The Collectors' Edge

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  Ai Weiwei: Art, Activism and the Aesthetics of Dissent 02.07.2026 52min

  A 2,000-year-old Han Dynasty urn painted with the “Coca-Cola” logo. A photographic triptych of a priceless vase being dropped and shattered. One hundred million hand-made porcelain sunflower seeds filling Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. a surveillance camera in Carrara marble. Ai Weiwei’s work can look like provocation, but the deeper one looks, the more one sees a consistent, rigorous aesthetic surveying the various imperatives of power, history, memory, labour, the collective and what societies...
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  Teresa Solar Abboud: Emerging Bodies, Hybrid Forms 05.05.2026 35min

  Join Nordic Art Partners as we discuss the striking work of Teresa Solar Abboud, a Madrid-born contemporary sculptor whose work has the rare combination of a truly distinctive visual vocabulary and serious institutional momentum. If you’ve been trying to understand what makes an emerging or mid-career artist truly compelling for both museums and collectors alike, her practice is a sharp case study. We talk through the two bodies of sculptural work that define her practice right now: th...
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  Lee Bae: Infinite Shades of Black 01.04.2026 29min

  Black can feel simple until you stand in front of a surface that seems to shimmer and breathe. Join Nordic Art Partners to discover the signature achievements of Lee Bae, the South Korean contemporary artist who has turned the elemental material of charcoal into minimal abstract works of remarkable nuance, depth, texture, and light. Listen as we recount Lee Bae’s story; from humble beginnings in rural Cheongdo, via the legacy of Dansaekhwa to Paris, where a humble supermarket pack of charcoal...
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  Per Kirkeby: The Inevitability of Nature 08.01.2026 44min

  Join us, Nordic Art Partners, as we discuss the life and work of Danish artist, Per Kirkeby, a trained geologist whose obsessive focus on the timeless weight of geology ensured that he never quite left the field. We explore how he turned his profound understanding and appreciation for sedimentation and erosion into a unique visual language—layered canvases evoking the physical foundations of our natural world, brick structures that tell of mans' temporal relationship to the earth, and tactile...
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  Bridget Riley: Activating the Picture Plane 17.11.2025 51min

  Your eyes think her canvases are moving. That’s the spell Bridget Riley's works cast. Join Nordic Art Partners to understand her unique methodology—brick by brick, line by line; from black-and-white checks to colour-saturated diagonals that make the picture plane come to life with extraordinary movement. We share the formative moments that shaped her practice, from early training at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art to a revelatory encounter with Seurat’s Pointillism, convincing her tha...
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  Sheila Hicks: The Universal Language of Textiles 24.09.2025 38min

  The boundaries between fine art and craft have blurred dramatically over recent decades, and few artists embody this shift more powerfully than Sheila Hicks. At 90 years old, this Nebraska-born, Paris-based artist has spent over six decades transforming how we understand textile as an artistic medium. Stepping into Hicks' world means discovering an artist whose work combines modernist color theory (learned directly from Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s) with techniques gleaned from indigeno...
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  David Shrigley: A Graphic World of Humour, Poignancy and Relatable Accessibility 08.09.2025 32min

  Could it be possible to acquire unique works by one of the world's most recognisable and renowned artists for less than $10,000? David Shrigley might be the art world's best-kept open secret. Find out why with Nordic Art Partners. This episode takes you deep into the whimsical world and highly developed market of one of Britain's most beloved contemporary artists, whose childlike drawings paired with deadpan humor have earned him global acclaim while remaining refreshingly affordable. Host J...
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  Josef Albers: The Phenomenology of Colour 25.06.2025 56min

  Join us to learn how Josef Albers' revolutionary approach to colour theory fundamentally changed how we understand visual perception in art. Through relentless experimentation and disciplined investigation, he transformed simple geometric forms into profound studies of how chromatic relationships interact, influence, and transform one another when colours are placed in proximity to other colours. Born in Prussia in 1888, Albers' remarkable journey took him from the revolutionary Bauhaus in G...
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  Lynda Benglis: Painting in Three Dimensions 08.04.2025 43min

  In the late 1960s and early 70s, Lynda Benglis dissolved the boundaries between painting and sculpture through fearless experimentation, creating revolutionary works that sought to capture and freeze her gestures. The American artist, born in 1941 in Louisiana but Greek by heritage, developed her distinctive visual language after moving to New York in the 1960s, where she quickly integrated into, and made her own name in, one of the most dynamic and diverse creative decades of the C20th. She...
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  Joan Snyder: A Female Sensibility 06.02.2025 45min

  Join us, Nordic Art Partners, as we discuss the compelling work and career of American painter Joan Snyder. Discover key biographical details of her formative years, the limited role of art in her upbringing and how her determined approach to evolving her own formal visual language shaped her artistic development. We discuss a wide array of her formative influences, ranging from Van Gogh, through German Expressionism to Jackson Pollock; antecedents that she recognises as helping her to develo...
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  Miriam Cahn: Reclaiming the Body 30.12.2024 34min

  In this episode of The Collectors’ Edge join us, Nordic Art Partners, for a discussion about the work and career of Miriam Cahn, the audacious Swiss painter whose figurative works are amongst the rawest and most expressive of the entire contemporary art milieu. From her formative years in Basel to her education at the Schule for Gestaltung, Cahn has always been an agent of activism and protest, where her bold and unremitting stance led her to reject traditional painting for decades in protest...
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  Ron Gorchov: Shaping Abstraction 16.12.2024 43min

  In this episode from Nordic Art Partners, discover the work and career of Ron Gorchov, an enigmatic figure who pioneered major innovations in painterly abstraction in the late 1960s. We recount his early biography, beginning in the 1950s; a classic rites of passage story of a bohemian artist in post-war New York, a city teeming with life and a magnet for artists who flocked in droves to the tenement apartments of downtown looking to make their mark on the most fertile time and place of the mi...
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  Imi Knoebel: Pared Back Purity 28.10.2024 42min

  From the inception of his art career in 1968, Knoebel's work has been consistently driven by a quest to pare painting (and art generally) back to its absolute essentials. From an interest in readily available, humble materials to the manner in which colours can relate to other colours to create works of meditative intensity, his is an art that has always tried to distil and simplify, rather than become more complex. Our art expert, Nicholas Robinson, and your host Jeppe Curth guide us ...
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  Martha Jungwirth: Dense Colour and Open Space 28.08.2024 39min

  In this episode of The Collectors’ Edge we discuss the work and career of Austrian painter Martha Jungwirth. Join us in this insightful episode to learn how her dynamic and textured paintings have earned her widespread acclaim, relatively late in life. Hosted, as always, by Nordic Art Partners' Jeppe Curth and Nicholas Robinson, we take you on a journey through Jungwirth’s evolution—from her early days in Vienna at the Academy of Applied Arts, the prestigious prize wins as a student that sign...
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  Friedrich Kunath: Pop Romanticism and the Everyday Sublime 22.08.2024 37min

  In the lastest episode of The Collectors’ Edge from Nordic Art Partners we discuss the life, work and career of Friedrich Kunath, a celebrated German artist now based in Los Angeles. From his early experiences in pre-unification, Communist East Germany to the pinnacle of today’s art world, we discuss what makes Kunath’s work distinctive and unique and just why it has an incredible breadth of appeal to a wide range of tastes and geographic markets. A departure from the category of artist...
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  Katherine Bradford: Talent, Perseverance and Belated Recognition 03.07.2024 35min

  Not all stars of the art world are overnight sensations. Join us on The Collector's Edge as we explore the extraordinary perseverance and journey of Katherine Bradford, an artist who embraced her true vocation somewhat later in life than many, but has gone on to achieve acclaim and recognition for her unique painterly vision. Learn about her formative years, her bold move to New York City in 1980, and the powerful themes of liberation and emancipation that define her work. From her early abst...
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  Pablo Picasso: Ceramics Elevated, from Lowly Craft to Expressive Masterpieces 10.06.2024 52min

  The greatest artist of the Twentieth century and one of the most iconic figures of all time....what if you could own a piece of Pablo Picasso's unique artistry without breaking the bank? That's exactly what we uncover as we embark on an exploration of Picasso's fascinating journey into ceramics. From his iconic Blue and Rose periods to his groundbreaking work in Cubism, we trace the evolution of his art, arriving at 1946, when a visit to a ceramics festival in the south of France ignited his ...
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  Lois Dodd: A Vocation of Quiet Observation 03.06.2024 37min

  Modesty, quietude and humility are rarely words associated with history's greatest painters. Join us as we take a look at the life and work of Lois Dodd who has dedicated more than 70 years to further honing of her practised eye. We unravel the remarkable journey and achievements of Dodd, a pioneering woman artist who originated from the downtown New York scene of the 1950s, when bohemian life there was vibrant and new and whose work continues to captivate audiences at the age of 96. From he...
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  Heinz Mack: An Unsung Icon of Modernism 31.05.2024 33min

  Is Heinz Mack the most undervalued artist of the 20th century? Join Nordic Art Partners Jeppe Curth and art expert Nicholas Robinson on The Collector's Edge as we explore this provocative question and the genius of Mack, most known as the founder of the ZERO movement in the late 1950s and a pioneering figure in the experiential properties of light and colour in abstraction . We take you through Mack's remarkable journey from his early days at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, to co-foun...
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  Salvo: Captivating Serenity and Market Momentum 31.05.2024 36min

  Can the quiet beauty of Italian medieval architecture and lush Piedmont landscapes captivate modern art enthusiasts? In this episode, we delve into the intriguing work of Salvo, an influential Italian artist most renowned for the sumptuous colours and serene poise of his landscape paintings. We discuss his career and current market position and try to unpick the reasons for his growing reputation, almost a decade after his passing. Born Salvatore Mangione in 1947 in Sicily, Salvo’s journey fr...