Dunja Herzog

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art_biites

Isabelle Reymond

5 episodes

5 days ago

art_biites is a Swiss-based podcast that explores contemporary artistic practices through transdisciplinary conversations. Our mission is to dismantle dominant discourses — past, present, and future — by weaving together personal experiences, global entanglements, and artistic insight. From colonial legacies and the possibilities of worlding, and myths surrounding history, gender, borders, and national identity, art_biites offers listeners a window into how art can reshape perspectives and open up space for new futures. Hosted by Isabelle Reymond—art radio journalist, unfinished art historian.

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Dunja Herzog

art_biites

28 minutes 3 seconds

1 year ago

Dunja Herzog

In this first episode of art_biites, I'm speaking with Dunja Herzog. Her unique background connects her deeply to South Africa, Cameroon, and Nigeria a link that traces back to her childhood, when she lived in Cameroon for two years as her parents worked in a local hospital. Since then, she has been going back and forth.

In this candid conversation, the artist reflects on the complexities of working in the Global South as someone from a privileged background. We discuss the value art creates, how it can address the inequalities and the awareness it brings to the world.

Dunja Herzog’s personal history is intertwined with larger, global stories: her family owned Oris Watches, and its connection extends to the United Trading Company (UTC), which originated from the Mission Basel, weaving her story into the broader narrative of colonialism and its aftermath. Today, we dive into these rich themes, coinciding with her first large institutional exhibition at the Art Museum in Solothurn, Switzerland.

Here are some of the topics discussed in the show:

Oris Watches

UTC United Trading Company

Susanne Wenger

Phillida Barlow

Maurice Merlauu-Ponty : Phenomenology

Achille Mbembe

Goddey Leye : The Art Bakery

Gregorious Agricola, 1556 : De Res Metallica

Johannes Praetorious, 1668 : Darstellung des Blocksbergs, in Hexenglauben und Hexenverfolgung in Hessen.