The Wise Fool Art Podcast

The Wise Fool Art Podcast


Gallery Director, Konstanty Szydłowski, Galeria Szydłowski (Warsaw, Poland)

October 13, 2019

While in Berlin we had a chance to discuss: the Polish Art Market, Academia, Middle class art collectors, The language of hashtags, Globalization vs localisation in the art market, Strategies of how a gallery can choose which artists to exhibit at art fairs, The return on investment of art fairs, the fact that it takes a gallery 3-4 times participating in an art fair to make ti profitable, the nature of collectors and their private museums, Soft power, Expectations, How galleries select artists to represent, the fact that artists should not send unsolicited portfolio to galleries, that galleries like to have artist recommended to them by trusted relations, Warsaw gallery weekend, Exclusivity, that there needs to be a trust between gallery and artists, Agreements between galleries on consistent prices between markets, Secrecy has a big value in the art market, why is the price of art negotiable?, the fact that artists should produce as much as possible, editioning your art, Tiered pricing of editions, that perfection can be boring, the beauty of hand made imperfections, necessity of collaboration, the difference between a gallery and a museum, and that fewer and more prestigious exhibitions is better than quantity of lesser exhibitions.
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