Gazelli Art House Tuesday Talks' Podcast

Melissa Wiederrecht and Ana María Caballero’s collaborative piece Miss Metaverse (2024) uses the beauty pageant to deliver satirical commentary on the expression of selfhood for artists in Web3, probing how the public, online presentation of this self results in its distortion. Tune in to the Twitter (X) Space where the artists speak about the collection.

Listen to our latest podcast in conversation with GAZELL.iO November artist-in-residence, Andreas Gysin. 

Gazelli Art House hosted artists, curators, collectors, and the GAZELL.iO community for a conversation with Gazelli Art House, co-hosted with Verisart. The conversation investigated: parallels between the historical and contemporary uses of computers and machine learning; the integration of technology into artistic practices and its impact on the traditional concept of creativity and authorship; originality and uniqueness in generative art; preservation, authenticity and reproduction of new media artists, and more.

On 5th February artist, Farhad Farzali took to the deck to lead a Zoom dance party. Think the 80s & 90s tunes.Farzali works predominantly in the medium of installations, but also paintings, graphics, photography and sound. He is a member of the Artists Union of Azerbaijan since 2011 and a member of the Yay Gallery of the YARAT Contemporary Art Space since 2013. He has participated in a large number of group exhibitions around the world. He is represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Baku. Farhad Farzali lives and works in Baku.Farzali has featured in many exhibitions in his native Baku and a growing number around the world including Russian and Germany.

On Wednesday the 22nd of April we were joined on Instagram Live by the artist Francesco Jodice, where he discussed his projects ahead of the participation in the online exhibition 'Borders'.Through his vast photographic landscapes, Jodice focuses on global subjects such as economics, politics and religion. He often reveals events or moments that can go unnoticed, such as an intertwining of nature and concrete, geopolitics or human desires. Jodice creates dramatic narratives from everyday experiences.

On Friday April 17th, 2020 as part of the Gazelli Connect initiative we welcomed Andrey Blokhin from the artist duo Recycle Group, for a live conversation on our Instagram channel.Recycle Group work aims to communicate bridging traditionally oppositional subjects, including classical with contemporary, physical and digital, human and machine. ⁠

On Wednesday the 8th April, 2020 as part of the Gazelli Connect initiative we welcomed gallery artist Giovanni Ozzola and collector, patron and director of both Volta and Pulse Art Fairs, Kamiar Maleki, for a live conversation on our Instagram channel.Ozzola's works look into the human condition, examining the individual’s place within the magnitude of the universe. He focuses on light as a necessary material for vision, which he incorporates in his multifaceted practice encompassing sculpture, photography, and video art.

Jane McAdam Freud is an internationally acclaimed sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist. In her upcoming show at Gazelli Art House Baku, she aims to explore the psychoanalytic concepts of the shadow with a series of works on paper that traverse a line between figuration and abstraction. On the 1st April as part of the Gazelli Connect initiative we asked her some questions about the upcoming show and the influences of Freudian theory on her work. ⁠

Mary Gabriel (author of ‘Ninth Street Women’) speaks with Rex Stevens (guardian of Grace Hartigan’s Estate) and curator of our ‘9th St. Club’ exhibition Will Corwin.An insightful conversation about the lives and spirit of the women who were part of the Abstract Expressionist movement, that would come define an era and echo throughout international art culture. Mary Gabriel is a best selling author whose biography of five of the women on show partly inspired this group exhibition, and is soon to be turned into a television series. Her research on the life and times of these artists is proof positive of their charismatic and long lasting impact on art history.

Giovanni Ozzola and Rodrigo Orrantia sit down to discuss Ozzola’s third solo exhibition at the London gallery “1982”.Rodrigo Orrantia is an art historian and curator, specialising in photography. Since graduating with an MA in Contemporary and Historical Photography from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, he has worked on projects for major museums in the UK, along with art fairs and festivals in UK, Europe and Latin America.Orrantia is a regular speaker at Universities in the UK and France, and a reviewer at international art and photography festivals. In 2015 he was awarded Exceptional Talent in the Arts status by Arts Council England for his work in the arts, specifically for curating and producing collaborative projects to connect local communities with international artists.Orrantia is currently researching connections between photography, geography and place, with an interest in nature and its relationship with the urban/manmade/artificial environment.

An artist’s talk between RCA alumni Derek Boshier and French author, critic and curator Renaud Faroux. Set against the backdrop of Boshier’s Gazelli Art House show ‘Night and Snow’ the two discuss the artist’s process, lifestyle, high-profile friendships and evolution from pop-art to his enduring contemporary relevance. Supported by the RCA.

A panel discussion on how to go about building a market for Virtual Reality artworks. Tackling questions around the implications and challenges of selling VR works and whether a future for artists working in this medium is sustainable. Guest speakers include Sylvain Levy (DSL Collection, Founder), Michael Takeo Magruder (exhibiting artist) and Allegra Shorto (Khora Contemporary, Art Director).Enter Through The Headset 4 (ETTH4) is the gallery’s annual exhibition dedicated to displaying VR works. Exhibiting artists for this year’s edition include Claudia Hart, Gibson/Martelli, Michael Takeo Magruder, Ziv Schneider with Caitlin Robinson.

Gray Wielebinski is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with collage, sculpture, installation and performance into their work. Gray explores gender, sexuality and control over the physical body through their work, drawing attention to modes of power and identity. Having graduated from Slade in MFA in 2018, Wielebinski has been working around the subject of antagonism between the physical and psychodynamic self, proposing creativity as a therapeutic tool on an individual psychic level and towards creating community.Zackary Drucker, is a trans woman performance artist and a cultural producer who challenges the way gender and sexuality are understood. Having performed and exhibited at Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum among others, she has also produced Emmy-nominated docu-series This Is Me and Golden Globe and Emmy-winning TransparentGiulia Casalini is an independent curator and producer based in London. Her PhD (Roehampton University, starting Autumn 2019) will look at the methodologies of queer-femi

Join us for a lively discussion around the current solo exhibition of Kalliopi Lemos, ‘All is to Be Dared’, as we reflect on the role of desire and obsessions as key elements able to challenge the basic structure of power. Kalliopi Lemos will be joined by Christian Oxenius, curator of the current exhibition at Gazelli Art House, and senior Jungian analytical psychotherapist, Jim Fitzgerald, on Tuesday 10th April to share their views.The talk will be accompanied by a book launch publicised for the exhibition, ‘All is to Be Dared’ with signed copies available to purchase on the night.

Veteran of the Pop Art movement, Derek Boshier and fellow leading figure in the British contemporary art scene, Bruce McLean, in conversation at Gazelli Art House in London on Tuesday, October 3rd 2017.'On the Road' is the inaugural solo exhibition, showcasing Boshier's latest acrylic on canvas works and premiering two short films.

Gazelli Art House would like to invite you to listen to another of our Tuesday Talks- 'In Conversation with Stanley Casselman and David Anfam'. Stanley will be discussing his current exhibition 'Full Circle' - currently on show at Gazelli Art House, Mayfair.David Anfam recently curated the phenomenal Abstract Expressionism exhibition (#AbEx) at The Royal Academy. He will be discussing Casselman's contribution to the genre and the relevance of the ground breaking techniques used to create his bold works.For more information and to read the official press release please visit our website:

Azeri artist, Niyaz Najafov, and Elena Zaytseva, independent curator and former curator of Tretyakov Gallery and Pushkin House in conversation at Gazelli Art House on Tuesday, May 23rd.Elena Zaytseva is a curator, writer and historian of art, former curator at Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and Pushkin House, London. She curated special projects of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art and exhibitions in independent art spaces in Moscow and London. She holds a PhD from Russian Academy of Art and MFA Curating from Goldsmiths. At the moment she works on an anthology ‘Cosmic Revolution: Contemporary Art Writing from Russia’, being published in October 2017.Niyaz Najafov lives and works in Paris. Inspired by other self-taught artists such as Paul Gauguin and Francis Bacon, it was only in 2003 that he began to experiment with oil paint. In a short span of time, Najafov has been touted to be the next “Francis Bacon” and has since been chosen to represent his country, Azerbaijan, at the 53 rd Venice Biennale in 2009 as