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Welcome to Kunst Speak with Brask. In this podcast, we explore the world of art through the eyes of passionate art enthusiasts based in Los Angeles and New York. Together with art collector, publisher, and curator Jens-Peter Brask, we uncover inspiring perspectives, captivating stories, and memorable anecdotes from the art world. Our mission is to spark curiosity and encourage more people to connect with and appreciate art in all its forms. Join us as we embark on this creative journey together.
In this episode, we visit Jeffrey Deitch in his beautiful home in Los Angeles. Jeffrey is an art dealer and curator, best known for his influential gallery, Deitch Projects.
Jeffrey has an extraordinary art collection, with several works currently on loan to museums, but every piece in the collection comes with its own unique story. While the collection includes many masterpieces, it also features works by younger and less established artists. In this episode, we take a closer look at a number of these works - and, just as importantly, the incredible anecdotes connected to them.
Among other things, we’ll explore a piece by Julian Schnabel, a portrait of Jeffrey himself. We’ll also talk about the artist Sickid and how Jeffrey first discovered his work. Driving along the 101 freeway near the Echo Park area, Jeffrey noticed a striking figurative graffiti billboard takeover unlike anything he had seen before. At the bottom, it was signed “ Sickid.” Intrigued, he started asking around, hoping to meet the artist. Later, during a visit to Ozzy Juarez, he unexpectedly met Sickid in person and immediately said, “We’re going to do an exhibition.” A few months later, they opened a show together, which became an instant sensation, with lines stretching around the block. They are now planning another exhibition in New York City next year.
That - and much more - in this episode.
You can find Kunst Speak with Brask on Spotify and everywhere else you normally listen to podcasts. If you enjoy the series, feel free to give us a few stars! Tune in.
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Welcome to Kunst Speak with Brask. In this podcast, we explore the world of art through the eyes of passionate art enthusiasts based in Los Angeles and New York. Together with art collector, publisher, and curator Jens-Peter Brask, we uncover inspiring perspectives, captivating stories, and memorable anecdotes from the art world. Our mission is to spark curiosity and encourage more people to connect with and appreciate art in all its forms. Join us as we embark on this creative journey together.
In this episode, we visit gallerist Davida Nemeroff at Night Gallery in Los Angeles - one of the city’s most influential platforms for emerging contemporary artists.Founded in 2010 by Davida Nemeroff, Night Gallery began in a modest strip mall storefront in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood, where exhibition openings famously took place late at night between 10pm and 2am. What started as an experimental, artist-driven space quickly became an important part of Los Angeles’ growing contemporary art scene.
In 2013, the gallery moved to its current location near LA’s Downtown Arts District and has since expanded into a 14,000 square foot space, allowing the gallery to host up to three exhibitions simultaneously. Today, Night Gallery presents around 21 exhibitions annually.In this episode, we talk about the unique character of the Los Angeles art scene - a city filled with countless galleries, many of which remain largely undiscovered by the wider public. From internationally recognized spaces to intimate galleries operating out of private homes, Los Angeles continues to be one of the most vibrant and dynamic art cities in the world.We also discuss the challenges and pressures of working with emerging artists, and how the gallery is now increasingly focused on supporting and revisiting the artists who helped define Night Gallery in its early years.
Along the way, we dive into the evolution of the gallery, the changing landscape of contemporary art in Los Angeles, and what it takes to build and sustain an artist-led gallery over time.And much, much more.
You can find Kunst Speak with Brask on Spotify and everywhere else you normally listen to podcasts. If you enjoy the series, feel free to give us a few stars! Tune in.
@curatedbyjenspeterbrask
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Welcome to Kunst Speak with Brask. In this podcast, we explore the world of art through the eyes of passionate art enthusiasts based in Los Angeles and New York. Together with art collector, publisher, and curator Jens-Peter Brask, we uncover inspiring perspectives, captivating stories, and memorable anecdotes from the art world. Our mission is to spark curiosity and encourage more people to connect with and appreciate art in all its forms. Join us as we embark on this creative journey together.
In this episode, we visit artist Andrew Schoultz at his studio in Los Angeles. Andrew comes from a grabiti background and started painting grabiti in the 1980s. He attended art school
in San Francisco, but grabiti was always what attracted him the most. Over time, he became increasingly engaged with the social and political climate in San Francisco. While he always loved the act of writing a name, he eventually wanted what he painted in the streets to carry more meaning than simply putting up his own tag. He began questioning the narcissistic aspect of grabiti and instead wanted to create work that addressed social issues and served a larger purpose.
In this conversation, we explore his love for both grabiti and skateboarding, and the strong parallels between the two.
We also talk about the importance of finding balance in life - not letting art consume everything. Life is bigger than just making your own work, and having balance ultimately makes you a better artist.We also talk about his passion for painting murals and being out in the streets. For Andrew, one of the most meaningful parts of creating a mural is connecting with the people around it. It’s about becoming part of the community that will ultimately live with the piece long after it’s finished.
You can find Kunst Speak with Brask on Spotify and everywhere else you normally listen to podcasts. If you enjoy the series, feel free to give us a few stars! Tune in.
@curatedbyjenspeterbrask
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Welcome to Kunst Speak with Brask. In this podcast, we explore the world of art through the eyes of passionate art enthusiasts based in Los Angeles and New York. Together with art collector, publisher, and curator Jens-Peter Brask, we uncover inspiring perspectives, captivating stories, and memorable anecdotes from the art world. Our mission is to spark curiosity and encourage more people to connect with and appreciate art in all its forms. Join us as we embark on this creative journey together.
In this episode, we visit artist Mira Dancy at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, where she is currently presenting a new body of work.
The exhibition is rooted in the 2025 fires in the Palisades area, during which all the houses surrounding her home and studio burned down. Miraculously, her own house survived, and she felt a certain responsibility to bear witness to the devastation simply because she was still there to observe it.
Out of this experience, a series of new works emerged. The paintings depict places Mira had a connection to both before and after the fire - places her almost magical dog led her to during their daily walks through the area. The dog would often stop at particularly beautiful spots, and once Mira began noticing this, she started bringing a sketchbook along to capture the scenes.
Those sketches eventually evolved into the works now on display, focusing on the beauty that still existed amid the devastation. For Mira, painting these works became a kind of love letter to Altadena.
You can find Kunst Speak with Brask on Spotify and everywhere else you normally listen to podcasts. If you enjoy the series, feel free to give us a few stars! Tune in.
@curatedbyjenspeterbrask
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Welcome to Kunst Speak with Brask. In this podcast, we explore the world of art through the eyes of passionate art enthusiasts based in Los Angeles and New York. Together with art collector, publisher, and curator Jens-Peter Brask, we uncover inspiring perspectives, captivating stories, and memorable anecdotes from the art world. Our mission is to spark curiosity and encourage more people to connect with and appreciate art in all its forms. Join us as we embark on this creative journey together.
In this episode we visit Darren “Dabs” Mate and Emmelene “Myla” Mate - the artist duo behind DABSMYLA.Partners both in life and in art, the two have been together for more than 20 years. They first met while attending art school in Melbourne, Australia, and remarkably, they have not spent a single day apart since the day they met. Over the past two decades, they have built not only a life together, but also an internationally recognized artistic universe defined by collaboration, creativity, and a shared visual language.
DABSMYLA are widely known for their large-scale pop art-inspired murals, vibrant illustrations, and immersive installations filled with playful characters, bold colors, and references to animation, comics, and street culture. Their work balances technical precision with a strong sense of storytelling and imagination, creating worlds that feel both nostalgic and entirely their own. In addition to their personal practice, they have collaborated with a wide range of brands, galleries, museums, and creative partners across the globe.
In this episode, we talk about their unique creative partnership and how they have managed to work side by side every single day for two decades. They share insights on their artistic process, from the earliest sketches and ideas to the technical execution of their large-scale works. We also discuss collaboration, inspiration, life as a creative couple, and the challenges and rewards of building a career together as artists.
The conversation offers a rare glimpse into the dynamic behind DABSMYLA’s colorful universe - and into the relationship that continues to shape and drive their work forward.
You can find Kunst Speak with Brask Brask on Spotify and everywhere else you normally listen to podcasts. If you enjoy the series, feel free to give us a few stars! Tune in.
@curatedbyjenspeterbrask
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Welcome to Kunst Speak With Brask. In this podcast, we explore the world of art through the eyes of passionate art enthusiasts based in Los Angeles and New York. Together with art collector, publisher, and curator Jens-Peter Brask, we uncover inspiring perspectives, captivating stories, and memorable anecdotes from the art world. Our mission is to spark curiosity and encourage more people to connect with and appreciate art in all its forms. Join us as we embark on this creative journey together.
In the first episode of the podcast, we visit Wes Lang in his gigantic studio in downtown Los Angeles, Boyle Heights. Wes is an American visual artist whose works explore themes such as mortality and the human condition through a personal repertoire of motifs drawn from pop culture, Americana, and imagery of skulls and skeletons. His studio functions not only as Wes’ workplace, but also as a kind of museum dedicated to his own works. At a young age, Wes received an important piece of advice from the artist Donald Baechler: to keep as many of his own works as possible. He took that advice to heart, and whenever his works appear at auction, he often buys them back himself. His earlier works also serve as a source of inspiration for his new creations.
In addition to being a recognized international artist, Wes is also an enthusiastic collector. His collection includes works by artists such as Danny Fox, Mike Kelley, Günther Förg, Willem de Kooning, Eddie Martinez, and Damien Hirst, who has also been his mentor and taught Wes an incredible amount.
Listen to this inspiring conversation about an artist whose earliest memory is wanting to make art - and who has been willing to put art above everything else, despite whatever it may cost.
You can find Kunst Speak With Brask on Spotify and everywhere else you normally listen to podcasts. If you enjoy the series, feel free to give us a few stars! Tune in.
@curatedbyjenspeterbrask
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