EVENTS IN 2019
December
CADAF, Miami, 4-8 December
Kate Vass Galerie was excited to bring the best work by the most respected generative artists from around the globe to CADAF 2019 for Art Basel Miami.
Artists on view include: Jared Tarbell, Memo Akten, Manolo Gamboa Naon, Espen Kluge, Helena Sarin, Desmond Paul Henry, David Young, Sofia Crespo, Tom White, Cornelia Sollfrank, John Watkinson and Matt Hall, Rob Myers, Ed Fornieles
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PANEL DISCUSSION: “The Work of Art in the Age of Machine Learning”
Sunday 8 Dec 2:00 - 3:00pm
We will discuss the new questions that emerge around artistic creation as a direct result of AI and ML and what they mean for artists, critics, dealers, and collectors.
Speakers: Kate Vass, Kevin Abosch, Sofia Crespo, David Young, Damjanski
Moderated by Jason Bailey, Artnome
November
MAMA Meetup II, KVG, 28th November
Multichain Asset Managers Association Meetup with Petru Catana and Maria Magenes
Date: 28th November, 18:00 - 21:00
Disruption Disciples, Zürich, 26th November
At the 2nd DisruptionDisciples event, four amazing women took the pulse of what they are passionate about: Art, Finance, Privacy, and Work. The event took place at Ginetta.
Date: 26th November, 18:00
Program:
1) The push model of finance and the attention economy (Efi Pylarinou, Global FinTech Influencer)
2) Art and technology and its impact on the industry (Kate Vasilieva, Founder Kate Vass Galerie)
3) Tightrope walk between privacy and social media (Nora Rümbeli, Head of Data Protection at a bank)
4) From surviving to thriving: How STEM mentoring can change your life (JANET T. PHAN, Founder of Thriving Elements)
The presentations took 15 minutes followed by a networking apéro to enjoy the evening and talk about the keynote topics as well
The Art Market Day,
La Conférence du Quotidien de l’Art, Paris, 18th November
VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, 13-16 November
Kate Vass spoke on the panel: “NEW APPROACH AND TOOLS FOR COLLECTING CONTEMPORARY ART”
Date: 14th of November, 14:15 - 16:00
Speakers: Elena Zavelev, Anna Kostyra, Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, Mikhail Sasonko and Maria Efimova
Moderated by Ksenia Podoynitsyna
The contemporary art market in Russia is today at the level of the stock market of the early 90s — the market infrastructure is not developed. It is important to inform colleagues about the international experience, in particular, that every year the number of projects that present various new solutions that are convenient for collectors and acceptable for artists is increasing. Therefore, participants of the panel are active international art figures who would like to share their experiences and ideas and will talk about their unique tools for collecting contemporary art.
October
“Alternatives” by Espen Kluge, Exhibition Opening, KVG, 30th of October
Alternatives by Espen Kluge
Curated by Kate Vass Galerie & Jason Bailey
Date: October 30th, 2019 from 6 to 8 pm
Kluge’s portraits series -- which he has titled Alternatives -- provides us with a thoughtful lens into the nuanced world of human emotion.
MAMA Meetup & “Alternatives” by Espen Kluge preview, KVG 29th of October
Multichain Asset Managers Association MEETup at Kate Vass Galerie.
Program:
- Neufund explained the benefits of investing in tokenized equity.
- Preview of the opening-soon solo show by Espen Kluge "ALTERNATIVES" with the artist and curator Jason Bailey
Deloitte’s 12th Annual Art & Finance Conference, Monaco, 14th October
Deloitte’s 12th Annual Art & Finance Conference – "New Collector Trends in Art & Finance" took its place in Fairmont Hotel in Monte-Carlo.
The 6th edition of Art & Finance Report 2019 was presented there, which aims to act as a barometer for the emerging art and finance industry and highlights the main trends and developments in the art market. Art & Tech Association was featured in the report as well - pages 188-189, you can download the full version here!
September
Silvero & BitPolis, Private finance, and tech event, KVG, 18th September
Partners: Arca Capital Bohemia, a.s. and BitPolis
August
“LIVE from CyptoValley”, Book Release, Zug, 29th August
Launch of the book “LIVE from Crypto Valley’ by Christian Di Giorgio at CV Labs, Zug
“Why Blockchain” is one of the most frequently asked questions. This book gives an answer to this and many other questions about blockchain: simply and understandably.
June
Crypto Valley Conference, Zug, 24th June
The 2nd edition of the Crypto Valley Conference opened up on the 24th of June with two and a half days of in-depth discussions on the current state and future of blockchain technology. Blockchain artworks from the famous duo @pents90 @matt2000 the authors of CryptoPunks were exhibited and you could see the new work “Autoglyphs”, the first “on-chain” generative art on the Ethereum blockchain, as well as the Plantoid by Primavera di Filippi, the blockchain sculptor. The selection is curated by Georg Bak.
ART & TECH Panel, Basel, 13th June
The talk, The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Art Market, will cover the latest tech innovations used for exhibiting, collecting, managing and creating art. We are excited to discuss how new media art is becoming an important segment of the global market.
Speakers: Nanne Dekking , Sabine Himmelsbach, Niko Kipouros, Adriano Picinati Di Torcello, Elena Zavelev
Moderated by Alison Moss
May
Automat und Mensch, Exhibition Opening, KVG, 29-30 May
Exhibition opening of the upcoming show on Generative and AI art 'Automat und Mensch' Curated by Jason Bailey & Georg Bak
VIP PREVIEW May 29th, 2019 from 6 to 8 pm
Open to the Public from May 30th, 2019 at 11:30
The 'Automat und Mensch' exhibition is, above all, an opportunity to put important work by generative artists spanning the last 70 years into context by showing it in a single location. By juxtaposing important works like the 1956/’57 oscillograms by Herbert W. Franke (age 91) with the 2018 AI-Generated Nude Portrait #1 by contemporary artist Robbie Barrat (age 19), we can see the full history and spectrum of generative art as has never been shown before.
DA!MOSCOW, Moscow, 18-19 May
Kate Vass spoke on the panel: “NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF THE ART MARKET”.
Date: 17th of May, 16:00 - 16:45
Professionals involved in the most high-profile projects in the field of art tokenization and the development of new technologies will discuss the results of the introduction of blockchain technology in the art market. Guests will learn about the Distributed Gallery projects, the tokenization of the works of the artist Ai Weiwei, how foreign museums acquire tokenized fragments of paintings, and whether the art market needs artsharing technology.
CADAF, New York, 3-5 May
Kate Vass Galerie participated in the first edition of CADAF, which took place in New York City on May 3 - 5, 2019.
Kate Vass spoke on the panel “EMPOWERING THE ARTIST: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES”
CADAF is dedicated to showcasing the diversity of digital artistic mediums, including immersive installation, video art, virtual reality, creative experiments on the blockchain, and more.
More information can be found here!
March
CV Summit, Zug, 26th March
The CV Summit is a unique event held in the heart of the Crypto Valley – in Zug. Switzerland and Lichtenstein have established themselves as the Crypto Valley, through the openess of the Swiss government it has become home of some of the most renowed crypto and blockchain companies such as: Aragon, Ethereum and many more who have established themeselves in Zug.
Pixels Meet Crypto, Exhibition Opening, KVG, 18th March
Solo Exhibition of Works by Mark Bern
18th March, 18:00 - 21:00
Program:
18:00 - Vernissage Tour and Apero
19:00 - Artist Talk
Digitale Kunst - künstliche und künstlerische Intelligenzen, Zürich, 14th March
Date: 14 March 2019, 1.00-5.30 p.m.
Location: Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK
Speakers: Sabine Himmelsbach, Cornelia Sollfrank, Bertold Müller, Florent Thouvenin, Mischa Senn etc.
This event was organized in cooperation with the Swiss Forum for Communication Law SF-FS and the Collegium Helveticum.
Vontobel Bank, Private Banking Event, KVG, 8th March
February
Finissage { PERFECT & PRICELESS }, KVG, 28th February
Finissage with 4Art Technologies and Art & Tech Association at KVG
ZKM Event - Writing the History of the Future, 23rd February
In an extraordinary compilation, ZKM presents the main works from its globally unique media art collection.
The works of KVG show, PERFECT & PRICELESS exhibited at ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe exhibition “Open codes”. Works are by the famous duo @pents90 @matt2000 the authors of CyptoPunks, and Kevin Abosch, Ài Wèiwèi etc.
January
MME | CRYPTO MEETS ART, KVG, 11th January
For the first time in Switzerland, Kate Vass Galerie in Zurich presented a comprehensive and unique exhibition on blockchain art, showcasing the most important protagonists of this movement.
Georg Bak, Curator, Digital Art Expert, and Mónika Molnár, MME Tax Expert, have asked themselves whether art is measurable, whether the beauty of art is measurable in digits or tokens, and what crypto art is all about.
This conversation continued in an open discussion about the contemporary developments of art in a decentralized world. The interaction of man and technology and their effects on art and taxes.
Date: Friday, January 11, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Program:
12:00 - Welcome by Mónika Molnár
12:05 - Brief introduction to the exhibition by Georg Bak
12:15 - Open discussion followed by an Apéro Light
CryptoMondays Meetup, 7th January
Join us for the launch of CryptoMondays in Switzerland - the global initiative that brings together movers and shakers in blockchain space!
The first meetup was hosted during our exceptional exhibition 'Perfect & Priceless' where engineering meets art.
We were hearing from world-class creators & engineers who push the boundaries of what we call art: John Watkinson, Myn Kang, Georg Bak
Partners: CV VC, Crypto World Zug Association, Kate Vass Galerie, SPBA, Orion Vault AG, Flo’s Wine