The Collectors' Edge

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Ai Weiwei: Art, Activism and the Aesthetics of Dissent

2026-07-0252:53

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...

Teresa Solar Abboud: Emerging Bodies, Hybrid Forms

2026-05-0535:21

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...

Lee Bae: Infinite Shades of Black

2026-04-0129:35

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...

Per Kirkeby: The Inevitability of Nature

2026-01-0844:00

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...

Bridget Riley: Activating the Picture Plane

2025-11-1751:41

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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