Interviews
Here you find all our exclusive interviews with founders or artistic directors of art foundations.
Underneath the vidéos, you’ll find the « written interviews » and podcasts.
Video’s
Ms. Adeline von Fürstenberg on “Art for The World”
ART for The World is a non-governmental organization founded to build a bridge between art and society, with contemporary art serving humanitarian purposes. Inspired by Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Everyone has the right to take part...
Westbund Art Talks: José Lebrero Stals, Artistic Director Museo Picasso Málaga
José Lebrero Stals, Artistic Director of the Museo Picasso Málaga The Museo Picasso Málaga has an upcoming exhibition that will hopefully open in January 2021 with Miquel Barceló “Metamorphosis’ so I would like to ask you if there is a dialogue in the similar vein...
Westbund Art Talks: Robyn Cedras-Tobin, Director Rupert Museum
Robyn Cendras-Tobin, Director of the Rupert Museum Within the world of private art foundations, not many people get the change to experience the transition from one generation to the next. How was it for you moving from the original founders, Dr Anton and Mrs Huberte...
Westbund Art Talks: Bice Curiger, Director Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles
Bice Curiger, Director Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles How is Vincent van Gogh’s legacy upheld within your exhibitions programs? Bice Curiger; "I know some people think, “how boring it must be to run a museum dedicated to a single artist. And even more so, one...
Fondation Bernar Venet: in dialogue with its founder, Bernar Venet
https://youtu.be/TxBzA4w6sVw In this dialogue with Bernar Venet, we talk about his decisive move in 1966 from the South of France to New York, and his fifty years of experience as an artist. We also discuss his worldwide artistic achievement, among which is the...
The Estorick Foundation: an interview with Dr Roberta Cremoncini, Director
In exploring the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, we had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Roberta Cremoncini, Director of the Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation. She spoke to us about Eric and Salome Estorick-Dessau’s lives and their dedication to art. In...
Aperture Foundation: an interview with Director, Chris Boot
Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as “common ground for the advancement of photography,” Aperture today is a multi-platform publisher and center for the photo community. In this interview, we talk with the Director of Aperture Foundation, Chris Boot, about...
Fondation Herman Krikhaar: dialogue François Bard & Varozza
This film presents dialogue extracts between the two artists François Bard and Varozza from the exhibition “Birds of a Feather Flock Together” at the Krikhaar Foundation. Although they are in sync with one another, each...
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, an interview with João Carvalho Dias
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was created in 1956 by the last will and testament of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, a philanthropist of Armenian origin who lived in Lisbon between 1942 until the year of his death in 1955. The Foundation has a museum, which houses the...
Written interviews
Ms. Adeline von Fürstenberg on “Art for The World”
ART for The World is a non-governmental organization founded to build a bridge between art and society, with contemporary art serving humanitarian purposes. Inspired by Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “Everyone has the right to take part...
Westbund Art Talks: José Lebrero Stals, Artistic Director Museo Picasso Málaga
José Lebrero Stals, Artistic Director of the Museo Picasso Málaga The Museo Picasso Málaga has an upcoming exhibition that will hopefully open in January 2021 with Miquel Barceló “Metamorphosis’ so I would like to ask you if there is a dialogue in the similar vein...
Westbund Art Talks: Robyn Cedras-Tobin, Director Rupert Museum
Robyn Cendras-Tobin, Director of the Rupert Museum Within the world of private art foundations, not many people get the change to experience the transition from one generation to the next. How was it for you moving from the original founders, Dr Anton and Mrs Huberte...
Westbund Art Talks: Bice Curiger, Director Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles
Bice Curiger, Director Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles How is Vincent van Gogh’s legacy upheld within your exhibitions programs? Bice Curiger; "I know some people think, “how boring it must be to run a museum dedicated to a single artist. And even more so, one...
Aperture Foundation NY: a written interview with Chris Boot, its Director
Aperture Foundation originated from a conference about the future of photography in Aspen in 1951, at which a group of the most important photographers, writers and intellectuals were assembled. Minor White, Ansel Adams, Bob Morgan, Beaumont Newhall and Dorothea Lange...
Pyke Koch: A sphinx in the art of the 20th Century
An interview with Andreas Koch, co-founder of the Pyke Koch Foundation Pyke Koch before “De Oogst” (The Harvest), 1953 This autumn the Centraal Museum is holding a large exhibition dedicated to the work of Pyke Koch, an important painter of the Magic (Neo) Realism....
Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation: an interview with Mr. Boustany
FOUNDER-DIRECTOR OF THE FRANCIS BACON MB ART FOUNDATION The trigger that led to the creation of your Foundation seems remarkable to us; it was the encounter with a work by Bacon and the emotion that followed that put you on this long but passionate path of creating a...