Talks on the topic Art is Our Business will be held at this year’s October Salon, on Sunday, September 16, from 10 to 14.00hrs, in the hall of the Cultural Center of Belgrade (Kolarčeva 6).
Talks will bring together artists, curators, art managers, art galleries and art critics from Serbia and the world. Through short presentations and conversations with the audience, they will offer their views of contemporary world trends in the art market by examining various aspects such as contextualization, eventization, monetization, festivalization, communication and art promotion.
The Art is our Business panel will include Gunnar Kvaran, one of this year’s curators of the October Salon and curator of contemporary art museum in Oslo, Fabris Iber, France, artist, Srđan Šaper, owner of the Gallery Novembar in Belgrade, Nina Lalić, brand strategist and collector of modern Serbian art, San Francisco, Tom Sachs, USA, world-famous artist, and Aleksandra Lazar, director and curator of the Drina Gallery in Belgrade. Moderator of the panel will be Milena Trobozic Garfield.
In the second part of the program critic, one of Burning Man’s members and author of Burning Man, Art on Fire book, Jennifer Raiser from San Francisco, will speak about the genesis of the Burning Man phenomenon. When it was moved in the 1990s from the San Francisco beach to the desert of Nevada, this popular art event has grown into a globally recognizable art movement that attracts hundreds of thousands of people as well as some of the most influential representatives of the new tech elite from the Silicon Valley.
Program of the event:
10:00 Garfield introduction
10:15 Gunnar B. Kvaran: The importance and challenges of curation in times of globalization
10:30 Fabris Hyber: Is it possible to be artist and entrepreneur
10:45 Srdjan Saper: Combining interests in business & art
11:00 Nina Lalic: The art of selling art
11:15 Aleksandra Lazar: Creative industries as the important part of economy
11:30 Tom Sacks: Audience is present the importance of interactivity
11:35 Panel discussion and Q&A
12:00 Coffee Break
12:45 Jennifer Raiser: Burning Man Art: Movement or Moment? (approximately 45 minutes)
