS

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March 2nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE IN NEW YORK

February 22nd 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3
The Sadness of Bad Thinking

February 15th 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3, ART, POETRY, AND THE PATHOS OF COMMUNICATION,
The Art of Impeachment

February 1st 2021

BEHIND THE SCENES:
WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3

January 12th 2021

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
POETRY IN SEDITIOUS TIMES

January 5th 2021

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SOUVENIRS FROM 2020!

December 31st 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER'S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society

December 18th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LIOR GALL, BRUSSELS, 2020

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December 11th 2020

HIGHLIGHT:
LOVE LETTERS
A new participative project by artist Koen Vanmechelen

December 4th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN AND THE BROOKLYN RAIL

November 27th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
NOVEMBER 2020, LINDA KARSHAN
The Covid Conversation, A New Film

November 6th 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
PARIS, NOV. 6, 2020
ABËTËI by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil

October 20th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT
Designs new offices for Parfums de Marly, Paris

October 12th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN STUDIO VISIT - LUKAS HOFFMANN

October 7th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN

September 24th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER, VIENNA
Friederike Mayröcker, Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - until 10 Oct
Schutzgeister/Guardian Spirits

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September 9th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast

September 1st 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, JERSEY

August 25th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
MANIFEST OF THE TRUE

August 18th 2020

A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
3 LOVE POEMS IN THE SUMMER

August 11th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
SUMMER NEWS

August 4th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROD MENGHAM,
Awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets

July 28th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS RECOMMENDS

July 21st 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Studio visit

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July 14th 2020

BEHIND THE SCENES:
STEFANO CIGADA,
"Frammenti" at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere

January 2nd 2020

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!

September 9th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY,
"Brick Sculptures"

September 2nd 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO PUGLIA
"Ceramic & Food Route",
Recent Summer 2019 Highlights

August 26th 2019

JSVC HIGHLIGHTS:
ART & LANGUAGE, LONDON

June 17th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DRAW ART FAIR LONDON

April 22nd 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, EXHIBITION AT GALERIE MICHAEL JANSSEN, Berlin

March 4th 2019

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DR. SUSANNE A. KUDIELKA,
Private art collecting is a passion

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July 25th 2018

BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN
“It’s About Time”

July 4th 2018

BEHIND THE SCENES:
DAYDREAMING WITH STANLEY KUBRICK,
Exhibition at Somerset House, London

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Mischa Kuball, “lost artefacts, lost presence”, Exhibition view KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Arne-Jacobsen-Foyer, Hannover, 2021

NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL

June 21st 2021

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 those early years in John Gibson Gallery on Broadway at Prince Street. I learned from a seasoned dealer that just being in the Giardini and hanging around with the artist you were representing was the easiest way in the world to meet and talk to people. It was just like that. Nothing special. Art was the pretext that brought everyone to this small collection of pavilions in Venice.

Mischa Kuball, “lost artefacts, lost presence”, 2021

Twenty-three years later (2009) it was a very different art world; I left New York in 1995, spent a decade at LISSON and was in Paris as partner at ROPAC. I remember feeling a bit footloose and fancy free that year. In 2007 it had been very tense, openings of several artists meant great focus because there were dinners and receptions for Richard Deacon and the Kabakovs. In 2009 there was nothing particular to be responsible for, so I was enjoying the freedom and walking around with then Director of the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Ulrich Krempel, with whom I was collaborating on the traveling exhibition of Richard Deacon, and later in 2012 with the traveling exhibition “Return to Painting”, by Kabakov. 

It was a moment to catch ones breath, I went back through the archives and discovered that Daniel Birnbaum was curator that year. Of the artists he showed in the Arsenale I remembered a remarkable tribute to Chen Zhen who had died prematurely in 2000. It is funny what the mind remembers: an elaborate seemingly childlike installation of Hans-Peter Feldmann, the large presentation of Gutai. Joan Jonas having her moment of recognition, Aleksandra Mir, Gordon Matta-Clark. Stopping to get a bottle of water, just outside the Italian Pavilion we stopped to speak with Mischa Kuball. 

Mischa Kuball, “lost artefacts, lost presence”, 2021

PART II

I remember at that moment saying something about having met him in New York in the 80’s; he mentioned coming to John Gibson. That was the start of walking and talking. His work was well-known in the realm of public art; he had a large reputation and had made work I followed from a distance. This kind of artist was out of my radar in those years, because in large galleries one was rather blinkered. Eyes and brain tethered to the group of artists represented by the gallery. Loyalty was everything as was deep focus. So I missed a lot in those decades, and I am only now waking up to how wide the art world was outside of my direct line of vision.

Portrait of Mischa Kuball

That early summer in Venice I remember feeling intrigued by things I didn’t think at all resembled the artists I knew. There was beginning to be a feeling that everything was speeding fast forward. This was just a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Damien Hirst sale at Sotheby’s. Certain things were in the air. It felt as if something was shifting. Mischa Kuball was interesting to think about in this context for me because his work was outside the box. It didn’t fit somehow neatly because his interests were in the public domain, art as a social construct, and his research and text writing attest to his dialectical position. 

Something about this settled in the back of my mind, and in the period since starting JSVCprojects it has been easier to walk through doors into the parts of art that don’t fit into the white cube. Ironically even when they do sometimes the works can be both dialectical and still objects of importance on a wall in a gallery. Not everything needs to be enacted in a public thoroughfare, or using public buildings and streets. But I have to say, looking at Mischa Kuball’s works over the years, I can safely say, hand over my heart, this kind of work is damn exciting. Fearless to go into the streets and ask the public to come over and walk from here to there in a certain way, or propose with a billboard or text above a train station that they think about something new as a proposal. His ability to make suggestions and then let people get on board energizes and animates the field.

Emil Nolde – A critical approach by Mischa Kuball,
Draiflessen Collection gGmbH, Mettingen, 2021

PART III

Imagine how pleased I am too now, after many more years visiting Venice, to be working with this great artist in the peak of his career. He has a significant body of work under his belt, just several weeks ago, there were two important projects at the same time in Hanover and Wolfsburg.

Just a quick note, in the sequence of photographs included here, we chose as well a catalogue for an important exhibition that closed last winter, but I thought it important to present it in this context, Emile Nolde, A Critical Approach, has already garnered quite a bit of discussion since its presentation at the Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen. We will return to the topic of this brilliant research driven investigation of the new revised historically accurate position of Nolde in the art world during his lifetime and see how this has/had influenced or not his works and their position and influence – at a later date.

Emil Nolde – A critical approach by Mischa Kuball,
Draiflessen Collection gGmbH, Mettingen, 2021

Today I wanted to begin by showing you images of Kuball’s recent video installation “lost artefacts, lost presence” that was for a short moment in the Arne Jacobsen Foyer, Hanover. It had a pop-up lifespan between May and June of this year while it revealed a river flowing through space just below the ceiling. Priceless cultural assets appeared to fall before your eyes into a never-ending stream of transience. 

This unusual space between the Grosser Garten on one side and a busy road with a tram on the other, between the Baroque Galerie and the rebuilt palace, this Arne Jacobsen Foyer was an ideal space for Kuball, whose conceptual work investigates architectural spaces and their social and political contexts. Here he used a historically charged passage whose significance he deconstructed in this video work, “lost artefacts, lost presence”. Aside from the function of the foyer as an interlude between history and the present, between original and copy, the artist raised the question of provenance of these passing objects. Are they being brought back to their original homes, or are they lost to all cultures forever. What is our position on the edge of this debate or in its center. 

Emil Nolde – A critical approach by Mischa Kuball,
Draiflessen Collection gGmbH, Mettingen, 2021

PART IV

This summer there is a large and important exhibition in Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ReferenzRäume which you can see until September. I will visit in mid July in case anyone wants to join me. Here curator Holger Broeker has given the artist wide latitude to offer large scale installations that allude to the media-technological development of our society from Plato’s deluded cave dweller to the cognizant space traveller.

Mischa Kuball, ReferenzRäume,
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2021

At the same time the work juxtaposes classical metaphors of light and its concept of enlightenment with the experience of social/political spaces. Where public and private space is interconnected utterly. I am smiling because the exhibition presents a series of works under the collective title “public preposition”, developed since 2009 (the year we met in Venice). This is Kuball’s ongoing investigation of public space, that questions our perceptions of seemingly familiar environments and creates moments of irritation.

I don’t want to go into this right now, would rather see the exhibition first hand and report back; but want to entice you to make an effort to come in July with me to experience it. Curator Holger Broeker writes, “The ongoing character of “public preposition”as an open project series enables the possibility of developing new works or publications from the documentation of projects.”

Mischa Kuball, ReferenzRäume
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2021

Order this spectacular book. Edited by Andreas Beitin, Holger Broeker and Fritz Emslander published as an artist’s book by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. The publication with its extensive pictorial section designed by the artist, is the first comprehensive compendium on Kuball’s work since 2007. Texts by Lilian Haberer, Daniel Horn, Christina Irrgang and Marcus Steinweg offer an in-depth examination of central themes in the artist’s work. German/English 360 pages, 500 illustrations.

The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with the Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen.

Mischa Kuball, ReferenzRäume,
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2021

Photo captions:

1-3 Mischa Kuball 2021, “lost artefacts, lost presence”, Exhibition view KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Arne-Jacobsen-Foyer, Hannover, 2021
Room / Video installation Projection on the ceiling 46 x 2,5 m

Photo: © Helge Krückenberg / KunstFestSpiele 2021 © Archiv Mischa Kuball, Düsseldorf / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021