VIDEO-REGIME. Collectors in the Audiovisual Era
From 13 February to 11 May 2015,
LOOP Barcelona presents
VIDEO-REGIME. Collectors in the Audiovisual Era, a project that brings together the leading video art collectors in Spain.
Han Nefkens, founder of the
Han Nefkens Foundation and the
Han Nefkens H+F Collection, is one of the video art collectors who have loaned works from their collection to go on display at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, in Madrid. This exhibition of work by international artists highlights the emergence of a new group of collectors with a specific interest in video art and contemporary culture.
Under the umbrella of
LOOP Barcelona, artist, critic and independent curator Carles Guerra has put together work from collectors such as Alicia Aza, Joan Bonet, Roser Figueras & Josep Inglada (Cal Cego), Ella Fontanals-Cisneros (The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection), Josep Maria Lafuente, Estefanía Meana,
Han Nefkens (H+F Collection), Ángel & Clara Nieto, Enrique Ordóñez (Colección Ordóñez Falcón de Fotografía), Fernando Panizo & Dorothy Neary, Emilio Pi & Helena Fernandino, Carlos Rosón (Fundación RAC), Teresa Sapey, Sisita Soldevila (Colección Ámister Hotel), Jaime Sordo, Julio Sorigué & Josefina Blasco (Fundació Sorigué), Carlos Vallejo & Wendy Navarro (CV Colección), Juan Várez and Ernesto Ventós (Colección olorVisual).
The piece selected to represent the
Han Nefkens H+F Collection is
Blue and Red by
Zhou Tao (Guangzhou, China, 1976), winner of the first Han Nefkens-BACC (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre) contemporary art prize.
Alongside the works on display, the collectors talk about their experience of collecting video art in recorded interviews.
The featured artists, all from different collections, are: Allora & Calzadilla, Ignasi Aballí, Francis Alÿs, Erick Beltrán, Patricia Dauder, William Doherty, Mario García Torres, Douglas Gordon, Emily Jacir, Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Itziar Okariz, Javier Peñafiel, Allan Sekula, Fiona Tan,
Zhou Tao and
Eulàlia Valldosera. Eulàlia Valldosera, Keren Cytter and Willem De Rooij were the three artists who created a piece for the previous
ArtAids exhibition,
Perfect Lovers, which was on at the
Fundació Suñol in Barcelona until 24 January 2015.
As part of
LOOP 2015’s showcase on video art collecting—which can been seen in Barcelona from 28 May to 6 June 2015 during the 13th edition of
LOOP—one of the leading art galleries in Madrid, the
Museo Lázaro Galdiano, has designed this show to coincide with ARCO 2015.
Museo Lázaro Galdiano; Serrano, 122; 28026 Madrid
Opening hours: Wednesday to Monday, 10 am to 4.30 pm; Sunday, 10 am to 3 pm; Closed Tuesday