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On 17.01.2020, the first ART NIGHT by KULT ART took place! Here the introduction by the KULT ART team & the #ExpertArtTalk with art expert Dr. Ruth Polleit Riechert & artist Bernhard Adams. KULT ART is a young venture domiciled in the Swiss art metropolis, Basel. Founded within the largest Swiss art insurance company Helvetia. The three founding partners bring a solid background in finance, eCommerce, digital marketing and tech. Dr. Polleit Riechert: Contemporary Art Market E

Am 29. Juli 2018 kamen rund 30 Kunstinteressierte zum Artist’s Talk mit der Künstlerin Anna Nero und der Kunsthistorikerin Dr. Ruth Polleit Riechert in das Labor der Opelvillen in Rüsselsheim. In einem halbstündigen Gespräch konnten die Zuhörern die Künstlerin kennenlernen und mehr über ihre Laufbahn, Arbeitsweise und Motivation erfahren. Die Gäste befanden sich dafür inmitten ihrer aktuellen Ausstellung mit dem Titel "formula", für die die Künstlern sechs neue Leinwände und

The artist Christina Steffans was born in 1994 in Kleve, Germany. From 2013 until 2019, she studied painting with professors Stefan Kürten and Sabrina Fritsch at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from which she graduated in 2019. Her works were displayed in galleries and museums in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bonn, and New York, amongst them Kunsthaus Mettmann and Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. The artist currently lives and works in Canada. I would like to invite you to focus on one of her paintin

The work of Amparo Sard (*1976 in Son Servera, Mallorca) was shown in more than 30 individual exhibitions and is represented in the collections of MoMA and Guggenheim. In addition, Amparo Sard holds a professorship at the Art Academy Barcelona. Amparo Sard and Ruth Polleit Riechert met for a studio visit on Mallorca at the end of March of 2019. Amparo, the first work I have seen of you was an installation of perforated works of a very fragile material, which looked like piece

I met Carolin Israel the first time at the show of graduate students at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2016. She had only very few pictures displayed, however, I was immediately fascinated by her distinctive style. Discover her art, enjoy her pictures, and read my interview with her in which she explains all you need to know about her art. Carolin was born in Chemnitz, Germany, in 1990. She has completed her Master Degree in Art from Academy of Fine Art, Dresden in 2014. From 20

The artist Carolin Israel in an interview with Art Historian Ruth Polleit Riechert Since her residency stay in Bogota, Columbia, earlier this year (see previous post), Carolin Israel has incorporated a lot of new aspects into her work. Time to visit the artist in her studio. Carolin was born in Chemnitz, Germany, in 1990. She has completed her Master Degree in Art from Academy of Fine Art, Dresden in 2014. From 2015 to 2016, she studied with Professor Katharina Grosse and Pro

The artist Ryo Kinoshita in an interview with Art Historian Ruth Polleit Riechert Ryo Kinoshita was born 1985 in Nagasaki, Japan. From 2013 – 2018 he studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Tal R, Prof. Enrico David und Prof. Tomma Abts. In spring 2018, he graduated as master student of Tomma Abts from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Ryo Kinoshita lives and workes in Düsseldorf. Ryo Kinoshita, what prompted you to work artistically, to becoming an artist? I am simply addicte

An interview with Art Historian Ruth Polleit Riechert Michal Raz was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1984. Most of her life she lived in Tel Aviv. She studied with Jacob Mishori (Painting) and Dr. Dorit Kedar (Eastern Philosophy) and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) with high honours from Beit Berl College in Israel and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Slade School of Art, London. She was awarded several prizes and residencies. Her works have been shown in Israel, Europe and

Elisa Carutti on painting in an interview with Art Historian Ruth Polleit Riechert Elisa Carutti was born in Milan in 1991. She owns a BA Degree in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan (2014), and a MFA from Slade School of Fine Arts, UCL, London (2018). Her work has been exhibited in UK, Italy, France and Greece. She received several awards (e.g. ERASMUS Bursary at Ecole Nationale Superieure de Beaux Arts in Paris in 2013) and took part in residencies abro

The Artist Sophie Heinrich in a Conversation with Art Historian Ruth Polleit Riechert Sophie Heinrich was born in Cologne in 1991. In 2017, she has completed her studies of Fine Art as masterstudent of Elizabeth Peyton at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Before joining the Peyton class in 2015, she studied with Tal R from 2012 to 2014 and with Stefan Kürten and Enrico David from 2014 to 2015. Her works have already been exhibited in Düsseldorf, Cologne, Berlin and Amsterdam. In Febr

Ruth Polleit Riechert, MA, PhD, has been working in the world of art and the finance (Christie’s, Deutsche Bank, McKinsey & Company, Tang Art Advisory, etc.) for a long time. She has recently founded her own art consulting business RPR ART with a special focus on making the world of art and art investing accessible to newcomers. In August 2018 we met her and talked about the topic "art as an investment". Many people see art as an investment. What do you think about that? Art

Ruth Polleit Riechert, MA, PhD, has been working in the world of art and the finance (Christie’s, Deutsche Bank, McKinsey & Company, Tang Art Advisory, etc.) for a long time. She has recently founded her own art consulting business RPR ART with a special focus on making the world of art and art investing accessible to newcomers. In August 2018 we met her and talked about the topic "art as an investment". Many people see art as an investment. What do you think about that? Art

Ruth Polleit Riechert, MA, PhD, has been working in the world of art and the finance (Christie’s, Deutsche Bank, McKinsey & Company, Tang Art Advisory, etc.) for a long time. She has recently founded her own art consulting business RPR ART with a special focus on making the world of art and art investing accessible to newcomers. In August 2018 we met her and talked about the topic "art as an investment". Many people see art as an investment. What do you think about that? Art

Ende Juli besuchten 25 Mitglieder des Städelclubs, der Junge Freundeskreis vom Städel Museum und der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, den Frankfurter Künstler Richard Nikl in seinem Atelier in der Elbestrasse. Der in Prag geborene Städelschule-Absolvent und Meisterschüler von Tobias Rehberger erläuterte vor Ort, welche Themen ihn beschäftigen und wie er arbeitet. Dabei konnten die Besucher sowohl Werke sehen, die sich im Entstehungsprozess befinden als auch bereits im vergange

Bernhard Adams in Conversation with Art Historian Ruth Polleit Riechert What motivated you to work as an artist and how did the change from photography to painting come about? The insight that art is not just a pastime for me came to me in law school. During the day, I was impatiently sitting through criminal and state law lectures, and at night I rode around with my motorcycle in the Cologne area to photograph power plants. Fortunately, after one year, I realised that I had

The painter Anna Nero in a Conversation with Art Historian Ruth Polleit Riechert Anna Nero was born in Moscow in 1988. Her parents and her grandmother are artists as well. Anna studied Fine Arts under Anne Berning at Kunsthochschule Mainz (Art Academy Mainz) and under Ingo Meller at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig). In 2015, she graduated with honours from HGB in Leipzig and started a two-year Master Class Programme under internationa

The Artist Raphael Brunk in a Conversation with Art Historian Ruth Polleit Riechert Since Andreas Gursky has retired from teaching at the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie this year, Raphael Brunk is one of his last master students. With a unique technique, Raphael depicts virtual landscapes and architecture in high resolution photographs. In February 2017, Ruth met him for the first time, when he displayed two of his works at the Kunstakademie. Since then, she has followed his work

Carolin Israel Exhibits 11 Paintings at RPR ART Young artist Carolin Israel, a former student of Katharina Grosse, shows 11 of her latest paintings online at RPR ART until September 17, 2017. This is the first exhibition by the recently founded art advisory business that dedicates exhibition space to selected talented artists from Düsseldorf Kunstakademie. Carolin Israel was born in Chemnitz, Germany, in 1990. She has completed her Master Degree in Art at Academy of Fine Art,

Having been to New York recently and being able to see the most relevant works of pop art “in the flesh”, it is time to write an ART A-Z about it. What is the History of pop art? Pop art is an art movement that had its origins in Britain the 1950s and continued in the 1960s in America and Britain. It drew inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Its main period ended in the early 1970s. What is pop art about? The most important characteristic of pop art is

When and where did Expressionism start? The classic phase of the Expressionist movement lasted from approximately 1905 to 1920. The roots of Expressionism can be traced back to certain Post-Impressionist artists such as Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) and Edvard Munch (1863–1944). Munch, for example, began to express his inner world through his artworks around 1893 with “The Scream” (previously mentioned in my last post on “Modern Art”). Expressionism is often associated with mo