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VOICES ON ART - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast
hosted by Daniela Steinfeld
Talking, thinking, musing,

11/04/2026

Listen to the story of Anna Helwing in Episode 102 of the „Voices On Art“ Podcast

Zurich based gallerist Anna Helwing and me go beyond the surface—sharing personal stories from galleries in Zurich, Paris, and LA, and reflecting on how the art world has changed over the years.

Anna is moving to a new space right now. One of the last shows at her old location was „Nudes“, a group show including this work

Anys Reimann
Nachtmahr, 2023
Mixed media collage, oil on canvas
110 x 80 cm

25/03/2026

Art at the Edge of Freedom

What happens to art when freedom begins to disappear?

Book pick

In this episode of Voices On Art with , I recommend the Gereon Rath series by Volker Kutscher, the literary basis for Babylon Berlin.

Set in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the novels immerse us in a city alive with jazz, avant-garde art, nightlife, and political tension during the Weimar Republic.

What begins as a time of cultural openness and creative freedom slowly shifts.
Fear replaces curiosity.
Propaganda replaces discourse.
Conformity replaces individuality.

Art and the press come under pressure — and with them, free thought itself.

Kutscher’s books are not just historical crime novels.
They are a reminder of how fragile open societies can be when extremism, economic instability, and disinformation begin to take hold.

And how closely art and culture are tied to freedom — often becoming the first spaces where that freedom is challenged.

📚 Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch (DE), Sandstone Press (EN), and as an audiobook by OsterwoldAudio.

14/03/2026

Keep the most important thing, the most important thing!

In episode 101 of Voices On Art, I speak with Nicolaus Schafhausen about the changing realities of the art world.

We talk about collectors, shifting market dynamics, and whether galleries need something like a moral radar when deciding where artworks go.

There are more questions than answers — but the conversation is a starting point.

Recorded live on February 7, 2026.

🎧 🎧 Watch the full episode on YouTube Link in bio &
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Voices On Art Podcast
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27/02/2026

Thinking Together — Live Episode (in German)

On February 7, 2026, I spoke live with Nicolaus Schafhausen about the present and future of the art world.

Who buys art today — and why?
How do we, as gallerists, navigate money, responsibility, and moral questions?
Is there such a thing as a “right” collector?

More questions than answers — but a shared belief that thinking together is where it starts.

📖 Book pick: The Gereon Rath series by Volker Kutscher (basis for Babylon Berlin) — a powerful reminder of how fragile freedom can be.

Bonus audience Q&A at the end.

26/02/2026

EPISODE 100 🎉 of the Voices On Art Podcast with Jeff Magid

I sat down with Jeff Magid, a former music producer turned art collector, for a candid conversation about mentorship, exclusion, young collectors, and why curiosity—not status—should drive collecting.

🎧 Listen now on your favourite Podcast platform, our website (link in bio) or on our YouTube channel and subscribe to Voices On Art wherever you get your podcasts and follow

25/02/2026

BOOK PICK
“The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt

On the occasion of my talk with I’m recommending The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt because it’s a powerful novel about the role of art in shaping a life.

The story follows Theo, a boy who survives a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and, in the chaos, takes a small masterpiece — Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch. That single painting becomes a thread running through everything that follows: his grief, his identity, his career, and his understanding of beauty.

The novel shows art not as luxury, but as necessity. The painting becomes Theo’s connection to love, to memory, and to meaning when the rest of his world falls apart. It also becomes a burden — a secret, a moral weight — showing that art’s power isn’t always gentle, but it is transformative.

For me, The Goldfinch is a reminder that art can be a compass. It can hold us together, give shape to loss, and offer something enduring when life feels fragile. That’s why I think this book can be starting a conversation about art and a meaningful life.

21/02/2026

Anniversary 🎉 EPISODE 100 🎉 of the Voices On Art Podcast with Jeff Magid

What does it really mean to collect art—and who actually gets access to the art world?

I really enjoyed talking to Jeff, who speaks in a very candid and fresh way about collecting, money and motivation.

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30/01/2026

🎉 EPISODE 100 🎉 Voices On Art with Jeff Magid

What does it really mean to collect art—and who actually gets access to the art world?

For this milestone episode, I sat down with Jeff Magid, a former music producer turned art collector, for a candid conversation about mentorship, exclusion, young collectors, and why curiosity—not status—should drive collecting.

We talk about:
• breaking into the art world without insider access
• why inclusivity does not mean dumbing down
• quality over quantity
• gatekeeping
• imagining new, more open art models

This one feels meaningful—honest, critical, and hopeful.

🎧 Listen now on your favourite Podcast platform, our website (link in bio) or on our YouTube channel

26/01/2026

„I am punk in my thinking, but not in my production.“

💫 Artist Claus Föttinger in Episode 99 of the Voices On Art Podcast🎙️
A special German-language episode in which Claus discusses his work in relation to time and memory and the unique cultural andartistic landscape of the Rhineland.

🎧 Available on your favorite podcast platform
📺 Full video-cast on our YouTube channel vanhorngallery

20/01/2026

📖✨ Book pick for this episode:
Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story / Die unendliche Geschichte

A tale about the boundless power of imagination, hope, friendship, and resilience — and about what happens when these wells run dry and egotism, narcissism, and ruthlessness take their place.

We follow the boy Bastian through his fall and rise, through worlds shaped by his inner life. Often labeled a children’s book, but truly written for the wild, blooming child within every adult — the part of us that still knows how to dream.

Revisiting it was pure joy.

Perhaps Fantasia never really disappears. It only fades when we stop believing that our inner world matters. And every act of imagination is, in a quiet way, an act of resistance against despair.

-MichaelEnde

15/01/2026

💫 Artist Claus Föttinger in Episode 99 of the Voices On Art Podcast🎙️
A special German-language episode in which Claus discusses the unique cultural and artistic landscape of the Ruhr region.

Claus reflects on time, memory, and why he chose to stop responding directly to current events in his work — offering deep insight into his artistic philosophy.

🎧 Available on your favorite podcast platform
📺 Full video-cast on our YouTube channel vanhorngallery

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