KWADRAT Gallery
A discussion between Marek Claaßen, the founder and Managing Director of ArtFacts.Net from Artfacts.net and artist Elana Katz at The House for the End of the World opening, patronized by KWADRAT Gallery.
Saturday March 28th, 2020
Links:
The House for the End of the World page: http://www.kwadrat-berlin.com/exhibitions/onlinehouse-for-the-end-of-the-world-online
https://artfacts.net/
Elana Katz’s artist profile: http://www.kwadrat-berlin.com/artists/elana-katz
Speakers bios:
Marek Claassen serves as Director of ArtFacts.Net, the world’s leading knowledge base for artist, curators, collectors and historians, which he co-founded in 2001. By tracing the career of more than 500,000 artists and near to 1 million exhibitions, ArtFacts.Net offers a transparent view into the fast-changing contemporary art world. He is responsible for strategic expansion and oversees product development. With a background in Business Administration and many years of experience working with various galleries, universities and software companies, Marek has been actively producing database enhanced websites for the art world since 1995. He has won many prizes for his internet activities and in 1998 was nominated as one of Europe’s foremost multimedia entrepreneurs by the EU Commission. Mr Claassen developed 2004 the “Artist Ranking” tool which allows you to see and measure different artists productivity and success in the art world side by side.
Elana Katz is a conceptual artist working primarily in the medium of performance art. Katz’s work confronts cultural conventions, critically examines the complexity that lies within contradictions, and thus aims to create an experience of unlearning the assumed. She has exhibited/ performed at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (2011), Diehl CUBE Berlin (2013), P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (2013), Kunstwechsel, Aachen (2015), DNA Berlin (2015), ROCKELMANN& Berlin (2016,17,18), and is represented by KWADRAT Berlin. She studied in New York at the Parsons School of Design and earned a Meisterschülerin title from the Berlin University of the Arts (Class of Katharina Sieverding). www.elanakatz.eu
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