Blog entries by Despina Stokou
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by Despina Stokou, 28 Jul 2022Why dont we want our rich people to fail? Let's talk about it. I am summarizing (and commenting) this NYT article which you can have free access to here. Julia Stoschek’s great-grandfather, the German industrialist Max Brose, was a member of the Nazi Party. During World War II, his automotive company... -
by Despina Stokou, 14 Jul 2022It has now become painful to watch. Steyerl, who initially had tried to put the whole documenta pre- opening controversy in a historical context has now removed her work from the show. There is a whole world of memes here, of Hito looking disappointed but maybe the most important piece of news in the article comes... -
by Despina Stokou, 19 Apr 2022Anyone who is anyone will be in Venice this year, because it has been two years god dammit and we are all gonna die soon. But not everyone can speak Italian. We are here to help, capturing the Zeitgeist and having our Italian co workers translate it for you. And, yes take some rain boots with you. The place is sinking... -
by Despina Stokou, 19 Apr 2022Among cultural bans, Covid, and a very prominent national pavilion standing empty, the Venice Biennale is opening this week! Conceived by the first Italian (!) curator Cecilia Alemani who made sure, comme il faut, an overwhelming majority of the 213 artists exhibiting are female or gender non-conforming. “The... -
by Despina Stokou, 14 Apr 2022And here I thought we should be discussing a transition from the feudal, redundant snooze fest of state funding that procures the so-called National Pavillions every two years at the otherwise lovely Bienalle Jardini. But no, let's bring the cultural discourse back a few decades and discuss the role of culture in... -
by Despina Stokou, 15 Jul 2020I think this is an excellent moment to start over in the art scene: Educate collectors, gallerists, art lovers, even artists. Any reform in the art world and one is now sorely needed, should start in the ways we talk and write about Art. Starting from what seems like the gotcha question: Is Art essential to society?... -
by Despina Stokou, 12 Sep 2019Art Berlin opens today with an extensive parallel program in collaborations that reach from the local iniative Berlin Art Prize to Liste ART FAIR BASEL. The program concentrates on the usual three options, talks, screenings and an extensive performance program which we will be presenting in detail here. On... -
by Despina Stokou, 21 Aug 2019The sixth edition of the Berlin Art Prize, the city’s independent art award, takes place in September 2019. This year, the 9 nominees will be exhibited in 9 project spaces of the city for 9 solo shows. The non-profit seeks to collaborate with some of the many places in the city where independent art occurs. With... -
by Despina Stokou, 7 Jul 2019Kleine Humboldt Galerie is turning TEN!!! and is celebrating by curating the exhibition festival unselect from 12 July through July 21, 2019 Vernissage is on Friday, July 12th at 6:30 pm at Lichthof Ost, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin Through its ten exhibitions, during nine days and one night, the festival... -
by Despina Stokou, 29 Oct 2018The day before my recent opening in New York titled "White Lies", I received an email from a collector I know and like in Los Angeles reacting to the press release. I don't wish to publicize a private conversation, but I do think it is interesting to expand on the public debate it touches upon. In her... -
by Despina Stokou, 14 Aug 2015I have been waiting my whole life for someone to say something, or me to think of something, which will make everything else after that crystal clear. The one thruth. The secret. It has not happened yet. These are the advices, that have nevertheless stayed with me over the years. They might not be Oscar speech... -
by Despina Stokou, 12 Aug 2015I did not need to wait until the moment my UBER driver informed me I have a "bad passenger score," to realize everything in this contemporary version of reality is about RATINGS and where these place us in comparison to others. Anybody who has lived in New York knows that life is not about becoming a better... -
by Despina Stokou, 28 May 2015I wanted to post my response to this article as well. For what is worth. https://www.artnews.com/toc/women-in-the-art-world/ Art does not have gender. You could maybe, if so inclined, try to differentiate between nuances of female and male energy, but really… why should you. The discussion we are having... -
by Despina Stokou, 13 Feb 2015This artist from Greece people tell me copies my stuff finally caught up with me in an afterparty of Art LA. “YOU HAVE TO BEEEEE BETTER… “ he informs me drunkenly. He pauses and leans even closer - Is he trying to kiss me or throw up on me??- “AT PAINTING” he stammers conclusively.... -
by Despina Stokou, 11 Dec 2014It is a special day every year, the day I hear Rudolph the red nose reindeer for the first time. I was always impressed by this Christmas song, which is NOT about how six mammals fly around the world carrying a carriage full of presents and quite a heavy old man in winter gear, but about the fact that one of them (... -
by Despina Stokou, 9 Dec 2014“You have to be careful!!! “ she grabs my hand and hisses in my ear “he is a very dangerous guy…” I have to look away and hide a laugh at this, she seems so earnest in warning me, woman to woman, how Stefan Simchowitz can take off my art panties with just a glance, make me loose my... -
by Despina Stokou, 23 Apr 2014So we are through Armory, Frieze NY and Basel Hong Kong in one week, and at least one Biennal, more mature, more self assured and some of us even more prosperous. This is the second part of the how to fuck things up, a series of realistic, idealistic, and maybe a bit illegal schemes to subvert and slowly overturn... -
by Despina Stokou, 20 Mar 2014Despina, 35, in Wedding, working on Eigen &Art Lab show 03.04 Bpigs was chosen as a Berlin Social Media Ambassador for the Future Generation Art Prize! In the next few weeks we are going to be streaming live from Berlin, promoting our beautiful city, its projects spaces and young and emerging artists -...
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