In this episode, painter Valeria Duca opens up about her artistic evolution — from a prodigy in Chișinău, Moldova, to an established artist based in Oslo. She recalls her first art sale at just fourteen, when the Romanian Minister of Youth and Sports bought one of her paintings, marking the start of a lifelong calling. Valeria talks about her early self-portraits that captured depression and healing, her politically charged work on the war in Ukraine, and her recent focus on memory — fragment...
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In this episode, painter Valeria Duca opens up about her artistic evolution — from a prodigy in Chișinău, Moldova, to an established artist based in Oslo. She recalls her first art sale at just fourteen, when the Romanian Minister of Youth and Sports bought one of her paintings, marking the start of a lifelong calling. Valeria talks about her early self-portraits that captured depression and healing, her politically charged work on the war in Ukraine, and her recent focus on memory — fragment...
Contemporealism and Beyond – A Werktattwoche-Lüben-Talk with Ken Nwadiogbu
Wie tickt die Kunstszene? Der Kunstpodcast.
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Contemporealism and Beyond – A Werktattwoche-Lüben-Talk with Ken Nwadiogbu
In this episode of How is the Art scene ticking? I talk with Nigerian-born, London-based artist Ken Nwadiogbu, who pioneered Contemporealism, a contemporary form of hyperrealism that merges lifelike portraiture with political, cultural, and social narratives. Ken shares his journey from studying civil engineering in Nigeria to becoming an internationally recognized artist, and how a single encounter with hyperrealistic drawing changed the course of his life. We explore how he coined Contempor...
Wie tickt die Kunstszene? Der Kunstpodcast.
In this episode, painter Valeria Duca opens up about her artistic evolution — from a prodigy in Chișinău, Moldova, to an established artist based in Oslo. She recalls her first art sale at just fourteen, when the Romanian Minister of Youth and Sports bought one of her paintings, marking the start of a lifelong calling. Valeria talks about her early self-portraits that captured depression and healing, her politically charged work on the war in Ukraine, and her recent focus on memory — fragment...
