The exhibition will include works by artists from 32 countries, namely Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Gilbert and George, Mona Hatoum, Wolfgang Tillmans and Christian Boltanski
Politics hijacks the Diversity United exhibition
The exhibition Diversity United a collaboration between Germany, France and Russia was to travel around Europe. But an intervention from Moscow threw it off track.
Political artworks at Diversity United exhibition
Sejla Kameric: Liberty
The ideal of Enlightenment is spelled out in bright white neon letters. They stand out against a bare wall and stone floor, reminiscent of the inner courtyard of a prison. The association feels strengthened by the spikes that are typically used as a bird deterrent on building ledges and commercial signage. Is it liberty s way of protecting itself or is the message turned into an empty phrase?
Jo Vickery has opened an art advisory specialising in art from Russia and the former Soviet Union Courtesy of Vickery Art
It has been a little over a year since the Russian art specialist Jo Vickery left Sotheby’s after more than 20 years at the auction house.
Since then, through the tumult of the pandemic, she has had a baby and launched her own London-based “one-stop” advisory, Vickery Art.
“It was a bit like a marriage coming to an end you feel like two parties are diverging and going down different lines,” Vickery says of leaving Sotheby’s at the end of last February, a time when numerous long-time specialists departed the auction house. “It s a huge change I ve been an auction animal for over 20 years but now I ve got more freedom to work with artists.” Alongside advising collectors, she also plans to work (on a retainer basis) with artists from Russia and former countries of the Soviet Union, a rich field that she feels is “underre